This is a version of the stupid argument leftists used about how Kavanaugh getting angry proved his accusers right.
I wish popular conservative commentators weren’t idiots.
@NRO
I really don’t understand the argument that pro-lifers shouldn’t vote for Masters, a conservative Republican, when he is running in a purple state against a candidate who supports abortion on demand. Like what’s the alternative?
Candace Owens suggests that there are secret Jewish gangs controlling and killing people in Hollywood, using their Jewishness as a shield. Defends Kanye West and complains about Jewish people who stood against her antisemitism. Compares them to the Bloods and the Crips.
Even in the midst of antisemitism, I implore American Jews not to take for granted the exceptional fact that there is an American Senator dancing with Orthodox Jews, at an Orthodox Jewish University, to a song celebrating Judaism. This doesn't happen in other countries.
Look at the comments. Hilarious to watch as people intellectually contort themselves into justifying this because they dislike Yeshiva University.
If you replaced "Orthodox" with another denomination, they would flip out.
I was at a conference of college social conservatives over the weekend, and it’s undeniable that a sort of right wing nietzscheanism has contaminated even the more old school, traditional, educated religious right among the youths. This is a problem.
I’ve been wanting to write something about Bill Buckley’s fight against antisemitism for some time. Prompted by the Pedro Gonzalez affair, I finally got to it in
@NRO
.
@NoahCRothman
He's right. And as I've pointed out many times, Ohio has one of the largest drug overdose rates in the nation. Over a dozen Ohioans die from drug overdoses each day. We could save some of those lives with a fraction of the $40 billion we just sent to Ukraine. Why aren't we?
I find it bizarre that the young, new right conservatives who criticize the pre-Trump GOP for being soft of social issues are also fiercely devoted to Donald Trump, the least socially conservative Republican president in a century.
On the flip side, the big problem with the vision for society proposed by secular humanists is that it assumes a moral order which it cannot convincingly argue actually exists.
IMO the big problem with conservatives’ alternate vision for society — have everyone be more religious — is that the major religious doctrines are false.
(It’s impolite to talk about this but also a big deal for the conservative project)
Great thread from
@jeff82874662
– I've had similar conversations with Jewish family members over the past few weeks. Truly astounding levels of ethno-narcissism
Had the incredible fortune of running into
@ReaganWorld
at the Reagan Library today, who graciously spent hours sharing stories of his father with us. He is a great embodiment of President Reagan's legacy. Mr. Reagan, thank you for an unforgettable experience.
@AGHamilton29
I'm glad your friends are coming around. But it's jarring that they were apparently fine with years of genocidal left-wing hatred for white people, Christians, conservatives, and America writ large.
Now that it’s *their* group under attack, they're suddenly concerned?
Nikki Haley's net favorability is now lower than Trump's and is approaching Biden's, which are near 6 points worst than Trump's.
Will Nikki Haley surpass Biden? We'll see. The more people get to know her, the lower her ratings go.
More needs to be written about how the current primary election system is responsible for the moral decay in American politics.
Reform party primaries and our politics looks totally different.
I assume
@WSJopinion
and
@NRO
will not only come out strongly against DeSantis on Ukraine, but also discuss whether being on the wrong side of the defining foreign policy issue of our time isn’t disqualifying for the presidency. Or are they merely the tail to Tucker’s dog?
@NoahCRothman
Of course, it's not an either/or. Helping the Ukrainians is a noble cause. But $40 billion is far more than even the Biden Administration asked for. If we are going to pretend that we aren't $30 trillion in debt, could we at least spend some money to secure our borders?
“But there are, as there have always been, bounds to the dictum that anyone to our right is our ally. Charlie Kirk has, through his own excess of zeal, intemperance, and imprudence, degraded the youth conservative movement.”
My latest
@NRO
Conservatives need to find a middle ground between treating individuals as total victims of their circumstances or as the sole determiners of their fate.
My latest in
@NRO
: In (Partial) Defense of Oliver Anthony and David Brooks
Can't see the whole thing (paywalled), but a great line near the beginning:
"It was this faction of the GOP that failed to stop the rise of progressivism. It was not Reagan conservatism, but the version espoused by George W. Bush and other moderates."
Luckily, we have a Supreme Court that interprets the words of the First Amendment according to their plain and obvious meanings, not those made up by progressive journalists. |
@NatanEhrenreich
@robbysoave
In fact, I think the case for section 230 reform has only been strengthened in recent days as we see the freak out from people terrified that Twitter might stop acting as an ideological publisher.
"Lewis Strauss was an early supporter of Barry Goldwater, an early patron of National Review, and an early friend to NR’s founding editor at a time when the rich and powerful wanted no part of him."
Must read after you've seen Oppenheimer.
In its fight against Hamas, the IDF sanctifies the memory of the Jews murdered in the Holocaust, and plays its part in fulfilling God’s promise in Isaiah to give Jews whose bloodlines would not continue a proper “hand and name.”
A Yom HaShoah post for
@NRO
:
I find it bizarre that the young, new right conservatives who criticize the pre-Trump GOP for being soft of social issues are also fiercely devoted to Donald Trump, the least socially conservative Republican president in a century.
Respectfully, if you do not think that Ron DeSantis is well within the American conservative tradition, you have no understanding of American Conservatism.
What is the nature of contemporary conservatism? If Trump loses, what will take his place? More than anyone else in the race, DeSantis has the potential both to defeat Trump and to end conservatism as we have known it.
@allahpundit
In other words, why is DeSantis not allowed to reconsider the public benefit of wild tax *privileges* when substantial new information reveals that Disney is acting antithetically to the values of the Florida electorate?
Ridiculous smear. I'm not accusing "the Jews" of anything. I'm ethnically Jewish, and I'm frustrated by members of *my* tribe who appeared to have no problem with left-wing radicalism until it threatened our specific demographic.
The idea that you can sue someone for damages without having to turn over the very documents that might substantiate or refute your claim is legally ridiculous.
Serious question: Has anyone seen a single respected constitutional scholar argue that YU's 1A rights are not violated by the NY injunction? Please direct me if yes, I'm genuinely curious.
I just wish intellectual conservatism could find a happy medium between libertarianism and post-liberalism. Alas, it feels like there are increasingly few intellectuals willing to do that.
There's actually something to glean from the Crazy Right's reaction to Taylor Swift: about a culture of losing, victimhood, and grievance. Right wing wokism is very real.
I had a blast spending yesterday at BYU with a group of YU students. The LDS community was welcoming, inquisitive, and eager to cooperate on important matters of religious liberty. A comforting reminder that in a country increasingly hostile to faith, we have amazing allies.
"Faith nourishes, strengthens, and enriches life. It guides one beyond acquisition of information towards an earnest quest to truth." - Rabbi Ari Berman
#BYUdevo
The notion that the primary threat to American Jews comes from the far right has been utterly, completely, inarguably shattered in recent days. If you believe it, you are an incurable imbecile.
The mass federal defunding of private universities should be one of the main policy goals the next time Republicans have a trifecta. Way too much federal money in college education.
More needs to be written about how the current primary election system is responsible for the moral decay in American politics.
Reform party primaries and our politics looks totally different.
This week has revealed the staggering number of antisemites who walk among us. But it’s also revealed countless true philosemites—people who identify with, lend support to, and fight on behalf of the Jewish people. I am so thankful for them.
Happy to be in
@RealClearRelig
today discussing Oct. 7, campus antisemitism,
@BECKETlaw
's 2023 Religious Freedom Index (of which I'm a co-editor)—and what the findings illuminate for Americans worried about Gen Z's intolerance for people of faith.
American conservatism needs to change. It’s not 1984, or 1994, or 2004, or 2014 anymore. Neither European-style natconnery nor mindless populist raging is the answer, but we’re not going to turn back the clock—nor should we.
Looking back at Reagan's 1981 CPAC speech, and once again struck at the mention of God:
"The crisis of the Western world, Whittaker Chambers reminded us, exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God. 'The Western world does not know it,' he said about our struggle...
@ConservaMuse
@AviWoolf
Reagan, Meyer, Buckley, Goldwater, Kristol... They all got lumped into Bushism. Coming to believe that the Iraq War seriously warped the entirety of conservative intellectual history.
Commenters are too dumb to realize that I get Jesse’s sarcasm. That’s the issue: the point he was sarcastically making is stupid.
But this furthers my depression that my side of the political aisle is filled with people who cannot read.
“The time has come to confront not only the symptoms but the disease: a Democratic Socialist industrial complex that indoctrinates young Americans with an anti-Israel hatred so virulent that it renders them indifferent to the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.”
My op-ed on the ever-deepening rot of antisemitism at the core of American society.
“Something is rotten in the state of America. When the institutional leaders in our country cannot condemn the cold-blooded murder of Israeli civilians and children with moral clarity, one must…
I learned that it’s a mistake to draw a clear line between the pure nietzscheans and the classic social conservatives. Some are one or the other, but many believe in aspects of both.
Disentangling the two in the minds of the young is important work.
As they criticize religious people for having faith in something that can not be proven rationally, they are more than happy to take a leap of *faith* in assuming a moral order.
@chrislhayes
On the one hand, people like
@chrislhayes
assert that the burden of student debt, voluntarily assumed, is harmful and necessitates a policy response. On the other, they maintain that forcibly increasing the debt burden of Americans can’t possibly constitute a harmful action!
"The threats to religious liberty remain alive and well, and supposing that a few legal wins represent anything close to the vanquishing of these threats ignores the reality on the ground."
My first piece of the Summer for
@NRO
is up.
@chrislhayes
On the contrary, the harm that is being caused is the forced assumption of debt on the American taxpayer. Surely overwhelming debt burden is harmful—that’s the entire premise of student loan forgiveness!
The entire game right now is to elongate the state proceedings such that YU has to wait to get back to SCOTUS.
This is also gives time for no-name NYC politicians to send YU an angry letter every other week in the interim.
The allegation that YU is resorting to "scorched earth" legal tactics is being made in bad faith, pure and simple.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
It is proper to note popular NatCons’ intellectual deviation from traditional American conservatism. It is also proper to note popular FreeCons’ intellectual deviation from traditional American conservatism.
@baseballcrank
writing candidly:
“If [the court] turns away Yeshiva’s application, it will be the end of the right of religious Jews to operate a college in New York City that reflects their faith and passes it to the next generation.”
@nathancofnas
@jadler1969
He’s not denying the distinction. In fact, he’s criticizing those who endlessly celebrate the former as if it was synonymous with the latter.
Tomorrow, libertarians will argue that social media companies' editorial decisions are "speech" and thus cannot be regulated.
In a different context, these same people argue for section 230 because social media companies are but "platforms" for speech.
Clear contradiction.
The Daily Mail becomes the latest to catch up with what I've been saying since 2017: People are treating dogs like children because they are literally, in a demographic sense, replacing children.
It’s truly difficult to express what Joe Lieberman meant to Orthodox Jewish Americans, especially those interested in politics, who in his success saw the fulfillment of our nation’s founding promise to offer Jews the same opportunity for public service given to others…
I see a lot of people who complained about the *extent* of Israeli judicial overhaul who nonetheless oppose even the smallest reforms.
It’s perfectly coherent to argue for an unelected, all powerful, leftist oligarchy. Just be honest!
@Brian_Riedl
@michaelbd
So revoking self governance status based on recorded statements from Disney officials about injecting certain ideologies into their own business products would be fair game, then?