So...you don't mind that your movement was founded by followers of Leon Trotsky. Interesting. I think Trotsky was a creep. All commies and lefties are. Apparently you think differently. Different strokes for different folks, I guess.
Try again. Your guilt by association only works on those who don't know any better.
I'm not such a one.
But listening at you, I guess we can throw away all that Dr. Thomas Sowell has written, since he started out as a Marxist. So did Ronald Radosh. So did David Horowitz. In my teens I would have made Farrakhan proud and Malcolm X smile.
People change.
But you won't allow people to change.
Whatever.
Your brand of "conservatism" isn't worth a bucket of warm spit. Your brand does not attempt to convince. It only casts out and repels.
But like I said, I'm up in your grill just like I'm in the face of the most rabid Leftist.
And I won't be moved.