Mr. Last makes good points about how the Republicans have changed for the worse in the last few years. It is no longer clear that they are better on average than the Democrats on free markets, globalism and trade, individual liberty, crime, the rule of law, free speech, or a foreign policy appropriate to the situation in the world. Neith…
Mr. Last makes good points about how the Republicans have changed for the worse in the last few years. It is no longer clear that they are better on average than the Democrats on free markets, globalism and trade, individual liberty, crime, the rule of law, free speech, or a foreign policy appropriate to the situation in the world. Neither is it clear they have sunk below the Democrats on all these things. The Dems had such a head start on some of them, but the Repubs surely are bad enough. Their self-named national conservatives (i.e American falangists) are very bad indeed. I read an article a few days ago at the Federalist (a supposedly respectable conservative site I recommend checking occasionally for examples of what defenders of liberal civilization are up against) arguing that the culture war was not only the main issue for 2024 but really the only one, with questions of war and peace or the economy being irrelevant by comparison. The author demanded that the evil of his opponents in general and those having anything to do with transgender people or activities in particular had to be crushed and destroyed. The same author, one of their editors, has a piece up today calling for a religious war against woke corporations claiming they are literally siding with the forces of darkness. There are certainly big threats from the left, but there are two fronts in the fight to defend liberal principles and civilization, and some of the stuff from the right is scary as hell. Those of us who generally have seen Republicans as an at least slightly lesser evil than the Democrats have an extra responsibility to try to do something about it.
Mr. Last makes good points about how the Republicans have changed for the worse in the last few years. It is no longer clear that they are better on average than the Democrats on free markets, globalism and trade, individual liberty, crime, the rule of law, free speech, or a foreign policy appropriate to the situation in the world. Neither is it clear they have sunk below the Democrats on all these things. The Dems had such a head start on some of them, but the Repubs surely are bad enough. Their self-named national conservatives (i.e American falangists) are very bad indeed. I read an article a few days ago at the Federalist (a supposedly respectable conservative site I recommend checking occasionally for examples of what defenders of liberal civilization are up against) arguing that the culture war was not only the main issue for 2024 but really the only one, with questions of war and peace or the economy being irrelevant by comparison. The author demanded that the evil of his opponents in general and those having anything to do with transgender people or activities in particular had to be crushed and destroyed. The same author, one of their editors, has a piece up today calling for a religious war against woke corporations claiming they are literally siding with the forces of darkness. There are certainly big threats from the left, but there are two fronts in the fight to defend liberal principles and civilization, and some of the stuff from the right is scary as hell. Those of us who generally have seen Republicans as an at least slightly lesser evil than the Democrats have an extra responsibility to try to do something about it.