No, I'm not going to blame you for hating the post-Trump Republican party. I won't even blame you for hating the social milieu that you grew up in - there are m

No, I'm not going to blame you for hating the post-Trump Republican party. I won't even blame you for hating the social milieu that you grew up in - there are many parts of the U.S. that are still quite socially backward, particularly in the Deep South itself, and broad-based, grassroots social/economic development is a slow process. I do have a problem when some people (and, for the record, this isn't about you specifically, either - it's a huge problem!) outright refuse to look at the history and acknowledge the fact that "conservatives" have, in many ways, been on the side of progress, while "progressives" have occasionally been putting forth very misguided ideas and proposals.