I want to say I don't understand the left, but that's not true. I understand them perfectly well. And here's the most important thing you need to know about them: There is really no core belief they embrace apart from the crucial importance of destroying their political opponents. So when they say something that seems completely inconsistent with something else they said, you simply have to search for the commonality between the two things. You're probably not going to find it in the substance. Rather, you're going to find it in the motivation.
