Article snippet: Posted at 4:00 am on June 30, 2017 by Jim Jamitis For a long time I felt comfortable among self identified conservatives because they made a point of not stooping to the level that the Left routinely does. Conservatives policed their own. Knowing that the media was stacked against us we recognized we had to, because to overlook bad behavior on our side while attacking it on the Left would be rank hypocrisy. That doesn’t seem to bother as many people today as it once did, or at least seemed to. Having hitched their wagons to Trump, many on the right are losing their way. Even many who only reluctantly backed Trump because the threat of President Hillary was too great a risk are nonetheless taking the path of her 1969 thesis, a paean to Saul Alinsky titled There Is Only The Fight. The problem is there is a lot more than just the fight. Recognizing that used to be one of the strengths of the Right. Ironically, choosing only the fight is an act of surrender. It’s saying that nothing really matters other than sticking it to the guy who stuck it to you. Being better than that guy used to something for which we strove, but we’ve given up on it. Yesterday began with President Trump lashing out with controversial attacks on Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough. Many on the right cheered, because there is only the fight, and it no longer matters how we fight. There is nothing wrong with President Trump calling out members of the media on Twitter. Doing it with childish an... Link to the full article to read more