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The attacks on Ben are amusing, ridiculous attempts to stop the incoming tide of center-right domination of the ideas debate. Looking out 25 years, the conservative commentariat has: @GuyBenson, @Continetti, @bdomenech, @michaeljknowles, @SethAMandel, @NoahCRothman, @christopherrufo, @bethanyshondark, @benshapiro, @whignewtons…and that’s just the starting nine and a DH. Starting rotation includes @charlescwcooke, @jimgeraghty, @elilake and @AaronBMacLean and the bullpen and bench are full too, as is the Triple A league etc. Th @realDailyWire @WSJ opinion section, @NRO, @TheFP and more platforms continually hire and promote talented writers and talkers backed by young editors like @BrentScher and @jackbutler4815, keeping the public intellectual pipeline full of traditional Constitution-loving, rule-of-law embracing, deeply read and very funny superstars, most of whom are people of deep faith and thus full of high purpose. The agnostics are welcome as are converts. The defenders of the ideas of the West are thriving. The left and the fringes on both edges of the horseshoe —not so much. It is a desert there, its inhabitants reduced to having to denounce our ally Israel as the price of admission and to rage against the Constitution at regular intervals. Try coming up with a lineup and rotation for that “club.” We know the names of their old and increasingly decrepit and discredited platforms, kept afloat by inherited wealth providing subsidies or Wordle and recipe revenues, but is a bleak landscape on the left. Very bleak. So the attacks on any or all of the lineup like those this week on Ben bounce off their targets and serve only to underscore a dominance on ideas (old ideas, presented by fresh minds with grace and humor), and the emergence of new and prospering platforms like The Daily Wire and The Free Press. As the older generation rolls off into retirement or their reward, the intellectual rebellion founded by William F. Buckley has matured into a vast and greatly fortified commonwealth of talented and young brains devoted to freedom and the good. That’s a wonderful thought as we head into the summer of celebration of our collective 250th birthday.

@PeterDiamandis Sim theory is just creationism without moral authority placed upon the advocate.