Please see my #15.
Spot-on, especially that weakness invites aggression. Conservatives were duped into thinking we were one country united behind common causes and a shared heritage and commitment to freedom. No conservatives saw how the left was eating away at our foundation over decades...we continued to deceive ourselves these people were not an implacable enemy. We remained silent and didn’t fight back. We adopted their attitudes of “tolerance” which may have sounded nice in the beginning, but we are to the point where we are now forced to tolerate anything and everything.