HOW TRUMP AFFECTED AMERICA’S P.C. DIALOGUE:

It’s not that Trump’s election increased anti-immigration sentiment, the authors say—it just made people already inclined toward restrictionism feel less of a need to conceal their preferences.

Regardless of whether Trump actually builds a wall or successfully gets his travel ban through the court system, it seems that his rhetoric has created a fundamental shift in the way Americans talk (or don’t talk) about immigration policy—and probably other sensitive issues, as well. That the president survived the Access Hollywood tape, the Megyn Kelly feud, and his remarks about the Khans (to give a few examples) might have also had an “emperor has no clothes” effect on certain social taboos.

In some ways, the “Trump effect” on P.C. has probably been positive. To the extent that critiques of the elite consensus on immigration and globalization and social liberalism had become off-limits, creating a stifling and anti-democratic environment where people were afraid to even express their concerns lest they be ostracized and condemned by their social betters, it is healthy that Trump’s election loosened limitations on acceptable discourse.

At the same time, civilization rests on a certain set of social norms, which are far more powerful than laws in shaping behavior. If everyone made all of their private opinions public—if dinner guests always told the host how they really felt about the food, if drivers always shared with police their opinions on being pulled over, if Supreme Court justices announced that their opinions were based as much on guesswork and intuition as the text of the Constitution—many of our institutions would work less well.

For 50 years we’ve been told that those norms are outdated and need to be ignored. Let it all hang out. If it feels good, do it! Now we’re supposed to worry about the erosion of Society as a restraint?

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NARRATIVE UBER ALLES: Jill Stein weighs in on Portland stabbing in Trump’s America; Doesn’t mention attacker was a supporter. “As we also reported, BuzzFeed tracked down the attacker’s Facebook page and posted several screenshots, which seem to show that Jeremy Christian was a passionate supporter of Bernie Sanders and also . . . Jill Stein.”

I blame the Left’s normalization of violence.

WARTHOG SURGE: An A-10 elephant walk — part of a surge exercise conducted May 22.

RELATED: From April 2017, the 18th Wing in Japan conducts an elephant walk with F-15 Eagles, HH-60 Pave Hawks, E-3 Sentries and KC-135 Stratotankers. Send this photo to Kim Jong Un.

KINDA WEIRD HOW WE’VE LEARNED THAT THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION ADMITTED TO THE FISA COURT THAT IT WAS SPYING ILLEGALLY, yet the media response has been extremely subdued.

DO TELL: CNN’s Dylan Byers Admits: The Media Has ‘Not Told the Story of Conservative Americans.’

“On occasion, more than the media would probably like to admit, we have not told the story of conservative Americans — disenfranchised Americans — who believe that they are losing their country,” Byers said, in a segment first flagged by The Right Scoop. “The story we have largely been telling is a story that is more or less in step with the arc of history as defined by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.”

The CNN senior media reporter continued with a qualifier: “That doesn’t mean we favor them to win. It just means that that sort of vision of a progressive future — a global future — and that is not one that resonates with so many conservative American voters.”

Who is he kidding? We all know who they favor to win.

BACK CHANNELS: Historian Doug Wead tells Fox News other presidential administrations have used them. Teddy Roosevelt. JFK. Why, Obama and the Iran deal!

IF YOU’RE AN IMPORTANT DEMOCRAT RELATED TO OTHER IMPORTANT DEMOCRATS, you can be busted for child pornography and get just $7500 bail. “Jacob Schwartz’s father is Arthur Schwartz, a prominent Manhattan attorney, community activist, and DNC operator. Schwartz served as counsel to Bernie Sanders during the 2016 election. He was also a delegate during Barack Obama’s 2008 run for president. Schwartz has also represented SEIU, several unions, and served as general council to ACORN from March of 2009 to October 2010.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Burned at the stake.

Facts and Information about the method of torture and execution by being burned at the stake used during the Medieval period of the Middle Ages.

It’s a brief but horrifying history.

FURTHER MUCKING UP THE SPECIAL-ELECTION NARRATIVE: Donald Trump was an asset in the Montana election, not a drag.

Plus, So when do Democrats actually win something? “Powered by seething anti-Trump sentiment, the Democratic Party keeps turning in strong performances in special elections in Republican-friendly districts. But they still haven’t won any of those races.”

It’s a moral victory, though. And that should be good enough, right?

Related: Democrats look to state house wins for signs of a comeback. Next: County Commission races!

Plus: “I’d watch particularly the Drain Commissioner and Animal Control Officer results.”

UPDATE: Hey, that’s not really a joke: Democrats look to mayors to retake Tennessee.

BRIT HUME: “There’s been 1 crime publicly revealed involving Flynn, and he was the victim — illegal leak of his unmasked name.” Subpoena the reporters to unmask the source.

THE HILL: 10 Senate seats that could flip in 2018. “Democrats reeling from a devastating election face a daunting task: the 2018 Senate map. It favors Republicans in a big way. The GOP will be defending just eight seats, while Democrats must fight for 23 — plus another two held by independents who caucus with Democrats.”

If you’re looking for races where volunteering or donating might make a difference, here you go.

HOW A “NASTY WOMAN” HANDLES DEFEAT. BADLY. “Hillary friends say she’s seething with rage and haunted by losing to someone she considers a dumb, soulless manipulator.”

Plus: “Almost everywhere Clinton goes, it seems, someone starts crying. … At restaurants, in grocery stores, on planes, and in the woods.” To be fair, that’s how it would be if she had won, too.

IN THE EMAIL FROM DAVID BURKHEAD: Oruk Means Hard Work.

YOU DO HAVE IT: The Right to be an Asshole.

NOT EVERYONE WHO IS MEAN TO YOU IS YOUR FRIEND: We shouldn’t need to say this, but the left seems to think that whoever insults them the most (and isn’t on the right) is their bestest friend. Your meanest friend just wants the best for you, scientists say.

FLORIDA WOMAN STRIKES BACK: Woman paid teen for sex, let him booze and smoke pot.

MSM SURE HE’S SIMPLY EMBOLDENED BY TRUMP: Duterte makes rape joke after ordering martial law.

TWO MORE THINGS I’D SAY, HIRE SOMEONE TO TALK BIG BLUSTER (IT’S THEIR CULTURE) AND START DEVELOPING SOME CIVILIZATION CONFIDENCE: Getting Serious About Terrorism.

THE END OF AN ERA: Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Final Performance.

OR YOUR LYING EYES? Who do you think is more likely telling the truth? The DNC & the media, or an honest man’s girlfriend?

CLAUDIA ROSETT: Waiting for North Korea’s Next Nuclear Test.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: After-school staff allegedly locked boy inside ‘torture’ compartment. “A 6-year-old boy was repeatedly jammed into a dark hole in a closet ceiling by sadistic staffers at an after-school program inside a city school, The Post has learned. After being hoisted by the crotch and lifted headfirst into the pitch-black compartment as a form of punishment, the terrified kindergartner would be locked — ‘kicking, screaming and crying’ — inside the tiny classroom closet for ‘God knows how long,’ his mother Porsche Gaddy told The Post.”