<i>&gt; You will find that there is a hell of a lot of thought that goes into opinions, and there is much less predetermined ideology than the way these things often get painted.</i><p>Yeah, retconning to twist everything that seeks to disturb one&#x27;s bigoted and repressive worldview does take an extraordinary amount of thought, credit where it is due. I encourage everyone to not just read the opinions, but to be vigilant of this when doing so.<p>The true crime of this is that it leads reasonable people like yourself to the belief that his deplorable behavior is merely a case of &quot;reasonable people can disagree intelligently&quot;.<p>Make no mistake, the outcome is predetermined based on his ideology. Reading individual opinions in isolation may tempt you to believe otherwise, but consulting his record over the long term will make it pretty clear.