Demography and Destiny

Five Things You Need to Read Today

1. The Death Wish of the "Liberals," Part 1

After I published my follow-up on Charlottesville, Dave Marcus posted a piece in The Federalist on the tiny little white nationalist rally in Washington, DC, which was outnumbered at least five-to-one by the media and probably two-hundred-to-one by counter-protesters. What killed me was Dave's first paragraph.

I've spent most of my adult life producing theater in New York City. In that time, on more occasions than I care to remember, only 20 people showed up in the audience when I'd hoped for hundreds. I thought of that with a smile yesterday watching the maybe two dozen sad white nationalists hold their "rally" in Washington. I know how bad that feels, the Public Address system and stage you paid for mocking you.

But he has a more substantive point to make.

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