Jonah is on rollicking form in this interview with John Hawkins. I especially like this passage:

When Barack Obama is on the stump, his whole point is that if we can just be unified, public policy issues don’t really matter, what really matters is unity — that sort of thing.
There’s also a sort of contempt for Democratic values that also comes out of this unity thing. One of the most fascistic things that kids on college campuses say is that, “If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.” In other words, there is no safe harbor. Either you agree with where the movement wants to go or you are a problem and problems need to be solved by definition…
People only say we need to move beyond ideology, we need to put partisanship aside, or the time for discussion is over, when they want to tell you to shut up and get with their program. That is a fundamentally undemocratic, quasi-fascistic way of talking about politics.

There are plenty of countries where they’ve managed to get beyond ”partisanship”. They’re called one-party states.

Incidentally, after our New Hampshire gig, a lot of readers have asked why the Long-Steyn-Goldberg show isn’t playing South Carolina, Florida et al. Alas, to put it in K-Lo Eighties pop terms, the Wham! tour is on hold because Jonah is pursuing his George Michael solo career and Rob and I are reduced to being half an Andrew Ridgley apiece. How pathetic is that? The only consolation is that any moment now Goldberg will decide he’s a serious artist, self-destruct and be arrested in a Los Angeles men’s room. Probably by lunchtime.