One of the leitmotifs of 2024 American Liberalism, is its  propensity to wheel out, from the crypts of the forgotten, relics of the Obama Liberal Ascendency; to pontificate on the current state of the Republic. Those include Jon Stewart, (the foolish comic who thought Bill De Blasio was so terrific; that he wished to be adopted into his multiracial family, which no longer exists, just like the SAFE New York which existed before Mayor de Blasio no longer exists), Jon Meachem, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Katie Couric. Ms. Couric is a former diva of American journalism; who has been passed by, by history and relevance. Her contribution to the antebellum tension was the following declaration:  “Former TV anchor  Katie Couric  argued President Trump's MAGA base was driven by "anti-intellectualism"….” Of course, MAGA supporters are anti-intellectual, for they have read George Orwell:” “ Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them." To bolster the Liberal Eli

BACK STORY I- George Takei, the legendary actor from the original STAR TREK television series, was recently on THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT. He was peddling his new  children's book, about his experience in an internment camp in Arkansas, with fellow Japanese Americans, during World War II. He railed against the racism of World War II Americans, just attacked by the Imperial Japanese Navy at Pearl Harbor. Takei said he could not understand how America could be so cruel as to intern Japanese Americans as a consequence of that attack. Colbert, in self righteous agreement stayed quiet.  Obviously, Mr. Colbert does not know, or has never talked to a World War II veteran. He just sat quietly, as Takei trashed a generation, engaged in an existential war, not of their choosing. In the old days of television; before television started lecturing versus entertaining or informing,  Colbert would have had a World War II vet on( there are some, a few left), sitting next to Takei, explaini