by Jonathan Reisman

Twenty five years ago I had a big maroon “Reisman for Congress” sign on my Ford Ranger as I drove around the second district, from Calais to Belfast, Bangor, Bethel, Fort Kent, Presque Isle, Pittsfield and assorted towns, townships, plantations and hamlets in between. Underneath the big letters was smaller script with my campaign themes- the reasons I chose to challenge incumbent and Governor-in-waiting Baldacci. They read “Equal Protection” and “School Choice”. I was outraised by more than 10 to 1 and handily defeated, but I was proud to have campaigned against racial preferences, the systemic racism of affirmative action and for education funding for children, not teachers unions and educrats, even if many Republicans (including Senators Snowe and Collins) did not agree.

In late June, the Supreme Court of the United States, led by Bush 41 appointee and American hero Clarence Thomas, Bush 43 appointees John Roberts and Samuel Alito, and Trump appointees Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett delivered redemptive justice, outlawing the use of racial preferences in university admissions, correctly deeming it unconstitutional racial discrimination in violation of the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection. Chief Justice Roberts reiterated his earlier observation that the way to end racial discrimination was to stop racially discriminating, and effectively ended the unsupported 50-year fiction that the undefined and unmeasured chimera of “diversity” was a compelling state interest that allowed universities to use racial discrimination to make amends and reparations for past wrongs. The weak and whining dissents of Obama appointees Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and most especially affirmative action Biden appointee Ketanji Brown Jackson were ably countered  by Justice Thomas, although logic, evidence and the Constitution are not “legitimate” in the eyes of the left, or “normal” in the words of angry, demented Joe Biden.

The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion syndicate that increasingly rules academia will no doubt plot ways to continue discriminating against Asians, white males and conservatives, probably by continuing to claim victimhood status while pursuing white supremacists and systemic racism in an Ahab like manner (remember it was a white whale). The fact that the racial preferences they champion are the clearest examples of systemic racism in America is irrelevant given the existential threat the SCOTUS decision is to their ongoing racial grifting con. Borrowing from the white supremacist mantra of segregation now and forever, the DEI crowd will stand athwart the university threshold chanting victimhood and racial preferences forever! Projection and hypocrisy are not a concern for the wokerati. As the quip goes, if not for double standards, they would have no standards at all. Maybe the DEI crowd can recycle those old “No Irish need apply” signs with a little white-out to trans them to bans on Asians, straight white males, and Trump voters.

SCOTUS also issued seminal 1st Amendment defenses of free speech and religious liberty, which gave the authoritarian left and rainbow mafia additional angst. It is getting harder and harder and silence these damn deplorables, and the dis and misinformation dodge is not working as well it did for Fauci and the public health fascists. Congressional hearings into what is being termed “Covidgate” are likely to demonstrate the extraordinary amount of lying our public health overlords engaged in. I am sure the legacy media will do all they can to obfuscate and cover it up, but I do not think they will be successful. There is too much freedom and diversity in the fourth estate.