Never Underestimate the Power of Narrative

Subscription pundit Jonah Goldberg is back on the clock, after what? His third or fourth domestic vacation during these Pandemic Times? And he's busy criticizing US Sec. of State Mike Pompeo for rightly taking the NYT to task for their "Pulitzer Prize winning" 1619 Project, that distorts US history by proclaiming the nation was founded on the slave trade, exclusively.

It's like, these people did not learn of our country's compromises (any of them) or the Civil War in their grade-school educations, and are outraged! as adults to learn of the darker side of American history. Seriously? (You know, you don't have to like history to learn to accept it. What honestly happened, and why. Lots of ethnicities have been able to overcome oppressive pasts -- learn from us?)

Jonah, ironically, agrees with Sec. of State Pompeo, but wants such criticizing left to... domestic pundits like himself? Take the weekend, Jonah. Get back acclimated with the work world. Understand why countering this false narrative is important these days, when nations as diverse as China with their Uighurs, Iraq with their Kurds, and Israel with their Palestinians seize on America's roots to justify their own oppressions today.

'Bout time more people in leadership positions start pushing back on this poison, before it fully infiltrates America's classrooms in the fall...