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The Patriot Post Digest 2-2-2017
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Then, there’s Hollywood. At the recent Screen Actors Guild Awards, Julia Louis-Dreyfus took to the podium and announced28 Trump is “un-American” because of the “immigrant ban.” And Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said29 Trump’s actions “are so un-American it pains us all.”
Four states — Washington, Massachusetts, New York and Virginia — are even suing30 the Trump administration over the order, with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman calling it “unconstitutional, unlawful and fundamentally un-American.” This is the same guy, by the way, who unlawfully went after31 Exxon Mobil and other “aggressive climate deniers.”
Of course, the “un-American” attribution is hardly limited to immigration issues. The Left likes to slap this label on anyone who disagrees with their views. Are you pro-life? No, you’re “anti-American,” said32 NARAL president Ilyse Hogue. (That whole “right to life” thing in the Declaration of Independence must be pretty un-American to Hogue, too.) Do you believe boys should actually pee in boys' restrooms? You’re not rational. You’re “un-American.”33 Do you oppose the government-takeover of the health care industry? You’re not pro-freedom, you’re “un-American.”34
For those who seem so ready, willing and able to identify what makes someone “un-American,” it’s amazing how little they understand about what makes someone “American.”
Contrary to the Sandra Flukes of the world, being American doesn’t mean free condoms for all. Nor does it mean free health care. It doesn’t mean safe spaces or safety pins, government-mandated school lunch menus or free cell phones. It doesn’t mean free college tuition or a guaranteed job upon graduation. It doesn’t mean gender identity affirmation or global citizenship. It doesn’t mean the right to kill a child or the right to make some one else pay for you to do it.
And, despite what the Left is crying, being American doesn’t mean demanding indiscriminately open borders.
As Michelle Malkin explains35, “America’s Founding Fathers … asserted their concerns publicly and routinely about the effects of indiscriminate mass immigration.” James Madison, for example, stated, “It is no doubt very desirable that we should hold out as many inducements as possible for the worthy part of mankind to come and settle amongst us, and throw their fortunes into a common lot with ours. But why is this desirable? Not merely to swell the catalogue of people. No, sir, it is to increase the wealth and strength of the community; and those who acquire the rights of citizenship, without adding to the strength or wealth of the community are not the people we are in want of.”
Indeed, being American actually means embracing the ideals that men and women, far braver than some Hollywood talking heads, have given their lives for, by the tens of thousands over the last 250 years. The ideals of personal responsibility and industry; the belief in the equality of all men based not on government dicta but on the reality of a Creator; the freedom to do not whatever you want but whatever is right.
Leftists can toss around accusations of “un-Americanism” as long as they’d like. But until they demonstrate that they understand what it means to be American, their attempts at contrast will continue to fall flat.
MORE ANALYSIS FROM THE PATRIOT POST
BSA Surrenders to Gender Confusion … Again36 — The Boy Scouts will now accept transgender “boys.”
More Americans Than Not Support Travel Ban37 — The proscription isn’t as hated as Democrats claim.
When Sally Yates Defied the Courts38 — The former Acting AG epitomizes the rule of men, not Rule of Law.
The Democrats' Playbook39 — The Left campaigns to demonize Trump as evil and immoral.
BEST OF RIGHT OPINION
Cal Thomas: The Narrative40
Victor Davis Hanson: When Normalcy Is Revolution41
Victor Davis Hanson: When Normalcy Is Revolution41
Mona Charen: It’s Not What You Say; It’s How You Say It42
For more, visit Right Opinion43.
OPINION IN BRIEF
Cal Thomas: “Even before [Judge Neil Gorsuch] was announced, liberal groups pledged to oppose him and urged Senate Democrats to filibuster the nominee in retaliation for the Republicans' refusal to give an up or down vote on Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland. … Does Judge Gorsuch have the best possible experience? Yes, but it won’t matter to Democrats. A great education? Yes, doesn’t matter. Good temperament? Yes, doesn’t matter. The fact that he was unanimously approved by the Senate for his appeals court seat won’t matter either, even though some of the Democratic senators who voted for him are still in the Senate and may vote against him this time out of party loyalty. … Democrats have run out of ideas, even bad ones, and have nothing left but name-calling and protests. The fact that voters have rejected their agenda has not yet resonated with them. They are like people who attend oldies concerts and wave their hands in the air, eyes closed, singing ‘The Age of Aquarius,’ like it is 1969 again. For them, the sun isn’t shining in, it’s setting. That narrative hasn’t changed.”
SHORT CUTS
Insight: “The Fed was largely responsible for converting what might have been a garden-variety recession, although perhaps a fairly severe one, into a major catastrophe. … Far from the depression being a failure of the free-enterprise system, it was a tragic failure of government.” —Milton Friedman (1912-2006)
Upright: “Trump seems a revolutionary, but that is only because he is loudly undoing a revolution.” —Victor Davis Hanson
Alpha Jackass: “We have had a leader who’s repeatedly demeaned women, wants to defund organizations that benefit women, calling on the media to shut up, specifically wants to give preferential treatment based on religion. Are these values really much different than the Taliban’s?” —Whoopi Goldberg
Braying Jenny: “[Trump] believes that he was elected as a dictator.” —Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Demo-gogues: “Instead of focusing on jobs and wages, Republicans have decided to launch an all-out assault on affordable health care in America. Their plan is to repeal the Affordable Care Act, slash Medicaid, and destroy the sacred Medicare guarantee that has protected generations of Americans. The Republicans' plan won’t make America great again. It will make America sick again.” —Nancy Pelosi
The BIG Lie: “We’re capitalist and that’s just the way it is.” —Nancy Pelosi
Non Compos Mentis: “In our sanctuary cities, [illegals] are not disobeying the law. These are law-abiding citizens. It enables them to be there without being reported to ICE in case of another crime that they might bear witness to.” —Nancy Pelosi
And last… “I have spoken more with Donald Trump in the last month … than I have spoken with Barack Obama in the last eight years.” —Paul Ryan
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