From Gerard Baker’s opinion piece in the November 18, 2024, Wall Street Journal. He argues that the reason Dems got thumped is because they advocated these crazy ideas.
- The idea that people who have stolen into this country illegally should be
showered with all the rights and benefits of citizens, that it is immoral to deny
them those rights, and that they should instead be treated as victims of
persecution and given “sanctuary” in our crowded and fiscally strained cities. - The idea that a nation that sits atop one of the greatest reservoirs of natural
energy resources on Earth should forcibly restrain itself from exploiting them to
“save the planet” on the basis of politicized science, while other countries are
free to do much more damage to the global environment. - The idea that after a century and a half of progress in expiating America’s
original sin of racism and making the country more equal, we are suddenly
obliged to believe that America is as oppressive as it was in 1619, and that the
best way to right the past wrong of treating people based on the color of their
skin is to treat people based on the color of their skin. - The idea that children should, without parental consultation or consent, be free
to choose their “gender,” be assisted by the state in committing acts of self
mutilation to do so, and all on the understanding that we have repealed
millennia of science and just discovered that there is no such thing as biological
sex. - The idea that democracy and freedom are best protected by denying people the
right to express certain views that the authorities deem “misinformation” and
by weaponizing the law against political opponents lest they weaponize the law
for political purposes
Read the entire article HERE
