Dear conservative friends, we need to talk. This is more of an intervention than anything else. We must stop protecting organizations that seek to destroy your way of life. The university system hates you. It always is. It will continue to hate you until it is torn down brick by brick and replaced with something else. Something better. Universities will never be interested in you, and if two factions on the left want to self-destruct while shutting down college campuses, that’s what we in politics want to call a victory.
No need to ride to the rescue. You are not the white knight in this scenario. Buy some popcorn and enjoy the show. I promise this will work to your advantage if you let it.
Governors of red states should keep the people under their control safe, but otherwise leave the left alone. Make those factions fight.
Protests over the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack in Gaza and Israel’s subsequent response have been raging on university campuses across the country for weeks now. Leftists are nominally pro-Israel due to their traditional attachment to the state and the need to maintain healthy relations with major donors. The vanguards of the more radical left have drunk deep from the well of awakening and naturally associate Israel with anti-European decolonization rhetoric, identifying Israel now as a white colonial oppressor.
Jews have long been ardent Democratic supporters, avoiding being relegated to the bottom of the party’s hierarchy of oppression, but this arrangement is now being questioned by other members of the coalition. The left has imported and cultivated a generation of immigrants who feel no attachment to the past relationship between America and Israel, many of whose forebears come from cultures openly hostile to the Jewish people.
The progressive coalition has always been unstable, and on October 7th it erupted across its most important fault lines, manifesting itself as a left-wing civil war unfolding on university campuses.
Most opposing parties will perceive this as a gift from above. Republicans, on the other hand, have some concrete issues that will force them to solve this issue for their opponents.
The conservative impulse to protect institutions is admirable. In a healthy society, institutions are formal structures that help enshrine a culture’s values and transmit them to the next generation. But American society is not healthy, and the left’s long march through institutions has engrained a hostile ideology deep into the heart of the university system.
College campuses are not places of learning where promising young people develop the leadership skills they need to build a bright future. These institutions are progressive seminaries where students go into debt to learn how to hate their parents, religion, and country. This ideological poison is distributed through all major corporations, entertainment, and news headlines as college graduates assume positions as leaders and managers throughout society.
Conservatives have complained for decades that public schools are hostile indoctrination centers aimed at ensuring leftist hegemony, but as the pandemic shuts down these hostile schools; Conservatives have become the most vocal advocates for reopening public schools.
The same dynamics are currently occurring on college campuses. Conservatives may complain about the education system, but they are ultimately defenders of the status quo and would rather these institutions survive, even if they are calling for the literal destruction of America. I’m here.
Part of this reaction has to do with a natural and admirable conservative impulse toward order. Conservatives object to this kind of violence and intimidation on campus, and when a Republican governor is in charge, he must absolutely protect the physical safety of all students.
But there is also an urge among many Republican politicians to punish public criticism of Israel, which is a serious problem.
The right has spent endless hours mocking the left’s ideas of hate speech and safe spaces, but now many Republican politicians are suddenly obsessed with implementing those very policies. For example, governors such as Greg Abbott of Texas and Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma have supported crackdowns on “hate speech” and anti-Semitism in response to these protests. While anti-white rhetoric and demonstrations have dominated academia for the past decade, and that ideology has now permeated some best-selling books, it’s interesting to note that most of these politicians have taken no action. It’s becoming difficult not to have one.
Democrats already face a key election in which they will have to pit the unpopular dementia patient against a former president who has maintained a strong base of support despite facing a litany of false criminal charges. The last thing the left wanted was a civil war on college campuses that would expose the dire contradictions at the heart of its coalition.
The only thing that could save Democrats from this nightmare scenario would be footage of Republican governors sending in police to violently silence protesters. This would save the establishment and allow mainstream liberals to put a woke vanguard in its place, while pointing to the Republican Party as the real enemy, the symbol of the unified authority of hatred.
I know the instinct on the right is to want to wrench defeat from the jaws of victory, but Republicans have to shut up and get this done.
Imagine for a moment a scenario in which two factions within the right destroy and humiliate each other in an election year, and the left jumps on that grenade for the conservatives. You can’t because it will never happen.
Again, red state governors must keep those under their control safe, but otherwise leave the left free. Make those factions fight. In the worst-case scenario, some kids won’t be able to participate in Hate America 101. And what about the best case scenario? The situation becomes so bad that the Democratic Party coalition collapses as desperate parents demand the right to radically reform the university system.
To my fellow conservatives, please, please let us win easily this time.
