In my 2008 book America’s Half-Blood Prince: Barack Obama’s “Story of Race and Inheritance,” I predicted that Obama would keep himself and his supporters under fairly tight control until safely re-elected in 2012. But, then I said, during his second term, watch out!
And, indeed, that is pretty much what happened.
If you look at David Rozado’s graphs of mainstream news media use of hot button words like “sexism” and “racism,” you will see they bottomed out in 2011, when Obama had non-Woke issues like Obamacare and killing Osama to run for re-election upon.
But even before the 2012 election, you started to witness premonitions of the Great Awokening that arrived in 2013, such as the Trayvon Martin brouhaha, that “Life of Julia” ad that revived feminist energies dormant since the embarrassing Bill Clinton-Paula Jones scandal of 1998, and the Obama Administration’s “Dear Colleague” letter that set off another round of campus rape hoaxes.
In the run-up to the 2026 election, the media have good non-Woke issues like the price of gasoline to run upon against the GOP and Trump.
But as we’ve seen with the Cornell “rape” whoop-tee-doo, The Establishment appears to be gearing up for another War on White Men after the election. They are just too consumed with hate to help themselves.
Who are the next Evil White Male Rapists being teed up for a Woke moral panic following Ivy League fraternity boys? (That the Cornell Seven aren’t all that white has been mentioned in virtually zero of the countless articles in the mainstream media. You’d think that journalists looking for a slightly fresh angle on this beaten-to-death story might write about how diversity has come to fraternity row. But, no, that’s not going to be part of the Narrative.)
One possibility is that we might have a Reckoning for the surviving aged 1960s rock stars like Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Mick Jagger, and Stevie Wonder. Does anybody believe they never had sex once with a slightly underage groupie while touring across dozens of different jurisdictions, each with their own age of consent laws?
Long ago, I read a history of The Beatles that included a fascinating digression in which the normally just-the-facts author paused to speculate statistically on how many babies the Fab Four fathered during their June 1964 concert tour of Australia. In their defense, the Beatles told their road manager Mal Evans not to allow backstage any girls under age 20. But teenage girls have been known to lie about their age.
My guess is: Thankfully, no, we are not going to have giant witch hunt of elderly rock stars. They will be allowed to die in peace.
Why? The marketing department at the New York Times would go berserk if anybody on the editorial side brought up the idea of going after Sixties heroes. The NYT’s 13 million paying customers, who aren’t getting any younger, are not subscribing to see Paul and Ringo, Mick and Keef, Pete and Roger, Stevie and Smokey, Paul and Art, etc. treated like Cornell frat boys in the pages of the NYT.
So, who else is white (or white adjacent) enough and male enough to be targeted for a lengthy campaign against toxic masculinity?
Professional golfers? Air traffic controllers? Firemen? Miners? Olympic skiers? Farmers? Tech founders?
Well, today, I think I discovered what’s next on the agenda. Substack being how I make my living, I’m putting my discovery after the paywall:
Paywall here.
