The revolution will always eat its children. Trotsky, advising caution concerning the loyalty of socialist fellow travelers, famously quipped, “You never know when they are going to get on a train going in the other direction.” There was a time, well over a hundred years ago in the US but only as recent as 80 years ago in Europe, when “Republicans” were considered to be the liberals. Now they can’t seem to do enough to distance themselves from their liberal past just as the Left cannot. The one constant of our time appears to be this widening polarization. The “true” liberal, the open-minded, it would appear, is an endangered species. Mere labels. Politics, in this usage, is an Ouroboros.

Yet, and I love this, time and chance will overtake them all, according to Solomon (allegedly, anyway). You are on a good journey, Emma. Stay as you are.