Anglican Samizat mentions
the following article in the NYTimes, that explains the basic premise behind this claim.
Conservatism is built on the idea of original sin — on the assumption of human fallibility and uncertainty. To remedy our fallen condition, conservatives believe in civilization — in social structures, permanent institutions and just authorities, which embody the accumulated wisdom of the ages and structure individual longings.
However, under Brooks "Wal-Mat Hippies" theory:
Members of both movements [the so called "New Left" and "Tea Partiers"] believe in what you might call mass innocence. Both movements are built on the assumption that the people are pure and virtuous and that evil is introduced into society by corrupt elites and rotten authority structures. “Man is born free, but he is everywhere in chains,” is how Rousseau put it.
Thus they are doomed. Glen Beck is more Abbie Hoffman than he knows.
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