The Culture War Explodes

The great cultural conflict that is rending America is a war. Thank God it is usually not violent. But occasionally it has been, as we saw in the summer of 2020. Sadly, the risk of it becoming more violent grows every day. 

Make no mistake about it, my friends. The left is out to conquer the America that our Founding Fathers bequeathed to us. They intend to replace it with an authoritarian socialist regime in which any dissenting voices will be smashed, isolated and punished.

It was revealing last night and all day today to hear very intelligent, well-meaning, mostly conservative commentators saying how "shocked" they were by last night's extraordinary leak from the Supreme Court, which had to come from one of the nine justices or one of their 36 clerks.

I was not shocked at all. I don't think there is anything particularly "extraordinary" about this. 

It's disgusting, yes. But if you're an elected conservative in public office or a conservative commentator who still doesn't understand the time we're living in, that's extraordinary to me. 

To his credit, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell gets it. McConnell blasted last night's leak as "an attack on the independence of the Supreme Court. . . [and] yet another escalation in the radical left's ongoing campaign to . . . substitute mob rule for the rule of law."

Every institution of our country is under brazen attack by the left. They have infiltrated agencies like the CIA and FBI and used the vast powers of those agencies against their political opponents, most notably Donald Trump.

For years, we have watched as supporters of President Trump and other conservatives were physically attacked in public places and chased off university campuses.    

We've seen the federal Department of Education turned into an ideological cesspool of indoctrination. We've watched as thousands of schools were infected with leftist, Marxist race-baiting materials. We've seen attacks on American history on par with enemy propaganda. 

We've seen a full-throated campaign to weaken law enforcement, empty our jails and open our borders – all at the same time. 

When some radical activist tells your seven year-old son that he could be a girl, do you not understand you are at war, that your family and your values are under attack? Just like the Nazis, just like the Soviets, just like the Maoists, the American left intentionally goes after children. 

As I outlined in Friday's report, the left is obviously intent on silencing dissent. The left regularly tried to silence Rush Limbaugh, and it celebrated when he died. 

The left banned a sitting president of the United States from social media. The left routinely goes after populist conservatives like Tucker Carlson, not to debate him but to shut him down. 

If a liberal like Joe Rogan wanders off the leftist plantation, they go after him. Elon Musk, who is no conservative, will forever have a target on his back. 

Even satire sites like the Babylon Bee are censored by the left, which has no sense of humor at all.

Our liberties – the freedom of speech, religious freedom, right to peaceably assemble, our Second Amendment rights – are all under methodical, well-financed, merciless attack. There is virtually no common ground here. Only one side can prevail in the battle for the heart and soul of America.