“Yet you get all defensive when I criticize the NRA for endorsing him. Why is that?”
I’ll take your word that he’s a leftist, but remember the NRA is a one issue organization. They will support a pro gun lefty over an anti-gun conservative. We should challenge them on that and try to change it but trashing the organization is not going to help us keep our guns.
I’ll ask again, why do you think the NRA supported Manchin? Are they now a leftist organization?
The will also support a leftist over a pro-gun conservative.
We should challenge them on that and try to change it
Yes, we should. I don't pay dues for the purpose of supporting leftists.
but trashing the organization is not going to help us keep our guns.
The organization supporting leftists is not going to help us keep our guns either. The NRA endorsed leftist Democrat Joe Manchin for US Senate. I objected to their conduct as counterproductive and discrediting to them. They have done harm. I have not.
Are they now a leftist organization?
That they are an organization which supports leftists is an objective fact.