Calling someone a Bolshevik isn't shitting on someone to other Bolsheviks, its the highest complement, actually.
Being consistent is what put him in a different class than the current crop. 'More respectable' is in regards to that specifically. May as well glaze Lenin while you're at it though.
he had his limits in how far progressives should push things
Pushing things down a slippery slope then abdicating responsibility when they go off the cliff isn't commendable.
being publicly gay in Washington, DC
Should never have entered public discussion at all, slippery slope. No shortage of gays on the right that understand people simple minding their own businesses and not drawing attention to it was the right trajectory. Bessent could have been Tres Sec under Reagan and no one would have given a shit because he doesn't make a spectacle of it.
Calling someone a Bolshevik isn't shitting on someone to other Bolsheviks, its the highest complement, actually.
Being consistent is what put him in a different class than the current crop. 'More respectable' is in regards to that specifically. May as well glaze Lenin while you're at it though.
Pushing things down a slippery slope then abdicating responsibility when they go off the cliff isn't commendable.
Should never have entered public discussion at all, slippery slope. No shortage of gays on the right that understand people simple minding their own businesses and not drawing attention to it was the right trajectory. Bessent could have been Tres Sec under Reagan and no one would have given a shit because he doesn't make a spectacle of it.