Well, everybody has had at least some thoughts about the Republican dominance on November 5th. If the Democratic Party does not wish to become irrelevant, it must discontinue its close association with moral relativism, and the attendant hostility toward Christianity (the real kind, not Bishop Spong) and Judaism (that one's for the morally bankrupt "academic Left"). More striking is the far left's tendency to rush to the defense of dictators and other wicked men. John Leo points to an inability to make moral distictions as the defining characteristic of the far left. Hitchens' departure from the Nation magazine should be setting off alarms everywhere on that side of the spectrum. But as long as Chomsky carries more weight with leftists than does Al Gore, for example, I hope you like Republicans, because it will be a long time in the wilderness.
Update: I read the whole thing. I’m sorry, but what a weirdo. I thought you [Tom Darrow, of Denver, CO] made a trenchant case for why lockdowns are bad, and I definitely appreciated it. But a graduation speech is *not* the place for that. Secondly, this is an august event. It always is. I would never address the President of the United States in this manner. Never. Even the previous president, though he deserves it, if anyone does. Thirdly, the affirmations of Catholic identity should be more general. He has no authority to propound with specificity on all matters of great consequence. It has all the hallmarks of a culture war broadside, and again, a layman shouldn’t speak like this. The respect and reverence due the clergy is *always due,* even if they are weak, and outright wrong. We just don’t brush them aside like corrupt Mafia dons, to make a point. Fourthly, I don’t know where anyone gets the idea that the TLM is how God demands to be worshipped. The Church doesn’t teach that. ...
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