New Disney CEO, Bob Iger, proclaims, return to political neutrality.

The Washington Post finally admits it's okay to talk about rising crime.

And New York City admits it's time to involuntarily commit a severely mentally ill.

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about neoconservatives today, meaning people who are just sort of hawkish on foreign policy and pretty vague about the terminology. There were a group of people who had decided that they were conservative mainly because they were liberals who had been mugged by reality. They didn't shift their social policy. What they really realize is that their policies with regard to crime and foreign policy had been a gigantic fail. Well, we are about to see a wave of people who are returning to

reality. is that their policies with regard to crime and foreign policy had been a gigantic fail.

Well, we are about to see a wave of people who are returning to reality because it turns out that the left has been mugged by reality and continues to be mugged by reality.

And we're seeing it all over the spectrum.

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We are seeing it with regard to places like Disney.

So yesterday, Chris Rufo,

who's done just yeoman's work and exposing the political indoctrination that has now become part

and parcel of the Disney brand. Rufo released tape that he had obtained of an all-hands Disney

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