And these were the guys who could stomach the Bush administration.
The first wave of the exodus happened during the torture years.
It just shows that once you lose your moorings, you can be blown anywhere.
Now even wingnutty types like Will and Boot seem like liberals, because they believe in the rule of law and free trade.
My move away from the right in the 1990s began when I started to check Republican economic claims and realised folks were not checking their theories against the results. All the received wisdom I had read about markets, the distribution of information and efficient pricing turned out not to reflect the reality I was seeing.
I'm still bothered by the victim culture of the left. But am definitely not a GoP supporter, which seems to be wrong about nearly everything these days.
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