Conservative Xanadu 0
Reg Henry, writing at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, gets to the heart of the wingnut fantasy world. (Like most fantasy worlds, this one never existed outside of imagination, but never mind).
A nugget:
In recent years, conservatives have not just been yelling for the train of history to stop right here, but to go back down the track to the station known as 1788, not stopping at the stations for the 19th or 20th centuries where vital lessons could be learned about how a nation grew to maturity as the greatest power and influence in the world.
No, we can only be free if we return to the Garden of (American) Eden, the republic as the Founding Fathers envisaged it when they ratified the Constitution.
Mind you, this is not the Constitution as others understand it, but the one that conforms to the conservative dreamscape of an America of independent farmers and musket-toters in which you don’t need the government to give your vehicle (a horse) an emissions inspection sticker.
