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It is amusing to see this paper's willingness to publish any letter that suggests Trump is about to be some form of evil, now as a proto-eugenecist, as suggested by Allison Norrie on the October 21 opinion page.

It is scary to see how blind this paper is to the movements actively looking to undermine the republic and ruin our children along the way. How many have been castrated in the name of trans-ideology? How many lives are worse because of the division created by BLM? According to the likes of Robin D'Angelo, Ibram X. Kendi, and Ta-Nehisi Coates, our skin color is the only thing that should define us, and rage against the inherently, genetically racist white man (and even the “white” black men who think like he does) is entirely justified.

Where is the hand wringing over the left's desire to throttle speech a la Robert Reich or Hilary Clinton? If they could do to Elon Musk what the French did to Pavel Durov, they would in a heartbeat.

It is happening here, but it is not Trump who is pushing this garbage with his off-hand somewhat colorful remarks.

Our schools have already been captured. We are experiencing an insidious overturning of all that is great in our society. We are confusing our children, and then teaching them how their confusion is given by some diabolical power structure which is always aligned against them.

They art taught that we must tear down the power structures: Merit is racist. Timeliness is racist. Science is racist—or throw in your ism of the day. Anything that supports our current way of life is the enemy.

On the contrary, Trumpist nationalism will help us return to the best parts of our past, and create the space for a better future for all of us. Perhaps we should be more wary of those who disdain and dismiss with prejudice those who “cling to their guns and religion,” the “conspiracy theorists,” the “domestic extremists,” the “MAGA Republicans,” or the “basket of deplorables,” to quote a few notable Democrats.

Cleaning up my computer, I found this piece, which I could not find as having published. It is unfortunately more relevant today. Maybe the mantra should be “Check Your Hate”

Two years now I have been at Sacred Heart's commemoration of Kristallnacht.

Two years this has left me unmoved.

Last year, I came expecting to be made to feel uncomfortable. I am an orthodox Jew. Surely, a Catholic school's commemoration in a Catholic Chapel would have some religious content or at least context to it, maybe a shout out to some apostle or the J-man himself for a lesson we should be taking.

It could have had a gesture across the religious divide, taught me something about where Catholicism has come, or how it has grown from its grievous indifference and even complicity in the events of World War II, and how it might have been a part of the fomenting of Jew-hatred that still infests this world, and how it is now praying and acting to celebrate the sanctity of every individual, saved according to Christian doctrine or not.

There was one glimmer of hope for me. At the end of the ceremony last year, one young lady from the choir, on her way out of the chapel, turned to the front of the chapel and bowed in acknowledgement of the place she was in.

With lowered expectations I came again this year. I was still underwhelmed.

It started with the politician's reference to his faith which his policies don't reflect.

It continued with exhortations to inclusion and seeing the humanity of the other, which of course has a place. Some of these terms are increasingly politically charged, or seemingly to me anyway, were used to push an agenda on the back of the Jews.

Then a chaplain got up decrying what some have done in the name of religion, but it is National Socialism, perhaps a religion of a different sort that ferried the evil of anti-semitism through the Holocaust.

The lesson supposedly is that it is not enough to say “I didn't,” but one must fight white-supremacy and antisemitism, these two somehow linked, along with insurrection, by more than one.

The keynote, do not say the word hate.

In closing, it was suggested we must remember, now more than ever.

I suggest this is not particularly actionable advice.

What should we not forgot? Not to kill Jews today. Most of us have that one down. Less obvious today than it seemed when I originally wrote this.

What is missed, what our children have not been taught, is that the “The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts.” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956.

The point is the Holocaust wasn't a one-off by distant people. It was simply the springing up of an antisemitism that has simmered since there have been Jews, perhaps aided by a European enlightenment that was in the process of discarding G-d, losing along the way our absolute basis of morality.

The point is we do hate.