Mon Sep 19, 2022 – 5:38 pm EDTMon Sep 19, 2022 – 5:47 pm EDT
(Crisis Magazine) – Big-time libertarian pundit Ben Domenech got downright tetchy with National Conservatism scholar Yoram Hazony on a podcast this week over an issue that Domenech believes is settled and never to be unsettled. Hazony said that Domenech’s rhetoric became downright “violent.”
At the prospect that many in the not-so-nascent national conservative movement believe “gay marriage” is still a salient issue, Domenech rather shouted at Hazony, “I want you to understand this. We will beat you. We are beating you. We are destroying you in terms of the polling, like there’s no basis for an anti-gay marriage conservative movement. It doesn’t exist. I mean, it’s less that 25%. You are losing this argument. You’ve lost the argument. I don’t know why you want to go back and fight it.”
Domenech was also shocked that the national conservatives would want to politically litigate that other supposedly settled issue, pornography. Such are the libertarians.
For those who don’t know, Ben Domenech is the co-founder of the influential Federalist website, though I am not sure he’s there any longer. He has a popular podcast. I think he
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