Good morning from Washington, where the woke left is more worried about personal pronouns and white privilege than high prices, violent crime, and open borders. Other nations aren’t so foolish, Victor David Hanson writes. Nothing good can come of President Biden’s merging of public and private power, Josh Hammer argues. Plus: two perspectives on 9/11; The New York Times “others” Orthodox Jews for their values; and when it’s OK to deny election results. On this date in 1897, London taxi driver George Smith, 25, slams his cab into a building and becomes the first person known to be arrested for drunk driving. Take care this weekend.
Amid the collapse of the “public”-“private” distinction and the “other”-izing of half the citizenry by no less than the president himself, the stakes could not be higher.
“You tweeted Trump stole an election. You tweeted Brian Kemp stole an election. If denying election results is extreme now, why wasn’t it then?” a reporter asks the White House press secretary.
