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March 13, 2016
I’m old enough to remember when one of the core tenets of conservatism was the idea of personal responsibility for one’s actions,
including starting riots.Free thinking adults are free to ignore or condemn rhetoric they disagree with. When they decide to gather up tens of thousands of people to take to the streets and bust the joint up, that’s not something which was traditionally blamed on a speech given days or weeks before. But the truly dismaying part of last nights social media onslaught was the sight of #tcot conservative thought leaders gleefully joining ranks with the supporters of MoveOn, Black Lives Matter and Bernie Sanders’ operatives for the sake of blaming Donald Trump for a protest march and the cancellation of a what was undeniably an exercise in free speech. Conservatives align with Black Lives Matter in rush to find blame for Chicago protests « Hot Air
Posted by gerardvanderleun at March 13, 2016 5:00 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.