Our response to a comment at Major Conflict, under the post, “The Song Remains the Same,” provided a chance to fire back at one all-too-typical regurgitation of conservative conventional wisdom. We hope using the resulting broadside for a post doesn’t strike you as too self-indulgent. First, the part of a comment from someone who calls [...]
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