STAY UN-WOKE, DON’T GET BROKE: Walmart pulling anti-Trump merchandise from website.

TOM KNIGHTON: The Left Steps Up Its Infatuation With the Political ‘Wisdom’ of Kids. “On guns and immigration, the Left comically turns to children for answers.”

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!

ROGER KIMBALL: As Trump Builds, the Resistance Shouts ‘Destroy!’

It did not take long to destroy Venezuela. It will take many years, much heartache and suffering, and enormous resources to put it back together.

There is a lesson here for the loud and unseemly American Leftists and their unlikely brethren, the soi-disant “conservative” Never Trumpers, who are trampling on civility, rejecting the processes of democratic governance, and encouraging violence. “There’s a deal of ruin in a nation,” Adam Smith observed to a disconsolate Brit during the American Revolution, especially a nation as prosperous and stable as the United States.

I think they’re living by Rhett Butler’s insight that there’s as much money to be made in tearing down a civilization as in building one up. Plus:

This article in the Daily Beast, like so many anti-Trump fusillades, cloaks itself in the mantle of “democracy.” But the dirty little secret of The Resistance is that what it is “resisting” are the results of a free, open, and democratic election. Donald Trump won in 2016. Hillary Clinton lost. That is the painful, indigestible, intolerable reality. The Resistance is therefore on the side of the enemies of democracy, and its never-ending cascade of calumnies about how Donald Trump is “dismantling democracy” is just a blind, what Freudians would call “projection” and Marxists “increasing the contradictions.” A more commonplace phrase is “arrant nonsense.” They don’t like the results of the election. That does nothing to invalidate it. They don’t like Trump’s pro-American, pro-growth policies: most people do.

My larger point, however, has to do with the baleful effects of the antinomian antics of the anti-Trump “Resistance.” Their histrionics take place against the background of, and with the tacit license of, a stable and forgiving social structure. But should the Resistance actually achieve the ends it pretends to want, that stability and largesse would vanish like dew off a morning rose.

The resistance is a tantrum of spoiled people and small minds.

FROM BLAKE SMITH:  The Flight of Miss Stanhope: A Short and Sweet Regency Romance.

Marianne Stanhope is in trouble. Her family is urging her to accept the attentions of a most odious suitor, so she turns to a gentleman of her acquaintance for aid. But Mr. Firth has his own reasons for assisting Miss Stanhope, and it falls to her childhood friend Mr. Killingham to convince her that she’s made a dreadful mistake.

THE… SAY WHAT? COME AGAIN?  Equine racism?

ALL BAD ACTORS LOVE THEIR CURTAIN CALLS!  Obama not going away.

THE LEFT HAVING INVENTED A PARTY WITH NO BRAINS IS NOW TRYING TO INVENT A NATION WITHOUT BORDERS.  WHICH IS TO SAY, TRYING TO ABOLISH THE US:  Abolish ICE? Great Idea!

INDEPENDENCE DAY, 1863:  On this day, Lincoln received news of the victories at both Gettysburg and Vicksburg.

NOW THE INVASION GETS WORSE UNLESS WE THWART IT:  Mexico Goes Hard Left In Presidential Election – Now What?

THE LEFT ALWAYS TELLS US WHOM IT FEARS:  Strike Three: Man Threatens to Murder Rand Paul and His Family with an Ax.

SOMETHING IS ROTTEN AND NOT IN DENMARK:  Imran Awan Gets Sweetheart Plea Deal And Feds Drop House Cybersecurity Investigation.

CAN ATTEST. I AM A SAPPER WITH THE FIRST BATTALION OF MICRO AGGRESSION AND POINTING AND MAKING DUCK NOISES:  Avocado rations cut in half, war is HELL!

DUH!  America really did have a Manchurian Candidate in the White House.

PROGRESSIVES, LEANING FORWARD INTO THE PAST:  Posh school’s plan to segregate students by race draws parents’ ire.

DEVELOPING: National Manhunt Underway for Three Illegal Aliens Accused of Raping Teens in Ohio.

THE… WAIT WHAT?  Facebook Algorithm Flags, Removes Declaration of Independence Text as Hate Speech.

EVERYBODY HAS A SCOTUS FAVORITE:  Steve Cortes makes the case for Amy Coney Barrett.

IF ALL IMMIGRANTS WERE LIKE THIS, DEMOCRATS WOULD BE BUILDING A WALL.

Quincy, Illinois.

MORALLY EQUIVALENT TO SAYING NAZISM IS GOOD: Democratic Socialists of America Leaders Say ‘Communism Is Good.’ Also, weird how you never heard much about the DSA and suddenly they’re everywhere.

OPEN THREAD: It’s big. Really big.

AT AMAZON, save in Men’s Grooming.

“COURT COSTS” ARE BS ANYWAY: Judge: Tennessee can’t revoke driver’s licenses from people who can’t pay court costs.

TOO CLASSY FOR SOCCER: Japan team leave World Cup dressing room spotless with ‘thank you’ note in Russian despite devastating loss.

LOOKS LIKE THE DOJ IS SWEEPING THE DIRT UNDER THE RUG with the single-count Imran Awan plea bargain.