Category talk:Rightists who turned left with age

The Young Turks turned left with age
Q: You began as a Republican. What accounts for your transformation?

Cenk Uygur: The Republican Party. [Laughs.] My favorite quote is from Charles Barkley, who said: "I was a Republican until they went crazy." That about sums it up for me.

I was a liberal Republican in New Jersey, back when such a thing existed. I was socially liberal, economically conservative. Several things went wrong. Number one, I realized that the Republican Party is not at all fiscally conservative. Then there was the issue of foreign policy and there they went nuts: They invaded Iraq, when it made no sense whatsoever, then they started torturing people and engaging in warrantless wiretapping. All of this was insanity, and I had no interest in being stained by being near a party like that.

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Cenk Started out right wing. 2607:FB90:DD2D:3C35:AC39:89F1:4DC8:58BC (talk) 23:01, 17 October 2022 (UTC)