When Ron DeSantis abruptly canceled his media appearances over the weekend, it led to a lot of speculation that he’d be ending his presidential campaign. On Sunday, that’s exactly what happened. Facing the prospect of a distant third-place finish in the New Hampshire primary, DeSantis bowed out and endorsed Donald Trump.
On one hand, the disappointment from DeSantis’ supporters is understandable. He’s a fantastic governor who’s more effective at advancing conservative policies than any other politician alive today. There’s no doubting that.
At the same time, there’s also no question that it’s a good thing the primary effectively ended this weekend, as opposed to an even more protracted war of infighting among conservatives. Millions more dollars won’t be wasted on pointless attack ads. Donald Trump will be the party’s nominee, no matter how often Nikki Haley reminds us that she’s a woman and a “person of color” who was bullied just for being brown on the mean streets of Bamberg, South Carolina.
This thing is over — and that means that the Right can unite against its real enemies — powerful forces in society who hate this country, despise its people, and who seek to destroy our families and corrupt our children.
One of the clearest examples of this effort is the sheer scale and dishonesty of the Left’s fraudulent war against what they call “book bans.” As City Journal has noted, politicians at every level of government — from Governor Chris Sununu in New Hampshire to former representative Liz Cheney in Wyoming — have claimed that schools are censoring classic reading materials, particularly in school libraries, at the behest of the Republican Party. Joe Biden has even appointed a “book ban coordinator” to pursue civil rights cases against libraries that offend the LGBTQ cult with their censorship. Biden also launched his re-election bid eight months ago with a video falsely implying that Florida had banned the book “To Kill a Mockingbird.” That simply wasn’t true, as even the Associated Press later admitted.
The truth is that this campaign against “book bans” is nothing more than a crusade to put pornography in schools. That’s been clear for a while now. We’ve all seen the footage of parents repeatedly getting thrown out of school board meetings, just for reading passages from the pornographic books in their child’s school libraries. There’s dozens of those videos out there at this point. This is about exposing children to smut. Everyone sees that.
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What’s changed is that now, with the election rapidly approaching, the forces pushing this degeneracy are emboldened. They’re dropping the pretense that they’re worried about “discrimination” or “teaching history” or whatever. They are at this point all but coming right out and saying that they want to expose children to pornographic materials. And they’re doing it with the express support of the largest media conglomerates on the planet.
If you doubt that, watch this remarkable footage from MSNBC the other day. This is from Joy Reid’s show. It remains one of the great marvels of the world that Joy Reid, despite being viscerally unpleasant to listen to or look at, and despite having nothing important to say, and having never offered an even mildly interesting insight into any topic ever in her entire life, still has a show — that, for yet another week, has not been canceled. But then again, this is MSNBC. They specialize in giving extraordinarily annoying and unappealing and stupid people TV shows. Al Sharpton still has a show on that network, after all, last I checked.
Anyway, back to Joy Reid. She was interviewing the co-founder of the group “Moms for Liberty,” a woman named Tiffany Justice. Before we get to the clip, here’s the backstory: What’s bothering MSNBC is that Moms for Liberty doesn’t want a book called “All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto,” written by LGBTQ activist George Johnson, to be available for children to check out from school libraries. This is a book that includes descriptions of anal rape and incest which are too graphic for me to share with you. This is the disadvantage we find ourselves in when it comes to this issue. You really need to hear specifically what’s in these books to fully appreciate just how deranged these people are for wanting to put these books in schools. But the material is so objectionable and disgusting that I simply will not share it. So you can go look it up for yourself and see. Suffice it to say that the book contains very, very detailed accounts of rape, sodomy, and other things.
There are hundreds of thousands of books in circulation that do not have any of that sort of content. There is no reason why this book, especially, of all books, needs to be in a school library.
This is a book that, according to local reports, is available in the young adult nonfiction section of two libraries in Huntsville, Alabama. These sections are for children between the ages of 12 and 18, which is roughly in line with the publisher’s age recommendation for this book. According to Moms for Liberty, there are records of a child as young as 9-years-old checking out “All Boys Aren’t Blue” from the library.
What’s incredible is that, in this interview, Joy Reid doesn’t dispute anything about the content of the book, or how obscene it is. She doesn’t concede that maybe 9-year-old children shouldn’t be reading this. Instead she goes out of her way to defend the book.
Joy Reid begins by complaining that parents are going online and sharing passages from the book that she says are somehow “taken out of context.”
Then she makes a very familiar argument. Watch:
“You’re not an expert, unlike whoever gave this pornographic book an award. Therefore, shut up; you don’t get to have an opinion.” That’s what she’s saying.
You may have noticed that it’s become a common rhetorical tactic on the Left, whether they’re talking about climate change or transgenderism or “book bans” or pretty much anything. In the absence of any guiding moral principles, they’re now fully reliant on the expert class, to the point that they can’t think for themselves anymore — and they don’t want you to think for yourself, either. We’re at the point where they don’t want you to object to pornography in the children’s section without first getting an expert’s approval. Just think about this for a moment. Joy Reid is claiming that you cannot object to children being exposed to books about anal rape unless you are an expert. Which raises the question: expert in what? What the hell kind of expert do you need to be to understand the simple common sense fact that 12-year-olds don’t need to be reading graphic sexual content? How long until they tell you that you’re not allowed to object to full-on child pornography or pedophilia unless you’re an “expert”? Based on their logic, at this rate, it probably won’t be long. In fact, that’s basically where we are, right now.
Of course, in that clip, Joy takes this approach to a new level of absurdity, when she demands that Tiffany Justice name the author of the book “All Boys Aren’t Blue.” And I guess, because Justice couldn’t provide the guy’s full name quickly enough, we’re supposed to conclude that she’s not an “expert” in the book. And therefore, she’s excluded from having any opinion on the topic. Because, you know, you can’t object to children being exposed to sexual content unless you can give the full name of the person who created the sexual content. Makes total sense, if you have brain damage.
Speaking of brain damage, what follows from Joy Reid next, as you probably could’ve guessed, is the usual disingenuous “parental rights” argument.
The idea is that parents should be able to expose their children to whatever they want, and reasonable people shouldn’t be allowed to step in and prevent that. Watch:
So to recap, the conversation began with Joy suggesting that the “context” of the book makes it acceptable somehow. But she never explained what “context” would justify showing a child a graphic description of anal rape and incest. Now she circles back to her original point, in a roundabout way. She implies that some children could benefit from reading this story because they’d feel “seen” and represented in the pages. And if parents want to encourage that, then we’re supposed to go along with it.
She actually says that. Again, just to be clear, this is not a book that encourages kids to take up sports, or solve mysteries, or learn about space flight. This book is exposing children as young as 9-years-old to graphic scenes of anal rape. According to the corporate press, children should read books like this and see themselves in them. As Tiffany Justice pointed out, the implications of that are pretty dark, to say the least. This gets to the heart of what this whole debate is about, which is the Left’s attempt to legitimize deviant sexual contact with children. It’s not hard to conclude that the reason they want to show children these books about graphic underage sex is that they see no problem with children engaging in this kind of behavior.
That could be why — throughout this whole interview — Joy never once condemns the contents of this book. She doesn’t say that some children probably shouldn’t read it. Instead, she falls back on this idea that parental rights are absolute, and we should never be able to dictate what other parents can and can’t do.
Notice the incoherence of this argument. First, Joy says that no one can have an opinion about this book unless they’re an expert, and they’ve read it cover-to-cover and can name the author’s full name and give his date of birth and social security number. Then, a few minutes later, Joy says that every parent should have the right to show their kid this book, and their decision must be respected no matter what.
This is what’s called a contradiction, and people who understand basic principles of logic can spot it right away. But people like Joy, and the rest of the corporate press, are too concerned with ideology to bother with principles. That’s why, rather than present any kind of argument for why children need to read about anal sex, Joy concludes the interview by launching into bizarre personal attacks on Moms for Liberty. Watch:
I have no idea if any of these allegations are true. From what Tiffany Justice says, they seem shaky, but honestly it doesn’t matter. They’re a painfully transparent attempt to distract from the issue that this whole interview was about. Even if all of that is true — even if Moms for Liberty is full of the worst people on the planet — even if they’re all serial killers and Nazis and super villains — does that suddenly make it appropriate to supply children with reading material about anal rape? It makes no sense. But this is all Joy Reid can do. She doesn’t want to talk about the books, or why she wants children to read them. Instead, she just wants to attack the people who are pointing out what’s in these books.
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It’s hard to put into words the depth of evil that’s on display here. This isn’t just one race hustler on MSNBC talking like this. It’s pretty much all of the corporate press, along with the Biden administration, who are committed to pushing this smut in schools. It’s going to take an equally forceful, concerted effort to stop them from succeeding.
In fact, this month lawmakers in Florida introduced a bill that represents a very good start. The legislation would ban teachers and government employees from displaying the so-called “pride” rainbow flag, or associated lapel pins, in public buildings and schools, for obvious reasons: the flag is a symbol of a radical religious cult that’s specifically used to target children and indoctrinate them into an ideology that seeks, at every turn, to sexualize and corrupt them. Soon, if the bill passes, the symbol — which became omnipresent sometime in the past decade — will be gone.
It’s simple and effective proposals like this that have made Florida under Ron DeSantis an attractive state for conservative families to live in. He’s not campaigning for president anymore, but he’s still going to be a leader in this fight, which could not be more urgent at this point.
What’s needed now — especially as the primary effectively comes to a close — is for every conservative to unite and join in.