For years, Andrew Sullivan has been my favorite blogger. I’ve always thought him intelligent, even when...umm, wrong, but even in his earliest days (I just saw a Book TV interview with him as a very young man), he displayed a temperament and intelligence that spoke well of "conservative" ideology.
More recently, the last few years, I’ve watched his journey away from the Republican Party and what passes as "conservative" these days. Even when his audience was almost exclusively conservative, and increasingly hard-core, Sullivan bared his soul in ways that would not engender such readers to him. Purple band-aids come to mind.
I’m writing this diary, as the title implies, as a reflection of Sullivan’s documented journey as it applies to my own trails.
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