Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders took the generally thankless job of giving the GOP response to Joe Biden’s State of the Union address to new heights on Tuesday night with a clear, singular and obvious message, today’s political battles are not between left and right, but between ‘normal and crazy.’
In zinger after zinger, Donald Trump’s former press secretary mocked the wacky wokeness of the once proud party of Jefferson and Jackson, two figures who these days most Democrats would rather cancel than celebrate.
Take this line, ‘I’m the first woman to lead my state. He’s the first man to surrender his presidency to a woke mob that can’t even tell you what a woman is.’
Ouch, but where is the lie?
After all, it was Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, whose confirmation Biden celebrated in his speech, who famously told Congress that she is unable to define the word woman, owing to the fact she is not a biologist.
On education, Sanders punched just as hard, quiping, ‘our children are taught to hate one another on account of their race, but not to love one another or our great country.’
Hear! Hear!
In one bruising line after another an impressive Sanders hammered home the cultural message that Republicans need to digest and replicate.
‘Everyday we are told we must partake in their rituals, salute their flags, and worship their false idols,’ Sanders said, channeling the frustration of so many Americans.
She added, ‘all the while big government colludes with Big Tech to strip away the most American thing there is – your free speech. That’s not normal. It’s crazy and it’s wrong.’
In zinger after zinger, Donald Trump’s former press secretary mocked the wacky wokeness of the once proud party of Jefferson and Jackson, two figures who these days most Democrats would rather cancel than celebrate.
For decades, Republican leaders have blushed when confronted by issues of race, sexuality, and gender, ever fearful that they may be accused of bigotry, well, Sanders was there Tuesday night to proclaim that those days are over.
It’s not bigoted to point out when our government leaders are behaving like crazy people, and this fear of name-calling that led former GOP leaders like Mitt Romney to literally march with the corrupt, Marxist, Black Lives Matters protestors is over. Call us anything you want.
Just having Sanders say these things out loud is a welcome sign of change in the Republican Party.
Yes, boys playing on girls sports teams is crazy.
Yes, putting men in women’s prisons and shelters is crazy.
Yes, using the term Latinx in government documents when only 3 percent of Hispanics use the nonsense word is crazy.
Yes, teaching our students that America and her history are so steeped in racism that they can only be redeemed through the guilt and confession of children, is crazy.
And yes, defunding the police when our cities are wracked by violent crime and our law enforcement officers are belittled and demoralized is absolutely, flat out crazy.
The list goes on, but you get the point, and so does Sarah Huckabee Sanders who will no longer be silenced by a loony left that must try to police speech because they have no actual means of defending their abjectly absurd policies.
And Sanders is not alone, in Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis, no longer happy to just stand athwart history yelling stop, has fixed bayonets and sounded the charge in the culture war.
In his own inauguration speech last month, DeSantis railed against the excesses of progressives, promising that the Sunshine State is ‘where woke goes to die.’
Take this line, ‘I’m the first woman to lead my state. He’s the first man to surrender his presidency to a woke mob that can’t even tell you what a woman is.’ Ouch, but where is the lie?
In Virginia, Glenn Youngkin seized an unlikely victory two years ago and enjoys enormous popularity today based largely on his own anti-woke education policies born of the furious frustration of millions of American parents.
And let us not forget Donald Trump, who in 2016 became the first major national Republican figure to fight the culture war with gloves off since Pat Buchanan in 1992.
Trump’s legacy is multifarious, and his impact on the GOP profound in myriad ways, but perhaps no change to the party and conservative movement was as consequential as his willingness to battle political correctness when other Republicans cowered to the woke mobs.
The GOP will not and must not return to the milquetoast days of just gravely nodding along as liberals lecture them about imaginary racism, or sex change procedures for kids, or pride flags replacing American flags in our classrooms.
No, not only will those who Sanders called the ‘new generation of Republican leadership not back down or surrender in the cultural battle for America’s soul and sanity, the voters won’t either, they have seen the value of fighting back and will continue to demand it.
Biden’s address, with the theme of ‘Finish the Job’ was widely viewed as his opening salvo in the 2024 campaign, but Sanders put her own name in that ring as a potential vice presidential nominee with her widely praised remarks.
And what a difference between the two speeches.
After all, it was Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, whose confirmation Biden celebrated in his speech, who famously told Congress that she is unable to define the word woman, owing to the fact she is not a biologist.
On the one hand, you had crazy old Joe telling Republicans, with a straight face mind you, that we will only need oil for 10 more years, a notion so outlandishly insane that howls of laughter peeled out from the GOP members.
On the other hand, a cool, calm, and very sane Sanders.
In a real sense, Sanders was telling Biden that he will not be allowed to ‘finish the job’ of weakening and breaking America, he will be allowed to ‘finish the job’ of turning the most successful multicultural society in history into a chaotic battlefield of identities, he will not be allowed to ‘finish the job’ of destroying the traditions and fundamental truths that make America great.
It took too long to get here, but Sanders’ speech announces the arrival of a Republican Party that will no longer politely agree with the perverse parade of craziness Democrats are marching in. It is a road to nowhere and nothingness.
The battlelines have been drawn and Sanders is absolutely right about where the trenches lie.
On the left, there is craziness, a world with no truth, no definitions, a nation gone mad. On the right, a return to normalcy, to a shared set of goals and truths that can restore order to our broken country.
This is the choice, and it comes not a moment too soon.
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