American Right's Hippie Phase: Reenacting 1960s with Roles Reversed | National Review
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Via: jbb • 5 years ago • 0 commentsBy: Kevin D. Williamson (National Review)
As Democrats embrace authority and Republicans push countercultural revolution, we're reenacting the 1960s with the roles reversed.
The far rightwing is today's "radical counterculture".
As Democrats embrace authority and Republicans push countercultural revolution, we're reenacting the 1960s with the roles reversed.
The greatest festival of the year at Hierapolis fell at the beginning of spring, when multitudes thronged to the sanctuary from Syria and the regions round about. While the flutes played, the drums beat, and the eunuch priests slashed themselves with knives, the religious excitement gradually spread like a wave among the crowd of onlookers, and many a one did that which he little thought to do when he came as a holiday spectator to the festival. For man after man, his veins throbbing with the music, his eyes fascinated by the sight of the streaming blood, flung his garments from
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