Ruling Class Banana Republicans

And: Francis gay blessings fallout signals potential schism on the way

Well, this is something:

Colorado’s top court ruled on Tuesday that former President Donald J. Trump is disqualified from holding office again because he engaged in insurrection with his actions leading up to the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol, an explosive ruling that is likely to put the basic contours of the 2024 election in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Colorado Supreme Court was the first in the nation to find that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment — which disqualifies people who engage in insurrection against the Constitution after taking an oath to support it — applies to Mr. Trump, an argument that his opponents have been making around the country.

The ruling directs the Colorado secretary of state to exclude Mr. Trump’s name from the state’s Republican primary ballot. It does not address the general election.

Think about it: a Democratic-controlled state court decides to keep a Republican presidential candidate off the ballot, on charges that he has neither been convicted of, nor had the chance to answer in court. This is banana republic stuff. I trust that SCOTUS will save the nation from this Colorado court, but still, the fact that this is even possible in America today tells you something, and that something ain’t good.

Here in Hungary, if a court packed with members of Fidesz, the ruling party, removed the chief challenger to Prime Minister Viktor Orban in an upcoming election, Washington would be screaming bloody murder. Look at how the Biden administration is reacting to what’s happening in Serbia:

For all I know, Washington is entirely right, and the Serbian elections were crooked. The point is that given the way America behaves, more and more people around the world think of us as hypocrites. Here in Hungary, the US Ambassador, who is gay, bangs away at the Orban government for its supposed homophobia, because it won’t permit same-sex marriage (though civil unions are approved), and because it has a law forbidding LGBT material directed at minors. Back in America, one in four high school students identifies as LGBT — but see, Hungary is backwards, according to the US, because it would prefer for its youth not to be blitzkrieged with rainbow propaganda.

The US Ambassador also rails against Hungary for its alleged anti-Semitism — this because the Orban government accurately calls out multibillionaire oligarch George Soros for his meddling in their affairs, and for trying to turn the country progressive. Americans who have come to see how Soros-funded district attorneys have trashed law and order where they have been elected have just a taste of what Soros has attempted to do in Hungary. Since October 7, we have seen many examples of anti-Semitism all over the US — especially in America’s leading institutions of higher learning. Meanwhile, Jews living in Budapest have been safer than in almost any European capital.

Hypocrisy. Stinking Ruling Class hypocrisy.

Meanwhile, more and more evidence is emerging that Harvard president Claudine Gay is a serial plagiarist — a fraud. Harvard undergraduates have been kicked out for doing what she did. Here’s the latest:

Gay, an undistinguished scholar (judging by her scant publication record) got her job leading America’s top university not because of her accomplishments, but because she is a black woman who can be counted on to be a loyal advocate for woke ideology.

The only reason this has even become an issue is because she, like two of her university administrator colleagues, could not bring themselves to plainly condemn campus anti-Semitism in a Congressional hearing. Gay presides over a campus in which students and faculty can face serious sanction for as little as “misgendering” a trans person. But raw anti-Semitism — well, she said, that needs “context,” you see. The unstated part is: because Jews and white and therefore oppressors.

This is what the Ruling Class has done to us. It’s not just Harvard. Look at what IBM, one of the great American companies, is teaching its employees in DEI sessions:

That comes from James O’Keefe. You may not like O’Keefe or his methods. The fact is, his documents are real, and were leaked to him by internal whistleblowers. This is one of a seemingly infinite number of examples of American institutions racializing the population and turning it against whites, Jews, Asians, and others it deems too successful. They are teaching people to hate others on the basis of race.

These aren’t closeted cabals of Kluckers, or far-right militias doing this. These are ruling class institutions. And they’ve been at it for a while.

O’Keefe also has video of IBM chief Arvind Krishna telling subordinates that they had better discriminate against hiring Asians and whites, in favor of hiring blacks and others, or they will lose their bonuses (see it here). A federal civil rights complaint has been filed in response to this leak. Krishna says flat-out that Asians are “not an underrepresented minority” in tech; I don’t see him offering to resign to make room for a techie Claudine Gay. He only wants some poor Asian schmuck to be denied a job for which he is qualified.

Again: this is the American ruling class at work. They rig the system against people on the basis of identity. Have you seen this IBM thing reported on in the mainstream media? Of course you haven’t. If you’re not on Twitter and following Chris Rufo, you likely have no idea about the documented extent of Claudine Gay’s corruption, and how Harvard is covering for her.

It’s rotten to the core. And now we are finding via recent polling (by Harvard, funnily enough) that the generation of American youth who have been indoctrinated by wokeness in schools, universities, and media hold extremely illiberal opinions. For example, look at the 18-24 numbers here:

This is a five-alarm fire for our pluralistic liberal democracy. And yet, somehow Donald Trump is the real threat, says the Ruling Class.

There’s a question going around Twitter, now, asking, “When were you radicalized?” For me, it was coming to understand the truth of what the immigrants who came to America from Communist countries were telling me: that wokeness is totalitarian. (This is why I wrote Live Not By Lies, and why we are now making a documentary film about it, funded by Angel Studios.) Seeing how the election of Trump did not cause the Ruling Class to give second thoughts to what it was doing, and reverse course, but rather double down on it — that pushed me further away from the center-right. I have never believed that Trump is the best answer we can come up with — I’m a DeSantis supporter, but that train ain’t leaving the station, sadly. In fact, I think Trump is pretty terrible, in the main.

But compared to the Ruling Class? The ones turning Americans against each other on the basis of race? The ones queering our schoolchildren? The ones that led America into depleting its ammunition supporting a proxy war in Ukraine that is not in our national interest, and that was unwinnable — and that also denounced as Putin lapdogs anyone who questioned our involvement in the war? The people who demand that we look away from the crime explosion on our streets, and the way some of our major cities have become less livable, because looking too closely and drawing conclusions based on the evidence leads to Thoughtcrime? The same people — some Republicans included — who are sitting on their thumbs while the southern US border is wide open? Those people? Really?