Now, It Is Both

Charles Krauthamer had his finger on the pulse of the American body politic when he wrote:

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

This tracked well.  Conservatives generally thought liberals were simply being stupid about their beliefs and related policy choices, such as the liberal positions (manly of them impressively held together simultaneously) that:

    Men and women are the same;

    There are more than two genders;

    You can choose your own pronouns; 

    Men can be women, and can play in women's sports and wander into women's bathrooms; 

    Trans women are women; 

    Teens are too young for a tattoo without parental permission, but they can   have irreversible body-altering surgery without parental knowledge or   consent;

    DEI;

   ACAB;

    Law enforcement, jails and incarceration are a "sickness";     

   Michael Brown was a gentle giant that dindu nuthin';

   George Floyd was a saint; 

   The mentally ill just see the world differently; 

    No requirement for cash bail for criminals;

    A revolving door justice system; and many other positions that are far from mainstream but pushed often to the point that people opposing those views were cancelled, called racists, fascists or what have you.

Even after the murder of Iryna Zarutska, conservatives just thought liberals were really stupid to hold such policies that kept leading to terrible results for  innocents in society.

No cash bail for violent offenders, a revolving door justice system, and "equity" in the criminal justice system led the murderer to be released immediately after 14 arrests on a verbal promise he'd show up for his latest offense that all came together to lead to her murder.

Yep, conservatives still considered liberals to be stupid. 

After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and seeing the joyous reaction to that assassination both online and on the mainstream media by liberals, conservatives now consider liberals to be both stupid and evil.

Given where liberals considering conservatives to be evil has led, that conservatives are now considering liberals to be evil should be a rather sobering thought.

Gratz Confounds Them Again

Apparently the idea that conservatives can be for equality and equal opportunity across the spectrum makes liberals' (and to be fair some conservatives as well) heads explode.

The Detroit News: Gay marriage finds odd bedfellow in Jen Gratz

Liberals just can't fathom how Jennifer Gratz, who successfully fought against discrimination due to affirmative action, could possibly be against discrimination in marriage.

From a conservative perspective, Gratz's defense of the voter-approved constitutional amendment barring affirmative action may seem at odds with her support of striking down the voter-approved amendment banning gay marriage. But given her passion for upholding the 14th Amendment, it makes sense.

Not just the 14th Amendment,  but the simple concepts of equality and that there's things the government simply shouldn't be sticking its nose into.  Probably the government would also be a lot more effective if it stayed out of such things and instead focussed on its core functions so it could get something done right.

Good on Gratz for confounding the simple-minded who can't fathom that she can be a complex and rational thinker and be consistently for real equality.