The American political left in 2019 is a very different animal from the one that storied Vermont Republican politicians faced in the past. George Aiken, Jim Jeffords, Rickard Snelling, and Jim Douglas inhabited a dramatically different political landscape.

So why do the Scott Troopers insist on resurrecting that obsolete brand? Why do they look backward and not forward for solutions to today’s problems? Why are they bent on renting a room in the house that Progressives built?

This episode responds to the Troopers’ oft-repeated accusation that Vermont conservatives practice ideological purity and thus are myopic and intolerant.