Cal Thomas


By “it” I mean the accusation that Republicans and especially conservatives (not always the same) are “divisive.” One reads and hears this from every media outlet and Democrats in Congress. President Trump is dividing America. Talk radio is divisive. The right wing is undermining our “unity.”


Only the latest example: The president last Saturday gave what was mostly a July 4 patriotic speech in South Dakota. He reminded us of what used to be widely accepted as traditional American principles. Predictable media reaction was summarized by a Wall Street Journal editorial. The president was accused of “stok(ing) a culture war” (Los Angeles Times) delivering a “divisive culture war message” (The New York Times), “push(ing) racial division” (Associated Press), and delivering a “dark speech” (The Washington Post).

Do none call this a conspiracy, or is it just the latest example of groupthink in a media industry that constantly promotes “diversity,” but not ideological diversity?





Democrats tolerated Republicans when they mostly surrendered to their legislative demands and judicial rulings. When Republicans began to realize they no longer had to take it lying down, that’s when allegations of “divisiveness” began.

Karl Marx wrote: “Revolution in general – the overthrow of the existing power and dissolution of previous relations – is a political act. Socialism cannot be realized without a revolution. But when its organizing activity begins…its soul comes forward, then socialism casts aside its political cloak.”

We are experiencing the result of a new American revolution, one that seeks to impose socialism -- and worse -- on the nation. It is not divisive to push back against those who would “fundamentally transform America” into their political and social image, as Joe Biden has promised to do if he becomes president.

Pushing back against this toxic tide was once known as patriotism.

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