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I tend to be reactionary.

I'm comfortable on the progressive side. But I'm still more pitched at fighting the Right than I am about building a progressive platform for the future. It's fair to say that that conversation doesn't interest me as much.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

I'm not a reactionary.

A reactionary is someone who wants to return to a previous state - that's never a possibility in my books. For me, everything's irreversible in the life of a society, as well as an individual's.

Leftist reactions are always histrionic.

I'm conservative on some issues, and I'm progressive on others.

All adventure is now reactionary.

I think that people have to have to have a sense of what ideas are one the progressive side, the Democratic side in order ultimately to be effective in the political world.