Jonah Goldberg: What the Republicans forcing a government shutdown have in common with 1960s radicals
by Jonah Goldberg, Tribune Content Agency
Sep 26, 2023
3 minutes
This week, yet another government shutdown appears inevitable because a sizable chunk of the House Freedom Caucus believes, in the words of Otter in “Animal House,” that “this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part.”
What situation?
Before we get to that, it’s important to understand that any situation will do when you’re determined to deliver a stupid and futile gesture.
In America, the term “counterculture” is so associated with hippies,talk to the bizarre, albeit selective, of and even — that a lot of right-wingers have shed the pretense of actual conservatism in favor of a permanent pose of performative radicalism from the right.
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