Jonah Goldberg does it better

Goldberg is a Never Trumper all the way.  Like most Never Trumpers, he works overtime to make sure anything Trump should get credit for is tempered by the fact that it's Trump.  Sometimes he goes a bit far, throwing traditional and conservative and common sense views under the bus, as can happen when you become obsessed about something like distancing yourself from the sitting president.

On the whole, however, he manages to keep things more balanced than the previously mentioned Ross Douthat or George Will.  Here, he takes up both the Kanye West and Handmaid's hysteria, and does so nicely.

For what it's worth, the whole idea that even as women overtake men in more and more areas of society, they're still one step away from vagina death camps, reminds me of what a historian from S. America once told me.  We were at a conference together.  While talking about several topics, including the blessings we have in our Founding Fathers, he mentioned something about revolutions.  Being from S. America, he considered himself somewhat of an expert.

He said the revolution that can be trusted in the one that admits it won.  Like ours.  Once the dust settled and the treaties were drafted, the Founding Fathers moved on to form this more perfect union.  But the nasty revolutions never admit victory.  They always find some way of insisting the revolution must continue.  Either the evil hasn't been eradicated enough, or the goal is still eluding them, or the heroes haven't been able to plant the real flag, or they've found a new bourgeoisie, or something.  They keep the revolution perpetuated, often in the form of increased tyranny, slaughter, terror and what has been typical in most revolutions over the last couple centuries.

Just food for thought as we see women, blacks, and others continue to act as if the last 70 years never happened, and what we can see when we walk down the street and turn on the television must not exist.

On the Kanye West brouhaha, Goldberg echoes my sentiment, that West has the right to an opinion, but I won't rest too much on it.  Though if anyone - even Bill Maher - says something that is true, then it's true.  Same with West.

Nonetheless, Goldberg sees the evils of the backlash against him, mostly in the racist diatribe by The Atlantic's Ta-Nehisi Coates.  Of course it's not called racist by well known journalists who want to keep their jobs.  But I can say it.  It's nothing other than what my son said all those years ago during the Duke LaCrosse scandal, that the racism du jour is that 'you can always tell a racist by the color of his skin.'  It's racism.  A blind man can see it.  Yet like all evils of history, it's acceptable because the people with the power and influence in our society today say it's acceptable.

Kudos to Goldberg, BTW, for noticing the Marxist influence in identity politics, where no matter who we are dealing with, all must be divided into either the proletariat or the bourgeoisie.  It can be black vs. white, man vs. woman, gay vs. straight, "cis" vs. trans, right vs. left, climate change supporter vs. climate change critics - why the list is endless!  The important thing is to remember that once the dust settles, this old world ain't big enough for the two groups.  One must be eliminated.  No forgiveness, mercy, reconciliation, pity, humility.  Just eliminate.  And then, of course, find a new set of groups to set against each other.  See the 20th century record of Marxist influence for examples.

Also it was nice to see someone - anyone - actually bother to look at the complexities surrounding the history of America's slave trade, and the subsequent development of racism to justify the institution.   To hear many lecturers of American history today, you'd think the Founders personally invented slavery just to satisfy their racist ways.  That the early years of slavery in North America looked entirely different than the later years, with entirely different justifications, is lost on many today.  More lost is that the Islamic world had already ventured down a more 'racist' defense for its robust African slave trade well before Christopher Columbus's parents decided to go on their first date.

So while Goldberg will keep the Right and Trump and the GOP at arms length, and sometimes not without good reason, he hasn't chucked the basics, the truths, and common sense, the reality and the morality that traditional conservatism stood upon even as we enter the dark times in which  we now find ourselves.  For that reason alone he's worth the read.