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Can't impress. David French and the chimerical flibberty jibbit, from Monday, September 9, 2019 by Douglas Wilson.

Introduction

The United States has a written constitution, as in written down, which has been a wonderful

firewall and blessing.

But America also has, as all nations do, an unwritten Constitution.

That unwritten covenant is the only thing that makes the Constitution itself worth anything

more than the paper it is written on. There are certain assumptions

embedded on our national psyche that have to be taken into account if you want to

understand what our radicals are attacking with such ferocity, and what our conservatives, still being their

lovable and bewildered selves, are dimly trying to defend.

We shall get to all of that near the end of this hard lesson.

The Amari French debate.

This summer series of collisions between Soir-Robamari and David French culminated in a debate last week.

One of the things that had set the whole thing off initially was Amari's deficient sense of respect for Drag Queen's story hour at public libraries.

French's basic response to Amari's outrage was to argue that if we want the

secularists to respect our liberties in the public square, then turnabout is obviously fair play.

And so we have to respect their liberties.

In the debate, notice how crucial the idea of viewpoint neutrality is to French.

Quote, viewpoint neutrality is what we must defend, end quote.

The problem, and it is kind of a big one really, is that there is no such thing as viewpoint neutrality.

Like Maria, in the Sound of Music, viewpoint neutrality is, uh, is, uh, how do you say it?

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