of the Right:
“Frankly Margaret, I don’t care.”
Conservatives have been trying to be polite for a very long time. But that time seems to be coming to a close–it has become a one-way street. The reason is because being polite was seen by the Left as being “a pushover.” In short, being called “nice” merely meant that you were going to be a Lefty victim.
And if a conservative dared complain, Democrats and RINOs would just put their noses in the air and disdainfully say that that person was just uncouth and socially nasty and not acceptable in polite society. You could almost hear them say that, “There are those…”
In short, there was no way to protest being treated poorly by the Left. Doing so would get you hammered up by the Left and by the RINO Right.
But what JD Vance has given us is an example of standing up for what is right. He was not at all nasty, but he was truthful. And I think that is an example we can all learn from.
Being a Melvin Milquetoast is not a sign of being polite. It is not the goal of behavior. It is not even right. Conservatives privately disagreed for a long time. But they needed to learn to publicly disagree, effectively.