I'll begin this by saying that I actually like Bari Weiss. I respect the journey she's on, and I think she does some good work. So it's not my intention to burn her to the ground today.

On the other hand, the rather intense ratio that Weiss received for a very poorly-thought-out lecture she delivered on X to the unwashed masses of the MAGA movement was very well-deserved.
You might not have seen this. It's gotten more than 1.1 million views since she posted it Tuesday afternoon. But while it's a lousy piece of argumentation, it's instructive enough to discuss for what it represents.
Here's the X post in question:

What can we learn from our recent history? Of the way that the far left destroyed the center left? One big takeaway is that if a political movement does not police its ranks, does not draw lines, if it neglects to protect its borders, if it does not defend its sacred values, it…
— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) February 18, 2025

Weiss starts out rather shakily by making the contention that a political movement can't survive if it doesn't police its ranks and defend its values. The statement might be correct in describing a little-d democratic political movement, but there are lots of political movements that don't fit that description and don't conform to her rules, and some of them tend to last a bit longer than she thinks.
That might be a mere quibble, but then she says this:
What are those values? They include the rule of the law. The belief in the inalienable rights of each individual. That we are all created in the image of God and it is that—and not our ethnicity or our IQ score—that gives us our worth and that makes us all equal. It is a rejection of mob violence. It is the view that the West is good and that America is good, and that we deserve our heroes along with our whole complex history.
These values are not left or right. They are foundational. They are civilizational. And they have always required constant vigilance to preserve.
Well, not really. ...