Ben Smith catches Glenn Beck tweeting a link to a blogger he says "gets it." That blogger writes:
Beck is attacking the enemy at the foundations of their power, their claim to race as a permanent trump card, their claim to the Civil Rights movement as a permanent model to constantly be transforming a perpetually unjust society.
He is nuking out the foundations of the opposition's moral preeminence..
I've actually written something similar before, that the point of trying to invert the actual history of the civil-rights movement is to deny the American left a foundation of its moral legitimacy. My take, though, was that the right was embracing it out of an inability to cope with the reality of being on the wrong side on the most significant internal moral conflict in American history. Apparently for Beck, it's more cynical politics than simply being unable to deal with historical fact. The joke, of course, is on Beck's own followers, who, apparently with some exceptions, actually seem to buy it.
