Or to say, "There you go again -- sounding extremist -- just like Paine"?
Or to say, "There you go again -- sounding extremist -- just like the Declaration of Independence"?
But perhaps you catch my drift.
Levin's book is designed to make conservatives feel good about being conservatives -- just like the British conservative Edmund Burke.
In short, Levin's book is a feel-good book for conservatives. For understandable reasons, conservatives may be feeling a bit down as a result of the 2012 election results. So Levin's book is designed to make them feel good about being conservatives by reading all of Burke's rationalizations about his 18th-century conservatism in the British political system.
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
Burke and Paine were among the many authors in the late eighteenth century who published pamphlets in which they debated the American Revolution and the French Revolution. For example, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was inspired by the debate to write A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) -- a work that resonates still in the women's movement today. Her husband William Godwin (1756-1836) was inspired by the debate to write An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793). So Burke and Paine lived in heady times.
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