Harvard Professor Made This Shocking and Offensive Statement About Conservatives

By Tad Cronn May 11, 2016

Harvard law Professor Mark Tushnet may deserve an A for enthusiasm, but his recent call for liberals to ram their agenda through the courts is F-grade stuff.  Tushnet, writing on the Balkinization blog in a post titled “Abandoning Defensive Crouch Liberal Constitutionalism,” apparently takes the occasion of Justice Antonin Scalia’s recent death to sound the charge and urge liberals to stop being defensive and go on the attack in trying to overturn court decisions that have hindered the liberal cause.

Declaring the “culture wars” over, Tushnet proclaims victory over conservatives — by which he seems to mean socially conservative Evangelicals, Roman Catholics and Orthodox Jews, and anyone else who thinks like them — saying, “They lost, we won.”  Since, according to the professor, conservatives failed to take opportunities for compromise, such as “trading off recognition of LGBT rights for ‘religious liberty’ protections,” they must now be dealt with in the same fashion as the United States dealt with the Nazis after World War II, by “taking a hard line (‘You lost, live with it’).”.....To Read More .......