Ms. Noonan has gotten lots of things wrong in recent years,
particularly her infamous support for Obama in 2008 after she became infatuated
by the mirage of a man she had concocted of her own fantasies. Recently she sobered up to write the
following trenchant piece pointing out that modern intolerant progressives have
pushed regular Americans to their limit, and have no idea of what the reaction
might be:
There is something increasingly unappeasable in the left.
This is something conservatives and
others have come to fear, that progressives now accept no limits. We can’t just have court-ordered legalized
abortion across the land, we have to have it up to the point of birth, and
taxpayers have to pay for it. It’s not
enough to win same-sex marriage, you’ve got to personally approve of it and if
you publicly resist you’ll be ruined. It’s
not enough that we have publicly funded contraceptives, the nuns have to provide
them. This unappeasable spirit always
turns to the courts to have its way.
If progressives were wise they would step back, accept
their victories, take a breath and turn to the idea of solidifying gains, of
heroic patience, of being peaceable. Don’t
make them bake the cake. ... Leave the nuns alone.
Progressives have no idea how fragile it all is. That’s why they feel free to be unappeasable. They don’t know what they’re grinding down. They
think America has endless give. But
America is composed of humans, and they do not have endless give.
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