Bethany Mandel is a sweet, wholesome, middle class    lady from the Jersey    (that is not an oxymoron). She is not by training, a revolutionary, or counter revolutionary, a Red or White. Seemingly, she received her position as a Defender of Western values by the warrant of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.    She made quite a stir this week when she was asked to define the term “WOKE” and froze.   “Bethany Mandel, who writes a weekly  column  for the Deseret News, is under fire after struggling to define "woke" in a TV interview about a  book  she co-authored that claims "woke indoctrinators" threaten kids' happiness.   What she said:  While promoting her book last week on  The Hill's  daily news show " Rising ," host Briahna Joy Gray asked her to define the term "woke," after Mandel said the left is pushing a "woke reimagining" of victimhood.   Mandel stammered for about 30 seconds saying, "This is going to...

President Lincoln thought that the 1852  novel, UNCLE TOM’S CABIN, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, was the literary trigger to the American Civil War; the war which ended slavery in America. That being the case, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn’s 1962 novel about prison life in Stalin’s concentration camps, the gulags, ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH was the literary trigger to the fall of the Soviet Union. Ronald Reagan, St. John Paul II, and all who fought the twilight war, which brought down the Soviet Union, stood on the shoulders of Solzhenitsyn’s exposé and denunciation of the Soviet Union. (Certain Liberal intellectuals engage in revisionism, and claim that Mikhail Gorbachev was more instrumental than Ronald Reagan in bringing down the Soviet Union; they say that because they still cannot believe that a has-been actor, from a small college, whose last great role was playing second fiddle to a chimp in BEDTIME    FOR BONZO, could bring down a system creat...