Ever since J.S. Mill dubbed the Conservatives the “stupid party” back in the 1800s, conservatives have been caricatured as anti-intellectual, unsophisticated and inflexible moral busybodies. There’s been an extraordinary turnaround. Matt Taibbi, writing in Substack, points out that the stereotypes once used to slander conservatives now more accurately describe the left.

In Vino Veritas – Or, Whatever It Takes to Get the Truth Out of Such a Crew
Winston Churchill drank his way to saving the world from Nazism and, according to Alec Marsh in Spiked, the old bulldog would fit right in with certain current Parliamentarians enjoying a tipple to endure late-night sittings in Westminster. “Well, why not?” Marsh asks. “Politicians wouldn’t be human if they didn’t.” This news doesn’t, however, sit well with certain neo-puritan scolds from – you guessed it – the Green Party, which on the other hand does support providing free narcotics to welfare recipients.


