Some Right-Wing Influencers Aren’t That Bright
The Dissident Right is furious after Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch told Reason magazine and several other outlets that America is a “creedal nation.” “ The Declaration of Independence had three great ideas in it,” Gorsuch said in a recent interview with Reason writer and podcaster, Nick Gillespie. “That all of us are equal; that each of us has inalienable rights given to us by God, not government; and that we have the right to rule ourselves. Our nation is not founded on a religion. It is not based on a common culture, even, or heritage. It is based on those ideas. We’re a creedal nation.” What will strike many as a run-of-the-mill lesson in American civics has been interpreted as an unforgivable transgression by scores of right-wing influencers and their reply guys. “ I want all of the so-called conservatives who believe stuff like this launched into the sun,” posted the pseudonymous (one presumes) account Tony Rig...