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How bold. How daring.
A good way to tell that someone really believes in free speech is that he's still mad four years later about some college students yelling at a professor.
"The rap against the former veep is that he’s old, frequently puts his foot in his mouth, and occasionally says nice things about Republicans."
Um, and the other thing?
Um, and the other thing?
Oh, wait, here we are: "he isn’t prepared to capitulate to the icy codes of personal decorum written by people who don’t know the difference between exuberant human warmth and unwarranted sexual advances."
Just going to leave this here. studentactivism.net/2011/07/21/my-…
"A bunch of women have come forward to say that Joe Biden made them physically uncomfortable, and have been subjected to harassment and abuse as a result. How can I best express my opinion on this? Wait—I've got it." 
"The sensible center of America — that is, the people who choose presidents in this country — wants to see Donald Trump lose next year, but not if it means empowering the junior totalitarians of the left."
Buh.
I mean, Trump and his minions are bad, but not Middlebury undergrads bad. OBVS.
THE ICY CODES OF PERSONAL DECORUM, PEOPLE.
I really do love this piece. It's so clarifying. "I do, of course, stand opposed to Trump and all he represents, unless turning him out of office can be construed as a victory for those who believe old men shouldn't be publicly rubbing noses with young women they don't know."
Like, okay, whatever, dude. You think the kids shouldn't be yelling at the olds. Fine. But to say explicitly that you'd rather see Trump be re-elected than to let the youngs you hate believe they were on the winning side in 2020? Really?
I mean, it's not like Oberlin Q. Nonbinary is on the ballot for the next presidential election. When you say you don't like the idea of "empowering the junior totalitarians of the left," you realize that actually empowering-empowering them isn't a ballot-box option. Right?
I would pay a lot of money to be able to livestream a half hour of me and Bret Stephens sitting across a table from one another discussing what he meant by the word "empowering" in the sentence quoted above.
The people Stephens is talking about don't have very much power by any traditional definition of the word, but he's so afraid of that power that he's willing to countenance a second Trump term to avoid augmenting it. That's wild.
I keep coming back to "the icy codes of personal decorum."
The Icy Codes of Don't Fucking Smell My Hair When I Just Met You.
