Much of the reasoning is about what it opposes and where the error lies in the "other side" (nearly always a strawman) rather than a positive argument. Where there is a positive argument, it's logic doesn't consistently apply to other analogous areas. It's often a justification rather than a commitment to a reasonable principle or idea.
To be fair, wisdom isn't reducible to a set of rules or principles. It's a weighing of values and priorities and accounting for the impacts and implications.
I suspect there is something to the notion that consistent reasoning has a "liberal" bias in its nature. Whether this means there's more wisdom in that reasonableness is another question all together.