How French leadership responds to threats versus how US leadership responds to threats:

After a man is beheaded in France by an Islamist, the French respond by affirming their culture, projecting Charlie Hebdo cartoons on a building guarded by police... 1/

...as a kind of middle finger to the enemy. "We are French, we are proud, come and get it."

In the US, on the other hand... when statues are toppled and cities are burned, Republicans and Democrats respond with basically bribes, promises of affirmative action.... 2/

...by proposing making Juneteenth a national holiday (Trump proposed this), Rich Lowry at National Review pens his 50th article exhorting Americans to abandon Confederate statues, with prayers for the barbarians (Jacob Blake prayer at RNC), reparations (Democrats)... 3/

...Repubs introduce legislation to condemn their own voters (QAnon), Repubs propose legislation to erase European & Christian history (Sens. James Lankford of Oklahoma and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin proposed abolishing Columbus Day), the list goes on, but you get the point. 4/

The difference between French leadership and our leadership is that it seems like they have more dignity, for which we tend to make fun of them, the caricature of the "haughty French." But I would love more haughty American leaders... 5/

...who respond to threats not with a shrug or empty rhetoric and a bribe but with indignation and a will to live 6/

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