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Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower
It must be amazing to be the one person--the ONLY person--who can view differing arguments with any degree of skepticism and who can objectively evaluate different positions from a wholly unemotional and unbiased standpoint. We're lucky to have your perspective here.
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You have to look at these things issue by issue.
That
National Review article saying we must never view Trump in an issue-by-issue fashion is perhaps one of the dumbest things I have ever read. It is intellectually indefensible.
For eight years, conservatives took the position that everything Obama did was bad. It was total war -- even when he pushed their own policies, they fought him. It was a national embarrassment, a degradation of our democracy.
I totally understand progressives (and apparently Buckley conservatives) detesting Trump and wanting to take the same approach. But that doesn't make it wise.
Policy is a buffet. You get behind what you like, fight against what you don't (or find a way to circumvent it). You also have to apply skepticism to every policy, as this is the only way to try to avoid the law of unintended consequences. No sane person says, "I am progressive, and therefore any policy that trends progressive is fine with me." This is, again, generalizing.
Being a relativist is a good thing. Religious freaks hijacked the term and made "moral relativism" a pejorative. I think we should embrace it and defend it. It's the first step toward true enlightenment, and the end of our sclerotic political parties.
