"Death of a culture warrior"

[reinaert]

As usual, the whole thing is up to O'Hehir's usual stuff, but the conclusion reads it just right (imho):

"...“Woke” culture gets blamed for lots of things it didn’t actually do, or for minor infractions that occurred only on the margins. But there’s no question that liberal culture, broadly speaking, became disastrously overconfident. There wasn’t nearly as much “cancel culture” censorship or ideological infighting as center-right scolds allege, but the internal debates over boundary-policing and language, which led us all the way to “Kamala is for they/them” — surely a landmark in the dark history of political advertising — all stemmed from a presumption of total victory.

It was obvious to all right-thinking people that “we” had won the culture war, despite the occasional flare-up of distressing rear-guard skirmishes. Permanent political hegemony and the final extinction of the troglodyte right might take a while, but were sure to follow. That’s probably how Napoleon Bonaparte felt, three-quarters of the way through the battle of Waterloo.

Charlie Kirk told an improbable story: The right could make itself cool again and stage a massive cultural comeback. Then he willed it into reality. That’s a hell of a legacy."

Death of a culture warrior: The right's comeback win is Charlie Kirk's legacy - Salon.com

Liberals believed they'd won the culture war and the right was now permanently uncool. Kirk proved otherwise

www.salon.com

 

[Loulit01]

As usual, the whole thing is up to O'Hehir's usual stuff, but the conclusion reads it just right (imho):

"...“Woke” culture gets blamed for lots of things it didn’t actually do, or for minor infractions that occurred only on the margins. But there’s no question that liberal culture, broadly speaking, became disastrously overconfident. There wasn’t nearly as much “cancel culture” censorship or ideological infighting as center-right scolds allege, but the internal debates over boundary-policing and language, which led us all the way to “Kamala is for they/them” — surely a landmark in the dark history of political advertising — all stemmed from a presumption of total victory.

It was obvious to all right-thinking people that “we” had won the culture war, despite the occasional flare-up of distressing rear-guard skirmishes. Permanent political hegemony and the final extinction of the troglodyte right might take a while, but were sure to follow. That’s probably how Napoleon Bonaparte felt, three-quarters of the way through the battle of Waterloo.

Charlie Kirk told an improbable story: The right could make itself cool again and stage a massive cultural comeback. Then he willed it into reality. That’s a hell of a legacy."

Death of a culture warrior: The right's comeback win is Charlie Kirk's legacy - Salon.com

Liberals believed they'd won the culture war and the right was now permanently uncool. Kirk proved otherwise

www.salon.com

“Kamala is for they/them.” True, but bad to run on. The worst was "Defund the Police!" I know what they meant but idiotic phrasing.

For a while I thought Tucker Carlson's mom was writing left wing slogans.

 

[BirdinHand]

One of these days, people might wake up and realize that the vast majority of individuals have more in common than not…if they’d simply step away from the propaganda and media being crammed down their throats constantly telling them that anyone who isn’t a white christian conservative is bad.