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Ben understands The Left . But he needs to work on his understanding of The Right . His understanding is too coastal and too Jewish/ Academic/Neoconservative. As much as I like him , he really lacks that good intuitive feel for the base. He was very late to understand what a lot of us understood five years earlier.

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I agree with this. He doesn’t grasp conservatives of Indiana or Iowa, let alone Texas or Alabama.

But the quest for ideology over only pragmatism is a valuable quest. Even when it gets in the way of a good orgy.