At the risk of sounding like an elitist I do think that one of the main problems facing the conservative cause these days is all the stupid people in positions of consequence.
Also obviously some of this is flip but I think it’s something conservatives don’t actually talk enough about. I’m not saying elect egghead experts out of touch with real people. But we’ve got some real intellectual lightweights in our midst.
Yeah something tells me I’m gonna mute this one sooner rather than later.
Today Jacob Blake conceded he was armed with a knife when he was shot by police.
A lot of people insisted this wasn’t the case in order to fit their narrative. That’s bad. And we’ve gotta talk about these things - I try to explain why below. nationalreview.com/news/jacob-bla…
First and foremost, this situation is awful. A man was paralyzed. His children surely traumatized.
But as I’ll go into more depth on later, it’s also important that media and others report these sorts of situations accurately.
The actual reporting on this was actually better than I think a lot of conservatives realize - lots of outlets couched their coverage by saying that it had been reported that Blake was unarmed.
Earnest question: is there any evidence that the people who stormed the Capitol were white supremacists, as they’re so often described?
They were many things - unpatriotic jackasses most of all - but I haven’t seen anything to indicate white supremacy motivated this thing.
That “white supremacist” has become just an amorphous descriptor of people the left doesn’t like is a really, really bad thing. Especially when censorship and cancel culture are en vogue.
Also - to be clear - I’m confident there were white supremacists who were involved. But we can’t define groups by a particular subset of their actors just because it’s convenient.
“The architect of the fraudulent Iraq War, who has supported Democratic candidates for years, has formally broken with the GOP. Take that, Republicans!!”