Informed Speculation

Play a game with me, and fill in the following blanks with the subject of your choice:

The __________ debate is a very heated and passionate one, and the heat and passion on the part of those on the ______ side have been useful tools for pushing the conversation in your direction. But there’s a difference between heated disagreement and the insistence on lock-step uniformity. Suddenly, ______ has become one of those issues about which one is not permitted to disagree, because to disagree is to join with the forces of Evil.

I don’t know what you filled the blanks in with, but try reading through it again, and thinking of abortion, and Nora Ephron or Jane Hamsher.

Now try it again, as it was truly written by John Podhoretz, on immigration.

On the money, is it not?…