Thanks Joseph Sobran

For making the point. Better than I have done so lately:

We incessantly read and hear that America has “moved to the right” in recent years. This impression seems to be even stronger in Europe than it is here.
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As the Democrats have moved left of liberalism, the Republicans have occupied the space they’ve abandoned, pretending that the old liberalism is conservatism. Well, it isn’t. The Republicans are doing most of the things that were once called liberal. They spend recklessly, ignore constitutional limitations, increase government power, create new federal programs, you name it — only they now call these liberal sins conservative virtues.

This allows incautious observers to think America is “moving to the right” even as it continues moving to the left. Any liberal who stops getting even more liberal is said to have moved to the right, when in fact he hasn’t moved at all.

Every few weeks/months I run into a “Rebublican” who just about apologizes for not being a Democrat claiming “I didn’t leave the Democratic party. The Democratic party left me.” OK. I believe them. But if the Democratic party is now the home of the ultra socialist left. And if the Rebublicans are now the Democratic party of old. Then where Pray-tell, are lovers of liberty, peace and prosperity supposed to be?