I am not a particular fan of Ernest Hemingway’s novel “The Sun Also Rises.”  But there is one exchange between two of the characters, Bill Gorton and Mike Campbell, that has stuck with me.

“’How did you go bankrupt?’ Bill asked.

‘Two ways,’ Mike said. ‘Gradually and then suddenly’.”

That passage has been running through my head a lot recently. President Trump had arrested America’s gradual decline.  Now this impostor in his place has accelerated it straight off a cliff.

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The millions of Americans who were paying attention throughout the 2020 election campaign all became painfully aware of the fact that Joe Biden's cognitive abilities were slipping and slipping fast.

His wife, as the person closest to him, should have been the one to call the campaign quits in order to reduce stress on the man. Instead, so anxious to become the First Lady by any means necessary, Mrs. Biden continued to push her failing husband's campaign forward as if he were mentally qualified.

The woman is egregiously guilty of elder abuse for allowing poor Joe to suffer the indignities of encroaching dementia in public.

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There are tens of millions of Americans who either have been stung, or turned off, by McCarthyite wokeness (and thus have anti-wokeness antibodies). More have been vaccinated from its latest virulent strains by their own values of judging people as individuals, not as racial or gender collectives.

So lots of Americans have developed peremptory defenses against it. The result is that daily there are ever-fewer who are susceptible to the woke pandemic. And it will thus begin to fade out—even as the virus desperately seeks to mutate and go after more institutions.

Peak Wokeness is nearing.  Here’s why.

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On the left, the tumbrels are rolling again, delivering former icons like Dr. Seuss, Pepe Le Pew, and other enemies of the people to the cultural guillotines for immediate beheading.

Their crimes: their decades-old sensibilities are out of touch with those of the seething, humorless and frankly not very bright scolds who currently inhabit the fever swamps of Twitter, Facebook, and the editorial pages of the New York Times.

Go ahead, laugh; what could be more ridiculous than discerning “rape culture” in the broadly drawn behavior of a French striped skunk who’s been looking for love in all the wrong places since 1945?  So here’s how to cancel all this garbage.

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A new term has entered the political lexicon in recent months, and it appears to have left-wing activists – woketards – sputtering with rage.

Conservatives on social media have been using “Blue Anon” to describe Democrats who believe in various government-sanctioned conspiracy theories, leading some on the Left to attempt to censor the potent term.  You won’t believe what happened next – just over the last few days.

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Early spring in Russia is a season of awakening from winter slumber—and it is remarkably rich with hopeful historical markers.

The notion of “thaw” is forever connected with the liberating death of Joseph Stalin on March 5, 1953, and the “secret speech” of Nikita Khrushchev to the 20^th Communist Party Congress three years later, when the “cult of personality” was denounced.

Today, President Vladimir Putin may be busy building his own cult, but his address to the Federal Security Service (FSB), the organization that inherits the tradition of Stalin’s brutal all-penetrating KGB control, betrayed his fears of uncontrollable shifts in Russian society (Svoboda.org, February 26).

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