Rip’s Newsletter Test #5
Rip’s Newsletter
June 1, 2026
Articles in This Issue
Douglas Andrews - The Dems’ Platner Poison
Emmy Griffin - Left-Wing Rhetoric = Left-Wing Violence
Brian C Joondeph - The Soft Bigotry of Historical Amnesia
Stephen Soukup - American Decentralization: History and Future? › American Greatness
Hugh Fitzgerald - The Two Britains | Frontpage Mag
Skye Graham - Exclusive: New Kids’ Book Targets The Left’s Anti-ICE Narrative
Overview
I pulled together today’s opinion roundup, with a fast read on the main arguments shaping the conversation. I open with The Dems’ Platner Poison; Left-Wing Rhetoric = Left-Wing Violence; The Soft Bigotry of Historical Amnesia. You’ll see recurring themes echoed across patriotpost, amthink, americangreatness, frontpagemag, federalist. Taken together, these pieces sketch where the pressure points are right now and where the debate is heading next.
The Dems’ Platner Poison
Site: The Patriot Post
Author: Douglas Andrews
Date: 2026-06-01
The Democrats are starting to panic, and their heretofore solid support for scandal-drenched weirdo and Senate candidate Graham Platner is finally starting to crumble. “I find that tattoo and his commentary about it to be personally disqualifying,” Massachusetts Congressman Jake Auchincloss told CNN. “I hope Maine voters agree with me. I think it would be a mistake for the Democratic Party to think that Graham Platner’s brand of the Democratic Party is what wins us durable majorities throughout this country.” Auchincloss aside, Platner is, at least for the moment, the party’s Maine Man, the ta...
Left-Wing Rhetoric = Left-Wing Violence
Site: The Patriot Post
Author: Emmy Griffin
Date: 2026-06-01
Left-Wing Rhetoric = Left-Wing Violence We have two more recent examples of attempted violence against conservatives, the permission structure for which was established by the “Party of Tolerance.” Left-wing violence starts with a permission structure that left-wing politicians create. That structure is shaped by these politicians’ rhetoric when they face disagreement with their colleagues on the other side of the aisle. Take, for example, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY). In March 2020, Schumer stood outside the Supreme Court to give a speech in support of abortion.
The Soft Bigotry of Historical Amnesia
Site: Amthink
Author: Brian C Joondeph
Date: 2026-06-01
For decades, Democrats and their media allies have aggressively branded Support voter ID? Racist. Oppose affirmative action? Racist. Criticize DEI programs? Racist. Advocate merit over quotas? Racist. The accusation is so persistent that many Americans simply accept it as fact without asking a simple question: Which political party actually built the system of racial segregation in America? The answer is remarkably clear. Image generated by ChatGPT Jim Crow laws were Democrat initiatives. Poll taxes were enacted by Democrats.
American Decentralization: History and Future? › American Greatness
Site: American Greatness
Author: Stephen Soukup
Date: 2026-06-01
Throughout most of human history, commerce and government have been intricately linked, at least geographically. Hubs of trade and business have almost always also been the seats of government. As cities grew and flourished, as commerce grew and flourished, and as both expanded into surrounding areas, governance became necessary and, thus, inevitable. And as cities preceded “countries” or empires by decades, if not centuries, those cities that tended to fare the best at enduring and growing were also the ones that were most successful at enabling commerce, creating wealth, conquering neighbors and their lands, etc.
The Two Britains | Frontpage Mag
Site: FrontPage Magazine
Author: Hugh Fitzgerald
Date: 2026-06-01
Order Jamie Glazov’s new book, ‘United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny, Terror, and Hamas’: HERE. On the same day, May 16, and at the same time, two rallies were held in London. One was Unite the Kingdom, a patriotic gathering of 60,000 marchers, who are alarmed at Muslim immigration transforming their country, worried about a decline in social cohesion, and furious that the government is making major decisions without consulting them. The other, and far smaller march of 20,000 people, was not about Britain at all, but about a faraway event that occurred more than 76 years ago: what the Arabs call the “Nakba” or catastrophe, which is how they describe the flight of Arabs from Mandatory Palestine, and then Israel, between the fall of 1947 and 1949.
Exclusive: New Kids’ Book Targets The Left’s Anti-ICE Narrative
Site: The Federalist
Author: Skye Graham
Date: 2026-06-01
Amid the flood of anti-ICE messaging inundating social media feeds and classrooms, leftists are teaching kids to demonize federal agents who enforce America’s immigration laws. Now children’s book authors Mike Howell and Ryan Neuhaus are pushing back on this messaging that seeks to “indoctrinate kids into open borders ideology.” Howell and Neuhaus’ new picture book — Diego the Dingo Finds His Way Home — follows the story of an immigrant family of dingos that is illegally smuggled over the border and ultimately deported.
