Plus: Democratic Party Won’t Admit It’s Become Party of Wealth
July 17 2021
Good morning from Washington, where some politicians dither as racist indoctrination spreads through the nation’s schools. In one school district outside the nation’s capital, our Jarrett Stepman notes, a PTA and NAACP official says parents and other foes of this critical race theory should die. Plus: Coca-Cola gets skewered over China; Democrats dance around their wealthy base; and Dennis Prager’s tips for improving America. Twenty-five years ago today, a TWA jetliner bound for Paris explodes over the Atlantic Ocean shortly after takeoff from New York’s Kennedy International Airport, killing all 230 aboard. Enjoy the weekend.
How often during the last year of wokeness have middle- and lower-class Americans listened to multimillionaires of all races and genders lecture them on their various pathologies and oppressions?
Part of the new campaign is a video ad satirizing a Coke commercial, with lyrics like “Just drink Coke, the road to obesity” and “China is our labor supplier that drives our stock price even higher.”
Throughout American history until the post-World War II era, had you asked almost any American what constitutes living a good life, he or she would have offered any or all of these five responses.