Good on ya, YAF

You'll recall my recent post about the recent speech Michelle Malkin gave at a Young America's Foundation event at UCLA. My jaw nearly dropped to the floor as I read it.

Malkin has always tended toward a fierceness in her tone, but she's applied it in ways I'd generally admired. She's done some courageous and exhaustive investigative reporting over the years. She's founded several websites which she subsequently sold and are now important parts of the conservative constellation. Most significantly for the present situation, she's come in for a lot of racially based attacks for her Filipino ethnicity.

Which is why the terrain she's now decided to stand upon is just mind-boggling:

Not only does she go after Ben Shapiro and Paul Ryan, she lights into Trumpists such as Charlie Kirk and Kimberly Guilfoyle.

So, if the Very Stable Genius's cult worshippers aren't sufficiently hard-ass for her, for just whom does she reserve her admiration? Are you ready? Nick Fuentes and Peter Brimelow.

Just wow.

And that, in turn, is why I'm immensely gratified to see this development:

A conservative group cut ties with right-wing columnist Michelle Malkin on Sunday over her support for an anti-Semitic internet personality, ramping up a growing conservative civil war centered on college campuses.

Malkin’s firing from Young America’s Foundation, whose speakers bureau had booked Malkin for speeches across the country for the past 17 years, marks the latest battle between supporters of Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes and more establishment conservative figures. 

“Michelle Malkin in no longer part of YAF’s campus lecture program,” a YAF spokesman said in an email to The Daily Beast.
Malkin didn’t respond to a request for comment. 

It would be interesting to know just what the inflection point was at which she - well, went nuts.

But the larger point is that she has to be jettisoned. At a juncture like our present one, at which there are already plenty of harmful fissures within conservatism, we don't need the distraction of a defense of the alt-right at a YAF function. I doubt it will happen again.