States rights is the mildest example. The Axis is also embracing open borders, racism, censorship, crime, nullification, anti-Semitism, legislating from the bench, lawfare, indoctrination in the schools, child abuse, incivility, fraud, violence and terrorism, all so they may continue to deny that this non-conformist President may have been right about some issues.

“Any port in a storm” is one of those nostrums based on false equivalencies. There is nothing hypocritical about seeking shelter in a foreign port to save a literal ship, but being willing to support a position, organization or individual one knows is wrong is the act of someone without integrity, and thus unworthy of trust.

Ed Whelan recently related an example from the bulging ethics dossier of Larry Tribe, once a liberal icon at Harvard Law School. Tribe was horrified that Barack Obama was about to appoint Sonia Sotamayor to the Supreme Court, and wrote a letter expressing his belief that she wasn’t smart enough and had an “inflated opinion of herself,”both assessments that have proved prophetic. But when Obama ignored his advice and appointed the proto-DEI candidate anyway, Tribe signed his name to a letter from more than one thousand law professors that described Sotomayor as a “brilliant, careful, fair-minded jurist” who was “an exceptionally well-qualified nominee to the Supreme Court.”

Hypocrisy. Dishonesty. But his “side” had made its decision, so Tribe took shelter in the politically correct Sotomayor port instead of fighting an unpopular—for a progressive in a politically-biased profession—battle for a competent the Supreme Court his fellow Americans deserve.

Any port in a storm!