re: #453 The Ghost of Quesos Past

Another penitent is given print space:

What I’ve Gained by Leaving the Republican Party

…who then goes on to admonish “the left” to be more open to…conservative thinking…because he’s just discovered new perspective on Republican racism and small-mindedness because Trump made it obvious.

After read several of these, the recurring theme is becoming clear: even though the apologist is ceding that liberal critics were correct, and have been correct for decades, about the state of US conservatism, that discernment grants no credibility or validity to the analysis and policy that US liberals advance (because both sides are awful).

But the conservative penitent, having only just reached the same conclusion—not cutting their own path of reason, but following in the tracks of liberals—having performed a minimal mea culpa* can credit themselves as fresh-eyed and immediately start peddling the insight that liberals are fundamentally unreasonable and axiomatically as bad or worse than conservatives.

_{*but specifically evaded hard admissions about the especially grotesque acts of key individuals, ie anything Reagan presided, or the lies and poor planning that destroyed Iraq.}

One again, to be a Dem/Liberal in this country is to always be treated as wrong, even when (especially when?) you’re right.