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People need to stop doing this. "Oh, this was always obvious right from the beginning about everything." That's like when people on the right gloat over how long it took #MeToo to catch up with Bill Clinton - when we knew 25 years ago. It's just tiresome. /1
No political movement is pure, and no politician is perfect. Trump is in a category by himself, but the caterwauling about how conservatism was always Trumpism is just stupid. And reminder: it's what Nixon used against liberals in 1968 when the cities were burning. /2
Conservatives have gotten a lot of mileage out of "oh, liberals were always just the Black Panthers and the Weathermen, and Antifa is just that, updated, and they're Dems." That's not who liberals are. Trump is not who conservatives are. He defies labels of right or left. /3
If I had to go back to 1980 and vote all over again, I might change only one thing: I'd vote Reagan twice, GHWB twice, Bush once, and maybe take a powder on Bush in 2004. But that's easy to say in hindsight. I voted McCain and would again. I'd have voted for Romney again. /4
Conservatives - and liberals - can have second thoughts. But this whole shtick of "please repudiate everything you ever believed for forty years" is tiresome nonsense. And when @MaxBoot tried to think it through at book length, he was attacked - from the left. Screw that. /5
The common enemy of thinking people on the right and left is populism. If you can't internalize that, and you want to relitigate 50 years of American politics, do it somewhere else, kthx. /6x
