- Those American politicos who identify as "progressive" are some of the most vapid, morally bankrupt individuals in the country. This has never been more apparent than when progs attempt to capture some sort of moral high ground, specifically their attempts to enact a "new tone" in the aftermath of the January 2011 Tucson, AZ shootings or trying to co-opt #MeToo. The motivation behind their actions had nothing to do with being virtuous and everything to do with attempting to politicize the issues against Republicans.
As we're learning in the aftermath of the Hamas terror attacks on Israelis, there's a significant anti-Semitism streak within today's leftists. And when some of these people are held to account upon letting their bigotry flags fly, suddenly their advocacy for "cancel culture" wanes tremendously. Charles C.W. Cooke at National Review weighs in.
For more than a decade now, our universities, our media, our HR departments, and our celebrities have terrorized us with a bunch of vicious dogmas that, it turns out, they never believed in for a moment. In the name of “diversity” and “inclusion” and “equity” and any other abstract concept that might plausibly be recruited to the obscurantists’ side, Americans were asked to subordinate their freedom, their conversations, and their consciences to the personal preferences of a handful of unelected arbiters of taste. And then, one terrible day in October, a real barbarity was staged, and, within a few hours of the rules being applied to its apologists, the whole enterprise was revealed to be a brittle sham. Who among us could have predicted that?
To be clear: I've often decried "cancel culture" as destructive movement showing an utter lack of grace. That said, there's a significant difference between "canceling" an adult who as a youth years earlier posted objectionable content on Twitter and university students/faculty at best minimizing or at worst justifying an unprovoked terrorist attack on a free country.
- Speaking of attempts to "cancel" someone with whom they disagree.......
Protesters disrupted Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s lecture at the University of Minnesota Law School on Monday.
“Not the court, not the state, the people must decide their fate,” a group of around eight protesters stood and chanted during Coney Barrett’s lecture.
About 10 protesters were removed from the event: pic.twitter.com/zRBgjHpYaM
— Alpha News (@AlphaNewsMN) October 16, 2023
I hope to heck these weren't actual law students protesting. I mean, it's not too much to expect that actual law school attendees would know that "people deciding their fate" is how someone like Amy Coney Barrett attained a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.
- While he's been significantly trailing Donald Trump in the race for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has, in my view, run the best campaign of all Republican hopefuls - by setting the standard for competent governance.
The Governor signed an executive order on Thursday that enables the Florida Division of Emergency Management to bring Floridians home and transport supplies out to Israel. They. estimate some 20,000 U.S. citizens, including Floridians, are stranded in Israel.
The executive order directs the Flordia Division of Emergency Management to charter flights for Americans trying to get home. It also states, “There are more than 20,000 Americans, including Floridians in Israel who wish to return home but are unable to do so. The executive order allows the State of Floria to carry out logistical, rescue, and evacuation operations to keep its residents safe.”
After the vicious Hamas massacres last Saturday, Project Dynamo launched “Operation: Promised Land.”
For those who readily dismiss these actions as a mere publicity stunt, I'd suggest you look at the totality of DeSantis' tenure as Florida governor. His rational, calm presence successfully navigated the state through the COVID-19 pandemic as well as swift, efficient rebuilding efforts in the aftermath of multiple hurricanes.
The fact that so many Republicans tie their hopes to a crazed orange loser as opposed to someone who can swat away criticism with substance and decorum shows why the party has suffered "bigly" at the ballot box the past three election cycles.
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