Clarence Thomas: I was never a liberal, I was a radical

From an interview at Regent University:

Interviewer: What’s a nice person like you doing being a conservative? How did that happen? You, like I, started out to the left.

Thomas: I was truly on the left.

Interviewer: How far left were you?

Thomas: Well, there was no body on the other side of me. Let’s just put it this way. I thought George McGovern was a conservative.

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Interviewer: How did you go from a McGovern liberal to …

Thomas: I was never a liberal.

Interviewer: What were you?

Thomas: I was a radical.