Hewitt was taking a beating last night on his show as he was promoting this. It wasn’t so much the callers as probably email and tweets. It showed in his voice.
I’m listening to him less and less. This adoption program of his is a joke.
Americanize these basically socialist-inculcated kids? Who? The US educational system?
Build a fence? Does he think we’re stupid? We’ve heard all of this before.
He is crapping all over his brand, much the same as Marco Rubio did.
One has to understand that Hewitt is an elite. He went to the best schools, got a law degree from an Ivy League school, worked in DC and is basically a proponent of working within the system as corrupt as it is.
His political philosophy lines up with our about 85% of the time but he is still an elite.
Increasingly, as I listen to him, I find myself muttering like an idiot: blah, blah, blah.
"Five years ago, historian Christopher Lasch published The Revolt of the Elites [1995]. It was a book about how our national elite was literally seceding from America. Pointing out the huge and growing gap in income between the elite and the middle class, Lasch argued that a more ominous gap existed in how each perceived America.
The old elite, Lasch wrote, had a sense of obligation to country and community. But the new ruling class, more merit based, brainy and mobile, congregates on the coasts and puts patriotism far down the list in hierarchy of values. Indeed, said Lasch, “It is a question of whether they think of themselves as American at all.”