I spend the beginning of today’s Impromptus talking about color-consciousness versus colorblindness. (For a long time, unfortunately, color-consciousness has had the upper hand.) I quote Zev Chafets on Rush Limbaugh. When Rush entered political combat in the mid-1980s, says Zev,

he came armed with the belief in color-blindness that had been in vogue twenty years earlier. Mort Sahl once said that anyone who maintains a consistent position in America will eventually be tried for treason. Or racism.

I have quoted this before — in 2010. At the time, I had just read an essay by Leon Wieseltier in The New Republic, and quoted it. I will again, here in the Corner: “In our society, there is almost no greater apostasy than the refusal to keep up.”

Yes. I expect the author wouldn’t like the example, but consider this: Two seconds ago, support of civil unions for gays was the progressive, daring position. Two seconds later, a reluctance to cater a gay wedding made you a Klansman.

Gotta keep up, y’all, gotta keep up.