I'm known for being quite harsh, some might say unfairly, to so called "centrists" and "independents" who I feel are really just right wingers trying to smuggle in their partisan viewpoints as nonpartisan. However I don't get that sense from you even if I've disagreed with you in regards to important matters in the last year or so.
I'm biased as you and I have had a cordial relationship here going back a few years now but as some others know I'm not that afraid to burn bridges on this forum over the merits of an argument and especially if I feel the person I'm talking to is acting in bad faith or making poor arguments in favor of objectionable viewpoints. I don't think that's the case with you though.
Really my main issue isn't with the right generally, its specifically the MAGA movement. Right now a lefty who bends the knee to MAGA is someone I'd respect far less than a principled conservative who stands up to MAGA like Adam Kinzinger or Susan Collins or Mitt Romney or Lisa Murkowski. Whatever disagreement I might have with those folks about immigration or the economy is less important than the shared values around the importance of the Constitution and the threat to it from MAGA and I feel like you and I have those shared values whereas I can't say the same about MAGA and its fellow travelers.
