Patrick Howley, writing at the Daily Caller, has a unique take on Truth Revolt, the new website from Ben Shapiro and the David Horowtiz Freedom Center – it is responsible for Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential loss.
Shapiro has blamed atheism and secularism for recent Republican election losses. I blame his petition.
Howley calls the petition, which has already attracted more than 5,000 signatures in less than 48 hours, part of what he deems “shrill Gen-Y outrage.” He goes on to cite a 29-year-old electoral map as evidence that conservatives are not “part of a victimized class.”
“That wasn’t that long ago,” he writes, but of course, it was. It was before the twenty-four hour news cycle, before the cell phone and the internet, and before the rise of political correctness and multiculturalism actively defined those how “subscribe to the political ideology of Ronald Reagan” as racist, greedy, warmongering, homophobic, bigots fighting a war on the poor and on women in the American pop-culture.
It’s also before Tawana Brawley, the Crown Heights riot, the National Action Network, and Trayvon Martin – and, amusingly, before Howley himself was born and before Ben Shapiro’s first birthday.
Howley highlights the merits of Mondelez International, the company Truth Revolt has chosen to highlight for its support of Al Sharpton’s Politics Nation, and suggests that a boycott of the company is misguided.
These tactics are completely antithetical to the promotion of an attractive conservative brand.
But with funding from companies like Mondelez International, the mainstream media has ensured that an attractive conservative brand will never see the light of day.
As evidence, Howley should consult the 2012 electoral map. It wasn’t that long ago.




