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I can't stop laughing whenever I think of how big a disappointment Zimmy has been to the Left over the past 35 or so years! They had to settle for mediocre Dylan wannabies like Johnny Cougar, poor babies!

The Left knew it was in trouble with Dylan as far back as 1973, when he wrote these lyrics for The Wedding Song

It's never been my duty to remake the world at large,
Nor is it my intention to sound a battle charge

Zimmy has been one of my heroes since I was a kid. I don't believe any part of his artistic oeuvre is inconsistent with principled conservatism.

I can't stop laughing whenever I think of how big a disappointment Zimmy has been to the Left over the past 35 or so years!

Yep, they cling to this (false) conception of Bob the "protest" folksinger, and nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, of his 30+ albums, only two could be properly considered lefty protest albums, and the last one was recorded in 1963 .... well before our intense military engagement in Vietnam. He hinted to the leftists which way he was now headed with Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964), and basically told them all to go to hell with the half-electric Bring it all Back Home (1965). Later that year, with the release of the full-electric Highway 61 Revisited, he was a full-fledged rock and roller singing about the standard themes of that genre, albeit with far more introspection, poetic flair, and intelligence than anyone else. To the left, of course, he was a traitor.