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
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Max. Your hero and his publication literally blamed black people for bombing their own church in Birmingham in 1963 to make segregationists look bad. Buckley thought blacks weren’t fit to vote. Welcome to reality...
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Replying to @TimothyAlvis @MaxBoot and
Ok and yet he’s just now acknowledging what this means? That’s my point
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Replying to @TimothyAlvis @timjacobwise and
It was a decade-long process for me to finally leave
@GOP behind for good. It started with the horrendous conservative reaction to Bill Clinton's election, evolved as I got more horrified at the increasing rejection of science in the GOP, and was completed by invasion of Iraq.2 replies 0 retweets 23 likes -
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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.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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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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