Coach Pāṇini ®<p>What if—wait, hear me out—it was never a principled objection in the first place? </p><p>But then a Black guy became president and a bunch of creepy weirdos got butt-hurt about it; now things are too expensive to buy Christmas presents, math is <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/woke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>woke</span></a>, and child sex predators are tolerated in the halls of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a>. </p><p>Modern <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> “conservatism” died with the idea that Constitutional amendments preserve the rights of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/WeThePeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WeThePeople</span></a> (looking at you 27th Amendment).</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a></p>