No. They hate everybody.
One of the greatest tragedies of the #woke movement is that it shuts out not only countering voices but any voice that seeks compromise.
It’s all or nothing, and they’re constantly redefining what “all” is.
Little did some of us realize 50+ years ago when swearing the oath to the enlistment guy (my dad swore me in) that the domestic enemy would be the biggest threat to this country. Sorry. šÆ
The “moderates” are Mensheviks. The radicals will dispose of them and then their real enemy will be us.
Pretty much the enemy for many right-wing purists.
The left always eat their own. Bill Maher (a major leftist, but not as extreme as AOC and others) has been talking about this for years. In fact, some of those lunatics are so crazy, they’re turning on people like Bernie Sanders because he’s not extreme enough for them.
Was there ever a Conservative voice at the nyt ? Doubtful
they have their weapons for dealing with conservatism. Keep them busy with tax cuts/economics and worrying about the Middle East. If they start to get uppity, just accuse them of racism/sexism/homophobia/etc... That ends whatever they were talking about. This is assuming that there are “conservatives” who haven’t been completely bought off by their donor class (which is largely the same as the “conservative” donor class). The Left has political representation; the middle even has political representation in a way; the Right doesn’t.
We are all Barry Goldwater now, insisting that moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue ā¦That is the RINO mantra in so many words.
Everybody hates Moderates.
The world’s shortest book: “Great Moderates in History”
I believe this was well known in the 1960s. The student radicals did not like LBJ or Hubert Humphrey or the other Liberals. The student radicals wanted extreme change and they knew that the old guys in the establishment who would seek some sort of moderate solution were just going to be in the way.
The proper model was first rolled out in the French Revolution and then perfected by Stalin — purge, purge, purge. Purge your enemies. Purge your friends. Purge anyone who isn’t perfect in your eyes.
the left wackos are not the majority in this country.. they are the loudest..and they inserted themselves where it counts..
education system
courts
businesses
lawyers
and they don’t care who they step on ...
and one of the most ridiculous things they have done.. is to say amen and awomen.. they are that ignorant and don’t know it.
Both sides hate moderates. Moderates are the ones who say “yeah but here’s what’s wrong with your candidate...” and make valid points. True believers from the other side don’t bother them, they’re just the other side. But people who can criticize their candidates in a way they listen to, that bugs em.
I don’t see this as any different than Republicans..
I expect Democrats to be rats who hate this country.
I would like to think Republicans love this country and are willing to fight for it and all it’s traditions...
How many people like Mitt Romney, The Bush Clan, Neo-Cons, and Never Trumpers would you piss on if they were on fire ??
They are afraid of Trump-supporting moderates, because some moderate Leftists might actually listen to them.
Keep in mind that as nothing remains of the old Extreme Left that is extreme to the Left anymore so that these people may think George McGovern, LBJ and FDR are right of center.
Right, Center and Left have no meaning when they are discussed apart from any sense of history.
And, as the Woke may attest, history is one of many things that represents White Supremacy ... so it is being erased.
Conservatives have already been marginalized.
Moderates are the next to go.
The first group the Russian Bolsheviks purged (in this case, killed), were their fellow Bolsheviks. Then they went whole hog against the Mensheviks, the more moderate communists.
After them were what could now be called the Liberal Democrats, or squishy liberals, who had made a hash of the first, democratic Russian government. In their time they had advanced some of the most idealistic, utterly pie-in-the-sky laws, that they were a laughingstock. Stuff that only the current government in California might consider. Like abolishing the rank structure in the military, in the middle of World War I.
If the Bolsheviks had just stopped at that, Russia would have benefited from the extermination of much of the left.
RINO Republicanism is the frequent enemy of Conservative Republicanism.