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As wisely and eloquently stated by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in his 1839 play, Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy, the pen is mightier than the sword. This adage holds that written word can act as a powerful tool in the transmission of ideas. Why else would oppressive regimes, and other avid enforcers of the status quo, have reverted to censorship and book burning throughout the ages?

The United States has been the only nation known to have forbidden education to people they have enslaved, and legislators even went as far to enact laws making it a crime in most Southern states, excluding when they imposed Christian conversion through religious instruction.

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Slaveholders identified literacy as a direct threat to the institution of slavery and their economic dependency on the labor it provided. If enslaved people developed literacy, they would be able to learn their history and read the writings of abolitionists, on topics such as attempts to help people escape slave-holding territories, or regarding the 1791-1804 slave revolution in Haiti, or how the end of slavery came to the British Empire in 1833.

Following an enslaved peoples uprising led by abolitionist Nat Turner in 1831, some states went further and extended the education ban to free Black people as well.

A North Carolina law of 1831 stated in part: Teaching slaves to read and write, tends to excite dissatisfaction in their minds, and to produce insurrection and rebellion.

The Code of Virginia of 1849 was passed to prevent the enslaved from assembling for religious or educational purposes as legislators believed that education would lead to uprisings.

Slavers believed that literacy would understandably make enslaved people angry, dissatisfied, and rebellious. As stated by a lawyer and clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States, Elias B. Caldwell: The more you improve the condition of these people, the more you cultivate their minds, the more miserable you make them, in their present state, he argued.

You give them a higher relish for those privileges which they can never attain, and turn what we intend for a blessing [slavery] into a curse. No, if they must remain in their present situation, keep them in the lowest state of degradation and ignorance. The nearer you bring them to the condition of brutes, the better chance do you give them of possessing their apathy.

With the end of slavery, the legal exclusion of education to formerly enslaved people, their children, and their descendants did not expire. Throughout Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era, and the several decades since, up to the current moment, African-Americans have faced segregation (de jure, and then de facto), underfunded schools, implicit bias from educators and school administrators, and public messaging promoting the myths and stereotypes of inferior intellectual capacities in the mind of people with African heritage.

Following the Revolutionary War, leaders such as Thomas Jefferson and others called for state supported and mandated public education, believing that the very survival of this republic depended on an educated populace.

Jefferson advocated for a three-year publicly supported education for all white children but no such guarantees were to be extended to enslaved Africans or their children. In addition, he argued for advanced education provided to just a select few white males, and not even white females.

As Jefferson wrote in 1782, the schools will be raking a few geniuses from the rubbish. He included all enslaved Africans as an integral part of that pile of rubbish.

How very ironic is it that today, several states are either proposing or have passed laws prohibiting the teaching of slavery and other aspects of U.S. history that are not particularly flattering?

On June 8 of this year, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX), signed what many are calling an anti-Critical Race Theory act into law, which seriously restricts what educators may teach in history and civics courses throughout the states public schools.

Texas joins a number of states, most largely with Republican-controlled legislatures, that are weaponizing the teaching of history to excite their base with the scare tactic that the teaching of Critical Race Theory will make white students feel bad about themselves and will result in Black students hating the United States.

Professors primarily teach Critical Race Theory a fairly technical set of concepts in college and university departments of legal studies. Generally, educators do not present CRT in public schools.

Critical Race Theory was developed by notable and preeminent legal scholars, educators, and theorists such as Derrick Bell, Patricia Williams, Richard Delgado, Kimberl Williams Crenshaw, Camara Phyllis Jones, Mari Matsuda, Gloria Ladson-Billings, and others. Teaching the theory rests on several essential pillars:

This theory, though, is not simply some notion fabricated by intellectuals in the Ivory Tower. Instead, social researchers develop theories from studying real human behavior, notably the lived experience of people and groups.

Much like scientific testing for medical treatments and therapies, social research requires that a theory is demonstrated to treat or cure what it is developed for, and continue to show effectiveness in large samples of patients or in practice.

Researchers results are empirically based on that social research, rather than coming from the researchers passion to propagandize or impose their personal, political, or philosophical agenda.

If I were to boil down the goal of the tenets of CRT into a simple explanation, it would be that we must study and teach history age-appropriately and truthfully. So, why is that so scary to some people?

White fragility.

Robin DiAngelo coined the term white fragility in 2011 to refer to the defensive position taken by white people when questioned on the concept of race, or about their own race.

Are white people really so fragile that they cannot discuss the legacy of racism on which the United States is based? Do racial discussions actually teach white people to hate themselves and black people to hate the United States?

Anti-diversity people are not merely hesitant to address historical facts, but they are averse to facts and history. They deny and reject the reality of the past.

They are opposed to arming young people with the truth, which would provide them a greater sense of confidence to join with their peers and elders to increase their knowledge base.

The state legislatures attempting to deny the teaching of U.S. history, in all its dimensions, treat todays students as they once treated enslaved Africans: with fear, superstition, and utter disrespect.

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Bill Maher took big tech to the woodshed over censorship of the COVID-19 Wuhan lab leak theory that was suppressed on social media. The "Real Time" host also lambasted the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday night's episode.

Maher called out Google and Facebook by name for censorship of the coronavirus lab leak theory that suggests that it is possible that COVID-19 escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.

"Facebook banned any post for four months about COVID coming from a lab," Maher said during a panel discussion on the political talk show. "Of course now, even the Biden administration is looking into this."

"Google a Wall Street Journal reporter asked the head of Google's health division noticed that they don't do auto-fill searches for 'coronavirus lab leak' the way they do for any other question and the guy said, 'Well, we want to make sure that the search isn't leading people down pathways that we would find to be not authoritative information,'" Maher slammed Google, which has over 86% of the search market share.

Maher then blasted the big tech behemoths, "Well, you were wrong, Google and Facebook! We don't know! The reason why we want you is cause we're checking on this s***!"

Maher continued to criticize the head of Google's health division. "He said, 'We want to ensure that the first thing users see is information from the CDC, the WHO.," Maher added.

"That's who I'm checking on," Maher furiously proclaimed. "The WHO has been very corrupt about a lot of s***, and the CDC has been wrong about a lot of s***. This is outrageous that I can't look this information up!"

Maher then castigated YouTube for censoring evolutionary biology professor Bret Weinstein's podcast on the video hosting platform. Weinstein may have his channel removed from YouTube for interviewing a critical care and pulmonary medicine specialist, who touted the effectiveness of the drug ivermectin as a treatment for coronavirus.

"YouTube should not be telling me what I can see about ivermectin. Ivermectin isn't a registered Republican, it's a drug," Maher said. "I don't know if it works or not and a lot of other doctors don't either."

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In April, Maher chastised the media for peddling "panic porn," and praised Republican Governors Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott for opening Florida and Texas back up to allow Americans to go outside.

"Sunshine is the best disinfectant and Vitamin D is the key to a robust immune system," Maher said. "Texas lifted its COVID restrictions recently and their infection rates went down in part because of people getting outside to let the sun and wind do their thing. But to many liberals, 'That can't be right because Texas and beach-loving Florida have Republican governors,' but life is complicated."

Also in this week's episode of "Real Time with Bill Maher," the HBO host talked to director Quentin Tarantino about political correctness and cancel culture.

"I've always really appreciated the way you've pushed back when everyone's tried to stifle you, shut you up, shame you, bully you, corral your artistic licensethey tried it with the last one, with 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,' some bulls*** about Margot Robbie doesn't have enough lines," Maher told the legendary director. "You do what I wish other people would do: instead of apologizing like a little p****, you say, 'I don't agree with your assessment.' What's so hard about that?"

Tarantino, director of "Kill Bill" and "Pulp Fiction," was attacked and labeled as a "sexist" by the media and online critics over giving actress Margot Robbie only a few lines of dialogue in the movie "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood."

Tarantino responded, "Look, even when we're in a pressure situation where your movie is opening next Friday if somebody brings up something that's actually legitimate, I'll even have a conversation with them about it, because I'm actually into interesting thought, and I don't even have to agree with you but when it's just BS, when it's just bulls***."

Maher replied, "Well, it seems like criticism in the recent years has gone to this place of not just 'OK, you can criticize a movie,' but they seem to be saying, 'This isn't the movie I would have made.' Because you can't."

Maher later said, "There are two kinds of movies: virtue-signalers and superhero movies."

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In Anne Robinsons first episode of Countdown she cuts an authoritative figure. Chatty and encouraging, the presenter many remember from her days as the cutting, contentious host of The Weakest Link is gone almost. Is that as fun as it sounds? she sarcastically asks her first contestant, Steve, of his job as an accountant. Some contestants I have to go much more gently with than I would have done on The Weakest Link, she explains. Others are brilliantly funny, and thats not always been exploited in the past.

When I speak to Robinson, shes already filmed her first 30 episodes. Quiz shows are notoriously demanding of their hosts and crew and Robinson has been filming five episodes a day in Salfords Media City, three days a week. But after more than 30 years working in television, the 76-year-old is dismissive of the hard work she puts in: Im used to long hours.

Robinson takes over as host of the long-running series today (on Channel 4, at 2:10pm) after Nick Hewer, once better known for his role as one of Lord Alan Sugars advisors on The Apprentice, announced he was leaving last December. She is determined to make the job her own and certainly doesnt take lightly the responsibility of steering the beloved 39-year-old series.

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Im professional, so I do worry, she says of her performance. I was anxious at the start simply because I hadnt done it before it would be stupid to think that I was going to be brilliant from day one. It took a bit of time to get my head round the grammar of the programme: where to go and who to talk to next.

The team have been incredibly welcoming, and she finds mathematician Rachel Riley and word expert Susie Dent very impressive. Hewer didnt give her any advice on how to handle the show, though Robinson is unsure of how helpful he would have been, given the changes the production has had to make to stay Covid-secure since he left. Sometimes the break between shows is 15 minutes and theres a very long, one-way system to get back to your dressing room, she says. Nick only had to change his jacket I have to change my whole outfit, get my hair done, redo my lipstick and maybe choose a new necklace.

Robinson was born in Crosby, and spent time in Liverpool as a young adult when she took charge of her mothers poultry dealing business. She started her media career as a trainee newspaper journalist at the Daily Mail in 1967 and went on to have success at The Sunday Times and the Daily Mirror and played a part in breaking huge stories, from the details of legendary music manager Brian Epsteins death to news of Princess Dianas eating disorder.

She moved into broadcasting in 1982 as a regular guest on Question Time, before taking the role as presenter of Points of View, where she stayed for 11 years. She still draws on her journalistic instincts to read how ironic she can be with contestants. In that sense, its no different from how she approached her tenure at The Weakest Link (which ran from 2000 to 2007) her style was funny and edgy in the noughties, but is now often recalled as cruel and bullish.

Viewers with a forgiving view of her performance on The Weakest Link which included mocking players over anything from their appearance (So you havent had any time to work on yourself then? she once asked a beauty therapist) to their perceived sexuality (Why are you dressed like a lesbian?) often put the controversy down to Robinson playing a character, but she doesnt ascribe to such a merciful assessment.

Those conversations arent any different from those youd hear in a newsroom. I never let a thought go unsaid what your mum would say while watching the telly at home. She argues that the competitors were far from lambs thrown to her verbal slaughter and were often in on the ruse.

Quiz show contestants are incredibly feisty and competitive, she adds. I remember asking one man why he was voting off another and he said, If you cant name the Teletubbies then you shouldnt be here.

When I ask how she feels about criticism of the show, she says it was a different time. You cant say a lot of the things that I said now. We have become much more woke. She points out that it took 16 years for Vanessa Feltz, who appeared on a celebrity version of the show, to decide she was upset over Robinsons question, How can someone like you attract gorgeous black boyfriends?

Theres a lot of self-censoring, adds Robinson. Theres a lot of television executives who are too scared to criticise or to allow anything on that has a bit of edge to it. I dont quite know who it is thats deciding I can say this and cant say that.

Robinson is in full support of the recent trend among cultural commentators and the tabloid press of anti-wokeness, then. She thinks the launch of GB News, Andrew Neils 24-hour news channel designed to challenge the homogeneity of the current media landscape, is terrific and refreshing, even if it does need to sort out the lighting.

Even if I dont agree with its more right-wing views, I think it will challenge the woke, which is important.

The broadcasters views on modern feminism in the wake of the #MeToo movement have made headlines in the last few years. On the Today programme in 2017, she said that Forty years ago there were very few of us women in power and we had a much more robust attitude to men behaving badly.

It sparked accusations of victim-blaming and internalised misogyny, but today, she doubles down: Were in a funny place only because my generation put up with all the sexism and got on with it, she says.

We have really terrible women too now that theyve got to the top jobs all that has become much more equal. But these clever women are often lacking in confidence. Im sympathetic to that, but it means that they dont deal with badly behaved blokes as I would.

Women arent naturally geared to the treachery of the workplace and, in my day, if you were there as a woman, you were pretty feisty to start off with. Thankfully, all those jobs are available to women, whether youre feisty or not.

How does she propose we tackle the confidence crisis she sees? I wish that instead of wasting their time doing a masters degree, women could spend a year learning how to cope with office life and how to negotiate a good salary. In her 2002 memoir, she wrote about doubling her salary, and getting a brand new Mercedes Benz included in her contract.

As Rory Bremner, Robinsons first celebrity guest in Dictionary Corner, points out at the top of the opening episode, more men called Des have hosted Countdown than women. Robinson is its first female presenter. Shes proud to hold the title theres one episode where everyone on screen is a woman, we did sort of punch the air a little bit but wishes her appointment didnt come as a surprise.

It shouldnt be astonishing to anyone. It sort of suggests that despite being a woman and therefore not as bright as a bloke Ive been asked to do a job that men normally do, she says.

Weve got a queen of England, weve had two female prime ministers, women can fly aircraft and be High Court judges and do everything men can do its time we took that as read.

You may as well say Im the first presenter with an O negative blood type.

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One day in 2019 while sitting in my LA home, I received a call from a familiar voice who said Bill could meet us at the Polo Lounge on Friday after his show.

Bill, who? I asked.

Bill Maher, responded Ann Coulter. Remember our discussion earlier in the week?

I had forgotten she mentioned us having dinner with him.

As we waited for Maher to arrive, I already felt a rush of excitement from the robust conversation I knew we would have. And robust it was. If you could have been a fly on the wall and heard this conversation, you may have been shocked to learn how reasonable Maher is on some issues.

I know what you are probably thinking: Bill Maher is reasonable?

After all, this is the guy who has made a career of beating up on Republicans weekly, not to mention questioning values like faith in God.

Yet, despite all this, it appears Maher, host of HBOs Real Time with Bill Maher, has become the most prominent voice of reason on the left at a time when there doesnt seem to be many reasonable voices on the left at all.

Recently Maher spoke out against those who allege America has made no progress toward racial reconciliation. He used the term progressophobia, calling it a brain disorder that strikes liberals and makes them incapable of recognizing progress. Its like situational blindness, only what you cant see is that your dorm in 2021 is better than the South before the Civil War.

Maher is absolutely correct. The notion that America has made no progress toward a more perfect union is an absurd, false narrative. Yet the left, especially the Democratic Party, continues to push this poison on the American people. It seems the Democrats would, contrary to their rhetoric, rather keep the lie going to lock in a permanent base of African-American voters than tell the truth and seek national unity.

I discuss such hypocrisy of the Democratic Party regarding race in America with NFL Super Bowl winner and Republican Rep. Burgess Owens on a recent episode of my podcast, Outloud with Gianno Caldwell.

In his important diatribe against progressivism run amok, Maher even goes after fellow comedian Kevin Hart, who is arguably the biggest star in the business.

Theres a recurrent theme on the far left that things have never been worse! Maher exclaimed. Kevin Hart expressed a view many hold when he told the New York Times, Youre witnessing white power and white privilege at an all-time high.

This is one of the big problems with wokeness, Maher continued, that what you say doesnt have to make sense or jive with the facts or even be challenged lest the challenge be conflated with racism.

This wasnt the first time Maher attacked his own side. Back in April, Maher shocked people when he defended Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, from the media and the Democratic Party. In a segment on his HBO talk show, Maher said DeSantis is a voracious consumer of the scientific literature who got it right on COVID.

And maybe thats why he protected his most vulnerable population, the elderly, way better than did the governor of New York, Maher added, knocking New Yorks Democratic governor, Andrew Cuomo. Those are just facts; I know its irresponsible of me to say them.

Maher may be a staunch liberal, but hes a voice of reason on the left, unafraid to call out wokeness run amok. If the above moments dont convince you, check out his take on progressives push for free college.

I know that free college is a left-wing thing, but is it really liberal for someone who doesnt go to college and makes less money to pay for people who do go and make more? Maher asked. Especially since colleges have turned into giant luxury day care centers with overpaid babysitters anxious to indulge every student whim.

You may wonder why Maher has taken such a turn against his party and the media. Heres one answer: Hes staunchly politically incorrect. Indeed, in an interview with Jordan Peterson, Maher said political correctness is the elevation of sensitivity over truth. Hes right again.

I hope the left is listening, because Maher seems to be the only major voice on the left that still believes in common sense on several issues even in the face of cancel culture, which he rightly views as ridiculous and stupid.

Last weekend Maher made another excellent point about director Lin-Manuel Miranda. Miranda, who is of Puerto Rican heritage, was slammed on Twitter because the cast of his movie, In the Heights, about the Washington Heights area of New York City, did not represent the Afro-Latinx community. After Miranda issued a long, agonized apology, Maher clapped back: Youre the guy who made the founding fathers black and Hispanic! I dont think you have to apologize to Twitter. Maher said he doesnt think Miranda really believes an apology is in order but he just wants to avoid the news cycle, and I dont blame him, adding, This is why people hate Democrats; Its cringey. Once again, Maher couldnt be more correct in his assertion.

To be clear, Maher gets it wrong plenty of times, from Russiagate to his criticism of Sen. Joe Manchin, who is apparently the only Democrat in the Senate who believes bipartisanship should be more than a talking point.

But looking at the big picture, I have concluded that Bill Maher is the only person who can save the left from itself. Whether Democrats heed Mahers warnings or continue their descent into woke madness remains an open question.

Gianno Caldwell is a Fox News Political Analyst and the author of Taken for Granted: How Conservatism Can Win Back the Americans That Liberalism Failed (Crown Forum), out now.

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When people are feeling insecure, Bill Clinton famously said, theyd rather have someone who is strong and wrong rather than somebody who is weak and right. Clinton wasnt talking specifically about todays Republican primary voters, but the lesson applies. Whether Donald Trump or someone else is the Republican nominee in 2024, his stylea toxic potpourri of machismo, populism, and nationalismis here to stay.

If the nominee isnt Trump, who could fill the role? Let me begin with the man who was ahead of the curve, staking out this territory before Trump came along: Chris Christie. Now, I know progressives are rolling their eyes heavenward. What about Bridgegate? What about how Christie humiliated himself by endorsing Trump? What about the meme of him lounging on a beach while state beaches were closed to the public? In a GOP primary, those things wont hurt him, and some of them may help him.

Christie is publicly mulling a run; aside from being an authentic bully, heres what we also know about Christie: He has mad political skills. He was elected governor of New Jersey. Twice. As a Republican. The second time, he won by a landslide. Later, during a crucial New Hampshire primary debate, he single-handedly destroyed the 2016 campaign of Marco Rubio: a man many of us saw as a once-in-a-generation candidate. Christie has sharp elbows, and hes recently throwing them at Trump. Christie has been a critic of Trumps election fraud claims since November.

A former federal prosecutor, Christie ousted incumbent Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine in 2009, promising to take on the public-employee unions. And he never stopped fighting. Take for example, the special education teacher named Melissa Tomlinson who confronted him in 2013. She provoked a debate and a finger-wagging rant from Christie that ended with the line, Im sick of you people. Heres the thing. Christies supporters LOVED it. As the bus door closed, Tomlinson found herself surrounded by Christie partisans. An elderly woman turned to Tomlinson and told her, Youre in the wrong place, hon, reported NorthJersey.com. The crowd started heckling, and cheering for Christie, Tomlinson recalled. I almost have PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) from it. I keep seeing people looming over my head.

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth, said the great pugilist and philosopher, Mike Tyson. In Christies Jersey, lots of people got (rhetorically) punched in the mouth (he would later say that teachers unions deserve a punch in the face.) And, for a long time, it worked. Flawlessly!

In fact, its likely that Trump learned something from Christie, who, after all, was right next door. Christie may have been the pioneer, the guy Trump learned from, said Assemblyman John McKeon, D-Essex. He has been a frequent target of Christies wrath, dubbed a hack lawyer during a recent dispute over the management of NJ Transit. It may be no coincidence that Ann Coulter, who saw Trumps rise in 2016, saw something in Christie back in 2011.

Christie ended up leaving office as a wildly unpopular governor. But from the standpoint of winning a Republican primary in todays political environment, the biggest mistake he ever made was hugging Barack Obama after Hurricane Sandy ravaged the Jersey shore. Could Christie bully his way back into GOP superstar status in 2024?

Of course, there is a catch-22. Republican voters like Trump because hes the alpha dog, but (the assumption is) anyone who succeeds Trump will have to at least be in his good graces. Therefore, they must subordinate their ambitions to Trump. See the problem?

For someone who isnt going to automatically defer to Trump, though, this could be an opportunity. If Trump freezes the field, that allows Christie to either (a) get a head start when Trump finally decides not to run, or (b) get a clean shot at a one-on-one race against Trump, with the hope that many Republicans who grudgingly supported Trump might prefer the former guy to stay former. This is a high-risk, high-reward strategy. Christie could get destroyed and humiliated by Trump wholets be honestis the clear frontrunner for the nomination.

Or it could work. Ask yourself this question: If Christie really wants to be president, and is willing to suffer the slings and arrows, is there a better strategy? By 2028, there will be a huge field of new Republicans (some of whom weve probably never even heard of). Christie missed his window when his approval numbers were through the roof in 2012 and decided to bide his time, which was a mistake. Its hard to imagine that Christie would have better odds by waiting his turn and competing in a larger field seven years from now.

For more reasons than one, Christies 2024 slogan should be Go Big or Go Home! Christie seems to understand this. Im also not going to be one of these people whos going to say, Well, Ill wait to see what President Trumps going to do. Im not going to defer to anyone if I decide thats what I want to do and that I think Im the best option for the party and for the country, Christie said on a podcast last month. I think if you say youre deferring to someone, thats a sign of both weakness and indecision, and weve already got that in the White House.

The other leading candidate to fill this role is Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who came in second to Trump at the CPAC straw poll and (more recently) topped Trump in approval at the Western Conservative Summits straw poll. As HotAirs Allahpundit pointed out, DeSantiss one great advantage over Trump [and, I would argue, Christie!] is that, as a sitting governor, he can actively fight culture-war battles with skin in the game while Trump is relegated to issuing press releases. Examples include vaccine passports, a minute of silence for students in public schools, banning transgender women from womens sports, most recently offering to send Florida law enforcement to the border. Of course, the 60 Minutes attack on DeSantis might be his greatest asset, because it simultaneously casts him as victim, MSM fighter, and victor.

Like Christie, DeSantis must navigate trying to take over a party that Trump hasnt vacatedmuch like their shared state of Florida.

A post-Trump GOP headed by DeSantis or Christie wouldnt be my first choice, but would it at least be tolerable? Perhaps. Like pornography, well know it when we see it. Regardless, Im betting the partys next presidential nominee will be either Trump or a slightly less chaotic and maybe more competent version of Trump.

This should concern a whole slew of wanna-be presidential candidates, starting with Mike Pence. Pence was booed recently at a conservative confab, making him the first politician to be jeered by both fans of the Hamilton musical and attendees of the Faith & Freedom Coalition conference. The latest hissing incident is more telling. Historically, vice presidents have huge built-in advantages; however, we are talking about a political leader whose own base literally tried to kill him. Pences career is premised on playing the good cop while furtively advancing a conservative agenda that may belie his sunny aw-shucks demeanor.

Todays GOP has no room for someone who speaks softly, even if he (or she) carries a big stick. They want a real bully to fill the bully pulpit. Thats why, if anyone is to succeed Trump in the GOP, Christie and DeSantis are where the smart moneys at.

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