Lori Sturdevant – like a lot of liberal scolds of a certain age – pines for the halcyon days when Minnesota Republicans and Democrats supposedly worked together “across the aisle”, arm in arm marching toward the great Progressive future.
I’m not sure how much of that fabled past was comity, and how much was Stockholm Syndrome.
Still, after nearly fifteen years of writing this blog, I’m keenly aware how hard it is to remain civil with the current entitled, Privileged, intolerant Left.
Ian Tuttle, by way of reviewing the new Milo Yiannopolis book (or rather, the left’s hysterical reaction to it), answers Sturdevant and her ilk by way of tangent:
But the intelligent, principled Right for which progressives are always waxing nostalgic (“If only today’s conservatives were like . . . ”) is considerably less likely without a Left that can recognize the difference between debate and “danger,” joking and “violence.” Having spent years decrying reasonable right-wing positions as outrageous and unconscionable, progressives are now stunned to find that a chunk of the Right is cheering on an opportunist who glories in being outrageous and unconscionable. Does any of this sound familiar?
To them? I doubt it.
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