amen<\/em>.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve watched with horror as we\u2019ve descended from William F. Buckley, Jr., to Michael Savage and Sean Hannity, from Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
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I\u2019m not accusing Savage (whom I cannot abide and to whom I\u2019ve never really listened) or Hannity (to whom I no longer listen) of sexual misdeeds or immorality. \u00a0But I do think that current political discourse \u2014 with its coarse, bare-knuckle brawling and its name-calling and its demonization and its utter and unforgiving partisanship \u2014 is a disgrace and that it has been a disgrace for years. \u00a0Ann Coulter can be funny, but she\u2019s no replacement for Jeane Kirkpatrick and doesn\u2019t exactly augur well for an American Margaret Thatcher.<\/p>\n
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I occasionally watched Bill O\u2019Reilly while doing something else in one of the rooms where we have a television set. \u00a0He was good at what he did. \u00a0He could be entertaining. \u00a0But, not a few times, I winced as he walked right over guests, cut off reasonable points, brushed aside valid concerns. \u00a0And I\u2019m horrified by what seems to have been a long-standing pattern of misbehavior on his part and \u2014 understandable, given the money he brought in, but hard to pardon \u2014 a similarly long-standing pattern of covering up for him on the part of Fox News management.<\/p>\n
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I\u2019m a serious conservative. \u00a0A really<\/em> serious one. \u00a0But it\u2019s a matter of principle to me, not just a matter of \u201cmy team\u201d winning.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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