Monday, September 2, 2019
I went to Howard Law School, which has no Federalist Soc'y. After I graduated in the '80's, I would learn of the Federalist Soc'y and the "horrible" Koch brothers. I only learned to question the wisdom of having no Federalist Soc'y club at Howard Univ School of Law much later when I questioned my support of the Commerce Clause for promoting civil rights but my discomfort with using it to pursue the drug war. I began to realize that had I started by inquiry earlier, I would be much better off.
But, my real respect for Mr. David Koch came when there was ugly leftist discourse a few years ago (I can't remember what it was), and Mr. Koch (a conservative) stepped into the fray and said that free speech is all about tolerating speech he didn't to hear. It was then I began to have a better understanding of conservatives like him and Bush '43. I may think them wrong, but I cannot dispute their love for the country and the Constitution, and this is all that can be asked of an American.
In the end,
This was the noblest [American] of them all:
All the strains of [conservatives] save only he,
...
He only, in a general honest thought
And common good to all, made one of them.
His life was gentle, and the elements
So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world 'This was a man!'
