I grew up reading @NRO. Its founder, William F. Buckley Jr., was a childhood hero. So it was a shock on Monday afternoon to see myself attacked in National Review as, essentially, a traitor to the white race. My @PostOpinions column:https://wapo.st/33zJ615
Basically, I saw the direction the @GOP was going over a quarter century ago, but because party and political orientation are so linked to identity, it's very hard to change.
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As a result, even though I'd become uncomfortable, things had to get really bad before the cognitive dissonance was uncomfortable enough to prod me to finally leave
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That being said, even back in 2003-2004, as I finally recoiled in horror at
@GOP rejection of science, at the racism, at its embrace of fundamentalist Christians, I had no idea how bad it would ultimately become. Even I'm shocked by@realDonaldTrump and the GOP of 2019.
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