{"id":208632,"date":"2021-03-10T15:15:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T20:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=208632"},"modified":"2021-03-10T15:15:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T20:15:04","slug":"there-are-only-three-news-stories-that-matter-in-america-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/there-are-only-three-news-stories-that-matter-in-america-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"There Are Only Three News Stories That Matter In America Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fthere-are-only-three-news-stories-that-matter-in-america-right-now%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=208632&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-119.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The way I see it, there are basically three things going on in America right now that matter. Everything else (yes, even the Harry and Meghan interview) is either a distraction, or else it\u2019s one of the same three things masquerading as a separate news cycle unto itself.<\/p>\n<p>But these three Big Deal items don\u2019t boil down to any individual event, or even to any particular partisan axe that conservatives or liberals might like to grind. They are deeper than that \u2014 they are tectonic. Taken together, they suggest some important things about the present state of our American crisis, and about what is to be done.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Critical Race Theory and Cancel Culture: The Final Boss<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first Big Deal is that cancel culture and Critical Race Theory, which are really the same thing, have joined forces and are rapidly evolving into their final boss form. This final form will likely not be the Stalinist Gulags we joke nervously about online. It will be something more like \u201cCapitalism with American Characteristics,\u201d a CCP-inspired hybrid of fake free-market economics with immutable and oppressive cultural dogmas.<\/p>\n<p>Want a book on Amazon? You can have absolutely any book in the entire world you want \u2014 if you can afford it, and if it says the right things. You probably can\u2019t afford it, because \u201cthe pandemic\u201d (read: the gang of chuckleheads who used the pandemic as an excuse to piledrive the American economy) robbed you of your livelihood. Or maybe you used to have a job in the service industry, which is now being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiplinger.com\/slideshow\/investing\/t052-s001-43-companies-amazon-amzn-could-destroy\/index.html\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.kiplinger.com\/slideshow\/investing\/t052-s001-43-companies-amazon-amzn-could-destroy\/index.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615480456246000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGzg2SbLH2vu1MTTmyZQm8J1h4UfQ\">swallowed whole<\/a> by \u2014 you guessed it \u2014 Amazon itself. Next stop: robots.<\/p>\n<p>And as for what you can and can\u2019t read, well, that depends on the day: as of this writing, for example, you can\u2019t get Ryan T. Anderson\u2019s measured and thoughtful book about transgenderism on Amazon because reading it is a hateful thoughtcrime and you are slime for wanting to do so. Then there are the six&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDailyWire\/status\/1369656054955401222?s=20\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDailyWire\/status\/1369656054955401222?s%3D20&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615480456246000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEZhayra5VBP8pjb5KCuTf-liN8HA\">Dr. Seuss books<\/a>&nbsp;(some of the less inspired ones, it has to be said, but still) that you can\u2019t get&nbsp;<em>anywhere<\/em>, unless you happen to live near a library that is bucking the trend and keeping&nbsp;<em>On Beyond Zebra!<\/em>&nbsp;on its shelves. We all know&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/study-that-triggered-cancellation-of-dr-seuss-called-cat-in-the-hat-racist-horton-the-elephant-a-white-supremacist?%3Futm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dwtwitter\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/study-that-triggered-cancellation-of-dr-seuss-called-cat-in-the-hat-racist-horton-the-elephant-a-white-supremacist?%253Futm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_campaign%3Ddwtwitter&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615480456246000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFBKyfW0vZp5R_sTP9Ahaz3OJw0Uw\">where this is going<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some of these are familiar boilerplate issues for right-wing nutjobs like me. But for liberals, things are, if anything, worse. Bari Weiss has an absolutely jaw-dropping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/the-miseducation-of-americas-elites\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/the-miseducation-of-americas-elites&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615480456246000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEqcEDFW6I3aYrYYPMVgWOZLrd5dQ\">essay<\/a>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<em>City Journal&nbsp;<\/em>this week in which she interviews parents at affluent lefty private schools like Harvard-Westlake in Los Angeles. I grew up knowing lots of Harvard-Westlake kids \u2014 in the main they are charming, poised, and obnoxiously gifted. But now neither they nor their parents can publicly acknowledge their reservations about \u201canti-racism\u201d (read: racism), <em>for fear of reprisal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you publish my name, it would ruin my life,\u201d said one New York student. \u201cPeople would attack me for even questioning this ideology. I don\u2019t even want people knowing I\u2019m a capitalist.\u201d There are entire underground cabals of nice moms like the ones that used to greet me and my friends at the door with Capri-Suns after school, who now have to gather in secret so their doubts won\u2019t be made known. \u201cThey are making my son feel like a racist because of the pigmentation of his skin,\u201d said one. Moderates and true liberals are among those who suffer most under our new regime.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Invisible Presidency of Joe Biden<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s Biden: the magical disappearing president. It was always a foregone conclusion that a Biden presidency would see the legacy media go from weeping and wailing about the rise of a new Third Reich, to giggling in a paradise of sunshine and softballs. We knew it would be&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/itsallpolitics\/2015\/01\/23\/379136268\/5-surprises-from-president-obamas-youtube-interviews\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/itsallpolitics\/2015\/01\/23\/379136268\/5-surprises-from-president-obamas-youtube-interviews&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615480456246000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE-G2amkhpbZQ7IKFYTQK56ttsKbA\">Obama part 2<\/a>: with a wave of Glinda\u2019s magic wand, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/02\/24\/bidens-kids-in-cages-prove-his-hypocrisy-on-immigration\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/02\/24\/bidens-kids-in-cages-prove-his-hypocrisy-on-immigration\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615480456246000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH-KWRvw3hjiVfxqgdzHjW82j2vTg\">kids in cages<\/a>\u201d became \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-administration-will-use-semi-permanent-soft-sided-structures-to-house-migrant-children-trump-was-blasted-for-tent-cities\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-administration-will-use-semi-permanent-soft-sided-structures-to-house-migrant-children-trump-was-blasted-for-tent-cities&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615480456246000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGYC7GccBSitWIfSSXl7Z7qOzzvMA\">kids in soft-sided, semi-permanent structures<\/a>.\u201d We knew the press and the press secretary&nbsp;<em>together<\/em>&nbsp;would fawn over some inanity like a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=2ahUKEwihxfWUhqbvAhXOslkKHfE_AYAQxfQBMAB6BAgDEAg&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fhomenews%2Fadministration%2F542379-psaki-bidens-pet-cat-will-break-the-internet-when-it-arrives&amp;usg=AOvVaw0O7xMQMrjzf_r6ScGBbqa0\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa%3Dt%26rct%3Dj%26q%3D%26esrc%3Ds%26source%3Dweb%26cd%3D%26cad%3Drja%26uact%3D8%26ved%3D2ahUKEwihxfWUhqbvAhXOslkKHfE_AYAQxfQBMAB6BAgDEAg%26url%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fthehill.com%252Fhomenews%252Fadministration%252F542379-psaki-bidens-pet-cat-will-break-the-internet-when-it-arrives%26usg%3DAOvVaw0O7xMQMrjzf_r6ScGBbqa0&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615480456246000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFQoLQvXPnoNC84-_EfwhkP_ILVLw\">White House cat<\/a>&nbsp;while America casually\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/02\/25\/politics\/us-iraq-iran\/index.html\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/02\/25\/politics\/us-iraq-iran\/index.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615480456246000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHW91A6ZZNLAtXNGg6_KJL3HWiMPg\">bombs Syria<\/a>? What\u2019s up with that, by the way?<\/p>\n<p>But what I, at least, did not foresee is the totality of Biden\u2019s disappearance from the scene. Obama wasn\u2019t kidding when he&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?477698-1\/president-obama-biden-campaign-rally-miami\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?477698-1\/president-obama-biden-campaign-rally-miami&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615480456246000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHE5jmY2V5bTx6KGxVxXQQE4TZOrQ\">promised<\/a>&nbsp;that we&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2020\/10\/24\/obama-miami-contrasts-trump-florida-man-miami-speech\/6024736002\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2020\/10\/24\/obama-miami-contrasts-trump-florida-man-miami-speech\/6024736002\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615480456246000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGzegIovQBW8F0TfEzIlLttcW1WNA\">might not see<\/a>&nbsp;Kamala or Joe on TV that much: we&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/03\/08\/joe-biden-to-deliver-speech-for-covid-19-lockdown-anniversary\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/03\/08\/joe-biden-to-deliver-speech-for-covid-19-lockdown-anniversary\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615480456246000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHfwUvrtaN9DKvF4Jx84FAL-vIjWQ\">hardly<\/a> see Joe,&nbsp;<em>ever<\/em>. When we do, he seemingly forgets <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1308137972886368256?s=20\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1308137972886368256?s%3D20&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615480456246000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFY-b4FMyhyVd0NnwfAEoh1JpHlYA\">what he believes<\/a>, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/video.foxbusiness.com\/v\/6238391252001\/#sp=show-clips\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/video.foxbusiness.com\/v\/6238391252001\/%23sp%3Dshow-clips&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615480456246000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEZtSW8b11cfZiul-6FWD0JDr2pcA\">name of his defense secretary<\/a>, and even&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ElijahSchaffer\/status\/1364008103834869762?s=20\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/ElijahSchaffer\/status\/1364008103834869762?s%3D20&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615480456246000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGGr7Gvipa8rjF4V4N7BIOJHz4vpA\">how to speak English<\/a>. The man is clearly decomposing before our eyes \u2014 who\u2019s in charge? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/03\/08\/daily-202-kamala-harris-is-playing-an-unusually-large-role-shaping-bidens-foreign-policy\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/03\/08\/daily-202-kamala-harris-is-playing-an-unusually-large-role-shaping-bidens-foreign-policy\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615480456246000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGX5lCAhLTTEUn-kRLjjxgQ4CPQSw\">Kamala<\/a>?&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/great-reset\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/great-reset\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615480456246000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH7-rxvtWtiFM2HpJ_J0-liVQKzYQ\">Klaus Schwab<\/a>? The newly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davereaboi\/status\/1369641036067307530?s=20\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/davereaboi\/status\/1369641036067307530?s%3D20&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615480456246000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH6u7E7nwNlVPOsZNP0UUOpVyIB6g\">wokeified military<\/a>? Mark Zuckerberg? It\u2019s anybody\u2019s guess, because&nbsp;<em>no one is covering it<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>At least during the Obama years, there was a steady drumbeat of outrage from the conservative outlets \u2014 regular coverage of this or that absurd executive order, this or that disdainful gaffe. Now, Biden is treating executive orders \u2014 and <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmind.org\/salvo\/out-of-his-census\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/americanmind.org\/salvo\/out-of-his-census\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615480456246000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGRUNy14atwIut1X5DRwr1M0cx1_w\">terrible ones<\/a> \u2014 like a fat kid treats cake. But it seems to me even conservatives are more focused on GameStop stocks than on military airstrikes. No one, left or right, is talking about Joe all that much because <em>he just doesn\u2019t seem to matter<\/em>. This is a remarkable phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Internet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Finally there\u2019s the third Big Deal, which in some ways underwrites the first two: the internet.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been around for a while, I realize. But we still haven\u2019t even begun to grapple with the way it continues to rewire our brains and change our basic mores. The reason we even&nbsp;<em>know<\/em>&nbsp;that so many journalists are dishonest hacks is because we have technology that lets renegade reporters like Andy Ng\u00f4 and James O\u2019Keefe do end-runs around them. The reason we care so much about what gamer bros are doing in the stock market is because Reddit gave them the tools to take basically the entire financial system into their own hands for a week, and inspired the ethos that led them to do so.<\/p>\n<p>There will be more of this, for good and ill. In&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/claremontreviewofbooks.com\/the-battle-for-hong-kong\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/claremontreviewofbooks.com\/the-battle-for-hong-kong\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615480456246000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG2jdQXEZxtKEo9-GTJUt1jjSaIgg\">Hong Kong<\/a>, social media empowered rebels to put up a serious and globally significant fight against the Chinese client government, until COVID gave the bad guys the excuse they needed to squash the uprising. Meanwhile in America, our Marxian revolutionaries have been successful at evading the police and wreaking havoc on our city streets in part because groups like Antifa are extremely adept at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/americanmind.org\/memo\/antifa-national-security-threat\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/americanmind.org\/memo\/antifa-national-security-threat\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615480456246000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGilDE04s1CO2FDr7caFBDUOHM_7A\">coordinating riots<\/a> online. As the cancel culture\/CRT mega-monster wraps its tentacles ever-tighter around big sites like Twitter, there are other platforms \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/youngheretics.locals.com\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/youngheretics.locals.com\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615480456246000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGE0P9ZmsjplPEG1uoLWaQLGmGb6g\">Locals<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes\/status\/1361450276750848000?lang=en\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes\/status\/1361450276750848000?lang%3Den&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615480456246000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG1cWHG7LDZ7I3cSek5tMvDxd5cHQ\">Clubhouse<\/a>, Telegram \u2014 where the \u201cunfettered conversations\u201d so feared by the <em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;are taking place beyond the reach of the ruling class.<\/p>\n<p>Here is one reason, then, why nobody is paying attention to our federal government. Even without the legacy media smokescreen, there is a deeply felt sense in the air right now that the most important fights are being fought in a wholly new arena, with wholly new rules. Get shut down by Amazon? Build new servers. Biden and the teachers unions are destroying the public schools? They were already&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/10\/09\/920316481\/enrollment-is-dropping-in-public-schools-around-the-country\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/10\/09\/920316481\/enrollment-is-dropping-in-public-schools-around-the-country&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615480456246000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGGCyGUST5h2ZFRyor_nlEjASvv8w\">hemorrhaging students<\/a>&nbsp;anyway, in part because online learning is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/claremontreviewofbooks.com\/college-after-covid\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/claremontreviewofbooks.com\/college-after-covid\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615480456246000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE6tS0XXMo6Q3Fu92Vm09cHBjqIeA\">radically democratizing<\/a> access to the good stuff \u2014 to real, classical, patriotic education.<\/p>\n<p>Everywhere, all over America, in every area of life, we are locked in the same race between the censorious gatekeepers of our failed elite class, and the chaotic new energy unleashed by digital technology. It\u2019s anybody\u2019s guess in each case whether liberty will win out, or whether the woke minority will find ways of subjugating Americans to their nasty, bigoted little dogma.<\/p>\n<p>But I don\u2019t think it\u2019s just conservatives who want to stop that from happening \u2014 it\u2019s the moderates too, and the people who don\u2019t really care about politics but just want to play video games without being preached at about polysexual nonbinary BIPOC or whatever. Bari Weiss, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xtr163cI10Q\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v%3Dxtr163cI10Q&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615480456246000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH-BaXPh3Qb1ocv-iJC7ObGfyfhuQ\">James Lindsay<\/a>, the reddit bros of GameStopgate \u2014 these aren\u2019t right-wing ideologues. They\u2019re reasonable people who became part of the conservative movement by default, because that\u2019s where the fight for freedom is happening.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nobody is in Charge<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If there\u2019s one thing that all these Big Deals have in common, it\u2019s this: nobody is in charge. Biden is a slack-jawed imbecile, not an effective statesman. Kamala might be pulling some strings behind the scenes, but it\u2019s giving her way too much credit to imagine she has some 4D-chess master plan. Jack Dorsey and Jeff Bezos certainly&nbsp;<em>wish&nbsp;<\/em>they could shut us up, but they can\u2019t \u2014 not yet, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, the outcome of our turbulent times will turn out to be numberless tiny outcomes: it will come down not to one drastic and sweeping national event, but to personal interactions and local movements at the level of the school board, the city council, the state legislature. We are writing the rules as we go along here, and nothing \u2014 not the ultimate victory of the deep state, not the triumph of renegade gamers over censorship, nothing \u2014 is assured.<\/p>\n<p>We have a hard time accepting this, I think. There\u2019s a reason why extravagant conspiracy theories like QAnon are in vogue right now, and why even more garden-variety political takes tend to posit an enormous network of Right or Left-wing conspirators who pull strings behind the scenes. It\u2019s because we were all raised to believe in an America where things are run by professionals, and we\u2019d rather believe someone is in charge \u2014 even someone evil \u2014 than admit that absolutely everybody is making the rules up as he or she goes along right now.<\/p>\n<p>We have fantasies and nightmares about someone \u2014 Trump, Kamala, Schwab, Q \u2014 pulling off an enormous coordinated coup and moving us dramatically into the next stage of this crisis. But the fact of the matter is, <em>nobody is competent enough to do such a thing right now<\/em>. We are, for that matter,&nbsp;<em>already in<\/em> the next stage of the crisis: the stage in which all the cards on the table, all the masks are off, and lovers of liberty everywhere just have to fight for what they believe \u2014 every day, in every place, alongside anyone who will join us.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s an exhilarating and terrifying freedom in this realization. It\u2019s clarifying to realize what\u2019s really going on: nobody\u2019s coming to save you. Nobody\u2019s powerful enough to destroy you, either. Your job is to assess the facts on the ground, where you are, and move forward from there. It\u2019s chaos. It\u2019s a fight. But I\u2019d rather be in a fight than reading from a pre-written script. In a fight, at least you have a shot at winning. And we do have a shot. I would even go further: I believe that if we keep our wits about us, then God willing, we will win.<\/p>\n<p><em>Spencer Klavan is host of the&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/youngheretics.com\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/youngheretics.com\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1608237713152000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFegURPjAdNFJd0-_mKudXAgmAp5g\"><em>Young Heretics<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;podcast and associate editor of the&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/claremontreviewofbooks.com\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/claremontreviewofbooks.com\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1608237713152000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEwm82CEKe6gHOjTWwdZQOTR6iQow\">Claremont Review of<\/a>&nbsp;Books&nbsp;<em>and&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/americanmind.org\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/americanmind.org\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1608237713152000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHQm8tQMK1XoUSXLWkCl3KkGZJgrQ\"><em>The American Mind<\/em><\/a><em>. He can be reached on Twitter at&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/spencerklavan\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/spencerklavan&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1608237713152000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHzq-src8474zs7-nMknyLYtgJwCA\"><em>@SpencerKlavan<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><em>member<\/em><\/span><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The way I see it, there are basically three things going on in America right now that matter. 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