Personally, I prefer that we are not consistent with three decades past. Gay marriage wasn’t recognized back then and so on. So I’m not surprised we’re inconsistent with that time. Over the period of one or two admins I prefer some degree of consistency but over three decades? Not so much.

If we had back then it wouldn’t have struck me as crazy if we’d considered the IRA a terrorist group. That we didn’t do this doesn’t mean we’re locked out of it forever.