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“I’ve been back long enough to witness some of the Cruz/Trump supporters battles, if that’s what you are referring to.”

Across the decades that I have been doing this, stretching back to “letters to the editor,” I had formed opinions about the way conservatives argue, and the very different ways that libtards argue.

Then I noticed that when a conservative was mistaken about something, he argued that point in the same way a liberal argues. I tentatively concluded that when one is wrong, that is the only style of argumentation available, that the conservative style of argumentation is suitable only for arguing something that is true.

As with conservative/libtard arguments, both sides in the Trump/Cruz war were accusing the other of acting badly, but only one side was actually acting badly. (That’s the way I saw it, and I’m going to believe my lying eyes.)

It was quite a surprise to see people I had respected as conservative suddenly acting like libtards on CompuServe circa the 1990s.