My feeds are full of reporting that after this election everything is changing, like the whole world has shifted on its axis. Leading the charge is this Politco piece.

Was it a temporary blip? No doubt. Presidents always drive news, and Drudge always finds it. But the site knows the audience well, meaning its post-election programming choices are also a good indication of where the emotional energy of anti-Trump America is headed: Instead of tuning in, the audiences that fueled the post-2016 resistance are checking out. A slew of other early media data points suggest the same thing.

There’s more and I think it deeper than Politico suggests.

Whoopi Goldberg may be in deep trouble for crying “wolf” (well, discrimination) one too many times.

I declared Scientific American dead in 2020. But the zombie has continued to walk around and plague newsstands. After an epic and profane rant on election night by the magazine’s grossly politicized editor, she has resigned that post. While never said out loud, I would have to think said resignation comes as a result of enormous pressure.

This is all happening too fast. It has been less than two weeks, and it seems like progressivism itself is falling apart, almost without resistance. For it to fall apart this fast there must not have been much there to begin with. Well-built buildings are almost impossible to demolish, poorly built ones fall quite rapidly. We are not seeing a movement fall apart, we are seeing a facade crumble – revealing that there is/was very little behind it. It seems that only Nancy Pelosi has missed the message that the emperor has no clothes.

What historians have to figure out is how this facade came to dominate the landscape. I’ll posit a first hypothesis. They played on our compassions – they claimed victimhood and we, being decent people, wanted to help. They manipulated us and told us we were mean if we dared to confront or confound them – so we let them run amok because we did not want to be told we were mean.

There are two things to consider going forward. One, progressivism is not dead it is; however, apparently going into hiding. It’ll be back. We must maintain our guard. Two, we let it go so long that we will have to be actually mean sometimes to restore order. Sometimes the child has to be spanked.

Sorting Through The Pile

Stories related – The fall of Scientific American cited above. Mandatory DEI statements are most common in Chemistry departments. (The head of this man holding graduate degrees in chemistry hangs low.) Students are demanding universities doing something about their climate anxiety. (Maybe they could just get over it?) But then some are suicidal after the election. (Suicide is not funny, for any reason, but the temptation to wise crack here is very strong.)

Speaking of not actually funny, but you have to laugh – This.

Ruh-Roh. Florida Attorney General Sues FEMA Director For Allegedly Discriminating Against Trump Supporters. More coverage here. Settle quickly and disband the agency. This stain is not coming out.

In the wake of such gross discrimination in the US, an ancient and very ugly one continues to raise its head in Europe. Europe led the charge into this progressive nightmare that we are rapidly trying to shed. Note where it leads, and keep shedding.

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