Jennifer Rubin’s antipathy for Trump is clouding her vision. Gillespie has struck a chord, and he should be applauded for having the courage to do so.

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Jennifer Rubin’s antipathy for Trump is clouding her vision. Gillespie has struck a chord, and he should be applauded for having the courage to do so.
The world doesn’t get to decide your self-worth. Sticks and stones break bones; words do not earn the privilege to harm you one bit.
Steve Bannon left the White House last week the same way he entered it – …
To be “intolerant” is to commit the gravest social error, and will cause one to be excommunicated from the cathedrals of academia and politics.
Being able to condemn extremism in whatever form it takes is not the practice of moral equivocation, but desperately needed moral consistency.
The goal must be making fewer Nazis – and purging them from the Republican Party – not just punching or scolding the ones we currently have.
Moral value for Harman is dependent on the existential ability to self-authenticate, to determine one’s own potential. Moral value for Anglin is dependent on the economic ability to self-sustain, to determine one’s own potential.
It’s time we make an intentional effort to recognize racism in our own backyards and stand up and address it.
We must oppose any candidate associated with hatred and segregation of any kind. We must offer no comfort and no quarter.
For today’s conservative, our task might very well be said to consist of leaning back into a chair with finger to philtrum muttering the challenge –“Why?”