Dozens, maybe hundreds of these piece have been written. They all say same thing and have no connection to reality. They also present recent innovations to “liberalism” as being the genuine thing, which they are not. Long thread … The three legs of post 1989 “liberal” stool – mass migration from 3rd world, state sanctioned discrimination against whites (esp white men), and free trade w non-peer economies – are not actually liberal at all. They are policy preferences advanced by governing elite in West who then identified as “liberal” …

In the 1980s, Gore Vidal and Midge Decter had a feud. It’s worth revisiting bc it highlights the last gasp of WASP backlash at Ellis Islanders (and their takeover of NY). Let’s dive in!
The feud began with Midge Decter’s 1980 article, “The Boys on the Beach.” Published in Commentary, edited by her husband Norman Podhoretz, it described Decter’s observations of gay men and the gay subculture on Fire Island …

commentary.org/articles/midge…

It’s no accident that California was the first state democrats destroyed. They had to ruin it. It was the epitome of a strong, proud America — space, jets, beautiful landscape and people — and all affordable for a middle class family …


It also produced the two greatest post war presidents (before Trump) in Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. Together, they saved the United States from Democrat subversion and failure, and defeated the Soviet Union …

It is time for another thread on … VAN HALEN!! Where we left off: the band had just released their eponymous debut album. In 1979, they followed it up with the equally eponymous and powerful VAN HALEN II ...