Stop The Circular Firing squad

A friend said that the right is addicted to losing and to self-flagellation.

He’s right on the second. The first is a by-product.

It never fails to astonish me the chest beating, the “how did we fail” when things don’t go according to plan and its twin, the ridiculous and rage-inducing “I guess people want socialism/communism now.”

The number of people humans have willingly voted for and wanted communism and socialism since the end of the twentieth century is not zero. But it’s not ...