I laugh, but sometimes it's "laughing mirthlessly while squirming like an itchy bear cub."

Fuck the false equivalence that's been peddled all throughout history up to the present.

Let's call it the Howard Zinn narrative of history, since that seems to encapsulate everything from false equivalence "DAE both sides just as bad" to the same old "anything to the right of Mao is Nazi" that's been pushed since at least the days of Woodrow Wilson.

I was a bit of a constitutionalist from the earliest days of my political awareness, even pre-libertarianism, which is probably why all the narrative pushers and their sycophants would respond, "Well, obviously you were ALWAYS right-wing."

Fuck moderate enlightened centrism.

"How did you know I was right-wing?"   "You never talk about politics."

(For some reason, my mother, with a doctorate degree, failed to find this joke amusing. This is part of the reason I no longer discuss politics with her.

Real Americans™

Why not all three?

One of my favorite P.J. O'Rourke quote:

“My grandmother said: 'Pat, I’m worried about you. Are you becoming a Democrat?’
“Grandma!” I said. “Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon are both fascist pigs. Of course I’m not a Democrat… I’m a communist!”
“ 'At least you’re not a Democrat,’ said Grandma.”

Fri Oct 25 2019 07:11:09 AM EDT from Ragnar Danneskjold

A backlash is coming, and it's going to be ugly.

I don't think it has to do with gay marriage, although we are losing our minds. The latest... more inclusive feminine products. 
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1186919867087241216

Trump was the backlash to politically correct speech.  The man has no filter.

And meanwhile, Joe Biden continued with his story about Corn Pop: "After I took down Corn Pop and his fellow bad boys, Honeycomb, Apple Jack, and that dimwit, Special K, Corn Pop and I developed a mutual respect for each other and we became good friends. In fact, I briefly dated his sister, Sugar Smack, but that was before she began writing bad Chex and turning Trix. So, late one night Corn Pop and I walked downtown to grab sandwiches at Subway. It was about 2 a.m. and along the way we ran into Jussie Smollet, who smelled of bleach and had a rope around his neck, but we didn't think anything of it. Then, out of nowhere, Cesar Sayoc's white van covered in Trump stickers, which strangely didn't have a scratch on it, pulls up and Nick Sandmann and his Covington Catholic crew, all wearing red MAGA caps, jump out, and they began staring us down. I tell you, I was never so scared in my Life. It was scarier than finding yourself in a dark alley with Count Chocula and Franken Berry. Corn Pop was so scared that he dropped a load of Cocoa Puffs in his pants. I was about to whip out my cell phone and call for military backup since I had Captain Crunch and General Mills on speed-dial, but at that moment I said to myself, 'I'm a Biden, man, and I'm not going to be intimidated and bullied.' So I grabbed a drum from Nathan Phillips and walked over and beat it in Nick's face while chanting the war cry of Elizabeth Warren's tribe. Man, that was something! I look back on that night and thank my Lucky Charms that I'm alive today to tell you about it. No joke! Cerealously, that's the truth, on my name as a Biden."

The pendulum swings in both directions, Trump was the backlash against the left's actions, think how bad the left's answer to Trump will be.