https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/09/10/moral-equivalence-and-donald-trump/
It was Kirkpatrick who in 1985 wrote an essay revered on the right called, “The Myth of Moral Equivalence.
To encourage more conservatives to speak out, I offer a few excerpts from Kirkpatrick’s essay:
“To
destroy a society it is first necessary to delegitimize its basic
institutions so as to detach the identifications and affections of its
citizens from the institutions and authorities of the society marked for
destruction.”
“An
alliance among democracies is based on shared ideals. The process of
delegitimization is, therefore, an absolutely ideal instrument for
undermining an alliance, as well as for undermining a government. The
NATO alliance among democracies simply cannot survive a widespread
conviction among its members that there is no difference between the
superpowers. It is not necessary to demonstrate that the Soviet Union is
flawed, or deplorable. To destroy the alliance, it is only necessary to
deprive the citizens of democratic societies of a sense of shared moral
purpose which underlies common identifications and common efforts.”
And it still is the liberal left that practices moral equivalence.
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