Another week, and another grouping of stories that baffle me. Here we go.
Mobile mutilation
Over the course of the last few weeks I've spoken at a handful of pregnancy resource center events around the country – some in red states, some in blue. But regardless of the location, the good people serving in these clinics have echoed the same thing about the post-Roe world we are living in: pro-abortion forces have never been so animated, angry, or aggressive.
More than one executive director spoke candidly about the coordinated efforts by Planned Parenthood to dispatch "mobile centers" from blue states to rest stops near a shared border with a red state, in order to dispense chemical abortion pills to any young woman who "lacks access." It's gross.
And you know what kind of depravity fits nicely with these abortion-pill-candy-vans? Trans tourist havens. That's what the good people of Colorado are now paying for after their governor, LGBT activist Jared Polis, signed a law this week that allows children under the age of 18 who are prohibited in their own state from mutilating their genitals or chemically castrating themselves to come to Colorado to do it – with or without their parents.
It's important to note to anyone who will pay attention – this is the meaning of compassion in modern leftism: unfettered distribution of life-threatening poison pills that kill kids, and "safe havens" for butchers to carve up the developing bodies of pre-pubescent children.
The end of Trumpism
Journalist Matt Lewis seems to have come up with his own foolproof plan for how Republicans can rid themselves of the scourge of Trumpism once for all.
Okay, first, I guess I'd like to know what Trumpism is. The term itself is a common one in modern America, but everyone hears something different. When I use it, I am always referring to the cult of personality that surrounds the man himself, not some larger ideological alternative. But others wield the term to describe an entirely new class or political party – one led by Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, and a multitude of lower level officials and candidates (like Kari Lake).
Either way, I don't see how what Lewis suggests even begins to make sense.
Hamilton is right about Trumpism in my estimation. But more importantly, he's right about the strategy. If conservatives want to put an end to Trump as the de facto leader of the Republican Party, simply choose someone else to nominate during the primary. Nominating him in the spring just to defeat him in the fall seems like a strategy session in line with Democrat Party priorities, not Republicans.
Hanging separately
Most folks have heard by now about the hacker who hijacked Daily Wire commentator Matt Walsh's Twitter account and also gained access to up to 20 years' worth of Walsh's private email communications. It's a staggering breach of personal security and, though the hacker has allegedly suggested he or she isn't interested in anything beyond just the sheer shock value of the attack, it's certainly an eye-opening reminder of the risks those in the public eye are willing to take. It isn't all glamour, fame, and money. Especially when you hold to the kind of beliefs Walsh regularly espouses.
And it's along those lines that I'll say what I found to be the most significant response to the ordeal didn't come from Walsh or any of the progressives basking in his misfortune. No, it came from Walsh's boss, Daily Wire CEO Jeremy Boreing.
I don't think I've ever seen a better articulation of the obstacles and roadblocks that confront conservatives who want to create and disseminate content. At every turn, the progressive stranglehold on Big Tech, social and mainstream media, as well as regulators and censors, makes the effort exceedingly difficult. The deck is stacked. Take the time to click on this tweet and read his whole thread, not as a scorned CEO, but as an insider's view of what conservative media outlets face daily.
What was it Ben Franklin once said, conservatives? "We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately."
