The Left embraces socialism, eugenics, and revolution, President Trump attacks Chuck Todd and Maxine Waters, and OJ's back, which is weird.

I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

So, the Left went crazy over the weekend, so no Disneyland for them.

There was Disneyland for me, however. But there will be no Disneyland for them because the weekend was a very weird time on the op-ed pages of our nation's leading newspapers. I'll tell you all about all the crazy that was happening. But first, I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at ZipRecruiter. So every business needs better people. In fact, we need better people right now on the show. I mean, just generally. But that's why if we were to replace them, we would be using ZipRecruiter. ZipRecruiter learns what you're looking for. It identifies people with the right experience and invites them to apply to a job that you need filled. They built a platform that finds the right job candidates for you. 80% of employers who post a job on ZipRecruiter get a quality candidate through the site in just one day. And ZipRecruiter does not stop there.

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Okay, so over the weekend,

the nation's op-ed pages decided to remind us all

why President Trump is president. Not because he's so great at everything, not because the president is playing maga, maga, maga chess, but because the left has decided to go fully crazy. There are several op-eds in a row that we're going to go through here talking about the outskirts of the left, But these are printed in mainstream newspapers. Again, this is not stuff from the nation. This is not stuff even from Salon or Slate. This is stuff from the New York Times and the Washington Post and the Atlantic. All of these are mainstream outlets on the left. And none of them are particularly good. I don't know what was in the water over the weekend or whether they just feel so

emboldened on the left that they feel like they can say anything and get away with it.

But whatever it is, it is not going to be good for their agenda. Here's the first example.

Ruth Marcus, who's the deputy editorial page editor, which has a high position over at the Washington

Post, wrote an opinion piece called, quote, I would have aborted a fetus with Down syndrome. Women need that right. Okay, this is just a piece in favor of eugenics. If the idea is that you get to abort a baby because the baby has Down syndrome, then what is the difference between aborting a baby with Down syndrome, not because you don't think it's a baby, but because it has Down syndrome, and doing that with somebody who is actually already born. Here's what Ruth Marcus writes. There's a new push in anti-abortion circles to pass state laws aimed at barring women from terminating their pregnancy after the fetus has been determined to have Down syndrome. These laws are unconstitutional, unenforceable, and wrong. This is a difficult subject to discuss because there's so many parents who haven't cherished a child with Down syndrome. Many people with Down syndrome live happy and fulfilled lives. The new Grubber Baby with Down syndrome is awfully cute. I've had two children. I was old enough when I became pregnant that it made sense to do the testing for Down syndrome. Back then it was amniocentesis performed after 15 weeks. Now, corionic villas sampling can provide a conclusive of determination as early as nine weeks. I can say without hesitation that tragic as it would have been and ghastly as that second trimester abortion would have been, I would have terminated those pregnancies had the testing come back positive. I would have grieved the loss and moved on. Well, good for you, Ruth, that you would have grieved the loss. First of all, it's always a bizarre point in abortion fanatics lingo, that they'll say things like I would have grieved the loss. First of all, it's always a bizarre point in, in abortion fanatics lingo, that they'll say things like, I would have grieved the loss. The loss of what? If it's not morally wrong, then what are you grieving? If it's just a cluster of cells, then what exactly are you grieving? Are you grieving the lost opportunity? Like, well, what are you, presumably you're grieving the human that you just killed or had killed in the womb.

And just because that human in the womb had Down syndrome doesn't mean that it was okay for you to do that. And you should feel morally exculpated from what you just did. Here's what she continues to say, I'm not alone. More than two thirds of American women choose abortion in such circumstances. Isn't that the point, or at least inherent in the point of prenatal testing in the first place? Well, no, the point of prenatal testing in the first place is generally to see if there is some sort of condition that can be fixed as the pregnancy continues. So, for example, if there had been the capacity to actually look at my child's, my first child's heart, and see that there's a hole in her heart when she was developing, they might have been able to do something prenatally. I don't know how the surgery works, but there are all sorts of surgeries that they do on children before they are born, or they actually perform. It's an amazing thing. They perform surgeries on children who are still in the womb, and they sew up the womb, and the pregnancy continues, and the kid is just fine. This sort of thing happens all the time. The point of prenatal testing is not kill the child if things come out wrong. That's called eugenics, folks, okay? And it's a bad thing. This is what they have in Iceland. Down syndrome people are not there. Like, they just don't exist in Iceland because they're all killed in the womb. That is not a good thing for the inherent value of human life. When you say the inherent value of human life degrades if you are born with

low IQ thanks to genetic conditions. If you believe that abortion is equivalent to murder the taking of a human life, then of course you would have made a different choice. But that is not my belief, and the Supreme Court has affirmed my freedom to have that belief and act accordingly. Well, you can always have that belief. I mean, you have the freedom to have that belief, but the Supreme Court is not a moral arbiter.

This is one of the things that drives pro-life people absolutely insane.

When people... have that belief. I mean, you have the freedom to have that belief, but the Supreme Court is not

a moral arbiter. This is one of the things that drives pro-life people absolutely insane. When people look at pro-choice people, and pro-choice people point to the Supreme Court, they point to like Justice Blackman. He said, well, Justice Blackman says it's okay. My answer to is, who the hell is Justice Blackman? why would I care about that?

Like Ruth Bader Ginsburg says something is okay, ooh, hoo-hoo-hoo, now you've spooked me.

Wow, you've totally changed my opinion now. I guess it wasn't a human life because Justice Robert said something, or because Justice Kennedy said something. It's so dumb. And finally, I mean, it's an argument from authority. The same people say, you can't cite the Bible in defense of human life. We'll say you can cite Ruth Bader Ginsburg in defense of the right to kill

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