![]() Some of them chickened out of serving their country, but others might even be veterans, like the GOP’s leading candidate for the Senate in Pennsylvania, who - like the party’s leading Senate candidates in Georgia and Missouri - stands credibly accused of violence against his wife and children (and wrote a novel with graphic depictions of the same).įlorida’s GOP Senator Marco Rubio has called his Democratic challenger, Congresswoman Val Demings, a “far-left extremist.” Yet she and her husband are both ex-cops, and each headed the Orlando police department. They, like their counterparts on the right, are, as Labash puts it, no more than a necessary evil - but they’re not evil.Īnd while they’re at it, they might want to drop in on some of those Dems’ GOP colleagues who are a rogue’s gallery of philanderers, tax cheats, and worse. To help people overcome this political, rather than optical, illusion, they might want to meet the many Dems in Congress, centrists and left-leaners alike, who are veterans of the military, police, and FBI, hardworking business owners and family people who truly love this country and have sacrificed for it very considerably. It’s the Green Berets versus the Red Berets, and it’s the stuff of fantasy. And like him, I have few illusions about either side of the political spectrum, even though some people still have this split-screen mindset in which the left side of the aisle is populated by legions of nose ring-wearing druggies and Che Guevara clones, while across the aisle, it’s a monolith of clean-cut, clean-living folks straight from the set of Father Knows Best. ![]() I’ll say “amen” to Matt’s words, especially the tired part. As a breed, they are generally too ambitious, too demagogic, or too into self-preservation at all costs to say anything much worth listening to. I regard nearly all politicians not as worthy repositories for my hopes and sunny optimism, but as necessary evils. The only reason I don’t classify myself as a severely disillusioned one is that to be severely disillusioned, you have to be illusioned in the first place. ![]() To be less glib, I like to call myself a mildly disillusioned conservative. ![]() When people ask me what I am, I often tell them “tired.” Then, when they specify that no, they were asking about my political orientation, I tell them the same thing, as it’s still applicable. In a recent piece in his newly launched newsletter, Slack Tide, one of America’s great writers, Matt Labash, writes: Is the more likely explanation based on the “R” next to his name and the “D” next to Adams’s? ![]()
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