Ja-nee, ask someone else maybe ….
When the truth is simple but being truthful is complicated, is a fact of everybody’s life. It takes courage….
But as repugnant as I find the moral and intellectual corruption driving Republicans’ collective decision to lie to protect Trump’s ego and avoid the wrath of his fans, it’s worth keeping in mind that such corruption is a feature of politics more generally.1
Sadly true….!
Where are the protests?
A year ago, campus Hamasniks were occupying buildings and setting up tent cities to protest Israel’s effort to punish the perpetrators of the October 7 pogrom.
Today the leader of their own country is suggesting a gratuitous American incursion into Gaza to evict the impoverished locals and convert the land into a playground for the rich—the most grotesque conceivable expression of “settler colonialism.”—and seemingly no one cares.
Every day since January 20 this year, the press has been forced to prioritize between covering the end of the American-led world order, the probably illegal subversion of federal agencies by the richest man in the world and his band of twentysomething geeks, the appointment of comically unfit nutjobs to positions of high influence over public health and law enforcement, and more mundane stuff like a new tax-cut bill that’s going to blow another sucking wound in America’s fiscal stability.
Also …. a week after he was sworn in, the president signed an executive order pledging immediate action by the Justice Department to punish unlawful acts of antisemitism on college campuses.
“To all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we put you on notice: come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you,” it declared, pledging to “also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never before.”2
So the protesters show some have brains and are hiding and the media are focusing on the more important stuff.
I hope the Coalition makes the above a policy in Australia after the pendulum swings right later this year.
But getting back to answering the title question .. my answer is a confident NO!
- This is an extract from an article by Jonah Goldberg in The Dispatch of February 26, 2035 ↩︎
- This is an extract from Boiling Frogs by Nick Catoggio in The Dispatch of February 26, 2035 ↩︎
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