A Day for Reconsideration

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During the previous Administration Vice President Mike Pence provided enough reassurance to Democrats that they moved to impeach Donald Trump on two different occasions.

Now that Mr. Pence is unencumbered by the duties of office, he is free to speak his mind. His speech at Stanford yesterday - "How to Save America From the Woke Left”--was sold out.

Pence condemned what he called “cancel culture” in the Biden administration, criticized critical race theory in public education and applauded parents who are “starting to take our schools back, even here in California.”

....“This week in San Francisco, parents recalled three woke school board members who cared more about renaming schools than reopening,” Pence said to whoops and applause. “Those results, I gotta tell ya — those results are sending shock waves across the country. Democrats who supported cancel culture and school closures are starting to wake up. The truth is, many on the woke left have been spending years trying to agitate for a culture war. It looks like they might just get one. And they’re gonna lose.”

The surprise was not in the content of the speech but in Stanford's refusal to allow the assembly to be disrupted by protestors. The overwhelming majority of listeners, very few of whom were registered Republicans, gave Mr. Pence a respectful hearing.

If Stanford continues to stand up for freedom of speech, especially for people who do not parrot the Progressive narrative, I might have to reconsider my refusal to contribute to any more of its fundraisers.