All the people who got purged were the ones who described what the future would be if we kept going on the trajectory of the 1990’s and 2000’s.
Their assessment turned out to be totally correct. And if anything, understated.
What FR will turn into remains to be seen. It’s mostly boomers who are aging out, and old people don’t like change and throwing over the opinions of a lifetime.
Thirty years ago, the USA was globally dominant, and Political Correctness was in retreat. In 2024 the USA is in serious decline, and the Left has won all the battles and Woke dominates corporate and institutional life.
The future of the Right is in how it responds to its total defeat. On FR we have various mixtures of Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance and we will see what that looks like at the end of a second Trump Presidency.
I have seen that. That's an insightful observation.
Depression wasn't a stage, though. Depression is what happens when someone doesn't progress through the anger stage correctly.
Have you heard that "depression is anger without enthusiasm."?
It's an old quote, but very very accurate.