Steel sharpens steel around here. Debate gets lively, and sometimes very heated, especially if nominations for national elections are not clearcut at first, like 2016 -- there were epic struggles here until Trump emerged as the top candidate. Be sure to read the FreeRepublic Welcome Page and the Posting Guidelines so you can make full use of the site, remain collegial and not get banned, and also to push back within the guidelines if people become personally insulting (in case you are still in lib-dem mindthink from time to time).
I am a convert from cultural liberalism 30 years ago, before it became outright marxism. I'm now a broken glass conservative. (i.e. "would crawl across broken glass to preserve the Constitution...") So grateful for the explanations, links, resources and even the rebukes I have received from conservatives once I started to see the light but still hadn't done enough reading and refining of my views.
Thank you, this site, which I found kind of by accident, has a ton of stuff.