The long knives and fingers have come out in Conservative Land as its denizens and their consultants decide who’s to blame for Tuesday’s electoral wipe-out. One theme is that the GOP’s emphasis on the Left’s wacko insistence on “trans rights,” including the right of a male athlete to just declare that he is a she and now could excel in the female version of the sport he stunk at as a male was foolish.

The issue just didn’t matter to most voters, they are saying. The obvious dishonesty and injustice didn’t involve many people either. In other words, “Who cares?”, “So what?” and “To hell with those girls!” What mattered is “affordability”: you know, the fake issue Democrats came up with to hold the Trump Administration responsible for the high prices caused by the Biden Administration.

This kind of thinking—unethical thinking—is the Iran war and Democrat-sponsored anti-Semitism in microcosm. The Trump Administration took necessary steps to end Iran’s nuclear threat, its sponsorship of terrorism, and at home, the illegal persecution of Jewish students on college campuses, but never mind: what it should have been concentrating on wasn’t lives, prejudice and justice, but what most Americans care about: themselves. The consultant calculus was followed this cycle in other areas, such as abortion: Republican candidates for state office barely whispered opposition to the legalized killing of millions of unborn human beings. Not prudent. Embryos don’t vote. (cont.)