I knew about this already …
Paul Krugman’s All About the Patriarchy
There’s a strand of thought — I identify it especially with Corey Robin ( link to Amazon for the book - The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin ), although he’s not alone — that says that conservatism isn’t really about the things it claims to be about. It isn’t really about free markets and moral values; it’s about authority — the authority of bosses over workers, of men over women, of whites over Those People.
Score one on the morality front: Pat Robertson, stern moral lecturer, says that it wasn’t Petraeus’s fault because “he’s a man”.
… There you go.
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