Unfortunately, many conservatives have embraced this sort of binary thinking: If it angers the Left, it must be virtuous. Undoubtedly, that’s a crude shorthand for political thinking. It means you never have to check the ideas of the speaker, you merely have to check how people respond to him.Spot on, and bears posting here for those too lazy to read the column.[]
It’s not good enough to just be opposed by the Left – you must actually oppose the Left.
We must ask what someone is fighting against, not merely whom. We must ask what tools they’re using — and we must insist they use the truth. Ideas and values matter more than identity. [emphasis in original]
Thanks, but I did read the column. I suggest he follow his own advice. His support for Hillary was what exactly? I take it that she is a closet righ-winger in Ben's deluded mind?
I do not need this snot nosed kid telling me how to think. I was a conservative long before he was a gleam in his dad's eye.