Daniel Larison wrote a very thought provoking piece yesterday about how his beliefs have changed since the beginning of the Iraq War. Here are some things he believed that he now feels otherwise:

1) First among these was my assumption that most Americans who called themselves conservatives distrusted government and feared the expansion of government power.

2) One of my other false beliefs connected to this was that most conservatives were conservatives first and GOP partisans second (if at all), and would therefore be just as outraged by GOP government activism and overreach as they had been in the 1990s. This was the worst sort of naivete on my part, and it was repeatedly shown to be false.