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To: LindyBill who wrote (352472)	3/8/2010 5:44:53 AM
From: KLP	2 Recommendations Respond to of 794221

Thanks...That's one of the best pieces I've seen from Jonah Goldberg....Now, wonder if Brooks will bother reading it? Some Tea Partiers may get all sorts of things wrong. No doubt conspiracy theories find fertile soil at Tea Party rallies. But unlike the New Left, they do not believe in starting over with a plan hatched from a new cultural avant-garde. They believe in getting back to basics. They take the founding, the Declaration and the Constitution seriously. That's why they're reading books about these things, about first principles and about American history. They believe, perhaps too conspiratorially at times, that the left has taken the country down the wrong path (and I basically agree with them, by the way). The New Left had no interest in restoring the founders' vision. They wanted to overturn it completely. They had the Rousseaian vision of starting over, of beginning from scratch with their own utopian schemes.