Rejecting "Systemic Racism"
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The latest election cycle did not deliver happy results for the political right. Our dismay is compounded by the strong impression of an unfair result.
Whatever you think of the integrity of last November's elections, it cannot be denied that in the months prior a great many very big thumbs — Wall Street, Silicon Valley, the academy, well-nigh all of the media — were pressing down on Joe Biden's side of the scales; so much so, Biden did essentially no campaigning. The Big Thumbs did his campaigning for him.
So now we have a Democrat in the White House and Democrat majorities in both chambers of the federal legislature. This, at a time when the Democratic Party is dominated by a radical progressivism more extreme than has ever been the case before in U.S. history.
The election results weren't all bad. Republicans actually gained 14 seats in the House of Representatives; not enough for a majority, but heartening none the less. They made significant gains at more local levels, too. The party won "trifecta" control — holding the governorship and both legislative chambers of a state simultaneously — in two more states, expanding their lead to 23 such states against the Democrats' 15. The Democratic domination of the federal executive and legislature left the strongest impression, though, so we on the right are naturally in a low mood.
Cheer up, fellow conservatives. Say not the struggle nought availeth! …
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[Read the entire article in the April/May 2021 issue of Chronicles.]