Leonard Pitts:
No, these days, being “conservative” means being angry and fearful at the loss of white prerogative. It means to embrace — or at the very least, tolerate, which is functionally the same thing — a new and brazen strain of white supremacy. It means to be dismissive and destructive of the norms of democratic governance. It means to willingly accept nonstop lies, intellectual vacuity and naked incompetence and pretend they are signs of stable genius. It means to be wholly in thrall to the Cult of Trump.
Small wonder GOP heavyweights like columnists George F. Will and Max Boot and campaign strategist Steve Schmidt have disavowed their party out of devotion to what conservatism used to be. Their moral courage makes neon obvious most Republicans’ lack thereof.
That said, one wonders if it will not turn out that these worthies are simply holding out on their own lonely island of principle, if conservatism’s headlong march toward fascism will not make them the ones who seem naïve 20 years down the line.
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On this date at Daily Kos in 2004—Kerry states the obvious:
Ha ha. We've said it around these parts a million times, but there's something satisfying about seeing Kerry say it:
Asked about the differences between Edwards and Cheney going into the November 2 presidential election, Bush replied tersely: "Dick Cheney can be president." [...]
Kerry said Bush was right on one thing about Cheney. "He was right that Dick Cheney was ready to take over on day one, and he did, and he has been ever since, and that's what we got to change."
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