Nick Kadysh: Progressives, there are extremists in your midst (The LINE)

For ages, conservatives have been told to root out the extremists in their movement. Now it is time for those on the left to distance themselves from their own whackos.

It doesn’t seem like that long ago, when the Trucker Convoy came to Ottawa and our entire federal and provincial government apparatuses began to fold like cheap suits, that I had an illuminating conversation with The Line’s inimitable Jen Gerson, where she knocked some sense into me.

I was defending the folks in the Trucker Convoy, because — as a partisan conservative — I felt a kinship to those people and their aims. I argued that the majority of the people in that protest were good, and had good intentions, and that they hadn’t caused any serious violent incidents. I argued that their morals were pure, and that their stated goals were just. Surely, I said, that had to count for something.

“Nope,” said Gerson. It doesn’t count for diddly squat, because those noble aims and pure morals were just an excuse to gloss over the fact that they had some serious whackos in their midst ...

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