Who would have thought the apocalypse could be so promising, and so soon? At the very moment that so many of the country’s institutions and leaders are wreaking havoc on our history, ideals, and constitutional rights, the feeling grows that something good is coming. Not, of course, something good for everyone. Certainly not for the media, or Big Tech, both of whom have stripped journalism, and free speech as well, down to nothing. Nor for the activists and academics pushing racist and deeply undemocratic concepts like “critical race theory” and identity politics, but something good for a much larger entity. Call it the country.
Though very few people have a deep understanding of the constitution or constitutional caselaw, the vast majority have a moral and intuitive understanding of the value of free speech, for themselves and others, and also of fair play. Indeed, this is true of most everyone with the exception of psychologically deformed activists and ideologues, whose numbers are but a drop in the bucket compared to the people as a whole. And this is why there is light at the end of the dark tunnel that our country is in now.
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