Originally published at crisis magazine
Conservatives can’t seem to get enough of media impresario Bari Weiss. Bari is the “It Lesbian” of the American right.
Recently, a Tweet of hers has been making the rounds and been retweeted by conservatives.
She says,
Orthodox. Faithful. Free.
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One of the reasons my party [she is referring to the Democrats, her party] lost in the recent elections is that we didn’t recognize how the world was changing, and when we did, we did not adapt quickly enough. Specifically, there was complacency about the nature of the enemy we were fighting because a lot of people did not recognize it for what it was.
She goes on to say,
That is the trick those on the authoritarian left have pulled off. They have smuggled ideas and policies that look like liberalism but are anything but. They speak the language of the civil rights movement, but they aim to resegregate us. They preach about social justice, but they do not believe in the most basic ideas of fairness and equality. They demand our tolerance even as they seek to undermine the very culture and institutions that create that tolerance in
