Shifting Goalposts
While the liberal intelligentsia has been asleep at the helm, the political center has been pulled sharply leftward.
A Rockefeller Republican like Donald Trump is now labeled extreme for holding positions on, say, immigration that are in line with those of former President Clinton...
- ...The boycott, divest, and sanction (BDS) movement, whose stated purpose is the economic strangulation of Israel, has become central to left-wing activism.
- Linda Sarsour, the darling of millennial progressives, in spite (or perhaps because) of her vocal hatred of Israel, was elevated to co-chair of the star-studded 2017 Women’s March. Ironic, given her equally vocal support for Sharia law which, in practice, subjugates women.
- Hand in Hand with the Nation of Islam Then comes the “Farrakhan problem.” Last year, the Democratic National Committee narrowly and mercifully avoided electing Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) as its chairman, a man whose sordid past includes the adulation and public defense of Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam.
- For context, the Nation of Islam’s “prophet,” Elijah Mohammad, once found a kindred spirit in George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, because of their shared hatred for the Jews and support for racial segregation..."
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