BLESS HIS HEART: Andrew Sullivan Still Misses The Anointed One. Bruce Bawer spots Andrew’s latest dalliance with Godwin’s Law:

As he often does in his New York column, Andrew moved on from Trump to other topics. At the end, he mentioned the recent film Darkest Hour, about the five days in May 1940 that ended with Winston Churchill, the newly installed prime minister, refusing any accommodation with Hitler and giving the famous “blood, toil, tears, and sweat” speech in which he vowed to fight the Nazis “by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us.” Andrew says that the film brought him to tears, because it shows “how the people of Britain shook off the moral decadence of the foreign policy of the 1930s, how, beneath the surface, there were depths of feeling and determination that we never saw until an existential crisis hit, and an extraordinary figure seized the moment.” I foolishly thought, for a moment, that Andrew was then going to turn to Britain today, where members of UKIP and Anne Marie Waters’s For Britain and the followers of Tommy Robinson are shaking off the moral decadence of their leaders’ immigration policies and standing up against the Islamization of their country. Of course I was wrong: for Andrew, the film was a tear-jerker because:

I yearn for something like that to reappear in America. The toll of Trump is so deep. In so many ways, he has come close to delegitimizing this country and entire West, aroused the worst instincts within us, fed fear rather than confronting it, and has been rewarded for his depravity in the most depressing way by everything that is foul on the right and nothing that is noble.

I want to believe in America again, its decency and freedom, its hostility, bred in its bones, toward tyranny of any kind, its kindness and generosity. I need what someone once called the audacity of hope. I’ve witnessed this America ever since I arrived — especially its embrace of immigrants — which is why it is hard to see Trump tearing migrant children from their parents. That America is still out there, I tell myself, as the midterms demonstrated. It can build. But who, one wonders, is our Churchill? And when will he or she emerge?

There it is, amid all the familiar calumnies about Trump feeding fear and tearing children from parents: “what someone once called the audacity of hope.” Andrew is referring, of course, to Obama, whose second book carried that title.

But in 2007, Andrew wrote a blog post headlined “The Weimar President,” during the DNC-MSM’s non-stop Reductio ad Hitlerum in the last years of Dubya’s presidency. As I wrote at the time:

I can only guess that Andrew believes that President Bush is an elderly figurehead leading a weakened but relatively benign quasi-socialist administration suffering the ravages of hyper-inflation and that Hillary, Obama or whoever his successor is, is the next Hitler, about to install a terribly malevolent war machine and concurrent massive welfare state?

So from Andrew’s reckoning, isn’t Trump more akin to Konrad Adenauer? Funny how it’s always the second, and now third coming of the Third Reich, whenever there’s a Republican in office, according to the conservative’s conservative.

HMM: Duckworth, Manchin, Jones get seats on Senate Armed Services.

THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED: There Really Are ‘Latte Liberals.’

21ST CENTURY PARENTING: Florida Company Markets Ankle Monitors to Parents of Teenagers.

Maybe it’s easy for me to say this because my oldest is still (barely) a preteen, but at some point not only do parents have to let kids off the leash, but the kids have to know they’re off the leash.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Less than an hour of resistance training a week could reduce your risk for a heart attack or stroke by almost 40 to 70 per cent, according to a new study from Iowa State University.

Plus: “Less than one hour a week of resistance training was associated with a 29 per cent lower risk of developing metabolic syndrome, the cluster of conditions that pre-empt heart disease, stroke and diabetes, while risk of high cholesterol dropped by 32 per cent.”

AT AMAZON, Shop Top Gift Ideas.

Plus, Save on Most Wished For Items.

LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO: How Taylor Swift Really Knew You Were Trouble When You Walked In.

She used facial recognition scanning at a recent concert to spot known stalkers.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Top 10 Reasons You Should Own An AR-15.

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Here’s The Problem With PolitiFact’s ‘Lie Of The Year.’

WEIRD. ALL THE BEST PEOPLE ASSURED ME THAT THIS WAS A MYTH. Ballot Fraud, American-Style … and Its Bitter Harvests.

WELL, THAT GOES ALONG WITH THE FALLING TESTOSTERONE LEVELS: Millennial Men Prioritise Altruism and Good Health over Physical Strength: They care more about openness and empathy than independence and competitiveness.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Huawei Is the Doorway to China’s Police State. “The free world should be worried about the creation of a police state under the technology umbrella of Huawei.“

And if you missed it this morning, my latest PJMedia column details just how deeply weird the intrigue with Huawei has gotten.

CHANGE: Trump Admin. to Slash Support for UN Peacekeeping Missions in Africa. “Bolton calls missions ‘unproductive, unsuccessful, and unaccountable’”

He left out rapey.

SMART: Sleepless No More In Seattle — Later School Start Time Pays Off For Teens. “Researchers at the University of Washington studied the high school students both before and after the start-time change. Their findings appear in a study published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances. They found students got 34 minutes more sleep on average with the later school start time. This boosted their total nightly sleep from 6 hours and 50 minutes to 7 hours and 24 minutes.”

As one of my colleagues once told me, the public schools are “an evil conspiracy of Morning People.” And getting enough sleep is important.

THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS NOT TO PLAY: FIRE’s Samantha Harris and I are in today’s Washington Post discussing how some common tactics used in the campus conflict over Israeli/Palestinian issues are hurting American students and faculty members, while having no discernible effect abroad.

SEASON OF GIVING: Hundreds of Gold Star families sent to Disney World by Gary Sinise Foundation.

EVERGREEN HEADLINE: House Democrats Get Busy Breaking Their Campaign Promises.

AT AMAZON, Save on High-Speed HDMI Cables.

I’LL TAKE MY EARTHLY PLEASURES HERE ON EARTH, THANKS: Killing and Dying for the ‘Houris’: Islam’s Heavenly Whores. “All jihadi groups claim to be motivated by an afterlife of sexual reward.”

STANDING UP TO THE BLUENOSES: Knoxville radio stations playing ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside’ amid song’s recent backlash.

A WARNING FROM KURT SCHLICHTER: Don’t Underestimate Dumb Voters’ Appetite For Idiot Leftist Politicians.

I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it, but Kurt also has a novel out. I found it quite entertaining.

CARRIE LUKAS: CHECK YOUR PROGRESSIVE PRIVILEGE.

Progressives are constantly checking their “white privilege,” but what about ideological privilege? Particularly for women, the prevailing assumption is that you aren’t normal unless you’re a liberal Democrat. Conservative women aren’t only left out, but increasingly stigmatized.

Women’s magazines and news outlets depict women who vote Republican as deviants. Vogue headlined a postelection commentary “Why Do White Women Keep Voting for the GOP and Against Their Own Interests?” The Guardian asked: “Half of White Women Continue to Vote Republican. What’s Wrong with Them?” The latter article asserted that “white women vote for Republicans for the same reason that white men do: because they are racist.” Barbra Streisand claimed “a lot of women vote the way their husbands vote; they don’t believe enough in their own thoughts.” Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama and Madeleine Albright have all expressed similar sentiments in public.

Progressive women see their intellectual and political leaders glamorized in glossy magazine photo spreads and celebrated on daytime TV talk shows. Conservative female policy makers are invisible, if they’re lucky. Glamour’s 2018 Women of the Year included gun-control activists and anti-Trump celebrities, along with California Sen. Kamala Harris. No recognizably conservative woman made the cut.

Progressive women enjoy the benefit of the doubt when they say insensitive or prejudiced things. Mrs. Clinton recently joked that two black men “look alike.” No conservative could get away with such a remark.

College administrators tout the value of diversity. Yet the National Association of Scholars “could not find a single Republican with an exclusive appointment to fields like gender studies” among 8,688 tenure-track professors at 51 top liberal-arts colleges.

Far-left activists next month march on Washington again under the banner “the Women’s March.” The media will present them as simply “women”—as if women with other views don’t exist.

Rooting out bigotry isn’t easy. The first step is to recognize the prejudiced messages that make their way into the public square. A truly fair and inclusive society would include positive, aspirational images of conservative and libertarian women as well as liberal ones. It wouldn’t marginalize women for their ideology or politics any more than it would exclude women based on race, age, looks or sexual orientation.

Indeed, but “a truly fair and inclusive society” is not the actual goal, nor has it ever been.

OH: Protesters hosted a queer dance party outside the housing complex of White House senior adviser Stephen Miller on Wednesday night.

DON’T DELAY: Women often hesitate to call for help when heart attack strikes.