Things Becoming Less Murky

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Here's the left's version of 'acts of rational free choice'

That's a swing and an embarrassing miss if you think posting a video of illiberal people misbehaving somehow scores a point when engaging with a true liberal.

But that seems to be the thing with you. You think in terms of left and right. I think in terms of liberal and illiberal. The fringes of the left and the right have more in common with each other than they care to admit. And a hell of a lot more in common with each other than with me.

Here's a suggestion: read Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism sometime. She had some fascinating insights into the ways these movements -- whether of the right or of the left -- framed public discussion even as they appropriated, subverted, and ultimately destroyed the institutions that stood in their way.