Mainstreaming Madness, by Paul Gottfried

The reaction of the conservative establishment to the Senate race in Texas has given new meaning to a Chronicles writer’s observation that “the conservative movement has conserved nothing.” Well, not quite nothing. It has maintained control over authorized conservative opinion and continues to gatekeep the right. It just doesn’t care that much about cultural and social issues, as opposed to telling us that the Democrats are driving corporations out of the Big Apple, that we should stand behind the Likud government in Israel, and that minorities are mobbing the RNC to register as Republicans.

In April, I listened to Greg Gutfeld on Fox News’ The Five explain to his colleagues, who nodded in agreement, that the RNC should carefully avoid bringing up social questions in Ken Paxton’s battle with James Talarico. If Republicans don’t heed this advice, he said, they would be acting foolishly and could lose in November. The focus in the Senate race should be on the cost of living, because that’s what the voters care about most, and presumably that’s what they should care about most. …

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