Big long puff piece on Sarah Palin over at the Weekly Standard, which - via Sullivan - prompts Napoleon Linardatos over at David Frum’s place to pen this:

The sole legitimizing force behind Sarah Palin is the persecution that her supporters perceive that she is subjected to. It’s a movement – if we could call it that – animated by its sense of victimhood.

This is a pefect description of not just the Palin movement but movement conservatism in general. It’s all cultural reaction - to immigrants and gays and elitists and environmentalists and “communists” and whatever else - and the sense that these forces have pushed conservatives to the wall and are oppressing them! That’s the source of the OUTRAGE!!!