Hello, it's Miranda. I'm back with a new mini episode of Podforce One. This feature is a little more

topical and relevant to my day job as a columnist for The New York Post. Today's topic is about the

stunning fraud indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which we know has just

been a front for maligning conservatives. But now prosecutors allege it's also been funding

the Ku Klux Klan and various neo-Nazi groups, manufacturing the very hate it claimed to combat.

But never fear the Democrats have plenty more tricks up their sleeve to disarm Republicans before the midterms. The latest effort to neuter

conservatives and force Republicans to surrender comes from a deceptively titled device called the Dignity Index.

The ruse is fronted by Kennedy relative Tim Schrever, who appears on Fox News in the guise of a

perfectly reasonable moderate Democrat, the type we all wish still existed.

His pitch is for politicians to treat your opponents with respect,

lower the temperature of public debate and restore civility to public life, who could be against

such laudable goals. But who does the pitch not remind you of? Donald Trump, of course,

with his bare-knuckled smash-mouth macho belligerence.

Trump is the antithesis of the gentle tone Shriver is trying to elevate as the core virtue

of leadership ahead of the midterms. But the dignity, blather, is just a fancy way of damning Trump

for mean tweets.

Quote, the way in which we lead is as important as the outcomes we seek, Shriver told

Fox News's Brett Bear Tuesday, ha, there you have it. No, tone is not more important than outcomes.

Who, other than a radical leftist, would say that it's more

important for Trump to be polite than to prevail over the thugs in Iran, or close the

southern border and deport illegal aliens, or stock taxpayer funding of transgender surgeries

for children, or ban boys from girls' sports, or end the diversity

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