I'm afraid @MaxBoot's deluding himself. This is not what conservatism has become. it's what it's always been under the surface. @realDonaldTrump just made it so that he couldn't ignore it any more. 1/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/if-this-is-what-conservatism-has-become-count-me-out/2018/02/25/853685c6-19bd-11e8-92c9-376b4fe57ff7_story.html …
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@MaxBoot will get there. As I said, change is hard. It took me years after the time I first started to feel unease about conservatism. 4/Show this thread -
As for now, holy hell. I'm so glad I got out when I did. I saw what was coming, but even I couldn't have predicted just how horrible conservatism would get. In retrospect, I realize that the crazy was always there. I just chose to ignore it. /end
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"It wasn't until the invasion of Iraq under false pretenses after 9/11 that I finally realized...the sheer crazy...cesspit of anti-intellectualism and antiscience that *conservatism* has become." Iraq's invasion was *Neo*-Conservatism.https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/798153276092981248 …
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