a crank’s progress

Not sure how I missed this epic (in size and scope) takedown of “conservative thought” but better late than never. This snippet jumped out at me:

John & Belle Have A Blog: Dead Right:

And so it turns out Lionel Trilling was maybe not such a poor prophet after all, when he wrote way back in 1953: “in the United States at this time liberalism is not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition;” for the anti-liberals do not, by and large, “express themselves in ideas but only in action or in irritable mental gestures which seek to resemble ideas.”

What is modern conservatism but saying no?