The left is to blame for creeping tyranny afflicting the free world.
Gov. Ron DeSantis, addressing a crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference in his home state Friday afternoon, observed that people are “chafing under authoritarian rule around the world.” It was the day after Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered an invasion of Ukraine.
DeSantis’ example of authoritarianism on the march, however, was about Australia.
The speakers at CPAC, the annual megaconference of conservatives, have not gone full Tucker Carlson. They’re not expressing sympathy for Putin or celebrating his lust for conquest. But the onset of the most aggressive test of the West since the end of the Cold War—something that, under previous incarnations of the conservative movement, would have been the issue around which CPAC was organized—has been a back burner issue.
The motivating concerns, instead, are with the perceived creeping tyranny afflicting the free world
The message, then, is that what Russia is doing to Ukraine is no big deal—or that what China may do next to Taiwan is no big surprise—given the cultural damage the left has done to America and other major Western countries. And the threat to Ukraine’s freedom is a secondary issue compared with the threat conservatives feel toward their own freedom.
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