America is being destroyed by vile doctrines supported by a lot of nice people.

 

Article by Dennis Prager in Townhall

Nice People Do a Lot of Damage

 

It can be said that gaining wisdom is a process of gaining some dark insights into life.

One such insight is this: A lot of evil has been abetted by nice people.

By "nice," I am referring to the way people comport themselves in the personal realm. We refer to people as being "nice" if they are friendly to strangers, more or less honest in their dealings with others, take care of their families, support friends and are pleasant to be around. We all want nice neighbors.

To put it another way, "nice" generally refers to the micro, the personal, realm. It does not generally refer to the macro realm -- that is, to the views and values people hold about moral and social questions.

The human being is composed of two moral components -- the micro and the macro. In a truly good human being -- "good" is not the same as "nice" -- one is good in both realms. It is therefore quite possible to be nice in the micro and hold awful values for society; and it is quite possible to have excellent macro values and not be a particularly nice person.

Take communism, for example.

Communist regimes killed some 100 million people in the 20th century -- none of them combatants in war. Add to that number more than a billion devastated lives: the friends and family of the murdered, the generations deprived of elementary human rights and the countless number of innocent people imprisoned and tortured, and you have as pure an evil as is imaginable.

You might therefore think that no one who supported communism, let alone was a member of a communist party anywhere in the world, was a nice person. But you would be wrong. There were many nice people who supported communism. There were even nice people among the Westerners who provided Josef Stalin with the secrets to making an atom bomb.

The only competitor with communism for pure evil was, of course, Nazism. While the communists murdered far more people, the Nazis' systematic industrial murder of almost every Jewish man, woman and child in Europe remains the most horrific crime ever committed by a nation.

One would therefore assume, especially given the absence of moral rhetoric that characterized communist rhetoric, that there could hardly have been any nice supporters of Nazism.

But you would be wrong again. There were nice Germans who voted for Hitler and the Nazis in 1932, the last free election in Germany until after World War II. Historians are in general agreement that Germans who voted for the Nazis did so primarily for economic reasons, not because they were Jew-haters, let alone sought the murder of all of Europe's Jews. In any event, the plans to exterminate European Jewry were not even drawn up for almost another 10 years.

So, yes, there were even nice Nazis. There is a well-known example of one -- Oskar Schindler. A German industrialist who was a member of the Nazi Party, Schindler personally saved about 1,200 Jews -- Jewish workers in his factories in Nazi-occupied Poland, Bohemia and Moravia. He is the subject of the famous Steven Spielberg film, "Schindler's List."

Obviously, no communist or Nazi who participated in communist or Nazi evils was nice; each was despicable. And so were many, though not all, supporters of communism and the Nazi Party. But "nice" did not preclude abetting pure evil.

This was also true of supporters of slavery and even some slaveholders. As with communism and Nazism, there were some nice people who supported slavery and even some who owned slaves. Like communism and Nazism, the institution of slavery was evil, but not every supporter of slavery or slave owner was personally vicious. George Washington owned slaves, and he was not merely a nice man, he was a great man.

Moreover, unlike communist and Nazi evil, which were unique in history, slavery was universal and practiced throughout history. It took thousands of years for much of humanity to recognize just how evil slavery was. And people must always be judged in the context of the time and place they lived.

The reason this issue of nice people doing harm has become important to me is that I have been trying to explain how it is that millions of nice Americans support left-wing policies that are ruining, perhaps even destroying, America.

Specifically, why do millions of nice liberals support the Left? Leftism and liberalism have virtually nothing in common. Do liberals believe in all-black college dormitories; that America is a systemically racist country founded not in 1776, but in 1619; that Israel is the villain in the Middle East; that capitalism, the only economic system to lift billions of people out of poverty, should be replaced by socialism, whose moral record is horrific; that little children should be taught that "boys" and "girls" are subjective categories and that "nonbinary" is normal; or that defunding police reduces violent crime?

No, they don't. Yet millions of nice liberals support those who believe those nihilistic, anti-American, anti-human ideas.

Many on the Left are neither nice nor good. But America is being destroyed by vile doctrines supported by a lot of nice people.

Postscript:

After saying these things about nice people who support evil on my radio show, the Left declared that I think slave owners were nice people and that I support slavery.

One of the most popular left-wing podcasts, "The Young Turks," spoke about me above the chyron: "Pro-Slavery Prager: Religious radio host argues slave owners were nice people."

And the left-wing English publication, The Independent, headlined, "Far-right radio host Dennis Prager sparks outrage by saying there were 'undoubtedly many nice slaveholders.'"

Intellectual honesty and morally sophisticated thought are not hallmarks of the Left.

 

https://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2022/09/13/nice-people-do-a-lot-of-damage-n2612981

 

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Just the Truth: No More Fake Politics

We sorely need an end to fake politics and the uniparty and demand more truth telling if we are to witness the return of greatness.

by Theodore Roosevelt Malloch for American Greatness

Every Christmas in churches around the country we read Isaiah, chapter 53, and prepare for the coming of the savior, the “babe in a manger.” In case you forgot, that passage contains a vivid prophecy on the atonement. The Hebrew prophets taught that the coming messiah would be despised and rejected, smitten and afflicted; that he would carry our sorrows and would be wounded for our transgressions.

Now, Donald J. Trump is definitely not Christ. He is not part of any ancient biblical prophecy, nor is he a god, in any sense of the word. He never said he was. He is a fallible human being and a political leader of some courage and bravery. He may still have a “second coming” politically, (as did Grover Cleveland, serving two non-consecutive terms), but he certainly has in the last six years suffered the plight that Isaiah foretold.

Why is that?

Because he is a truth-teller.  Recently, he thanked me for an article I penned in this publication about “Trump’s Haters.” Surely there are any number of those types and the term designated for what most of them demonstrably suffer is: Trump Derangement Syndrome. The Left, RINOs and neocons have the most to fear and lose from Trump. They truly loathe him for a reason and it can often be quite personal.

He wants to put them all in the ash heap of history, to do away with their ideology, and remove them from what they most cherish: political power. 

This would end the deep state, curtail the three lettered agencies, limit and reduce government and taxes, use entrepreneurship to rebuild our economy and military prowess, and overall, deconstruct the administrative state. It would put an end to globalist Professor Klaus Schwab’s Great Reset and to dictator Joe Biden’s war on half of all Americans—we deplorables, “ultras,” and the people who work for a living and love both America and God. 

Trump became famous for calling out the truth and his new social media outlet, Truth Social, is about the very same thing. Truth Social calls itself “America’s ‘Big Tent’ social media platform that encourages an open, free, and honest global conversation without discriminating on the basis of political ideology.” That is threatening to the establishment, and especially to Meta, Google, and Twitter, not to exclude all of the mainstream media and other posers.

Returning to the truth is difficult in a culture beset by relativism, moral degradation and the politicization by woke, racialist Marxists, of nearly everything. Historically, the truth revolved around four factors that together determine the truthfulness of any theory or explanation: congruence, consistency, coherence, and usefulness. As logicians regularly explain, a true theory or statement is congruent with our experience—meaning, it fits the objective facts.

When Trump named the prevailing media, science, and universities as fake and indoctrinating, he was onto something and a large part of the public responded. They knew he was seeing reality and correct in his condemnation. They liked his confrontation with these perceived public enemies.

It is now time, and Trump fully realizes this, to call our politics, and especially our present day political parties, fake, as well. They are in fact nothing short of a uniparty, mere election machines, embodying the ruling elite—an oligopoly of self-interested and special interest favoring—dupes. You can’t trust them any further than you can throw a proverbial stone. They all want to get rich, keep their sinecures as incumbents forever, and proudly lord it over us. And sadly, with only a few MAGA exceptions, Democrats and Republicans are precisely the same and feed from the same trough. At the very least we need term limits to curtail the harm they do.

After this November we can hope there will be more truth seeking members of the House of Representatives and Senate but will there be enough to defeat the fakers, the uniparty? 

Will Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) step up to his role as speaker of the House? Doubtful. Will Mitch McConnell be replaced? Perhaps but it is urgently necessary. We need, and Trump needs to endorse, Senator Rick Scott now, and loudly, for that post. With McConnell in power, we are all doomed. His Chinese payments alone should disqualify him. And how do we limit or remove the 20-odd RINO senators in a party that is now run for and by Trump? How do we transform the RNC itself, which is no better? We need to figure that out. Electing Blake Masters, Adam Laxalt, Herschel Walker, Ted Budd, Dr. Oz, Joe O’Dea, and J. D. Vance will help some, as will a Commitment to Americaplatform that both chambers endorse. But again, McConnell hesitates.

Until we tell the truth and change course, face it, not all that much will change. Until we defend our Constitution and the institutions it spawned—laws, family, economy and foreign policy will not change. Until we excise the fake dubious Republicans we will be stuck in place. 

I do not think there is much hope for the now radically socialist Democratic Party but perhaps there could on occasion be a whiff of bipartisanship and a uniting around the American dream and our record over centuries of past success. Am I altogether wrong and deluded? Likely.

In the Gospel of John, we read these words: “So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, if you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

In the present American state of affairs, we need to refocus our attention on the truth.

Here are six indisputable truths, based in fact about where we are at the moment.

• We have no borders, and therefore no security. We are admitting 2 million illegal immigrants a year, thanks to Biden’s policies.
• Drugs are killing us with more than 100,000 fentanyl deaths this year alone, with no Biden response.
• We are in a recession with a 40-year-high inflation rate and Biden denies it, printing yet more money.
• Violent crime has dramatically increased in our cities to an all-time, dangerousness with Biden supporting criminals not their victims. 
• America has lost its status in the world after the debacle and withdrawal in Afghanistan, constant weakness to our enemy, the Communist Chinese, and the total failure of the Biden team.
• We have lost energy independence to our peril, thanks to Biden’s bad choices and Green New Deal idiocy.

Joe Biden has succeeded in uniting the country—in dissatisfaction. It is a season of profound discontent. According to recent polls, it is no wonder that the electorate has reached a staggering level of dissatisfaction, not only with this president and his party, but with the government as a whole. 

We sorely need an end to fake politics and the uniparty and demand more truth telling if we are to witness the return of greatness.

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Green Globalism is the Ultimate Expression of White Supremacy

Green globalists are proclaiming a planetary crisis to camouflage an agenda of conquest dominated by white Westerners. Green imperialism is still imperialism.

by Edward Ring for American Greatness

There has been broad recognition of late that the American Left projects their own flawed proclivities onto their political opponents. They accuse the Right of not caring about the American worker, but the functional consequence of every policy they devise has been destructive to American workers. They accuse the Right of being corporate puppets, when every major corporate special interest caters to the Left. They accuse the Right of having no respect for the Constitution or the rule of law, while they attempt to pack the Supreme Court, abolish the Electoral College, ignore the First and Second Amendments, and refuse to prosecute criminals. They accuse the Right of being fascist, yet their allies in Antifa and Black Lives Matter have cells operating in every major city.

Maybe the biggest projection of all is the common leftist accusation that the Right is dominated by white supremacists. The first thing to observe here is that the American Left – its leadership, its donors, and its corporate partners—“diversity, equity and inclusion” notwithstanding—is itself dominated by whites. And apart from their rhetoric, they certainly aren’t doing anything to help nonwhites. From welfare to affirmative action to avoidable cost-of-living increases, every policy the Left implements has the effect of disproportionately marginalizing and impoverishing nonwhites.

But are these white leaders on the Left supremacists? Yes, they are, because the American Left, and the globalist green agenda it is cramming down our throats, has only one logical ultimate goal: To conquer the world. It’s pretty hard to be more “supremacist” than that.

Recognizing this reality relies on fairly simple logic:

If life on Earth will come to an end unless all nations achieve “net zero” emissions by 2050, but so far the only nations attempting to achieve this goal are white Western nations, then to save the earth, those nations that are not complying must be forced to comply. In the short run, for example, this means preventing emerging nations from acquiring the investment and technical support to develop an energy economy based on fossil fuel. But within a decade or two, with another generation of Westerners reaching adulthood firmly convinced the world will come to an end if “net zero” is not achieved, the green agenda will be a marketable justification for world war.

It is possible to make this prediction without predicting the outcome. By 2040 or 2050, if not much sooner, the rest of the world will have had quite enough of Western meddling in their energy economy. Powerful nations like China and India will continue to develop whatever resources they wish, at the same time as they will invest in “environmentally incorrect” energy infrastructure in African nations and elsewhere, where the people are desperate to lift themselves into prosperity. This will be a source of increasing international tension, as the white Western globalists invoke the climate emergency and repeatedly attempt to thwart these efforts. At a time that may or may not be by choice, the West will have goaded the rest of the world into open conflict. How it may end is anybody’s guess.

Meanwhile, disparaging actual white supremacists, who represent a vanishingly small fraction of American and European far-right agitators, is a useful rallying cry for the Left. But to think this accusation has any strategic relevance is small thinking.

To paraphrase a memorable line from the movie “Forrest Gump,” supremacy is as supremacy does. And what the white-ruled regimes of the world (including the United States, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and most of the rest of the nations of Western Europe) are doing is using the “climate emergency” and its attendant green globalist agenda to control and eventually conquer the world.

Another example of small thinking is when right-of-center Americans decry how globalists are undermining American sovereignty. Because they’re right, but if that’s the entire scope of their criticism, they’re missing the bigger picture. White, Western globalists are undermining every nation’s sovereignty.

I remember a few years ago speaking with a liberal friend who, like me, had been critical of the U.S. occupation of Iraq. But when I asked my friend, hypothetically, if he would support America invading Brazil to save the Amazon rainforest, he lit up with enthusiasm. Without hesitation he proclaimed wholehearted support for such an adventure.

This is the populist face of green white supremacy. Few ever consider what may be the real reasons for America’s bipartisan neocon imperialism, such as protecting the hegemony of the U.S. dollar and safeguarding the expansionist interests of Western multinational corporations. Say it’s for the earth, and onto the imperialist war wagon they will jump. By the millions. Just be sure to paint the wagon green.

The environmental movement has always been dominated by whites. With rare exceptions, every trailblazing leader was white, and the movement today is overwhelmingly white. In the early days, they did amazing work. Greenpeace used to have just one mission: Save whales. The Rainforest Action Network was formed to protect rainforests. Even the EPA in its early years was committed to getting genuine pollutants out of the environment. No reasonable person questions the importance of environmentalist values, so long as they are balanced against human priorities. But just as the environmentalist movement has now been co-opted by the Left, and incorporated the entire leftist agenda into what was once an undiluted and important focus, the Left itself has been co-opted by globalists.

These people are overwhelmingly white, from the environmentalist power brokers that lead that corrupted movement today, to the plutocrats that define and implement the globalist agenda. What a terrific new bludgeon the climate emergency provides them. White globalists now have a moral justification to control the world: All resource consumption must be monitored and managed, or life on earth will come to an end. A threat so existential and so certain—because “the science” is beyond debate—must be met and overcome using any means necessary up to and including a genocidal war. It is better to kill a few billion people than to let the planet burn up. That’s a regrettable yet easy choice.

It is in this context that the American Left, which is now synonymous with the globalist establishment, accuses their political opponents of being white supremacists, or “adjacent” to white supremacists. It is the greatest projection of them all.

Whites who oppose the green global agenda, along with everyone else who opposes it, must realize they are fighting together against what is possibly the most potent supremacist movement in world history. A movement driven by an ideological green polestar that brooks no compromise and will countenance anything to fulfill the mission. The answer is to expose this movement for what it is; overtly supremacist, proclaiming a planetary crisis to camouflage an agenda of conquest, and dominated by white Westerners.

There is nothing redeeming in the green globalist war on conventional energy. We’re not talking about coordinating fishing quotas so Asian trawlers don’t strip mine every shred of living protein out of the oceans. We’re not talking about restoring mangrove forests on tropical coasts around the world to again buffer tsunamis. There are plenty of legitimate avenues for international cooperation by sovereign nations. But using an alleged “climate emergency” to take over and ration the energy consumption of the entire world is illegitimate and immoral. To promote it while fully aware of its inevitable consequences is evil.

If affordable fuel were permitted worldwide, all nations would prosper, and in the process all nations would experience what we have already seen in the West and throughout much of Asia; voluntary urbanization and voluntary population stabilization. Our shared challenge would then become how to use our surplus wealth to nurture and adapt to the changing environment, and make sure we still have enough babies to assure the vitality of our civilization. Isn’t that a better choice than jumping on the green war wagon?

In the ideological civil war within Western nations, the current ruling class, for all its proclamations against “white supremacy,” is itself the faction that is attempting to impose an explicitly supremacist agenda on the world. Green imperialism is still imperialism. Their opponents, decried as MAGA, or worse, are today’s inheritors of the ideals that inspired America’s founders—competitive free enterprise, private property rights, freedom of speech, individual rights, and the sovereign right of the people to choose their government.

Cruz Delays Bill That Would Increase Big Tech Control Of What Information Americans Can See

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz successfully delayed the passage of a bill that would boost media collusion with Big Tech.

Tristan Justice reporting for The Federalist

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz successfully delayed committee passage of a Senate bill this week that would have offered small- to mid-size media companies exemptions to federal antitrust laws to enable them to collude with big tech to control what users can learn.

The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act proposed by Minnesota Democrat Amy Klobuchar and Louisiana Republican John Kennedy in March would allow media companies with fewer than 1,500 employees to collectively bargain with corporate tech giants for compensation for content shared on Silicon Valley’s massive online platforms. Klobuchar pulled the bill after the Judiciary Committee passed an amendment proposed by Cruz with Kennedy’s support that kept antitrust restrictions in place if negotiations involved content moderation.

“What is preeminent to me is whether this bill is going to increase or decrease censorship,” Cruz said at the hearing. “If you’re negotiating, you ought to be negotiating on the ostensible harm this bill is directed at, which is the inability to get revenues from your content … You should not be negotiating on content moderation and how you are going to censor substantive content.”

During the debate, Kennedy summed up Cruz’s concerns that provoked the amendment. The Texas senator ultimately earned Kennedy’s support.

“What you’re saying,” Kennedy said to Cruz as he reviewed the amendment, “is that when you sit down and negotiate, you’re just negotiating over price, over money.”

“Right,” Cruz said.

“If somebody from social media said, ‘Look, I can give you a better price if you work with me more on changing your content,'” Kennedy said, then companies would lose their antitrust exemptions.

“It doesn’t even have to be connected to price,” Cruz explained. “If they sit down and say ‘let’s all agree to come together and silence the following voices.’ Without this amendment, there would be no antitrust liability for that collusion of a cartel. Otherwise, there would arguably be antitrust liability.”

“I don’t have any problem with that,” Kennedy said. “This just makes explicit what I thought was implicit.”

Cruz’s amendment passed along party lines when Republicans had the majority in the absence of Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff, who fell sick with covid-19 on a trip to India. Klobuchar, however, is likely to resubmit the bill upon Ossoff’s return.

“She said she fully plans to move the bill forward in a bipartisan way,” Politico reported.

“What happened today was a huge victory for the First Amendment and free speech,” Cruz said in a statement. “Sadly, it is also a case study in how much the Democrats love censorship. They would rather pull their bill entirely than advance it with my proposed protections for Americans from unfair online censorship.”

Cruz’s concerns over broad censorship through government-incentivized collusion came on the heels of reports that social media giants, including Facebook and Twitter, suppressed content at the request of federal authorities.

Independent journalist and former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson was kicked off Twitter in August 2021 after a pressure campaign from the White House, according to newly released court documents.

In August, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted on Joe Rogan’s podcast that Facebook significantly suppressed stories surrounding Hunter Biden’s laptop in the fall 2020 election season at the direction of the FBI.

Kari Lake Completely Outmaneuvers Katie Hobbs Over Debate Controversy

Bonchie reporting for RedState 

Is Katie Hobbs the worst major candidate of this election cycle? For my money, she is. The quintessential Karen was ushered to a win in the Democrat primary despite there being better choices available. Now, she’s struggling to gain traction against Kari Lake in Arizona’s gubernatorial race.

You’d think someone like Hobbs, who obviously needs a jolt to her campaign, would be eager to debate and create some positive headlines. Instead, she’s spent the last several months running in terror, claiming that debating Lake would be a “circus.” Eventually, she outright refused.

In response, Lake has thoroughly outmaneuvered her and did so again on Monday by accepting an invitation to the debate, which will now be a 30-minute free campaign commercial.

Hobbs had originally demanded a separate town hall format where she wouldn’t have to face Lake. Ironically, it is now the Republican who will get that, being able to speak directly to the people of Arizona without interruption for half an hour. Of course, you can bet the moderator will still ask some tough questions, but regardless, it’s an unequivocal win for Lake.

The move to ask the commission to extend the deadline is also a knife twist in the back of Hobbs. Lake gets to appear gracious and accommodating while the Democrat is forced to continue to deny the public the debate it deserves.

I really think Hobbs thought she could beat Lake at this game and get the debate host to change the format. Democrats are used to getting that kind of preferential treatment. In this case, though, to their credit, the host held firm and chose not to give anyone an unfair advantage.

That left some complaining, crying that Lake was now getting exactly what Hobbs asked for, i.e. a stand-alone, town hall-style interview. While that’s true, she’s only getting it because she is choosing to show up for the debate. Hobbs not showing up means she doesn’t get the stage at her leisure.

Again, I really think Hobbs is the worst major candidate running this cycle. Some like to say Herschel Walker takes that prize, but he’s actually going to debate, and he’s far more likable and popular in his state. Much of his problems are myths created by beltway analysts who don’t understand Georgia politics. With Hobbs, you have a stereotypical AWFL who manages to put out a “can I speak to the manager” vibe in everything she does. Lake is fortunate to be facing her.

World’s Second Largest Appliance Manufacturer Announces Earnings Collapse and Inventory Buildup as Consumer Sales Plummet

Sundance reporting for Conservative Treehouse 

Mid-August CTH noted, “amid all of the headline warnings about inflation and prices of essential products, CTH notes that if we are to continue waiting about six months, we would see a massive backlog of unsold goods and as a consequence the prices of non-essential durable goods would begin a rapid decline.  That exact scenario is about to unfold.” {link}

Today the world’s second largest appliance manufacturer, Electrolux, announced a collapse of corporate earnings -the result of the western alliance economic contraction- leading to major cost cutting and future incentive programs.  [Announcement Link, emphasis mine]

(Electrolux) – […] Market demand for core appliances in Europe and the US so far in the third quarter is estimated to have decreased at a significantly accelerated pace compared with the second quarter, driven by the impact of high inflation on consumer durables purchases and low consumer confidence. High retailer inventory levels have amplified the impact of the slowdown in consumer demand.

In combination with supply chain imbalances resulting in significant production inefficiencies and increased costs, the third quarter earnings for the Group are expected to decline significantly compared to the second quarter 2022 also excluding the one-time cost to exit the Russia market. This has been driven mainly by Europe and North America. Business Area North America is expected to report an operating loss in the third quarter exceeding the loss in the second quarter.

Since market demand for 2023 is expected to continue to be weak in both regions, the Board has today decided to initiate a Group-wide cost reduction program addressing both variable and structural costs. The program, which starts immediately, will focus on reducing variable costs, with special attention to eliminating cost inefficiencies in our supply chain and production. The structural cost reductions will primarily take place in Europe and North America. (more)

Keep in mind, this is not necessarily a collapse of total global economic activity; what we are seeing is a collapse of western nation economic activity that is impacting the rest of the world.  A great economic fracturing is taking place as the western nations intentionally shrink their economy.  The supplier nations are feeling the consequences.

Keep in mind, South Korean factory output is now negative (electronics etc). European factory output is now negative (industrial equipment).  Japanese factory output has dropped dramatically, and U.S. factory output has stalled.   All of these issues overlay the statements by Maersk that shipping is not needed.

The western economies are contracting in response to the collective energy policies of the Build Back Better climate change agenda, and the high cost of energy that comes from stopping energy production.

Energy production in western nations has been slowed or stopped (Build Back Better).  Western nation inflation is being driven by higher energy costs as a result of less energy products being produced, oil, coal, gas.  Western banking groups have raised interest rates to slow down the economic engines to meet the drop in energy production.

All of this is being done with intent, purpose and control.  This is a managed decline.

Chief Justice Roberts Defends ‘Legitimacy’ of Supreme Court, Libs Go Nuts

Bob Hoge reporting for RedState 

Chief Justice John Roberts on Friday defended the legitimacy of the Supreme Court and said it’s a mistake for people to question its authority just because they might not like certain decisions it makes. He was being interviewed by two judges from the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at their conference in Colorado Springs. He said:

If the court doesn’t retain its legitimate function of interpreting the constitution, I’m not sure who would take up that mantle. You don’t want the political branches telling you what the law is, and you don’t want public opinion to be the guide about what the appropriate decision is.

Here’s certainly right about that. In his first public appearance since the controversial Dobbs decision overturning the flawed 1973 abortion ruling Roe v Wade, Roberts also said:

Yes, all of our opinions are open to criticism. In fact, our members do a great job of criticizing some opinions from time to time. But simply because people disagree with an opinion is not a basis for criticizing the legitimacy of the court. [Emphasis mine.]

This comes after the court has sustained an unprecedented and dangerous attack on its legitimacy as a third branch of government. The verbal assaults have been led by President Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and Vice President Kamala Harris, among others:

There have been consequences to the continued offensive: a would-be assassin stalked Justice Kavanaugh in June, protective fencing had to be installed around the Court due to threats (it was partially moved only recently, but the building is still closed to the public), and illegal protests occur regularly outside Justices’ homes. Meanwhile, in an unprecedented effort to undermine the integrity of the Court, the Dobbs decision was leaked to the press in May by a still-unknown person.

Although Roberts’ comments should hardly be controversial—he’s merely reiterating the role set out by our founders for the Court in the Constitution —liberals were quick to foam at the mouth and start slamming him in editorials, tweets, and news shows around the country. CNN, Vanity Fair, the Washington Post, and many others all ran opinion pieces decrying Roberts’ impertinence in trying to stand up for SCOTUS. They’ve all become one voice howling into the wind, predictable, biased, and flat-out wrong. Attacking the nation’s highest court and claiming that its decisions are not valid is one way to end the rule of law in this country.

Here’s a sample of the vitriol:

An op-ed from The Washington Post accuses Roberts as being a whiner before describing a laundry list of virtually everything the court does as inherently devious. Their answer, of course: increase the number of seats. We’ll be seeing if they’re still singing that tune if Republicans win back the House and Senate in November.

Roberts would rather not address the root of the court’s credibility crisis: its conservative members’ blatant disregard of nearly 50 years of precedent, their misuse and abuse of facts and history, their penchant for delivering public screeds in political settings, their misleading answers in confirmation hearings, their improper use of the shadow docket, their prior placement on the shortlist of potential justices by right-wing dark-money groups attempting to transform the judiciary, their opposition to adhering to a mandatory code of judicial ethics — and a refusal by Thomas to recuse himself from cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, despite the anti-democracy activism of his wife, Ginni.

MSNBC‘s Maddowblog of course delivers a similar list, and comes to the same conclusion:

When Republican-appointed justices take aim at fundamental American principles, such as the separation of church and state, simply because they can, it undermines the court’s legitimacy.

You mean when they deliver opinions you don’t like. FYI, Maddowblog, separation of church and state is not mentioned in the Constitution.

There’s an easy answer to this, Democrats, and it’s not packing the Court or undermining respect in the institution or begging it to simply decree into law rights you think we deserve. The solution is to pass bills that are both constitutional and supported by the American people. With respect to many of these issues, you’ve simply been unable to do that—so you take the easy way out and just bash another branch of government for your failures