https://redstate.com/erick/2010/05/10/the-great-disentangling-has-begun-what-bob-bennetts-defeat-means-and-does-not/feed/Conservative News & Politicsen-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 17:49:28 -0400<![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to think I might have some idea of what Bob Bennett&#8217;s defeat means and does not mean.After all, as with Marco Rubio, Doug Hoffman, and Marlin Stutzman, before others noticed, I was beating the drum — all the way back to September of last year on Bob Bennett.Pay attention now you media types who look for great meaning in all things considered. Sometimes you must confront the bold truths you do not naturally recognize because you have been trained up in the ways of a lazier time, an old reality when you could get by with simple shortcuts, and no one would call you on it.Your shibboleths are crumbling around you and you grasp it not. As you struggle to interpret what the tea parties do and do not mean, you media types and others are getting Utah all wrong.It&#8217;s not about a purge. It&#8217;s about an insurrection.]]>Mon, 10 May 2010 05:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[Erick Erickson]]>https://redstate.com/erick/2010/05/10/the-great-disentangling-has-begun-what-bob-bennetts-defeat-means-and-does-not-n34594