"Donald Trump wants Republicans to surrender in World War T."
Weekly Standard
"Four bits of news from the front lines of World War T in the last week or so.
"The first is the continuing news of Hollywood and Silicon Valley virtue signalers saying that they’re happy to do business in countries that countenance horrible crimes against homosexuals—but that their moral codes just won't let them do business in North Carolina, where a new law is trying to keep men out of women's bathrooms.
"The second was the firing of Curt Schilling from ESPN for posting an internet meme on his Facebook page which, like the North Carolina law, is pointed not at "transgenders" but at men who want to use public women's restrooms.
"Taken together, these two items signal something quite alarming: Transgender bathroom use is the new gay marriage.
"You will recall that back in the dark, benighted days of our Republic—say, the year 2011, when Barack Obama believed that gay marriage should never be legalized—the people who promoted gay marriage insisted that it could never lead to other societal revolutions. Well, that didn't take long. The line from gay marriage to trans bathrooms is about as straight as they come. Partly this is the logical philosophical progression of worldview that sees identity as wholly plastic. Partly it's the result of the creation of a grievance-industrial complex which now needs endless culture war to feed its maw." . . .
Jonathan V. Last is a senior writer at The Weekly Standard andeditor of the three humorous books on virtues: The Seven Deadly Virtues: 18 conservative writers on why the virtuous life is funny as hell; The Dadly Virtues: Adventures from the worst job you'll ever love; and The Christmas Virtues: A Treasury of Conservative Tales for the Holidays.
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