Hillary the Witch

This article, originally published in the December 1994, is collected in Lew Rockwell’s The Irrepressible Rothbard.

For some time
I have been hammering at the theme that the main cultural and political
problem of our time is not “secular humanism.” The problem
with making secularism the central focus of opposition is that,
by itself, secularism would totally lack the fanaticism, the demonic
energy, the continuing and permanent drive to take over and remake
the culture and the society, that has marked the left for two centuries.
Logically, one would expect a secular humanist to be a passive skeptic,
ready to adapt to almost any existing state of affairs; David Hume,
for example, a philosophic disaster but quietly benign in social
and political matters, would seem to be typical. Hardly a political
and cultural menace.
at her Park Ridge First United Methodist Church. I am sure that
we are all gratified to learn how Hillary got her start in the cause
of “social reform”; as Woodward fondly puts it, the Rev. Jones “developed
his privileged suburban students’ social consciences by taking them
to visit migrant workers’ children.”

The most important
passage in Woodward’s article is his explanation of the importance
of Methodism within the American Protestant spectrum: “More than
other Protestants, Methodists are still imbued with the turn-of-the-century
social gospel, which holds that Christians have been commissioned
to build the Kingdom of God on earth.”

Only a few
brush-strokes are needed to complete the picture. The Rev. Jones,
a frequent visitor to the White House, but who seems at least to
have a sense of humor and perspective that the arrogant and self-righteous
Hillary totally lacks, puts it this way: Even today, says Rev. Jones,
“when Hillary talks it sounds like it comes out of a Methodist Sunday-school
lesson.” And: “Hillary views the world through a Methodist lens.
And we Methodists knew what’s good for you.”

Now
obviously, and of course, a lot of this is Hillary’s drive to “reinvent”
herself, that is, to create a duplicitous false image, to make herself
less threatening to the angry American public. And surely the late-nineteenth-century
Social Gospelers would be horrified at the current multi-gendered,
condomaniacal Clintonian left, to say nothing of the rapid revolving
of poor John Wesley in his eighteenth-century English grave. But
there is definitely a direct line of descent from the Methodist
Social Gospelers of the nineteenth century to St. Hillary and the
monstrous Clintonian left. Mix into “old-fashioned Methodism” liberal
doses of Marxism, the New Left, the pagan pantheist New Age, and
the multicultural and sexual revolutions, stir briskly, and you
get the current ruling horror that we all face, and are trying to
roll back out of our lives. We face, in short, regardless of what
hairdo or persona she affects next week, the evil Witch in the White
House.

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