“E quindi Moussolinho ha fatto un tweet in inglese in cui diceva che Marco Violi era l’attentatore di Trump, e tutte le più grandi testate giornalistiche mondiali hanno iniziato a riportare la notizia col nome in inglese (Mark Violets) e la sua foto”
The departure of Mitt Romney from public life provides the ideal time for reflection on what it means to fully participate in politics as a centrist. His career is in many ways both a warning and inspiration to moderates of all stripes.
A thread 🧵
Bret Stephens elegantly steps in to help explain why the Democrats lost so badly:
The dismissiveness with which liberals treated these concerns was part of something else: dismissiveness toward the moral objections many Americans have to various progressive causes. Concerned about gender transitions for children or about biological males playing on girls’ sports teams? You’re a transphobe. Dismayed by tedious, mandatory and frequently counterproductive D.E.I. seminars that treat white skin as almost inherently problematic? You’re racist. Irritated by new terminology that is supposed to be more inclusive but feels as if it’s borrowing a page from “1984”? That’s doubleplusungood.
The Democratic Party at its best stands for fairness and freedom. But the politics of today’s left is heavy on social engineering according to group identity. It also, increasingly, stands for the forcible imposition of bizarre cultural norms on hundreds of millions of Americans who want to live and let live but don’t like being told how to speak or what to think. Too many liberals forgot this, which explains how a figure like Trump, with his boisterous and transgressive disdain for liberal pieties, could be re-elected to the presidency.
Link to his article below
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day, we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States, where men were free.”
-Ronald Reagan
For some reason, I have been thinking about this moment a lot today.
It's from John McCain in 2008 at a town hall.
The woman begins to espouse conspiracy theories about Barack Obama's nationality.
He immediately shuts it down.
"No ma'am. He's a decent family man."
Ronald Reagan: “You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey or Japan, but you cannot become a German, a Turk, or a Japanese. But anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American.''
“I just can’t wait for the game because it’s going to be a special day that there’s a Jewish kid playing football on Yom Kippur. … If that makes headlines, that means I get to be another light for somebody else.”
BYU quarterback Jake Retzlaff is breaking barriers 🤝
🧵NEW: Claremont students marked Oct 7 by occupying and vandalizing a building at Pomona College.
They disrupted classes and injured a public safety officer.
A Jewish girl said she was trapped inside and too afraid to try to leave.
Others escaped through a second floor window: