Jun 21, 2020

The Threat Is Coming From Inside the House

Again with this Russian nonsense. I’m amazed at the inability of people to wrap their heads around the fact that the efforts to sow racial discord today are all domestic, and coming from academia. But for some that’s too scary to address, so they go for a foreign threat.

There’s stuff you can blame on Russia or China. But the extent to which you blame Russia—or any foreign country—for worsening relations and increased anymosity between citizens by race or ideology is an attempt to ignore a true accounting of what’s been happening domestically.

Focus on the foreign subversive threat is what you do when you desperately cling to the fiction that we’re not actually divided at all; that we agree on the basic things; and we all have the same concept of the Good.
If you’re scared to face reality, please retire from politics.
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