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Edmund Burke is famous, inter alia, for the warning, sometimes quoted in abridged form: “There is no safety for honest men, but in believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.”

In the same lengthy letter, he further wrote: “But when men whom we know to be wicked impose on us, we are something worse than dupes. When we know them, their fair pretenses become new motives for distrust. There is one case indeed, in which it would be madness not to give the fullest credit to the most deceitful of men, that is, when they make declarations of hostility against us.”

A modern progressive, or even a modern conservative, may not agree with all that Mr. Burke wrote about the French Revolution, but I admire the bitter wisdom of the passages which I have quoted. To update his warnings for our modern age of sexual egalitarianism, one might include wicked and deceitful women. This means you, Kristi Noem, you, Karoline Leavitt, and you, Tricia McLaughlin. However, we should not let these females distract us from the threat posed by such men as Donald Trump and Stephen Miller.