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'She's becoming Al Sharpton, Alaska edition'
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Mar 14, 2011 10:23am |
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| Category | Commentary |
| Author | JONATHAN MARTIN & JOHN F. HARRIS |
| News Date | Monday, March 14, 2011 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Sarah Palin has played the sexism card, accusing critics of chauvinism against a strong woman.
She has played the class card, dismissing the Bush family as “blue bloods,” and complaining that she is the target of snobbery by people who dislike her simply because she is “not so hoity-toity.”
Most famously, she has played the victim card—never more vividly than when she invoked the loaded phrase “blood libel” against liberals and media commentators in the wake of the Gabrielle Giffords shooting. (Related: Sarah Palin charges critics with 'blood libel')
Palin’s flamboyant rhetoric always has thrilled supporters but lately it is coming at a new cost: A backlash, not from liberals, but from some of the country’s most influential conservative commentators and intellectuals.
Palin’s politics of grievance and group identity, according to these critics, is a betrayal of conservative principles. For decades, it was a standard line of the right that liberals cynically promoted victimhood to achieve their goals, and that they practiced the politics of identity—race, sex and class—over ideas. |
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