{"id":1985034,"date":"2023-07-28T12:31:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T16:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ehrlich-we-have-the-perfect-response-when-progressives-try-to-take-the-moral-high-ground\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T12:33:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T16:33:34","slug":"ehrlich-we-have-the-perfect-response-when-progressives-try-to-take-the-moral-high-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ehrlich-we-have-the-perfect-response-when-progressives-try-to-take-the-moral-high-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Ehrlich: Our Ideal Reply to Progressive Moral Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fehrlich-we-have-the-perfect-response-when-progressives-try-to-take-the-moral-high-ground%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1985034&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Engaging Responses to Progressives&#8217; Moral High Ground<\/h2>\n<p>Useful one-liners often become part of the cultural lexicon.<\/p>\n<p>The brilliant \u201cSeinfeld\u201d popularized \u201cyada, yada, yada\u201d \u2014 always applicable, \u2063but never quite defined. Former Arizona\u2064 Cardinals head coach \u200bDennis \u2064Green made \u201cthey are what we thought they were\u201d an overused clich\u00e9 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/god-is-just-so-good-super-bowl-mvp-cooper-kupp-talks-vision-god-revealed-back-in-2019\/\" title=\"\u2018God Is Just So Good\u2019: Super Bowl MVP Cooper Kupp Talks \u2018Vision God Revealed\u2019 Back In 2019\">post-game interviews<\/a>. And then there is\u2063 the ever-popular \u201cit is what it is\u201d \u2063\u2014 a rather doleful recognition of reality \u2062so common in today\u2019s vernacular.<\/p>\n<p>But I have a new favorite: <strong>\u201cTwo things can be true at\u2063 once\u201d<\/strong> \u2014 a \u2064useful retort when progressives\u200b (per their usual \u200bmodus operandi)\u2064 seek to rent the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-jr-tells-gop-to-get-tough-if-democrats-are-playing-hardball-then-we-got-to-play-hardball\/\" title=\"Trump Jr. Tells GOP To Get Tough: If Democrats Are \u2018Playing Hardball\u2019 Then \u2018We Got To Play Hardball\u2019\">moral high ground<\/a> on the polarizing \u200dcultural issues of the day.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>TRUE:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Parents can get emotional and confrontational when \u200c\u201cwoke\u201d (read: inappropriate) instruction is \u200dgiven to their \u2064children.<\/li>\n<li>The\u200c importation of deadly fentanyl\u200c through the mail was a major\u200d problem during the first two years of the Trump administration.<\/li>\n<li>Book bans are anathema to free speech.<\/li>\n<li>Extraordinarily high bail \u2062for\u2062 non-violent \u2062offenders discriminates against the poor.<\/li>\n<li>The Department of Justice is\u200b integral to \u2064the\u2064 rule of law.<\/li>\n<li>Groups with extremist platforms are appropriate targets of law enforcement.<\/li>\n<li>The media has \u200dbeen critical of \u2063Trump for his alleged carelessness with \u200dclassified documents kept at his Mar-a-Lago resort.<\/li>\n<li>Asylum is a\u200b compassionate and long-established reason\u200c for immigration to the U.S.<\/li>\n<li>Generalizations are \u2064generally\u200c valid.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>ALSO TRUE:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The specter of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ehrlich-we-have-the-perfect-response-when-progressives-try-to-take-the-moral-high-ground\/\" title=\"Ehrlich: Our Ideal Reply to Progressive Moral Claims\">federal police agencies investigating unruly\u2063 parents<\/a> at\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maryland-school-district-announces-policy-to-push-anti-racist-thinking-in-preschool-redefine-discrimination-and-racism\/\" title=\"Maryland School District Announces Policy to Push \u2018Anti-Racist Thinking\u2019 In Preschool, Redefine \u2018Discrimination\u2019 and \u2018Racism\u2019\">school board meetings<\/a> is government overreach at its Biden-era nadir.<\/li>\n<li>Trump diplomacy vis-\u00e0-vis China successfully curtailed the mail route, but Biden-era traffickers found an\u2063 alternative path by \u2063shipping precursor\u2064 chemicals to clandestine labs in Mexico and then smuggling\u200d the finished product through\u200d a\u2062 porous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/mexican-authorities-spot-truck-us-border-patrol-decals-making-shocking-discovery-inside\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">southern border<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Challenging overtly age-inappropriate materials in the children\u2019s section of a library is always the right\u200b thing to do. (When and where did crossing this line become acceptable?)<\/li>\n<li>Extending cashless bail to violent \u2062criminals has placed far too many\u2062 recidivist felons back on the street.<\/li>\n<li>Attorney General Merrick Garland\u2019s allegation that criticism of the \u2062Justice Department is an \u201cattack on democracy\u201d is way off \u2063base. No federal agency\u200c is immune from criticism \u2014 ever \u2014 \u200cbecause we still have three co-equal branches of government.<\/li>\n<li>The effort to give parental rights, pro-life and traditional values groups \u200bthe \u201cextremist\u201d moniker is simply an extension of the Biden administration\u2019s uber-political \u201cultra-MAGA\u201d narrative.<\/li>\n<li>The fourth estate \u2062has been remarkably indulgent about the tranches of \u200bconfidential\u200d documents found at Biden-controlled venues in\u200b Washington, D.C., the University of Delaware and his\u2064 house in Rehoboth\u200d Beach, Delaware.<\/li>\n<li>The vast majority of Biden-era <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/thousands-illegal-immigrant-kids-highly-contagious-disease-released-nearly-every-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">illegal\u2064 migrants<\/a> showing up\u200b at\u200b the southern border are in\u200b no way asylum \u2064seekers but\u2063 rather (usually low-skilled) economic refugees.<\/li>\n<li>Valid \u200bexceptions exist for almost all \u200bgeneralities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You no doubt have other examples of \u201calso truths\u201d that can and must be appended\u2063 to popular\u2063 lefty allegations\/indictments. So be aggressive in your response. Make\u200b progressives engage outside their \u2063\u201csafe space.\u201d Not a comfortable place for them\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ehrlich-perfect-response-progressives-try-take-moral-high-ground\/\">Ehrlich: We Have the Perfect\u2064 Response When Progressives Try to\u2063 Take the \u2062Moral High Ground<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One-liners, like &#8220;yada, yada, yada&#8221; from &#8220;Seinfeld,&#8221; become cultural phrases. Dennis Green&#8217;s &#8220;they are what we thought they were&#8221; became a clich\u00e9 in interviews. Another favorite is &#8220;it is what it is.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2094,"featured_media":1985035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1985034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1985034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1985035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1985034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1985034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}