5 Feet of Fury

Mark Steyn: ‘Sometimes it helps to take the pulse of America from outside the cocktail party’

Grab a coffee:

Some among these self-proclaimed champions of women and immigrants wish to substitute rape for argument, a cause of such broad appeal that the ideological enforcers at the monopoly social-media cartels breezily permitted the hashtag “Rape Melania” to “trend” on Twitter. (…)

And it wasn’t just a f**k-you to Washington, but also to boutique liberalism’s ersatz-aristocracy – Katy Perry and Amy Schumer, and Miley Cyrus weeping her election analysis all over YouTube, and Lena Dunham threatening to move to Canada. The very threat underlines the difference: They can afford identity-group leftism, and they can afford to escape it when everything goes south. How bad is it in those 209 two-time Obama-voting counties that plumped for Trump? Those losers can’t even afford to flee to Canada, or Australia, or John Oliver and Andrew Sullivan and Emma Watson’s Britain.

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