David French and those 200 Republican Staffers

In a recent installment of his Sunday Castigations, David French announced from his pulpit at the New York Times that he will be voting for Kamala Harris, urging the rest of us to go thou and do likewise. Because nothing says that one is in favor of, “…restoring a conservatism that values integrity, demonstrates real compassion and defends our foundational constitutional principles…” like throwing one’s support to a party that releases murderers and violent felons back into the community and allows upwards of 15 million unvetted illegal immigrants, gang members and terrorists into the country to roam about inhaling our tax dollars and exhaling murder and assorted violent attacks on American citizens with relative impunity.

Mr. French’s willingness to subordinate you and your family’s physical and economic well-being in order to assuage his conscience is truly a noble sentiment. It’s a calling, actually, as is the pledge of over 200 Republican staffers (representing the presidency and candidacies of John McCain, George W. Bush, and Mitt Romney) who have signed up to bring your sphere of liberty down with their votes for Kamala Harris. Surely their willingness to sacrifice your life and liberty will no doubt secure their place in heaven. Which is fine with me, and I think perhaps they should be granted admittance. They keep getting in the way here.

Truly, the infernal generosity of these halo-wearing scolds is endless, as they will see you persecuted with a Justice Department that goes after the Democrat Party’s political enemies while squashing political dissent; disarm you with a “mandatory buyback” of legally owned firearms; continue the mutilation and sterilization of your children on the altar of the LGBTQEIEIO agenda; and continue the weakening of America’s military strength and the incapacitation of our foreign policy so as to whet the appetite of every totalitarian crackpot, radical weird beard and anti-semitic nut job on the planet.

Ah, but there I go again with my short-sided preoccupation with life and liberty. Of course, it takes a willingness to enrich Iran, then turn tail and retreat from Afghanistan while leaving behind billions of dollars in US weaponry to the Taliban, and abandon our troops on the ground in order to restore a conservatism that demonstrates compassion and values integrity. Anyone with a smidgeon of moral discernment would understand as much. Why, a conservatism as sacred and high-mannered as that must be occasionally fertilized with the dead at Abbey Gate, as David French plainly understands. Blessed be Mr. French who doeth all things well.

Just yesterday, Elon Musk shared a video of Harris's statements on free speech on social media, amid Brazil’s move to take down the social media platform “X.” In 2019, Harris favored Donald Trump's removal from Twitter, saying having access to an account “…is a privilege." She continued:

The bottom line is that you can’t say that you have one rule for Facebook and another rule for Twitter. The same rule has to apply, which is that there has to be a responsibility that is placed on these social media sites to understand their power. They are directly speaking to millions and millions of people without any level of oversight or regulation. And that has to stop.

It’s a position that gives pause to anyone who values freedom of expression. But as with other “foundational constitutional principles,” this too must be retired if we are to save conservatism. Of course, Harris’ position on free speech is at odds with George Washington who wrote:

For if men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of speech may be taken away, and, dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the slaughter.

Poor George. It wasn’t his fault that he was born too soon to bask in the glowing wisdom of those who are now free from trifling worries about government censorship as they happily await the wise “oversight or regulation” of Kamala Harris. Because that’s how you save conservatism.

Meanwhile, in San Diego County, Venezuelan gangs attempt to hijack buses full of school children. In Aurora, Colorado, Venezuelan gangs have taken over apartment buildings. The list of homicide victims, rape victims, assault victims, all at the hands of violent criminals who pour in through open borders, continues to grow. Families continue to wonder how they are going to survive Bidenomics. American strength and prestige, abandoned three years ago in Afghanistan, remains AWOL as bad actors across the globe have their way with what Mark Steyn calls, “the dead husk of a moth-eaten sock puppet” in the White House.

Which begs the question — with Biden on perpetual vacation and Kamala recovering from an interview that was about as hard-hitting as an episode of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, who is actually running the country? It sure as hell isn’t Kamala.

Which begs yet another question — why are such as David French and the 200 Republican staff weenies okay with the anonymous person(s) running things in the first place? I thought they were worried about preserving democracy and restoring conservatism. But what do I know? I’m sure that once Kamala Harris changes her residence to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, we will see even more unvetted immigrants flooding into our cities and towns, the odds of triggering WWIII will be even higher than they are now, and life will resemble the utopian model that has thus far eluded masterminds like Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Kim Jong-un, Chairman Mao, and other under-appreciated visionaries. Then we will have finally restored conservatism.