The latest TIME includes a piece that takes familiar pot shots at conservatives:
The priority of the party’s leaders ultimately wasn’t to suppress a rebellion but to settle a power struggle between conservative and liberal factions. [The country]’s hard-liners had tried for years to derail the economic and political innovations that [a liberal reformer] had introduced; [a bloody government crackdown], [the liberal reformer] demonstrates in his journal, gave the conservatives a pretext to set the clock back.
The brackets are mine. I wanted you to have a chance to read the paragraph before learning that the country was China, the liberal reformer Zhao Ziyang, and the bloody government crackdown the 20-year Tiananmen Square massacre.
It?s interesting that the ?evil? conservatives in this case were the illiberal, totalitarian, big-government statists, the most devoted fans of dictatorial Communist rule ? in other words, the kind of people American conservatives fought for decades.
These Chinese ?conservatives? believed (and still believe) the government should have a hand in every industry, every home, every decision.
