Manu Raju is a Democrat activist and CNN reporter who camps out in congressional hallways to ask questions that help advance his party’s political agenda. He’s done it for years. Whether the Democrats are doing their Brett Kavanaugh smear, impeachment shenanigans, Russia-collusion hoax, or anything else, he’s there to ask questions that help his team. He’s been doing it for so long that you’d have to be something of an idiot to fall for it, much less more than once.

So, for example, when corporate media and other activists were pretending that New York Republican Rep. George Santos’ deceptions about his biography were the most important issue facing Americans, Raju was there. He asked Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, if he was disappointed Speaker Kevin McCarthy hadn’t called on George Santos to resign. Romney did not mock him for the question or turn the conversation to issues that actually matter, such as the open border, inflation, a troubled economy, attacks on parents, or the rise of China. He gladly took up Raju’s question as an opportunity to bash the Republican speaker.

Then Raju ran over to McCarthy and asked him what he thought about Romney’s weak response. “Romney should be disappointed that Swalwell hasn’t resigned,” McCarthy said, not even pausing for a second to dignify the stupidity of the question.

Boom. Easy. Effective.

McCarthy seems to have a quaint notion that he should follow an agenda other than the one set by leftist media and other activists. He recently provided journalist Tucker Carlson access to Jan. 6 footage. When it was announced, CNN and other leftist groups got upset. But nothing compares to the angry reaction when Carlson showed some of the footage on his top-ranked Fox News program on Monday night. The program showed footage indicating that the Jan. 6 Committee had falsely conveyed the circumstances of Sen. Josh Hawley’s evacuation from the Capitol, had falsely added audio to clips, had not pursued evidence that mysterious protester Ray Epps had lied about his whereabouts, and had concealed evidence that Jan. 6 protesters who had entered the Capitol were not treated as threats.

The media and other partisans shrieked in horror that this footage was being shown to the American people. It burst through the media-enforced narratives about the day.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., took to the Senate floor to call for the censorship of Fox News, where this author is a contributor, and prevention of more footage being made available to Americans. He said Carlson exercising his freedom of the press was a threat to democracy.

As one former White House reporter put it, “It’s frightening to see Senate leaders demand a media company ‘stop’ reporting on the government, police, issues of law and justice.”

Surely this would be an opportunity for the otherwise weak and feckless Senate Republicans to show some backbone, right? Wrong.

Romney said that showing Americans footage from Jan. 6 meant Carlson had gone “off the rails,” and compared him to Alex Jones. He also went after McCarthy for being transparent with the American people. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., took a break from working on an amnesty bill to tell Raju that Carlson showing new footage of the protest that countered the left’s narrative was “bullsh-t.” South Dakota Sens. Mike Rounds and John Thune, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, and North Dakota Sen. Kevin Cramer also fell for the media campaign against Carlson.

Leading the group was Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Raju invited him to bash McCarthy. It’s not saying much, but McConnell was at least smart enough to decline that opportunity. But he did take the opportunity to attack a media outlet for daring to say something different than what a police leader said. Really. He said, “It was a mistake, in my view, for Fox News to depict this in a way that is completely at variance with what our chief law enforcement official here at the Capitol thinks.”

Let’s leave aside the abject offensiveness of the Republican leader saying journalists must simply repeat what governmental authorities say and not show video footage “at variance” with what the government says. What is McConnell doing? Seriously? The man only rarely speaks on camera to reporters, so his decision to do so is intentional. He brought a prop — the statement from the government official — to wave around for the camera.

Even if he didn’t agree with every journalistic decision Carlson made, he could have said any number of things to serve the American people — and Republican voters — instead of serving Chuck Schumer and CNN.

He could have said he welcomed the transparency regarding the footage from Jan. 6, that Pelosi’s manipulation of that footage was sinfully wrong, and that it should not have taken two years to get this footage to the American people.

He could have said something in defense of the First Amendment-protected right of assembly and to petition government for a redress of grievances. He could have reminded Americans about how awful it is that left-wing rioters are routinely allowed to firebomb or otherwise desecrate Christian churches, pro-life pregnancy centers, the Mark O. Hatfield federal courthouse, police precincts, the Atlanta site of the cop-training facility, the Keystone pipeline, and downtown Seattle.

He could have talked about the importance of election integrity and security, noting that the 2020 election — and the radical changes to the laws and processes governing it in the months leading up to it — had been bad for the country. He could have mentioned how Big Media and Big Tech conspired to meddle in that election, and that messing with people’s elections is a major problem in this country and something about which Americans have every right to be upset.

He could have said Carlson’s journalism was a reminder that one can never trust narratives from corporate, left-wing media such as CNN, the outlet where Raju works. He could have listed the lies and deceptions put forth by that network, such as the recent news that they intentionally suppressed journalism about the Wuhan Institute of Virology because they thought it might help their political opponent Donald Trump. He could have mentioned their years-long Russia-collusion hoax. He could have mentioned their lies about Kavanaugh, in which they falsely and repeatedly portrayed him as a serial gang rapist.

If he wanted to be something of a squish, but not a complete squish, he could have even said, “I think Tucker might have been a little too dismissive of the violence we experienced, but he did a remarkable service by airing so much important video that Democrats tried to hide.”

When Raju ran over to McCarthy to do his damage control over the Jan. 6 footage, McCarthy handled it with ease. Raju asked a loaded and inaccurate question and asked McCarthy whether he regretted giving the American people a chance to see the footage.

In the clip above, McCarthy also reminded CNN about how it had negligently handled information about secure locations for Capitol personnel. Boom. Easy. Effective.

And new Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance took to Twitter to criticize reporters for asking him to bash Carlson but not asking about Schumer’s push for censorship of non-leftist media.

Instead of doing things like that, McConnell copied the political framing and approach of Schumer, and ran off to Raju to supercharge the left’s latest bogus narrative.

Republicans, you have a serious problem.

In the middle of the midterm elections, McConnell went out of his way to sabotage candidates and their voters, once again pushing Democrat narratives about “candidate quality.” McConnell, the country’s least popular politician, did nothing to stop Romney from running a shadow campaign against a sitting GOP senator, fellow Utah Sen. Mike Lee. After he led the Republicans in the Senate to a loss, he responded by helping Democrats pass their $1.7 trillion omnibus bill, cheerleading for Biden’s Ukraine war, and campaigning with Joe Biden.

Instead of punishing Romney for his act of sabotage against fellow Republicans, he punished the victim by removing him from a powerful committee. Other Republican senators have also been punished by the famously vindictive and petty McConnell for not supporting his re-election as Republican leader.

Elon Musk, of all people, said it best when he tweeted of McConnell, “I keep forgetting which party he belongs to.”

It is a cruel joke on the nation that this guy is still the titular leader of Senate Republicans in Washington. Are there not even a sufficient number of adults in the Republican conference who have the stones to say something — to do anything — on behalf of Republican voters? Or are they just weak, mute cowards? At what point do they have the guts to say: “Mitch, enough is enough. Whatever limited good you may have done in the past, you cannot be a leader in the party when you defecate, day after day, year after year, on the voters you purport to represent.”

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This article was published by The Federalist and is reproduced with permission.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are euphemisms for discrimination, enmity, and injustice. 

The cycle is as old as Homo sapiens.

Members of a dominant race, ethnic group, religion, ideology, nationality, social class, tribe, or clan inflict injustices on members of a different race, ethnic group, religion, ideology, nationality, social class, tribe, or clan.

Driven by understandable anger, resentment, and revenge, the victims seek retribution in whatever way they can, including, where possible, by taking power from the victimizers, whether through peaceful or violent means and, ideally, replacing them as the dominant group.

The new dominant group eventually succumbs to hubris, arrogance, and an addiction to power.  It then becomes like the group that it replaced, similar to how abused children become abusive parents.

There are hundreds of examples in history.  A notable one is the Bolshevik Revolution against the czar and capitalism.  Rule by the proletariat became more oppressive than rule by the Russian monarchy.

Another example is the 1979 Iranian Revolution that resulted in the overthrow of the imperious and out-of-touch Pahlavi dynasty, which was replaced by the theocratic rule of Ruhollah Khomeini.  The revolution culminated in the massacre of perceived enemies of the new regime, including communists, socialists, social democrats, liberals, moderate Islamists, and members of the Baháʼí Faith.

Or take the Progressive movement of the early twentieth century in the US.  Its good intentions of breaking up concentrated economic power, helping the disadvantaged, and instilling liberal values soon morphed into authoritarian impulses. Examples:

– Hundreds of real and imagined communists and anarchists were rounded up without evidence and in violation of the Constitution in the Palmer raids, named after Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer;

– members of the labor union known as the Industrial Workers of the World were also rounded up and in some cases killed by corporate goons, with the acquiescence of local and federal law enforcement;

– the eugenics movement was launched and would last for decades, with the goal of keeping undesirables from procreating;

– reporters and common folk who questioned the First World War and President Woodrow Wilson were arrested and imprisoned for sedition; and

– the Immigration Act of 1924 was enacted to stop the flow of emigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe—migrants who were seen as non-White and described in vile and disgusting terms by dominant White Anglo-Saxon Protestants and such establishment newspapers as the New York Times.

Now those former non-Whites are not only categorized as White, but, under the guise of diversity, equity, and inclusion, are stereotyped as privileged, racist, supremacist, fragile, and, in an example of zero-sum thinking, as being well-off only because so-called people of color have been kept down.  Ignored is the inconvenient fact that an estimated 30 million Americans labeled as White live in poverty.

Also ignored by the DEI movement is the fact that in the White category, there are scores of unique ethnocultural groups of varying income, political power, education, physical features, skin shade, and histories of being victimizers or victims.  There are also scores of unique ethnocultural groups in the Asian and Hispanic categories.  There is more homogeneity within the Black, Pacific Islander and Native American categories, but these are also quite diverse.

Given that there are over one hundred ethnocultural groups in America, none of them is a majority but all are minorities, numerically speaking. Yet all the groups classified as White are seen as being in the majority while all the other groups are seen as being in the minority.  This is groupthink about groups.

Granted, from the perspective of disadvantaged non-Whites, all so-called Whites can look the same, can seem to have a common culture, and can appear to be wealthy, powerful, and advantaged, relatively speaking.  And if one’s forebears suffered discrimination and worse at the hands of Whites, then racial resentment is understandable.  But it is dangerous stereotyping to think, “If you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all.”  Such thinking was behind slavery, Jim Crow, the genocide of Native Americans, the Holocaust, the Chinese Exclusion Act, the 1924 Immigration Act, the internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War, and so on.

Speaking of historical injustices and atrocities, the DEI industrial complex downplays the ones committed by non-Whites, such as the Comanche, the Mongols, Maoists, Pol Pot, imperial Japan, Boko Haram, Tutsis versus Hutus, Shiites versus Sunnis, Hindus versus Muslims, Arabs versus Persians, Turks versus Armenians, Armenians versus Azerbaijani, and so on, ad nausea.  Then there is the overlooked fact that Hispanics enslaved more Africans than the Anglos and Dutch did.

Instead of acknowledging its anthropological and mathematical malpractice of reducing the diversity of the nation to several contrived categories, the government is responding to political pressure by considering the addition of two new minority categories to the existing ones of Black, Hispanic, Asian, Pacific Islander, and Native American.  The two would be North African and Middle Eastern—as if these geographic areas are racially homogenous instead of racially diverse.

Do the categorizers even know that Tunisia is only 96 miles from Sicily?  Have they ever heard of the Punic Wars between Rome and Carthage?  Do they think that the DNA of North Africa never mixed with the DNA of the Italian peninsula?

The cycle of injustices will never end as long as negative stereotypes, demonization, and identity politics continue.  Victims and victimizers will just change places. 

Make no mistake:  DEI is not about diversity, equity, and inclusion.  It’s about discrimination, enmity, and injustice against all Americans categorized as White.

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Mr. Craig J. Cantoni is an author, activist, and retired business executive who was at the leading edge of equal rights, equal opportunity, outreach, and anti-discrimination training over his career.

Antifa? Black Lives Matter? Come on, man! You’ll find it comforting to know that the FBI has been busy tracking the real terrorists that threaten the safety of every decent, law-abiding American today: people who traveled to Washington for Trump’s rally against election fraud on Jan. 6, 2021, and Americans who dare to oppose the relentless sacrifices to Moloch that are the cornerstone of the Democrat Party’s program. The FBI has become so thoroughly corrupt and politicized that its agents apparently have no problem serving as attack dogs for the Left’s sinister agenda.

Just The News reported Saturday that the feds have “politicized cases regarding Jan. 6 defendants and pro-lifers while retaliating against internal whistleblowers” as some of those same whistleblowers testified before the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. And Fox News reported Thursday that according to another whistleblower, “the FBI created a threat tag following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last year, but it later ‘shifted’ to focus on pro-life individuals,” as if they were the real threat.

George Hill, a retired supervisory intelligence analyst in the FBI’s Boston field office, testified that “the Washington Field Office pressured other field offices to investigate citizens for activities protected by the First Amendment.” The Washington feds wanted the Boston office “to open cases on, first, seven individuals who came up in a sweep of bank records served up by the Bank of America, and then a larger group of 140 Americans guilty of nothing more than riding buses to D.C. to attend former President Trump’s Stop the Steal rally on Jan. 6, 2021.” Nor was this pressure singular: “Washington, Hill believes, applied similar pressure on the Philadelphia Field Office.”

Hill testified that on a nationwide call with all 56 FBI field offices, Steve Jensen, who was at that time the chief of the FBI’s Domestic Terrorism Operations Center Section, asked the Philadelphia feds about their investigations of three individuals. “The Philadelphia office said the individuals had posted on social media about being pro-Second Amendment and anti-abortion, but that it didn’t mean they were ‘insurrectionists seeking to overturn our democracy,’ Hill recalled.” This cut no ice with Jensen, who shot back: “I don’t give a blank, they’re all bleeping terrorists, and we’re going to round them up.”

When the feds did round them up, they did so in the most brutal manner possible. Former FBI SWAT team member Steve Friend testified “that after raising concerns about using a SWAT team to arrest a subject of the Jan. 6 investigation, he was ordered off the job for a day. Friend explained that the Jan. 6 subject was cooperating with the FBI and willing to surrender voluntarily, so he was concerned that the bureau wasn’t using the least intrusive methods possible to arrest them.” Clearly the feds were not interested in being non-intrusive. They wanted to send a message, and they did with the arrests of pro-life activist Mark Houck.

Meanwhile, another FBI whistleblower, Garret O’Boyle, was suspended after he testified to Congress about the feds’ politicization. He explained: “I thought the FBI was being weaponized against agents or anybody who wanted to step forward and talk about malfeasance inside the agency prior to this. But now, after what has happened to me, I don’t think I can ever be convinced that it’s anything different than that.”

O’Boyle “testified that following the Supreme Court’s​​​​​​ decision to return abortion to the states in​ Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the FBI prioritized possible threats against the justices from pro-lifers, focusing on ‘pro-life adherence.’” O’Boyle recounted: “Why are you focusing on pro-life people? It’s prochoice people who are the ones protesting or otherwise threatening violence in front of Supreme Court Justices’ houses.” But the FBI even wanted pregnancy centers investigated. O’Boyle remarked: “Why would we go and talk to these people about threats when, if somebody is going to be getting threatened, it would be them?”…..

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