I count among my good friends from college several liberals and leftists. Mostly, we have never talked about my transition from the Left to the Right. This surprises me because I am the one person among them who actually works in politics. I had assumed that, as friends, they would at least be curious to know why I had dramatically changed my mind about core certainties guiding my career and my morality. I would be curious if they did the same. I would certainly ask them about it. I don’t think I am being judgmental and I am not trying to be unkind when I say that I am an expert in electoral and movement politics while they are not. It’s a career, just as their careers are in medicine or the law or finance. The fact that I have studied politics and also work in politics means that I know interesting minutiae and the broad scope of some political topics, especially those involving 20th century political organizing. I don’t just work as a political organizer: I wrote a Ph.D. discussing modern political movements; I’ve interviewed scores of people involved in movements ranging from the far Right to the far Left, and I know the scholarship on American movements from the late 19th century to the present.

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