If you want to characterize it that way: “Why can’t things be the way they used to be?” all I can think to say in response is, yeah, FR ain’t your uncle’s symposium/watering hole anymore and it has never been a place for a range of opinions deviating from conservative categorical imperatives.
Any conservative who isn’t furious by this time with the results of a pretense of pluralism (most recently evidenced by speaker Ryan saying Congress is going to finally start asserting its prerogatives, I can only suppose the day after Trump is sworn-in), and willing to pick another GOP-e spud out of his teeth on November 7th, prolly won’t be happy here.
With Trump leading the way we’re taking this country back.
So you can join in, drop out or GTH out of the way with the holier-than-thou attitude and negative waves, Moriarity.
> it has never been a place for a range of opinions deviating from conservative categorical imperatives
Um, you may not have noticed but I was here for seven years before you showed up. Perhaps you should take it from me that this place used to be very very different and open to a much wider range of opinion. Used to be a lot of genuine subject matter experts here, rather than people who assumed they knew everything and had nothing to learn from anyone else.
After all, I was here and you weren’t so I am in a position to tell you from firsthand experience what happened before you showed up.
If you don’t know what an Ash Alert is, or who Don Morgan was, or what CaL and DITHF refer to, then you’re in no position at all to say how things used to be. I literally have the T-shirt from those days.
Anyway, your other assumption is completely wrong also, I’ve been on the Trump train since the day Rand Paul dropped out. The backing of Trump is not among my complaints.