https://redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2010/03/19/no-quarter-how-left-wing-blogs-seek-to-destroy-us-rather-than-debate-us/feed/Conservative News & Politicsen-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 00:59:16 -0400<![CDATA[If you have been reading or writing blogs for some time, you may recall the early, heady days of the blogosphere back around 2002-03. Many of us old-school bloggers started back then (I started writing baseball on the web in May 2000, and political blogging in August 2002; RedState wouldn&#8217;t be founded until the summer of 2004). The blog world was a small town in those days, where everybody knew everybody, nobody was too big to respond to emails, comments or trackbacks (remember trackbacks?), and for all the fire of political debate, there was a broad-based sense that blogs constituted a community of interest that crossed party lines. Bloggers were glad to see recognition given to blogs and bloggers, engaged in debate across ideological lines, and in some cases informal alliances sprung up, as when blogs on the right and left alike united to drive media interest in ousting Trent Lott as GOP Senate Majority Leader after the 2002 elections over his comments about Strom Thurmond. Sites like The Command Post, which followed the blow-by-blow of the Iraq War, featured contributors from both sides of the political spectrum (myself included, along with others who would later become contributors at RedState). I don&#8217;t want to overstate the degree of comity or idealize that era, but there was at least some degree of prevailing ethos that bloggers &#8211; amateurs using the internet to gather news and offer citizen punditry &#8211; had something in common even when their partisan and ideological interests diverged.]]>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:13:23 -0400<![CDATA[Dan McLaughlin]]>https://redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2010/03/19/no-quarter-how-left-wing-blogs-seek-to-destroy-us-rather-than-debate-us-n41193