Monday roundup

From the "the Left is taking this into dangerous territory" file:

A mass of shrieking protesters confronted Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and his colleague Candace Owens on Monday morning while they were eating breakfast at a Philadelphia hotel.

After spotting Kirk and Owens through a hotel window, the crowd entered the hotel and began harassing the young political activists.

Once they were cleared from the hotel, the protesters gathered outside and awaited Kirk and Owens’s departure, at which point one woman threw a drink on Kirk while another shouted into a megaphone about the evils of white supremacy.

Now, it's true that Kirk, Owens and their organization are too Trumpist for my taste, but that no doubt has much to do with their being the target of this mob action. This is going to get worse.

How it's going in two cities ruled by the Left: In Chicago, over 60 people were shot over the weekend, and in Portland,  the abolish-ICE protests turned to outright riots, and the mayor was cool with it.

Tensions flare between Canada and Saudi Arabia:

Saudi Arabia ordered the expulsion on Monday of the Canadian ambassador and the halting of all new trade and investment deals between the two countries after Canada said it was “gravely concerned” about the recent arrests of Saudi civil society and women’s rights activists. 

 In a statement issued early Monday, Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry said the ambassador, Dennis Horak, was persona non grata and gave him 24 hours to leave the country, adding that it would be recalling its own envoy to Ottawa for further consultations and retained “its right to take further action.”

 The unusually heated dispute between the two governments was the latest international fallout from Saudi Arabia’s domestic crackdown on perceived dissenters, including the arrests of its most prominent women’s rights activists. 

Saudi Arabia is an excellent example of the parameters within which foreign policy has to be conducted in this fallen world. It's a corrupt and misogynistic regime that one had better not try to bring a Bible into, but it is the main countervailing force to Iran's regional ambitions and as such cannot be ignored.

Again, I ask, what kinds of conversations are Larry Kudlow and Stephen Moore having in private about the Very Stable Genius's complete lack of an understanding of economics? In a weekend tweet storm, the VSG said that tariffs will help bring down the nation's $21 trillion debt.  To those who trot out the argument that the VSG is a new kind of Republican president, my response is, yeah, none of the others in my lifetime made me cringe on a regular basis.

Great Prager U video by CRTV's Allie Stuckey on how our society ought to be celebrating - and, certainly, properly channeling - masculinity. Masculinity is good stuff, a major catalyst of human advancement.

Elizabeth Warren says the US justice system is "racist, all the way, front to back."

Speaking of Iran, civil unrest there is peaking again. Time for the West to squeeze the regime good and hard.