World News: Republicans are fighting back

Tuesday, May 31

Conservative activists are showing up at annual meetings to warn company leaders against engaging in the kind of LGBTQ advocacy that prompted Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to dismantle Walt Disney's special tax district

How conservatives are fighting progressives

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John Wood Jr. is a national ambassador for Braver Angels, a former nominee for Congress, former vice chairman of the Republican Party of Los Angeles County, musical artist, and a noted writer and speaker on subjects including racial and political reconciliation.

Vincent Madero

We live in an age of social sanction. Perhaps every age is to a degree. But the predominating social sanction (or "cancel culture" if you like) from the American left as it expresses itself in popular culture and the activist activation of major American institutions are yielding a soft secessionism from the American right.

Cancel culture, whether one generally supports or opposes it, has been well discussed. But within the worrisome rise of existential polarization in American life, the latter phenomenon also deserves attention.

An impulse toward secession has always been a part of the American character. We ought not look at it as an absolutely pejorative term. The United States was founded, after all, in secession from the British Empire. READ MORE

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