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The Right Should DUMP Andrew Tate

I have written about the repugnant influencer Andrew Tate before, because as a role model for the legions of boys and young men who are seduced by the materialist lifestyle he flaunts, he is impossible to ignore – and indeed, he must not be ignored. His followers must see his blatant lies and moral vacuity exposed.

Too many conservatives have embraced Tate because he sometimes offers up some countercultural commentary that resonates with us – his unapologetic critique of feminism, for example. But some conservatives with huge online platforms, like Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and Benny Johnson, are choosing to give Tate access to their vast audiences without confronting the self-promoting pornographer, Muslim convert, and alleged sex trafficker about his well-documented, grotesque abuse of women, his contempt for Christianity, and his perverse model for a masculinity that is personally and socially destructive. Tate is a master at exploiting people and selling himself, and Carlson et al inexplicably have been too star-struck to call him out.

In the video below titled “The Right Should DUMP Andrew Tate,” Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro spends about the first ten minutes laying out the case for why conservatives must stop thinking that Tate has something to offer our side. Shapiro has succinctly and thoroughly summed it up and saved me the trouble of rehashing my argument for this. Don’t miss it below – it’s important for conservatives to know why Tate must be held up as representative of the Right:

Do Californians ‘Deserve’ The Wildfires?

A common response I see from conservatives to the hellish, unimaginable swath of devastation that the wildfires are continuing to wreak in the Los Angeles area is something along the lines of, “Too bad, California, you voted for this.” And in the broadest sense, it’s true: every personal tragedy due to this ongoing fiery destruction can be laid at the doorstep of the willful incompetence of the elected Democrat leadership, from corrupt narcissist Gavin Newsom on down to Los Angeles’ Castro-loving, race-mongering Mayor Karen Bass to the trio of lesbian officials who prioritized anti-white gender diversity in the Fire Department over the lives and property and businesses of Angelenos.

But those who say that Californians, and other blue state residents who end up suffering from the entirely predictable consequences of destructive progressive policies, deserve what they get, must remember that there are countless conservatives in those states who did not vote for Democrats or their policies. Too often I see people then replying that their fellow conservatives should simply move to a red state. Hundreds of thousands of Californians – I and my family included – have fled because the state that should be paradise has degenerated into a Third World, failed state thanks to entrenched Democrat leadership.

But many more conservatives have stayed behind because they either aren’t in a position to leave their jobs and move to another state like I was (and even then it was a wrenching decision and emotionally challenging transition). Or they simply don’t want to leave their homes and families and friends. Those conservative Californians are fighting the good fight to turn things around politically – and it was evident from the last election that they’re picking up momentum. But they are up against a systemically corrupt Democrat machine that makes election victories damn near impossible. We owe them our support and respect and empathy, not to simply condemn them alongside the Democrats.

Yes, schadenfreude feels good. Believe me, I understand that thrill that runs up your leg, as Chris Matthews might put it, when you read that Black Lives Matter co-founder and Marxist grifter Patrisse Cullors “tragically” lost two of her three homes in the fires. It’s hard not to feel righteous satisfaction when the Hollywood elites who openly despise Americans in flyover country get some kind of karma.

But schadenfreude isn’t the Christian response to these ghastly California fires. Let’s not be like the Democrats who smirked about the hurricane victims in Trump-supporting states like North Carolina and Tennessee. Besides, the vast majority of people whose lives have been tragically impacted by these fires are not overpaid Hollywood elites, but ordinary fellow Americans. We should be praying that those people who previously voted “D” for whatever reason – whether because they are hardcore ideologues or just “brain-dead liberals” – now see the light and realize that Democrat policies never work. Pray that this disaster prompts them to wake up from their woke delusions and turn their backs on their failed god, progressivism.

Speaking of which…

Progressivism is Collapsing

From the lawless subways of NYC to Islamic terrorism in New Orleans to ravaging wildfires in Los Angeles, the people and policies of progressivism are being exposed as catastrophically incompetent at best, and a subversive danger to our national security at worst.

Ever since the COVID pandemic, when parents were awakened to the sick gender indoctrination to which activist “educators” were subjecting our children, normal American patriots have been getting a raw, unfiltered look at what progressivism in America is today: a threat to families, indifferent to the suffering of American citizens in need, weakness internationally and lawlessness domestically. It’s being exposed as an ideology that builds and grows nothing but corrodes and destroys everything. Its elites are power-mad totalitarian ideologues who are too incompetent to run a lemonade stand. The American people are fed up with it.

Progressive ineptitude kills. Progressive elites destroy everything they get their power-mad hands on. Progressivism destroys individuals, families, communities, culture, civilization, everything. Progressivism – that is, rebranded communism – has failed everywhere it has been allowed to take root, at all times in history.

This could be a turning point in the progressive advance against Western civilization. Now more than ever, American conservatives have the opportunity to tear off the Left’s cultural and political stranglehold and consign it to the dustbin of history. Don’t waste it.

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