<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7061ecc2-f1bf-44b7-b8e9-4edb02bc21d6/E076FE73-605E-435F-B4B9-0998509CD4BE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2009/09/09/unscrupulous-ideologues/" href="http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2009/09/09/unscrupulous-ideologues/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.amconmag.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2009/09/09/unscrupulous-ideologues/">the troubled relationship of conservative elites and the grassroots and to the broader problem of nationalism on the American right.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2009/09/09/unscrupulous-ideologues/">the grassroots believe what they are told conservatism is</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2009/09/09/unscrupulous-ideologues/"> by wrapping everything in the banner of Americanism</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2009/09/09/unscrupulous-ideologues/">Government can expand enormously, so long as it is doing so in the name of spreading and/or defending freedom. This is tied to the mythology of American exceptionalism and mission that many conservatives believe that they alone accept, and any trampling of actual constitutional liberties can be justified so long as it is being done to “protect” America. Insofar as their nationalism tells them that country, people and government are bound up together opposition to any policies related to this can and must be defined as “un-American,” “anti-American” and “unpatriotic.” </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E076FE73-605E-435F-B4B9-0998509CD4BE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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