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The Red Hen and the Resistance
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | June 27, 2018 | Ross Douthat, The New York Times

Posted on 06/29/2018 9:57:07 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

In almost every opinion on the restaurant that famously refused to serve Sarah Huckabee Sanders, there is a too-neat congruence between the moral argument and the meta-political argument. If you think it’s right and just and admirable to deprive a Trump administration mouthpiece of an evening out in polite society, you probably also think that this sort of direct action is the vital spark that the left needs to mobilize and defeat Trumpism outright.

On the other hand, if you think that the restaurant owner committed an obnoxious breach of the basic bipartisan civility that prevents our empire from becoming 1990s Yugoslavia, you probably think that what she did was basically an in-kind donation to the Trump re-election effort as well.

It should be possible, though, to mix and match — to feel a certain sympathy or admiration for the restaurateur’s non serviam, but also to believe that its wider application by the Resistance wouldn’t do anti-Trump forces any good....

(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: huckabee; radicals; redhen; resistance; theleft; trump; virginia
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Any updat s on what has happened to their business?


41 posted on 06/29/2018 11:14:07 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: dirtboy

GReat response for reform and. Gay cake makers


42 posted on 06/29/2018 11:19:58 AM PDT by Luigi Vasellini (political class.......TERM LIMITS NOW!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: dirtboy

GReat response for reform and. Gay cake makers


43 posted on 06/29/2018 11:20:03 AM PDT by Luigi Vasellini (political class.......TERM LIMITS NOW!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: PCPOET7

Doubtful they knew the reservation in Sanders was THAT Sanders. It’s a common name and I’m sure it wasn’t made making mention of any connection with Administration.


44 posted on 06/29/2018 11:20:09 AM PDT by billyboy15
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To: mrsmel

The RED hen is CHICKEN $hit.....FU’um


45 posted on 06/29/2018 11:23:37 AM PDT by mastertex
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To: Impala64ssa

Great post.

And the whole issue shines the ultimate hypocrisy of the left. If she were lesbian they wouldn’t have thrown her out.


46 posted on 06/29/2018 11:23:42 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: PCPOET7

I hate when someone fallows me around.


47 posted on 06/29/2018 11:32:16 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Douthat Bump.


48 posted on 06/29/2018 11:35:05 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (What?)
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To: mrsmel
I'm sick of liberal thugs attacking conservative women and children.
49 posted on 06/29/2018 11:41:19 AM PDT by GOPJ (David Ignatius sided with Germans against his own country - what a jackass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s not just incivility. It’s voter intimidation which is punishable by a year in jail.


50 posted on 06/29/2018 11:42:54 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: billyboy15

I just cant get over how fast that a spontaneous protest happened at the other restaurant. Sanders is a common name but if Sara’s name was dropped to the person taking the reservation or the family had made reservations in the past I can see the restaurant finding out ahead of time. I have worked in restaurants as kitchen staff it is surprising what information can be gleamed from a telephone reservation. often time the telephone number of the person Making the reservation is kept and if it is repeat business you know the identity.


51 posted on 06/29/2018 11:50:39 AM PDT by PCPOET7
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To: Trillian

Let them cut off all their ugly Commie noses to spite their ugly Commie faces!


52 posted on 06/29/2018 12:04:35 PM PDT by miserare ( Indict Hillary!)
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To: alexander_busek
Our empire?!

Yep, that is where I stopped reading, no need to go further, the screed has been self-identified.

53 posted on 06/29/2018 12:06:25 PM PDT by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: Impala64ssa
They will reap what they sow, and a lot of chickens will be happy to live another day!😜
54 posted on 06/29/2018 12:07:57 PM PDT by miserare ( Indict Hillary!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Comments disabled, alas, the left can’t handle the truth. Thanks for posting Sir, and I have to say thanks for all the facts about people being hired etc, you are awesome.


55 posted on 06/29/2018 12:16:06 PM PDT by Joe Miner
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To: Joe Miner

I hope people here are using those or referring their kids, neighbors, friends, co-religionists and etc. to those jobs.


56 posted on 06/29/2018 12:17:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Impala64ssa
Yes, the fools who own the Red Hen should be allowed to serve who they want to serve.
You mean like not serve blacks, Jews, gays, trannies, etc.?
57 posted on 06/29/2018 12:34:47 PM PDT by lewislynn ( Jeff Sessions not a mouse or mr. magoo but a low life back stabbing bastard pretending to be AG)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You are doing your best, it is up to them to avail themselves of the opportunity, but you are awesome for being there each day, not slobbering over you, but been here for like 20 years, you are awesome.


58 posted on 06/29/2018 12:46:58 PM PDT by Joe Miner (u)
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To: WashingtonSource
Ross Douthat and the New York Times are total cowards for disabling comments to this article.

It was probably the P-G's call as far as disabling comments for the reprint on its website. Did the NYT disable comments for the article on its own website?

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59 posted on 06/29/2018 12:52:12 PM PDT by foreverfree
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To: foreverfree

Good point. Actually they did not at first be did close it for comments after received 847 posts. See here: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/opinion/trump-civility-sarah-huckabee-sanders.html#commentsContainer


60 posted on 06/29/2018 1:08:06 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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