Margaret Sullivan, of the Washington Post, Gets It Right: the Trumpists are NOT conservatives.

Some of the key points in my blog entry on 9/24/20:

Owl Who Laughs: Stop Calling Republicans Conservative. It's Totally False PR

closely match an op-ed in the Washington Post yesterday (1/4/21), by media columnist Margaret Sullivan:

Stop calling Trump?s enablers ?conservative.? They are the radical right. - The Washington Post

 

Sullivan suggests the term "radical right" to describe those who, following Trump into darkness, claim that the recent election was rigged by Democrats (it wasn't, as 50 court cases, brought by Trump, have shown).  

I use the term "authoritarian."  Better would be White nationalists.

My piece engages in a lot more conceptual analysis, at the philosophical level, resulting in a broader indictment of the GOP.  Sullivan, though, hammers home the point that the radical right gets a comfy ideological shield, a "free ride" when the mainstream media refers to them as "conservative."

Look at the definition of conservative, as I do in my blog entry.  They are NOT conservative in any sense.  

I find it so frustrating that the media continues to use the label "conservative" to effectively coddle a cadre of traitors.  The label is contradictory and denialist.

Face the music:  This is one of the most dangerous times for democracy in the history of the United States.  

I am not alone in saying this.  On Morning Joe, for instance, the Lincoln Project guest commentators (Republicans who fled Trump's leadership) have been making this point for a while. 

 Fly Well In the Dark,

OWL

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