I understand why conservatives tend to avoid any blunt, realistic discussion around the topic of race that would actually disagree with the prevailing narrative. However, by doing so, as we’ve tended to do for the past several decades, we cede the topic in its entirety to the Left, who then not only establish the prevailing narrative, but go on to weaponize any real or perceived difference with it against us. It’s a tale as old as time, or at least as old as the left/right division in the West.

Thankfully, though, we’ve seen the Overton Window (the range of allowable discussion) shift dramatically right over the past several years, reaching light-speed in the last several months. Discussions and opinions that would have gotten any of us entirely canceled and driven from the public square are now talked about openly and without shame or social consequences. And you don’t have to agree with everything people ‘right’ of you believe (I certainly don’t) to realize that this is by and large a good thing.

For example, Trump’s mega-based senior advisor, Stephen Miller, dropped a truth bomb last week that would have drawn incredible flak in a different era. Referring to the contention that Afghan refugees “shouldn’t be blamed for the violence act of one man,” Miller posted: “This is the great lie of mass migration. You are not just importing individuals. You are importing societies. No magic transformation occurs when failed states cross borders. At scale, migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions, and terrors, of........

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