But that’s always been the case for conservatives: preferential treatment for the preferred. And they get to say who’s preferred. Cue Frank Wilhoit:
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.
Tom Sullivan quoting Frank Wilhoit at Digby's Hullabaloo. Are we a nation of laws or not?
Or just when conservatives find it convenient?
The link from Frank Wilhoit is to a comment to a post at the Crooked Timber Blog. Crooked Timber is a group blog written by academics mostly which has been around for twenty years. Wilhoit's trenchant observation is Internet famous, but frequently misattributed to another Frank Wilhoit. Waldo Jaquith tells the story in a wonderful post, Pity Francis M. Wilhoit.
