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Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
3. Is that from Kool-Aid gulpers on the right or the left?
Tue Mar 24, 2020, 03:30 PM
Mar 2020

Or is the overlap too strong to reliably define? I don't normally read this guy so don't know.

Siwsan

(26,266 posts)
4. 'DFR Star' is calling John a typical liberal, so......
Tue Mar 24, 2020, 03:38 PM
Mar 2020

I have no idea what '125' is all about. John Fugelsang is a treasure.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
13. I should visit more often so I can remember names.
Tue Mar 24, 2020, 06:45 PM
Mar 2020

Now I get it, though.

You're probably right that he's hard-right but could be illiberal/anti-liberal left. Similarities are often a lot stronger than differences between some of those.

Jefferson absolutely was liberal -- liberal personality passionately embracing radical ideas for the times, but NOT extremist personality. He was admired by all the prominent liberals and many conservatives of his time and worked awesomely well with them. Too well. He always wanted to go home, while all the groups he'd ever worked with pleaded for him to rejoin them in government.

But this guy, right or left, would obviously be the last to understand any of it.

tikka

(762 posts)
10. "State of Jefferson" shows he's a RWNJ
Tue Mar 24, 2020, 04:38 PM
Mar 2020

"State of Jefferson" is the right wing proposed fantasy state in the NW that takes in parts of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
12. Ah, oh, yes. Thanks. We have friends and family up there who
Tue Mar 24, 2020, 06:21 PM
Mar 2020

comment on them now and then Poor Jefferson. There were fringe types in his time too with the peculiar but signature megalomania that won't allow them to realize what it means when they can count attendance without needing both feet.

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