I tended to dismiss Joe Sobran because of his National Review connection. Just by happenstance, the day before Sobran died, I listened to an audio of an interview Sobran did with Scott Horton. Joe Sobran had come a long way from his unthinking National Review conservatism. The following is from my ever fallible memory:
“If you advocate violence against Americans, you are a liberal. If you advocate violence against foreigners, you are a conservative. If you advocate violence against both Americans and foreigners, you are a moderate. If you advocate violence against nobody, you are a radical.”
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