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Well, folks, woke leftism is totally on the ropes. The Democrats don't know what to do about this, but their entire centralizing philosophy is on the ropes. We can get into all of that today, ranging from the Washington Post to the war in Ukraine to how Democrats are responding to everything that President Trump is doing. But we begin today with the Washington Post.
So the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos, he's the owner of the Washington Post. He bought it several years ago. And he said at the time he was not going to get involved in the editorial side of the newspaper. And then the newspaper decided to basically become the repository of the most radical, woke nonsense in all of American media.
The Washington Post blew out its credibility more than any other major newspaper in the country. It was the paper of Record. It was the paper of Watergate. It was the paper that broke an enormous number of serious scandals about American government, and instead it turned into basically Salon.com. It was just Jennifer Rubin whining about how Donald Trump was a mean, bad, mean man.
It was Eugene Robinson whining about how America was terrible. It was all the usual suspects just saying the most radical, stupid things. And the Washington Post's subscribership began to seriously dip because they weren't making any of the same sort of smart business moves the New York Times made. The New York Times also became a liberal fan paper, but they also decided to diversify into Wordle.
That did not happen with the Washington Post. The Washington Post simply kept doubling down on the anti-Trump radical leftism. And the suggestion that boys weren't just girls, boys had to be girls. This had to be taught to kids. The idea that all politics could be boiled down to racial and sexual identity. The idea that capitalism was in and of itself bad. Well, there is a new middle in America.
And the new middle in America is... Fairly pro-free market. It's a middle that doesn't like the idea that the American economy is rigged on behalf of white people or rigged on behalf of men. It's an American middle that believes in the American dream and thus believes in the idea, generally speaking, of capitalism. It's also an American middle that, well...
fairly liberal about what their neighbors do is not completely liberal about what their neighbors do, meaning that if their neighbors decide to open a porn shop next door, the answer is no. If their neighbors decide the local public school is going to be teaching genderqueer, the answer is no. That's the new middle in America.
I was thinking about this a lot last night, about President Trump and the fact that, as I said during the election cycle, It's not that President Trump is uniquely right-wing. It's that the left in the United States has moved so far away from the center that by occupying the middle, Donald Trump now appears to be right-wing because the left has alienated everybody to the right of MSNBC.
So what does that mean? It means that there is now a real market possibility of newspapers like the Washington Post reorienting. Jeff Bezos is by no stretch of the imagination a traditional Republican. He is not somebody who believes in sort of traditional conservative social values. He's not somebody who, as far as I'm aware, is particularly hawkish on foreign policy.
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