2. This is Sullivan's constant modus operandi: advocate far right positions when they are riding high, back-track and obfuscate on them when there is a backlash, collect points from dunderheaded centrists & liberals for supposedly being willing to learn. Rinse, repeat.
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3. The clearest example was in Iraq War: post-9/11 uber-hawk warning of liberal Fifth Columnist, then when torture regime & insurgency clear Sullivan offered up Prufockian hand-wringing, "this is not what I meant at all."
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4. Sullivan's whole schtick only works because centrists & liberals are willing to take him at face value, forgive & forget his extremism, explain things away. They do that because they crave a "reasonable" conservative. It allows them to avoid seeing the right with clarity.
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Leopards eating faces, etc
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You'd think Sullivan might have learned from the 1,000 times this exact thing has happened to him in the past.
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I have never understood why anyone pays attention to
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This was supposed to be about transphobia against trans kids not homophobia against gay kids and I think we've really forgotten that along the way.
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It's as though everyone's rights are only as secure as the most vulnerable.
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