We can certainly have co-belligerents from many disparate tribes. When CrossPolitic interviewed Rod Dreher last Fall, he said much the same thing. Despite his differences with us, smashmouth Calvinists (I’m just going to call everything we do “smashmouth” from now on), he figured we’re all going to end up in the same prison cell together (maybe cell block four?), so he might as well make friends with us now. I’m no perfectionist. If a Roman Catholic is trying to honestly end abortion, we can stand side by side in that fight. If an atheist is exposing woke cancel culture, I’m happy to help chuck those grenades. But co-belligerents are different than allies. Co-belligerents have a common enemy but often they have a common enemy for very different reasons. When the Soviet Union was a co-belligerent with England and the US in World War 2, that wasn’t because we had shared values, but merely because we had a common enemy.
So none of what follows is me taking my toys and going home. As I say, I’m not a perfectionist. Have I mentioned that I’m a smashmouth incrementalist when it comes to ending abortion? But I do believe that good fences make good neighbors, and the truth is always helpful, even when it stings. Not that anyone asked me, but I just want to point out that unless something changes dramatically in the current trajectory of the Daily Wire, it will be the next Fox News before too long, and what I mean by that is that it will be CNN but with more cleavage. And the Blaze and Prager U are already up to their armpits in woke compromise. And by that, I mean they are well on their way to being the next so-called conservative news sell-outs. They may hold out for some time with their own versions of a Tucker Carlson questioning the dominant narratives, but the Daily Wire is now officially begging to become irrelevant and obsolete and likely, just another CRT tumor in American media.
