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The women themselves have said they were honoring the suffragettes of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries while indicating their ongoing commitment to womens rights issues such as equal pay for equal work.

But not many conservatives believe the white wall of women was intended to be a merely symbolic gesture of solidarity with suffragettes.

Whatever each intended to convey by her choice of clothing, the entire bloc of women in white was virtue signaling. That is one reason they chose white clothing.

The choice of white garments has long signified the sacred. Being dressed in white indicates being set apart, dedicated to sacred ideals, spiritually separated from the crowd as seeking to attain righteousness and purity. Whether Vestal virgins or, in the Christian tradition, the scared rituals of baptism and first communion, white is the garment of choice. It indicates purity of life and deeds which the rest of the world should seek to attain.

In the case of many, if not all of the feminists who sat on their hands and refused to stand as a gesture of support for Carryn Owens, widow of Navy SEALRyan Owens, the garments indicated they are the chosen priestesses of the pious Left, the defenders of the feminist faith.

To look at the bloc of white garbed Democrat women was to look at oracles of Delphi who have mystically discerned the most sacred right of women is the right to sacrifice their own offspring. To look at the high priestesses dedicated to the religion of radical feminism is to see leaders of a cult, the chief sacrament of which is abortion.

For nearly all leftist feminists, abortion is a holy rite, a religious ritual to be conducted in the cathedrals of Planned Parenthood and to be blessed by faith leaders.

Yes, you read that correctly. Blessed.

High priests and priestesses inside and outside the Beltway have committed to blessing abortion both by law and by religious rituals.

According to a recent Huffington Post article entitled Religious Leaders Bless Planned Parenthood Health Center, an group of clergy representing Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, and secular leaders gathered inside Planned Parenthood Metro Washingtons new Carol Whitehill Moses health center on Tuesday to perform a blessing of the space.

The article goes on to citeDr. Laura Meyers, President & CEO of Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, who told the Huffington Post that progressive voices of faith should speak up for women:

Having a group of interfaith clergy perform a ceremony focused on unity and wholeness therefore takes on special meaning to empower and celebrate rather than to stigmatize, control and dehumanize. Having such a ceremony take place at this moment in history is especially powerful for us as we seek to mobilize our communities of different faiths to come together to affirm and support the reproductive freedoms we cherish and have fought so hard to achieve.

In the midst of all Meyers Newspeak, the most significant term is reproductive freedom, which is actually the Lefts code word for abortion on demand throughout the entire nine months of pregnancy. Abortion on demand is the freedom to be cherished and blessed.

According to HuffPo, Rev. Dr. Christine Y. Wiley, participant in the sacred blessing ceremony and co-pastor of Washington, D.C.s Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ, stated her Christian faith inspired her to support abortion:

Many people do not understand that there are many kinds of Christians. Conservative Christians dominate the television and Radio media and influence people to think that this brand of Christianity is Christianity. Although they have great influence, this stance is far from representing the true tenets of the person of Jesus Christ. As a progressive Womanist Christian who is concerned about wholeness in the community, especially for those who are marginalized and disenfranchised, my task is to do what Jesus did, to meet people where they are with love and understanding, and bring healing and freedom to them.

For Reverend Wiley, Jesus, being filled with love and understanding, is all for abortion.

Is the reverend aware of the Jesus who said that if anyone harmed little ones, he or she should be cast into the sea with a millstone around his neck? Does she recall that Jesus said to his disciples, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these." Is she aware the Christian Church she claims to represent has been against abortion from its founding in the first century?

Is Wiley, who is black, aware that Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in America, targets blacks? Has she looked at the facts: 78% of Planned Parenthoods clinics are in minority communities. Blacks make up 12% of the population, but account for 35% of the abortions in America.

But to the clergy of the Left, be they black or white, within or outside congress, neither statistics indicating black genocide nor the horrors of sex select abortion nor the death sentences passed on Down Syndrome babies will ever temper their support of abortion on demand. It is an inalienable right that transcends the actualities of the abattoir that is the church of Planned Parenthood, whose representatives have been filmed bargaining over the sale of baby body parts.

Most of the women in white belong to an essentially pagan death cult that elevates abortion to a sacred right and rite that is impervious to the claims of science and Christian morality.

That is why Nancy Pelosis claim that she is a Roman Catholic while she is a leader of the women in white is laughable. Her prime allegiance is to another faith altogether.

The allegiance to the ritual of child sacrifice is why the bloc of white robed women will fight the Trump administration tooth and nail when it comes to defunding the temples of Planned Parenthood. That is why they will wage war on any pro-life justice who might threaten to overturn Roe. v. Wade. That is why they will not do anything to defend the rights of little women in the womb. That is why they will continue to support the extermination of the handicapped within the womb.

Abortion is the sacrament that unites the Democrats women in white as surely as the sacraments of the Christian Church unite believers.

Christians are often dressed in white for sacred occasions: baptisms, confirmations, and weddings. Being dressed in white is a sign of new life, new beginnings, being born again, being redeemed.

That is why those who are believers are depicted in the book of Revelation as being given a white robe, the sign of the redeemed who have believed in the blood sacrifice of the God Man Jesus Christ, the perfect Son of God whose innocent blood was given for all who believe. They are transported with joy.

What will this same Christ will say to those who unrepentantly and proudly wear robes soiled with the blood of innocents? What will he say to those who bless death?

Will he bless them, or will he say, Depart from me. I never knew you.

Fay Voshell holds a M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary, which awarded her its prize for excellence in systematic theology. A frequent contributor to American Thinker, her thoughts also have appeared in many online magazines, including Fox News, CNS, National Review, RealClearReligion and Russia Insider. She may be reached at fvoshell@yahoo.com

There have been many interpretations concerning the mysterious bloc of women Democrats robed in white -- all the while pointedly ignoring President Trumps speech to the joint session of Congress.

Some critics compared the ladies to devotees of the Ku Klux Klan. Photoshopped images of them wearing the pointed hoods of the KKK almost immediately appeared, as some recalled the Democrat Partys commitment to the Klan, particularly in the 1920s.

The women themselves have said they were honoring the suffragettes of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries while indicating their ongoing commitment to womens rights issues such as equal pay for equal work.

But not many conservatives believe the white wall of women was intended to be a merely symbolic gesture of solidarity with suffragettes.

Whatever each intended to convey by her choice of clothing, the entire bloc of women in white was virtue signaling. That is one reason they chose white clothing.

The choice of white garments has long signified the sacred. Being dressed in white indicates being set apart, dedicated to sacred ideals, spiritually separated from the crowd as seeking to attain righteousness and purity. Whether Vestal virgins or, in the Christian tradition, the scared rituals of baptism and first communion, white is the garment of choice. It indicates purity of life and deeds which the rest of the world should seek to attain.

In the case of many, if not all of the feminists who sat on their hands and refused to stand as a gesture of support for Carryn Owens, widow of Navy SEALRyan Owens, the garments indicated they are the chosen priestesses of the pious Left, the defenders of the feminist faith.

To look at the bloc of white garbed Democrat women was to look at oracles of Delphi who have mystically discerned the most sacred right of women is the right to sacrifice their own offspring. To look at the high priestesses dedicated to the religion of radical feminism is to see leaders of a cult, the chief sacrament of which is abortion.

For nearly all leftist feminists, abortion is a holy rite, a religious ritual to be conducted in the cathedrals of Planned Parenthood and to be blessed by faith leaders.

Yes, you read that correctly. Blessed.

High priests and priestesses inside and outside the Beltway have committed to blessing abortion both by law and by religious rituals.

According to a recent Huffington Post article entitled Religious Leaders Bless Planned Parenthood Health Center, an group of clergy representing Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, and secular leaders gathered inside Planned Parenthood Metro Washingtons new Carol Whitehill Moses health center on Tuesday to perform a blessing of the space.

The article goes on to citeDr. Laura Meyers, President & CEO of Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, who told the Huffington Post that progressive voices of faith should speak up for women:

Having a group of interfaith clergy perform a ceremony focused on unity and wholeness therefore takes on special meaning to empower and celebrate rather than to stigmatize, control and dehumanize. Having such a ceremony take place at this moment in history is especially powerful for us as we seek to mobilize our communities of different faiths to come together to affirm and support the reproductive freedoms we cherish and have fought so hard to achieve.

In the midst of all Meyers Newspeak, the most significant term is reproductive freedom, which is actually the Lefts code word for abortion on demand throughout the entire nine months of pregnancy. Abortion on demand is the freedom to be cherished and blessed.

According to HuffPo, Rev. Dr. Christine Y. Wiley, participant in the sacred blessing ceremony and co-pastor of Washington, D.C.s Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ, stated her Christian faith inspired her to support abortion:

Many people do not understand that there are many kinds of Christians. Conservative Christians dominate the television and Radio media and influence people to think that this brand of Christianity is Christianity. Although they have great influence, this stance is far from representing the true tenets of the person of Jesus Christ. As a progressive Womanist Christian who is concerned about wholeness in the community, especially for those who are marginalized and disenfranchised, my task is to do what Jesus did, to meet people where they are with love and understanding, and bring healing and freedom to them.

For Reverend Wiley, Jesus, being filled with love and understanding, is all for abortion.

Is the reverend aware of the Jesus who said that if anyone harmed little ones, he or she should be cast into the sea with a millstone around his neck? Does she recall that Jesus said to his disciples, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these." Is she aware the Christian Church she claims to represent has been against abortion from its founding in the first century?

Is Wiley, who is black, aware that Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in America, targets blacks? Has she looked at the facts: 78% of Planned Parenthoods clinics are in minority communities. Blacks make up 12% of the population, but account for 35% of the abortions in America.

But to the clergy of the Left, be they black or white, within or outside congress, neither statistics indicating black genocide nor the horrors of sex select abortion nor the death sentences passed on Down Syndrome babies will ever temper their support of abortion on demand. It is an inalienable right that transcends the actualities of the abattoir that is the church of Planned Parenthood, whose representatives have been filmed bargaining over the sale of baby body parts.

Most of the women in white belong to an essentially pagan death cult that elevates abortion to a sacred right and rite that is impervious to the claims of science and Christian morality.

That is why Nancy Pelosis claim that she is a Roman Catholic while she is a leader of the women in white is laughable. Her prime allegiance is to another faith altogether.

The allegiance to the ritual of child sacrifice is why the bloc of white robed women will fight the Trump administration tooth and nail when it comes to defunding the temples of Planned Parenthood. That is why they will wage war on any pro-life justice who might threaten to overturn Roe. v. Wade. That is why they will not do anything to defend the rights of little women in the womb. That is why they will continue to support the extermination of the handicapped within the womb.

Abortion is the sacrament that unites the Democrats women in white as surely as the sacraments of the Christian Church unite believers.

Christians are often dressed in white for sacred occasions: baptisms, confirmations, and weddings. Being dressed in white is a sign of new life, new beginnings, being born again, being redeemed.

That is why those who are believers are depicted in the book of Revelation as being given a white robe, the sign of the redeemed who have believed in the blood sacrifice of the God Man Jesus Christ, the perfect Son of God whose innocent blood was given for all who believe. They are transported with joy.

What will this same Christ will say to those who unrepentantly and proudly wear robes soiled with the blood of innocents? What will he say to those who bless death?

Will he bless them, or will he say, Depart from me. I never knew you.

Fay Voshell holds a M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary, which awarded her its prize for excellence in systematic theology. A frequent contributor to American Thinker, her thoughts also have appeared in many online magazines, including Fox News, CNS, National Review, RealClearReligion and Russia Insider. She may be reached at fvoshell@yahoo.com

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Were Ossoff to win, it would be the first time a Georgia congressional seat has flipped in a special election since 1872. CreditPHOTOGRAPH COURTESY JON OSSOFF FOR CONGRESS

Last Saturday, Jon Ossoff, a tall, skinny, thirty-year-old candidate for the U.S. Congress with Kennedy-ish features and a deliberate, Obama-like manner of speaking, was scheduled to knock on doors in Roswell, a city in Georgias Sixth Congressional District. Over the past three decades, the district has been represented by Newt Gingrich, current Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson, and Tom Price, the new Secretary of Health and Human Services. Prices appointment to the Cabinet left the seat empty, and a special election to fill it will be held on April 18th. The Sixth encompasses many of Atlantas wealthy and mostly white northern suburbs, and has long been considered a Republican lock; in 2012, Mitt Romney beat Barack Obama by twenty-four points in the district. But in the most recent election Donald Trump edged Hillary Clinton by just a single point here. Ossoff thinks he can turn the sixth blue, and claim the first congressional win against Trump on the G.O.P.sown turf.

Jere Wood, the longtime Republican mayor of Roswell, disagrees. This isnt a youth vote up here, he told me at his office, when I asked him about the makeup of the Sixth. This is a mature voter base. If someone is going down the list, theyre gonna vote for somebody who is familiar. He paused. If you just say Ossoff, some folks are gonna think, Is he Muslim? Is he Lebanese? Is he Indian? Its an ethnic-sounding name, even though he may be a white guy, from Scotland or wherever.

Ossoff is indeed a white guy, though he is not from Scotland. His father is a Jew of Russian-Lithuanian descent who owns a specialist publishing company, and his mother is an Australian immigrant and management consultant who co-founded a nonprofit aimed at electing womenof either partyto political office in Georgia. Our name was probably truncated at Ellis Island, Ossoff told me. From something like Ossoffsky.

His parents still live in the Sixth. Ossoff resides ten minutes south, where his longtime girlfriend can walk to class at Emory Universitys medical school. Growing up, Ossoff attended a small Atlanta private school called Paideia, where his college counsellor, John Stubbs, remembers him as a tenacious defender on the Ultimate Frisbee field and the founder of a politics blog called the Great Speckled Pi (a reference to an underground Atlanta paper published in the sixties and seventies). I was sort of an amateur essayist, Ossoff told me. Politically inspired by the second Iraq war, which he opposed. He readThe Economist, my God, in high school! Paul Bianchi, Paideias headmaster, told me. Ossoff was also unafraid to challenge his elders. Bianchi recalls cancelling school due to snow one year. And I got a short e-mail from Jon, about five minutes later. All it said was Wuss.

In high school, Ossoff interned with the congressman and civil-rights icon John Lewis, whose memoir, Walking With the Wind, deepened his interest in politics and social justice. Ossoff considers Lewis his mentor, and it was Lewis, he said, who told me that if any Democrat can win the Sixth, you can. Lewiss subsequent endorsement helpedas did online support from celebritiessuch as Debra MessingandGeorge Takei.Ossoff has raised nearly two million dollars sincedeclaring his candidacy,in early January. Roughly half of that sum has come fromthe efforts of liberal Web site the Daily Kos, which explains its support of Ossoff this way: Flipping this seat from red to blue would sendshockwaves through Congressand replacing Trumps anti-Obamacare point man with a Democrat would be an amazing little cherry on top.

Earlier this week, a G.O.P. super PAC made an ad buy of more than a million dollars for ananti-Ossoff spotthat features footage of Ossoff pretending to be Han Solo, from Star Wars, while attending Georgetowns School of Foreign Service. Just another college kid dressing up with his drinking buddies, a disappointed-sounding narrator says, reminding wary voters of Ossoffs youth. That Im being attacked means this race is winnable, Ossoff told me. They know they might lose this seat. Ossoffs other college activities included working for the Democratic congressman Hank Johnson, who represents Georgias Fourth District. Ossoff eventually became Johnsons deputy communications chief, campaign manager, and military legislative assistant. Then, after receiving a masters degree from the London School of Economics, he joined a firm specializing in anti-corruption investigations around the world. Hes now the C.E.O. ofInsight TWI, which produces documentaries about global issues. But he spends most of this time, these days, on the campaign.

There are currentlyeighteen candidatesin the race. All of themRepublicans, Democrats, and Independentswill appear on a single ballot; if no one clears fifty per cent of the vote, the top two finishers will compete in a runoff on June 20th. Eleven of the candidates are Republicans, including Georgias well-known former Republican secretary of state, Karen Handel, and former state senators Dan Moody and Judson Hill. Wood, the Roswell mayor, is confident that a Republican will win, though he has no idea which one. And, he added, When the mayor is clueless, most folks are clueless.Wood has allowed four different Republican candidates to put signs in the grass near his office.

The conservative commentator Erick Erickson, who lives in Macon, Georgia, has been watching the race closely. The candidates who are probably going to do the best are the ones who run on an accountability platform, he told me. The ones who say I was with Trump probably arent going to do as well. Erickson doesnt think the Democrats have much of a chance. I know theyve poured a lot of money in and may be able to get Jon into a runoff, but this is a very Republican district, he said. I think Democrats have misread the Trump election. This district went for Rubio, sizably, in the primary, he noted, suggesting that its constituents favor establishment Republicans, like many of those in the current race. And since its such a short race, and its all about name recognition, I think Karen Handel probably has the advantage over everyone else. The Kennesaw State University political scientist Kerwin Swint recently told the AtlantaJournal and Constitutionthat the numbers just arent there yet for the Democrats.

Were Ossoff to win, it would be the first time a Georgia congressional seat has flipped in a special election since 1872. DuBose Porter, the chairman of the Democratic Party of Georgia, cant endorse Ossoff by name with other Democrats still in the race, but his language strongly suggests that he favors the thirty-year-old. We have a number of candidates, but I think it will take a young, energetic visionary candidate to succeed, he told me. This is a national race, he added. There will be resources coming from all over the country.

Ossoffs campaign says that some six thousand volunteers have pledged their support for him so far. Two hundred or so showed up in Roswell to canvas on Saturday. There was a lawyer draped in an American flag; a seventeen-year-old girl who had been involved in the Clinton campaign; a twelve-year-old boy who said Ossoff seems cool; and three of Ossoffs friends from Paideia, who will be filming his campaign over the next two months. They talked among themselves about immigrant rights, L.G.B.T.Q. rights, and their antipathy for Donald Trump, a feeling that Ossoff sharesbut has muffled, as he wages a respectful campaign dedicated to local issues before national politics, as he put it.

Small groups gathered around Ossoffs thirty-year-old campaign manager, Keenan Pontoni, and I heard someone whisper, He reminds me of David Axelrod! Pontoni went over door-knocking protocol: Things to know about Jon that I hope you can bring up at the doors, and are mentioned on the script: First, that he was a national-security expert and aide with top-secret clearance, fighting to stop corruption and cut waste. He did that several times as a congressional aide. Second, that hes a business owner, whos had to balance budgets and make payroll. Third, and probably most importantly, he has, throughout the world, exposed corruption and saved lives against ISIS; he has exposed sex trafficking; he has done amazing things through his investigative career. Right now, more than ever, we need somebody who knows how to fight corruption in Washington.

A volunteer raised his hand and spoke. Hey, Keenan, Im sorry, can you say his name for us again?

Jon Oss-off.

The candidate arrived an hour later, straight from a Dems and Doughnuts gathering in nearby Cobb County. He shook hands, posed for pictures and caught up with his high-school buddies. There were way more Dems than doughnuts at the meeting, Ossoffs communications director, Andy Phelan, told me. Ive never seen enthusiasm like this in a congressional race.

Rolling up his sleeves, Ossoff went door to door with two staffers and a cameraman, carrying a tin of Ice Breakers mints in his pocket. We were in Pine Valley Estates, a leafy Roswell neighborhood with big yards and barking dogs. The first door opened and an eager man in his thirties responded to Ossoffs polite entreatyHi, Im running for Congress and would appreciate your votewith a welcome message: Hey, screw Donald Trump, dude. Im voting for you! Ossoff hadnt even had time to explain his progressive positions on womens issues and health care, or his moderate stances on jobs and security. That was easy, he said. But, at the dozen or so houses that Ossoff tried over the next half hour, most residents simply didnt answer. He put fliers in their doors and headed back to the office park, to find out how his beaming canvassers had fared.

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"Why this Democrat is voting for Rauner?" was the headline of my commentary that the Tribune publishedon March 19, 2014. Borrowing a quote from President John F. Kennedy that said "sometimes party loyalty asks too much," I explained that as a Democrat I supported Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Rauner because Illinois was in grave financial peril and that we needed to change our financial direction.

After Rauner was elected, the Tribune published another piece I wrote where I urged Gov.-elect Rauner to fire his campaign staff, stop campaigning and start governing with advisers "who are problem solvers, who are not partisans, and who know how to compromise."

Sadly, our state's financial situation has continued to deteriorate. Problems have not been solved, bitter and excessive partisanship is accepted political strategy in Springfield, and "compromise" is a dirty word. I do not believe it's all Gov. Rauner's fault. It is the fault of both the Democratic and Republican parties. At least Democratic Senate President John Cullerton and Senate Republican leader Christine Radogno are trying to find compromise while House Speaker Michael Madigan insists it is his way or the highway. And while I continue to like and respect Gov. Rauner and his wife, Diana, I believe we need a change if we are to reach compromise and progress.

That is why I will enthusiastically vote for and support Chris Kennedy for governor of Illinois in 2018. As a friend of his mother and father for more than 60 years, I've known Chris since his birth. His dad, the late Robert Kennedy, and I were on the 1956 campaign staff of Illinois Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson when he ran for president. Because Bob Kennedy and I were about the same age, we were often roommates on campaign trips. And because we both had children of similar ages, we often talked about our families and our values. As the years passed, Chris grew up, married Sheila Berner, and moved to Chicago to manage the Merchandise Mart.

As I saw Chris and Sheila raise their children, participate actively in good causes in our community, and later create Top Box Foods to help poor families have affordable nutritious food, I urged him to follow Kennedy family traditions and run for political office. Chris declined, waiting for his children to grow up, but he did take on important public service. Taught by his parents that a person should measure worth by how he or she has served the community, Chris worked to build and strengthen organizations that provide legal services to the elderly and disabled, provide early education, inclusion, and enrichment programs to children with special needs and their families, and offer shelter to our homeless and food to our hungry.

From 2009 through 2014, when the University of Illinois needed an independent and committed leader with integrity, courage and vision to reform and navigate the university beyond a public admissions scandal, Chris Kennedy served as chairman of the University of Illinois board of trustees to take on the challenge. He did it with success and distinction, and earned the respect of Democrats and Republicans.

Now, Illinois needs a governor who will restore bipartisanship and Illinois leadership for our nation. Adlai E. Stevenson, a great governor, led Illinois to become one of the most admired states in our country. Illinois has great men and women, great businesses, great labor, great universities, great artistic and cultural institutions, and a great future. We can renew Stevenson's vision for Illinois: "Here on the prairies of Illinois and the Midwest, we can see a long way in all directions. Here there are no barriers, no defenses, to ideas and aspirations."

Chris Kennedy's campaign will offer new ideas and aspirations to restore Illinois to its glory days.

Newton N. Minow is a Chicago lawyer and senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.

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It was merely a matter of time before the Democrats demanded Attorney General Jeff Sessionss head on a platter.

That the American left despises evangelical Christians like Sessions in public office especially if they are from Dixie is beyond dispute. But its not just that the left believes Christians inappropriately appraise public issues on the basis of their private faith just as any secular humanist would routinely do. They believe that evangelicals cannot be trusted and are somehow conspiratorial agents plotting to hasten the Second Coming of Christ by disregarding secular solutions to the problems of war and poverty on this temporal earth. Bring on the Apocalypse!

Im surprised it took them this many weeks to insist upon his resignation.

Perhaps the leadership, or more accurately, caretakers, who provide some direction to this rootless, meandering group of eclectic political dilettantes were waiting for the right Russia moment, since just about everything in the Democratic world view goes around and comes around to Vladimir Putin and his emissaries that are imagined under every Republican bed. Whether it is genuine paranoia or just a persistent political expediency that just they honesty believe will reap political dividends it is hard to say; but the Dems have found their issue and they are sticking to it.

But with weekly sabre rattling and suggestions that speculative cyber attacks somehow constitute an act of war, Im wondering if these people comprehend that though Russia may no longer be communist, the nuclear arsenal that the Soviet regime accumulated did not somehow vanish with the exit of Mikhail Gorbachev from the world stage. Russia remains a formidable power, however you may define its political system, and it is surely to God the height of irresponsibility and idiocy to blithely consider war with an insouciance that suggests not confidence but detachment from reality.

Many of the neo-hawks in the Democratic Party are the same people who gloried in the anti-nuke apotheosis of the 1980s when they all watched documentaries like If You Love This Planet that advocated a unilateral nuclear freeze from the United States because the very thought of nuclear conflict with the Soviets was beyond contemplation and defending freedom in a nuclear context was somehow immoral. Or you might remember The Day After, a television event that supposed to induce pathological fear of nuclear Armageddon and prompt classroom discussions the following day where students would question why we didnt just throw away our nukes and trust the Soviets to do the same.

To be fair, the Democratic Party establishment never embraced this concept and in fact Americas bipartisan foreign policy remained largely intact throughout the last decade of the Cold War a unity that contributed to our winning that protracted struggle. But the left-wing corridor of the Democratic Party, like the Labour Party in the U.K. and the New Democratic Party in Canada actively embraced surrendering to the communists because it wasnt so bad to be red and otherwise we would be dead.

Well, that kind of talk and that mode of talk bordered on treason and was a gross betrayal of the free men and women who had successfully contained Soviet aggression.

So has Jeff Sessions committed treason in even an oblique sense? Has he compromised himself or his office? He talked to the gregarious and apparently ubiquitous Russian ambassador who is routinely chews the ears off anyone who happens to be standing in his presence, usually holding forth about the righteousness of the Russian cause in Ukraine. Did Sessions make any promises, receive any brown bags or suitcases?

I heard his explanation on Tucker Carlson tonight on Thursday, and I have to say it made sense when he said his answer about whether he had met with the Russians was true in the context of the question.

But truthfully, why would this even be an issue if not for the persistence of a myth, constructed of falsehood, upon a foundation of conjecture that the Russians somehow wanted President Donald Trump to win the presidential election and actively worked towards that objective. Remove that hobgoblin from the scenario and Sessions does not appear either mendacious or duplicitous but just another target of desultory Democrats in search of Russian phantoms.

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