The Alex Jones trap: How 'owning the libs' can turn into a self-own for conservatives Analysis by JimAntle:
It’s not a new phenomenon. Economic conservatism has been compared to anti-government extremism since at least the days of Barry Goldwater. Social conservatism is likened to ayatollahs, the Taliban, or The Handmaid’s Tale, whatever is in fashion at the time. All more or less successful forms of conservatism dating back to the 1960s have been described as a form of racist backlash, with Theodor Adorno’s work going further back than that.
A nontrivial number of progressives in academia, the media, activist circles, and even in government essentially views anyone a millimeter to the right of Ana Navaro as Alex Jones — or at least a latent Alex Jones waiting to burst out.First, as conservatives themselves have often been quick to point out, defamation is not constitutionally protected speech anymore than theft or fraud are lawful acts of commerce and valid functions of the free market.
But conservatives should be the last people to draw any kind of inference from the judgment against Jones to their own arguments about Second Amendment rights, Hunter Biden, COVID-19 protocols and origins, Ukraine, or anything else.
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