They were never respectable, they were just really good at hiding the ball while their fifty year plan to take over slowly was turning up the temperature of the boiling water. They thought Trump was the force that could finalize the take over and that they had seized the culture from the vibes post the 2024 election. Now they are get to reap what they sowed. A huge steaming pile of shit.
It seems anyone facing arrest these days should add a possible pedo event, vaguely, coupled with a reference to politicians, also vaguely. Or SA claims. Those defendants get off “Republican free” (the new scot free).
I neither share nor even understand your soft spot for Jonah Goldberg, and I think the specifics of his refusal to vote for either Harris or Trump in DC are worth understanding. He may be attempting to be intellectually honest, but he is failing.
Since the 1950s, I think the topmost position of conservatives is "liberals are dangerous". By now, its appeal is almost completely emotional and not otherwise substantive. This is why the vast majority of the Republican Party fell in line behind Trump -- even if they saw his lies and corruption and that he is a swamp-creature, they could fall back on what they felt was more important -- at least he wasn't a liberal.
The "liberals are dangerous" stance and its manifestations (commies! socialists! baby killers! trans for everyone!) is intellectually dishonest, and until people like Goldberg give this up, they get worse than no credit from me, and I simple refuse to believe his claim of rejecting neutrality. There is of course no way to prove it, but if his vote mattered in 2024, I believe he would have pulled it for Trump.
They were never respectable, they were just really good at hiding the ball while their fifty year plan to take over slowly was turning up the temperature of the boiling water. They thought Trump was the force that could finalize the take over and that they had seized the culture from the vibes post the 2024 election. Now they are get to reap what they sowed. A huge steaming pile of shit.
It seems anyone facing arrest these days should add a possible pedo event, vaguely, coupled with a reference to politicians, also vaguely. Or SA claims. Those defendants get off “Republican free” (the new scot free).
Mike,
I neither share nor even understand your soft spot for Jonah Goldberg, and I think the specifics of his refusal to vote for either Harris or Trump in DC are worth understanding. He may be attempting to be intellectually honest, but he is failing.
Since the 1950s, I think the topmost position of conservatives is "liberals are dangerous". By now, its appeal is almost completely emotional and not otherwise substantive. This is why the vast majority of the Republican Party fell in line behind Trump -- even if they saw his lies and corruption and that he is a swamp-creature, they could fall back on what they felt was more important -- at least he wasn't a liberal.
The "liberals are dangerous" stance and its manifestations (commies! socialists! baby killers! trans for everyone!) is intellectually dishonest, and until people like Goldberg give this up, they get worse than no credit from me, and I simple refuse to believe his claim of rejecting neutrality. There is of course no way to prove it, but if his vote mattered in 2024, I believe he would have pulled it for Trump.