The Scalia Nomination...and More!

I've said previously how much I like and admire the writing of Peggy Noonan.  This week's column in the WSJ is a masterpiece.  She knocks it out of the park.  You can read it here.  In talking about the Justice Scalia nomination she makes total sense.  Her arguments are wise and reasoned.

But she also has a bit on the state of our culture and the impact of politics.  If there is anything that has been written about the frustration of the conservative side of the aisle with the progressive side, this is it!

There is something increasingly unappeasable in the left. This is something conservatives and others have come to fear, that progressives now accept no limits. We can’t just have court-ordered legalized abortion across the land, we have to have it up to the point of birth, and taxpayers have to pay for it. It’s not enough to win same-sex marriage, you’ve got to personally approve of it and if you publicly resist you’ll be ruined. It’s not enough that we have publicly funded contraceptives, the nuns have to provide them. 

This unappeasable spirit always turns to the courts to have its way. 

If progressives were wise they would step back, accept their victories, take a breath and turn to the idea of solidifying gains, of heroic patience, of being peaceable. 

Don’t make them bake the cake. Don’t make them accept the progressive replacement for Scalia. Leave the nuns alone.

Progressives have no idea how fragile it all is. That’s why they feel free to be unappeasable. They don’t know what they’re grinding down. 

They think America has endless give. But America is composed of humans, and they do not have endless give.