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Tracking Reversals By Liberals, Conservatives, Democrats, Republicans

Tracking Reversals By Liberals, Conservatives, Democrats, Republicans

Like squabbling siblings, political adversaries need each other to define what they are not

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Feb 16, 2021
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The current acrimonious face-offs between “liberals” and “conservatives” fail to acknowledge that these definitions have evolved and changed over time. Neither side likes to acknowledge that they have reversed their positions, and were not so long ago as unenlightened as the other side, and only changed their positions because of demographics, and the e…

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