Editor,

I’m wondering where those dyed-in-the-wool conservatives who couldn’t countenance big government or public debt went. Those folk who believed in state’s rights. The ones who wanted government out of their private lives. Are they all hiding under rocks somewhere?

And the libertarians so enamored of Ayn Rand who thought themselves strong enough to survive on their own. So self-sufficient, weren’t they? The guys who want “Republicans out of your bedroom and Democrats out of your pockets, so that they can make their own choices.” Free markets where government takes stakes in Nvidia and trade is circumscribed by whimsical tariffs. Yay, survival of the most obsequious.

Then there were the don’t-mess-with-me bad boys. You remember them from January 6th. They wanted their open-carry rig

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