“The Young Republicans” Today Has a Different Meaning Than It Had 50 Years Ago

In my day, though we didn’t have electronics means of chatting, we certainly had clubs of young people with conservative values, e.g., the Young Republicans.

I never attended their meetings, so I can’t say for sure, but I would bet that the conversation stayed within certain boundaries of legality and perhaps even civility, depending on what you mean by that: libertarianism, the promotion of family values, heterosexuality, segregation, anti-globalism, and especially, anti-communism; I’m quite sure it didn’t extend to killing or raping one’s enemies, or pro-Hitler ideas like the gas chambers and the “final solution.”

Today, of course, what once was simple conservatism is now pure hate and stupidity.