Behind all the frenzied virtue-signaling and ritualistic condemnations, it is hard not to discern loads of malice; and it is directed mostly by white people against other white people.
Would our situation look different if National Review and the rest of the legacy conservative media had not surrendered on issues they should have championed?
Despite her isolation, Marjorie Taylor Greene keeps coming after the “fake media” and her hypocritical colleagues with admirable thumos. Compared to Williamson, she is a model of courage.
Our rulers make it seem as if they have helped “overcome barriers” or “remove glass ceilings” when in fact they are merely fortifying their grip on society.
Vladimir Putin has behaved outrageously no matter how defective American foreign policy has been and no matter how repugnant neoconservative rhetoric may sound.
Democrats are always thinking ahead. Creating an energy problem is no more of a slip-up than opening the southern border: they are trying to build their base.
Although we might deplore disastrous mistakes made by U.S. administrations, it is Putin, not Americans or the Ukrainians, who in the end is responsible for this horrific invasion.
The optics are never good for any politician taking on the Left with a hostile media. But that does not mean those who are terrified can win by pulling punches.