{"id":37529,"date":"2019-01-08T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T06:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=37529"},"modified":"2018-12-18T08:42:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T13:42:01","slug":"qotd-rinos-and-other-soft-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/01\/08\/qotd-rinos-and-other-soft-conservatives\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: RINOs and other soft conservatives"},"content":{"rendered":"

The RINOs you complain about are RINOs now but they weren\u2019t always. I don\u2019t know how many of you remember the seventies. The right here was kind of like the right in Europe. It assumed that in the end communism would not only win, but DESERVED to win, and what the right disagreed with was the way to get there. It is useful to remember this was a time when William Buckley\u2019s dictum that conservatism was \u201cStanding astride History yelling stop\u201d found deep resonance. Unpack that phrase. It assumes history comes with an arrow, that it\u2019s not going our way, and that at best we can get it to pause.<\/p>\n

Those RINOs who, by the way, took immense flack back then were as conservative as anyone dared to be. Because everyone knew in the end the reds won.<\/p>\n

Then the wall fell down and we knew what true horrors lurked on the other side.<\/p>\n

Individuals process these things fast enough. Well, my generation, at any rate, awakened by Reagan and shown that the win of the dark side was not inevitable, was more pro-freedom than people ten years older than us.<\/p>\n

But when we saw the wall fall down, it pushed many of us further into the liberty side of the isle. Not only wasn\u2019t a communist win inevitable, but their vaunted \u201cstrengths\u201d like superior planning and better minority integration didn\u2019t exist unless you really wanted to plan for three million size thirty boots for the left foot only, and integration meant grinding the minorities very fine and spreading them in the soil.<\/p>\n

However cultures aren\u2019t individuals. Cultures re-orient and process startling events very slowly.<\/p>\n

Yeah, those older Republicans are still with us, and they were over 45 when the wall fell, which means they couldn\u2019t reorient anymore. (Studies have been done.)<\/p>\n

Sarah Hoyt, “The Long March”, According to Hoyt<\/em><\/a>, 2015-12-20.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The RINOs you complain about are RINOs now but they weren\u2019t always. I don\u2019t know how many of you remember the seventies. The right here was kind of like the right in Europe. It assumed that in the end communism would not only win, but DESERVED to win, and what the right disagreed with was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,53,41,13],"tags":[263,780,431,262,622,517],"class_list":["post-37529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-1970s","tag-communism","tag-conservatism","tag-culture","tag-ideology","tag-republican"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9Lj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37530,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37529\/revisions\/37530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}