“The Brew: When They Call Us ‘Tutsi Cockroaches,’ How Should We Respond?”
Originally published on The Stream
One of the most valuable defectors from the possessed Left is Naomi Wolf. I remember her from college, where as a loudly pro-choice feminist she was pretty much my campus nemesis. She wore a pink triangle, I wore a “Better Dead than Red” T-shirt I’d bought from Soldier of Fortune, and we largely avoided each other at Yale.
Since then, to her great credit, she has clung to the actual values which so many on the Left once claimed to believe in, then cast off like cheap costumes when the chips were really down. She believes in the Constitution, so she opposes censorship. She believes in bodily autonomy, so she opposed the COVID vaccine mandates and public health dictatorship. She believes in the rule of law, so she speaks out against partisan lawfare of the kind that landed Steve Bannon (and so many others) in prison.
She even invited me on her Daily Clout channel to talk about my new book on the Second Amendment. That wasn’t on either of our bingo cards back in the 1980s.
A gifted writer who wasn’t afraid to burn most of her professional bridges over principle, Wolf’s now offering strategic advice to Republicans in the 2024 election — drawing on her experience advising two Democratic presidential campaigns. And I think we should listen to her. And for her own peace of mind, she needs to understand why it’s so hard for conservatives and Christians to follow her wise prudential counsel.
For the past week, Wolf has been sending messages in a bottle to those of us equally alarmed by the prospect of a Kamala Harris victory in November. Here’s the latest:
Wolf is urging us not to take the bait the Left is throwing out, to fight out this election as a front in the culture war. And why? Because she’s convinced it’s what the Democrats want, because they know we will lose. The Left is much more disciplined, controls most of our media, and is completely unencumbered by any attachment to the truth. So battling over “values” might get our base excited, but even if we win a given argument on the merits, we will lose it politically.
Yes, it’s insane that the party of “furries,” bondage-obsessed Satanists, late-term abortionists, and “throuples” can label J.D. Vance “weird” because he’s a milquetoast-looking white guy from the Midwest who believes in marriage and family. And we can point that out to our friends and family all we like. But facts are facts: For the past 20 years our media have relentlessly normalized every kind of perversion and demonized white Christians. Voters’ perceptions have been poisoned, tainted, and skewed. That’s something we need to roll back, of course — but not in the course of a desperately important, quite-close presidential election where the other side is willing and able to flagrantly cheat.
Instead of battling back against the DEI hires, sex weirdos, and witches the Left are fore-fronting to bait us, Wolf urges us to focus on Kamala Harris’s pitiful track record, extremist positions, and manifest incompetence. In other words, we should go on the offensive instead of defensively trying to reaffirm Norman Rockwell America. And she’s mostly right.
But instead of getting frustrated with us, she needs to understand: Those of us who are part of the “old America,” which was largely white, Christian, middle-class, and apolitical, realize what’s happening. We are being demonized the way the Tutsis were in 1990s Rwanda shortly before they were targeted for genocide. “Whiteness” is now routinely discussed as something to be “abolished” or “eradicated.” Any attempt to vote our consciences is demonized as “Christian Nationalism,” a made-up leftist dog-whistle crafted to sound like “White Nationalist,” even though it’s the worldview of every president before Jimmy Carter. Routine (to us) obvious claims like “I believe that children are the future” get painted as creepy obsessions with policing people’s sex lives. Peaceful pro-lifers get imprisoned while looters walk free.
So we’re on the defensive because we’re being attacked. We’re paranoid because elites are genuinely out to get us. And we need to not play into their hands, as Wolf correctly warns us. Don’t rush into a minefield the enemy has laid for us. If we want to know the consequences of blowing this election, we just have to tune in to the news from Venezuela — where the army is attacking democracy demonstrators. Half that country’s citizens are now effectively January 6 prisoners.
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John Zmirak is a Senior Editor of The Stream. He received his B.A. from Yale University in 1986, then his M.F.A. in screenwriting and fiction and his Ph.D. in English in 1996 from Louisiana State University. His focus was the English Renaissance, and the novels of Walker Percy. He taught composition at LSU and screenwriting at Tulane University, and has written screenplays for and with director Ronald Maxwell (Gods & Generals and Gettysburg). He was elected alternate delegate to the 1996 Republican Convention, representing Pat Buchanan.
He has been Press Secretary to pro-life Louisiana Governor Mike Foster, and a reporter and editor at Success magazine and Investor’s Business Daily, among other publications. His essays, poems, and other works have appeared in First Things, The Weekly Standard, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, USA Today, FrontPage Magazine, The American Conservative, The South Carolina Review, Modern Age, The Intercollegiate Review, Commonweal, and The National Catholic Register, among other venues. He has contributed to American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia and The Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought. From 2000-2004 he served as Senior Editor of Faith & Family magazine and a reporter at The National Catholic Register. During 2012 he was editor of Crisis.
He is author, co-author, or editor of twelve books, including Wilhelm Ropke: Swiss Localist, Global Economist, The Grand Inquisitor (graphic novel) and The Race to Save Our Century. He was editor of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s guide to higher education, Choosing the Right College and Collegeguide.org, for ten years, and is also editor of Disorientation: How to Go to College Without Losing Your Mind.
His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.
One of our country’s most important freedoms is that of free speech.
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