Glenn Greenwald has a terrific column this morning using the example of the British Conservative Party’s opposition to the expansion of state powers in the form of spying and the prolonged detention of prisoners to highlight the profound unconservatism of the current GOP and its cheerleaders. Closing quote:
The contrast between the British Right and the American Right could not be more glaring. The former is at least mildly faithful to the principles they espouse, while the latter has morphed completely into a[n] authoritarian, government-power-worshiping faction that thinks it’s waging war against — to use Antonin Scalia’s politicized term — “radical Islamists,” but which is only at war with its own claimed principles and the principles on which the country was founded.
Read the whole thing.
(Cross-posted at Postmodern Conservative.)
Filed under: civil liberties, conservatism, government/law
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