And that, dear reader, is absolutely all that matters. When we are all out there marching for the flag on January 8, no one is going to care, and for a very good reason. The statewide Republican leaders, the Bob Jones alumnae fund, the Clemson Board of Directors, the Citadel Board of Directors, all of them are going to assume that it ends there, and the doglike loyalty will resume. Conservatives demand nothing. Like a puppy dog, rightists just forget about it the next day.
Liberals have no doglike loyalty.
The left is loyal only to its principles. Liberals do not forget any betrayal. Liberals tend to get their way. Robert Heinlein, the science fiction writer, said many things I did not agree with. But he hit upon one great, eternal truth.