MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: So Now Conservatives Are Evil for Liking — [Checks Notes] — Attractive Women? “The story begins, as these things always seem to do, with Sydney Sweeney’s breasts.”
UPDATE (From Ed): Prior to their war on aesthetics, and then their inability to define what a woman is, this used to a bipartisan issue. As P.J. O’Rourke wrote in his classic 1991 book Parliament of Whores, after attending a 1989 Housing Now! rally on the DC Mall to combat homelessness:
A few mainstream politicians paid lip service to the aims of the march, but they kept an arm’s length between themselves and the chief Housing Now! organizers, who were Donna Brazile, the former Dukakis campaign aide who accused George Bush of having a girlfriend, and Mitch Snyder, the perennial homeless advocate and incessant protest-faster who would commit suicide a few months later, thereby obtaining an eternal home, and a warm one at that.
Best of all, there were hardly any beautiful women at the rally. I saw a journalist friend of mine on the Mall, and he and I pursued this line of inquiry as assiduously as our happy private lives allow. Practically every female at the march was a bowser. “We’re not being sexist here,” my friend insisted. “It’s not that looks matter per se. It’s just that beautiful women are always on the cutting edge of social trends. Remember how many beautiful women were in the anti-war movement twenty years ago? In the yoga classes fifteen years ago? At the discos ten years ago? On Wall Street five years ago? Where the beautiful women are is where the country is headed,” said my friend. “And this,” he looked around him, “isn’t it.”
Flash-forward to a 21st century that would make the Weimar Republic recoil in horror. Decline is a choice, America.