‘You disgust me.’

First, for those who may have missed it, some background:

About a week ago, the WSJ hired a young reporter away from Business Insider. Her name is Katherine Long, and her pinned post on X reads, in part: "If you work with or around DOGE, I'd love to speak with you." Two days ago, the WSJ published her piece, titled "Exclusive | DOGE Staffer Resigns Over Racist Posts". The following Mashable piece, titled "DOGE staffer resigns after racist posts uncovered. Elon Musk might bring him back," does a pretty good job of going into the details, including what ensued over the following day or so:

Which brings us to ...

Rep. Ro Khanna (D, CA-17; Indian descent, married to woman of Indian descent with whom he is raising two kids), addressing the following X post to VP Vance (married to woman of Indian descent with whom he is raising three kids):

"Are you going to tell him to apologize for saying "Normalize Indian hate" before this rehire? Just asking for the sake of both of our kids."

I will now quote VP Vance's supercalifragilisticexpialisplendiferous reply in its entirety:

"For the sake of both of our kids? Grow up.

Racist trolls on the internet, while offensive, don't threaten my kids. You know what does? A culture that denies grace to people who make mistakes. A culture that encourages congressmen to act like whiny children.

I cannot overstate how much I loathe this emotional blackmail pretending to be concern.

My kids, god willing, will be risk takers. They won't think constantly about whether a flippant comment or a wrong viewpoint will follow them around for the rest of their lives.

They will tell stupid jokes. They will develop views that they later think are wrong or even gross. I made mistakes as a kid, and thank God I grew up in a culture that encouraged me to grow and learn and feel remorse when I screwed up and offer grace when others did.

I don't worry about my kids making mistakes, or developing views they later regret. I don't even worry that much about trolls on the internet. You know what I do worry about, Ro?

That they'll grow up to be a US Congressm[a]n who engages in emotional blackmail over a kid's social media posts.

You disgust me."

The message from Trump/Vance HQ has gone out over our country's amber waves of grain, its purple mountain majesties, its fruited plains from sea to shining sea, and it couldn't be any more LOUD and CLEAR:

Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! The Dark Age of Cancel Culture Wolves is OVER! The Golden Age of Culture-Saving Sheepdogs now BEGINS!

I say ...

'Bout damn time!

PS:

The young man has been rehired, btw, and is back doing DOGE things.