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National Review on Jason Aldean: We need songs about virtue, not violence

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This is a tough one to write because this editor usually enjoys pieces by National Review's Kathryn Jean Lopez. But this take …

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Jason Aldean's "Try That in a Small Town" is about violence; take, for example, the line about an old lady being carjacked. That's violence. Aldean's song suggests there will be consequences for that violence in small-town America. But what consequences? How are we supposed to react with virtue to a carjacker? We're sure David French could tell us and probably will in a future New York Times column, but we like the implied threat of violence in return. That's why the song's a hit.

Aldean's song is strictly in the "speak softly and carry a big stick" neighborhood rather than "turn the other cheek."


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That's what we said. He's probably already submitted his column on the conservative Christian case for letting carjackers get away with it.

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