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Solly Mack

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12. K&R

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Sun Jul 27, 2025, 01:56 AM

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Instead, they typically reposition themselves as the immovable axis of correct values, and denounce their former ideological fellow travelers as heretics who profaned true conservatism

the piece reminds us of a characteristic habit of conservatives.

Brooks distorts not only his own past, and that of the conservative movement,

Not just Brooks either.

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