re: #301 Obdicut

Eh. I think it’s good to say “These people aren’t conservative, they’re radical”, and to make that point clearly; these people are not resisting change, they’re advocating wild, radical, extremist change.

Yes, but all the time those people are saying: we’re conservative, we’re the most conservative, we define conservatism. And they have a well-funded, highly established noise machine pushing that message, it’s not just a few fringe voices.

So again, like it or not, by self-defining as a conservative, you’re aligning yourself with them at some level.

Sucks for decent conservatives but that’s the way it is. As I’ve said before, the people I feel sorry for are Eisenhower Republicans. That guy had a lot of pretty sensible things to say, but there is no place for them in the contemporary GOP.