The week between Christmas and New Years is a sort of no-man\u2019s land.\u00a0 Everyone is recovering from the holiday and using it as a chance to catch their breath and look ahead to the next year.\u00a0 And that goes for me too.\u00a0 January is the launch of my book and I will be very busy trying to perform the marketing functions that I\u2019ve been told are important for the success of the book launch.\u00a0 So, on Monday I\u2019ll be reading all of the information I\u2019ve been sent and trying to fulfill all of these tasks correctly.<\/p>\n
Now honestly, I don\u2019t know how much relevance they\u2019ll have for the success of the book but I\u2019m giving it a shot so off I go.\u00a0 I\u2019m both excited and skeptical about the prospects of this launch being successful.\u00a0 I don\u2019t have a large digital footprint and I don\u2019t see how enough people will hear about this book to make it a big splash.\u00a0 And so, if it is a dud and only sells a few copies, I\u2019ll chalk it up to experience and move on to other ways to amuse myself.\u00a0 But if it\u2019s a huge success I\u2019ll claim that I knew from the beginning that I was a literary giant just waiting for the world to beat a path to my door and that from now on I\u2019ll wear designer clothes and expensive sunglasses wherever I go.\u00a0 Hmmm.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been paying some attention to what the pundits are saying about how the political situation will play out in 2026.\u00a0 The Left is talking trash about anything and everything they can.\u00a0 A friend asked me about the brouhaha that went on at the Turning Point USA (TPUSA) gathering recently where Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin demanded that Tucker Carlson and some other pundits apologize for talking to Nick Fuentes.\u00a0 For those who don\u2019t know him, Nick Fuentes is a young dissident who is decidedly anti-Semitic and anti-Israel.\u00a0 Carlson interviewed him much as he interviews many controversial figures.<\/p>\n
My take on all this is I don\u2019t think we need any more gatekeepers demanding people get cancelled because they have unpopular opinions.\u00a0 Nick Fuentes and Ben Shapiro will never be able to sit down and discuss their differences.\u00a0 So what?\u00a0 Even if Fuentes is the devil himself, Tucker Carlson should be able to interview him without having to apologize and take some kind of loyalty pledge.\u00a0 And I think Shapiro and his colleagues at the Daily Wire provide lots of insightful and entertaining content that I consume.\u00a0 But acting as censors for other people on the Right is not one of their appointed offices.\u00a0 After all, watching the Left act as woke judges and juries over everyone\u2019s behavior and cancelling those they didn\u2019t \u201capprove of\u201d was one of the things that got Donald Trump re-elected.\u00a0 Freedom of speech is only important when it\u2019s speech that someone else is trying to censor.\u00a0 So regardless of whatever stupid things Nick Fuentes believes or even says, I\u2019m not demanding anyone be cast out of the vast right-wing conspiracy just for interviewing him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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