{"id":106577,"date":"2016-09-13T13:37:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T21:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=106577"},"modified":"2016-09-13T13:37:39","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T21:37:39","slug":"rod-dreher-reacts-to-charles-murrays-snobby-libertarian-dismissal-of-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=106577","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Rod Dreher reacts to Charles Murray\u2019s snobby libertarian dismissal of Trump&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF+\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/death-movement-conservatism\/\">Rod Dreher writes<\/a>: This is the thing that drives me nuts about libertarians. It is a philosophy that works for people who have a significant degree of self-control, or who at least have internalized a social ethic of self-control. That is not most of humanity. When we were a more religious country, there was a certain moral code imposed by the mainstream that, fair or not, kept a lot of people from going off the rails. That\u2019s gone.<\/p>\n<p>Just yesterday I ran into a friend who told me about N., a woman we both know. N. is a white working class woman who, earlier this summer, left her husband and three kids to run off with a guy she met. Now she\u2019s strung herself out on pills, and has left that guy. Some variation on this story plays out over and over among a people that within living memory may have lacked money and education, but had a coherent, binding moral code by which they lived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rod Dreher writes: This is the thing that drives me nuts about libertarians. It is a philosophy that works for people who have a significant degree of self-control, or who at least have internalized a social ethic of self-control. That &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=106577\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201,211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives","category-libertarian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106578,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106577\/revisions\/106578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}