A recent local election in Virginia was surprising not only because of its outcome but because of its unusual civility. In Surrey County, Virginia, a 19-year-old had the courage and audacity to run against the incumbent Conservative for a seat on the Surry County Board of Supervisors. But there was a catch: He would need […] The post 19-Year-old Defeats His Former High School Civics Teacher in Local Election: ‘I’m so proud of him’ appeared first on Good News Network.

WASHINGTON, Nov 29 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela should be considered “closed in its entirety”, but gave no further details as Washington ramps up pressure on President Nicolas Maduro’s government. “To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY,” Trump said in a Truth Social post. Venezuela‘s communications ministry, which handles all press inquiries for the government, did not immediately reply to a request for comment on Trump’s post. The U.S. Defense Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. U.S. strikes against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean have been underway for months, along with a U.S. military buildup in the region, and Trump has authorized covert CIA operations in Venezuela. The President told military service members this week that the U.S. would “very soon” begin land operations to stop suspected Venezuelan drug traffickers. Last week, the U.S. aviation regulator warned major airlines of a “potentially hazardous situation” when flying over Venezuela due to a “worsening security situation and heightened military activity in or around” the South American country. Venezuela revoked operating rights for six major international airlines that had suspended flights to the country after the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration warning. The Trump administration has accused Maduro of involvement in drug trafficking, a charge he has denied. Maduro, in power since 2013, has said that Trump is seeking to oust him and that Venezuelan citizens and the military will resist any such attempt. U.S. forces in the region have so far focused on counter-narcotics operations, although the assembled firepower far outweighs anything needed for them. They have carried out at least 21 strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and Pacific since September, killing at least 83 people. The post Trump Says Airspace Above and Around Venezuela Should Be Closed appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The "Week In Politics" segment on the PBS News Hour once pretended to match a liberal pundit and a conservative pundit, as it did with Mark Shields and Paul Gigot early in this century. But when David Brooks came along, he often agreed with everything Shields and then Jonathan Capehart had to say. "Balance," PBS style. On Friday, former Reagan and Bush aide Peter Wehner sounded like a Capehart clone as they teamed up to trash President Trump after two West Virginia National Guard members were shot in the nation's capital by an Afghan refugee. It’s a little weird to say it’s ghoulish to turn the shooting victims into political pawns, and then launch into using them in your anti-Trump jeremiad. JOHN YANG: Pete, I wonder how you — what you make of the way the president responded. He immediately sent in 500 more troops. He immediately blamed the Biden administration for admitting the alleged shooter, and then cut off — essentially cut off a lot of immigration. PETER WEHNER, The Atlantic: Yes, I'd say he reacted predictably and awfully. He predicted — as he is. This was sort of the Trump DNA kicking in. I should say first that I just find a kind of ghoulishness that happens, when people die, tragedies in life, and the way that the people who die and the victims are turned into political pawns. That's always left me kind of disquieted. That's particularly the case here and now. But, look, Trump is taking advantage. This is going back to the fever swamp from which he came. His first announcement when he — for president in 2015, when he came down the golden escalator, was what? It was an attack on Mexicans, where he said they were drug dealers and criminals and rapists. Then, during the campaign, he said that he was going to ban Muslims from coming into the country. And that united his base. So I think he's returning to form, but I think it's broader now. And in this case, with the Afghans that he's attacking, these are people who either helped the United States during the war or were targeted by the Taliban themselves. And this was an act of American decency and compassion. And to take that and turn it around and to go after these — this weak and vulnerable people and then broaden it to a wider attack on immigrants is a really ugly thing to see. Excuse us: the "weak and vulnerable people" right now are the shooting victims, not Afghan immigrants. PBS and its partners at PolitiFact won’t check on Trump wanted to “ban Muslims” from entering the country (instead of from seven Muslim countries with terrorism problems) and “united his base” behind it. PBS sees “Islamophobia” in any concern about violent Islamists, as does NPR.  John Yang then asked for the actual Capehart to speak: “Jonathan?” JONATHAN CAPEHART: Well, this is not a surprise. Anyone who's been paying attention to President Trump would have expected this reaction. To Peter's point, he's been saying these things, these anti-immigrant, xenophobic things since he started his — since he entered the political arena. Go all the way back to the birther controversy with President Obama. So the idea that he now, in a second term where he feels unleashed, unfettered, is surrounded by an administration that is enabling him to do all the things he wants to do, the fact that he used a tragedy to sort of amp up what he was already trying to do, not shocking at all. When it comes to bringing 500 more National Guard troops here to Washington, for what purpose? I mean, originally, he said it's about crime. Well, if you're really serious about crime, I think a functioning White House, a functioning Justice Department would work with local officials from the mayor and certainly the police chiefs to talk about, how can we help you with crime? Even though, in a city like Washington and other large cities around the country, crime has been falling. And so I think what we see is that the National Guard, to Peter's point, they have been — it's sad when people who lose their lives are instantly used as political pawns. But the National Guard, they have been used as pawns from the very beginning, brought in under the guise of crime, and then used for other things, the National Guard here used to beautify the parks. That's not what they're for. And so what the president is doing is, it's shameful, it's xenophobic, and in the end, it is going to hurt America's national security. This perpetrator worked with the CIA in Afghanistan with the United States. And we all know what he was doing. He was helping us, furthering our national security interests. So let that sink in: Capehart is being more complimentary to THE SHOOTER than he is to Trump. Since that pile of insults somehow wasn’t enough, Yang went back for another heaping scoop: “Pete, do you want to add to that?” Capehart Two replied by again smearing all Trump voters as “morally deformed” haters: WEHNER: No, I just underscore what Jonathan said. This — it's so central to understand about Donald Trump and I think his psychological makeup, which is that he seems to draw energy from hatred, from generating hatred toward other people. And this capacity to unleash the dark passions and the dark emotions, we have never seen anything like it, certainly in modern American history, maybe in all of American history. And the way he — the capacity that he has to amplify that is extraordinary. And the one other thing I would add to it is, he does know what he's doing in this sense. His base responds to this. This is a base that has been morally deformed, and that was at the beginning of the Trump administration. But 10 years of this has turned it into an even worse manifestation. At the end of the segment, Yang bizarrely asked these Trump haters how they deal with "uncomfortable conversations" in our "polarized" country over the holidays, and Wehner dared to say the goal is "to try and connect with people on a human level, and then to remind ourselves not to dehumanize, and politics is not defining to who we are. It matters. We're in politics because we think it does matter, but, in the end, it's not the most important thing, and we have to have civility in that approach." Capehart, as expected from an MS NOW host, did not agree with that. 

A friend who works with high school students recently said to me, “I overheard a group of boys talking about 'international Jewry.'” He was in disbelief to hear these seemingly mild-mannered kids express views that, not 20 years ago, would have been considered taboo.What is going on with Gen Z?I have written elsewhere that Gen Z is experiencing a kind of church resurgence. That remains true. But at the same time, Gen Z is one of the most polarized generations in American history.Social systems that seek to reorient reality by means of uprooting history and tradition will ultimately create a rootless and disaffected class in search of belonging.In 2024, Gen Z — led in part by young activists like Charlie Kirk and Scott Presler — shifted toward Donald Trump. He won 46% of Gen Z voters — 56% of young men and 40% of young women. This led many to expect that a younger, more populist generation would shift the country rightward. But now in 2025, the self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani won 78% of the youth vote in New York City — 67% of young men and 84% of young women. Far from being locked into any one existing political party, young people are more divided than ever.One cause of this is what I call “nomadic progressivism.” Kids born between, say, 1997 and 2012 have been thoroughly inundated with progressivism and identity politics from birth. They came of age amid several key developments that shaped their moral and social formation:The Supreme Court’s Obergefell v. Hodges decision in 2015 and the legalization of same-sex marriage.The killing of Trayvon Martin and the rise of Black Lives Matter.The surge of transgender activism that dominated headlines in the early 2020s.The appearance of Greta Thunberg and the new climate movement.The explosive growth of Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, and Vine.We could list hundreds of others, but these movements captured Gen Z’s moral imagination. Each sought, in the name of justice or progress, to undermine the inherited order, replacing the inherited structures of culture with moral and social uncertainty.Gen Z grew up bullied by progressive ideology, and until the shocking election of Donald Trump in 2016, there was no visible reaction. Society appeared to be marching unopposed toward progressive utopia. But Trump’s election broke the spell. His first term was marked by protests, the rise of transgender ideology, and a wave of social revolt.Then came COVID-19. As the left preached “safety,” Gen Z was locked inside, immersed in a digital environment, and wracked by depression and anxiety. Created for engagement and real community, young people were instead sent to their rooms and told to stay there.This, I believe, is the key: Progressivism prepared the soil for radicalization. It removed the roots — churches, families, communities — that once grounded Gen Z’s moral life. It left young people searching for belonging in a barren landscape.The philosopher and novelist Simone Weil wrote in “The Need for Roots” that “human beings have roots by virtue of their real, active, and natural participation in the life of a community, which preserves in living shape particular treasures of the past and particular expectations for the future.” When that participation is stripped away, people search for roots elsewhere.For Gen Z women, that search often led to Instagram and other social media platforms. They heard celebrities and influencers denounce the status quo. They were told marriage was oppressive, men were vile, and independence was the highest good. But that “empowerment” was often just loneliness in disguise.RELATED: Young, broke, and voting blue: 2025’s harsh lesson for the right Photo by Jeremy Weine/Getty ImagesAs for Gen Z men, constant ridicule and belittlement left them disoriented. Why invest in a society that despises you? Why build what the world condemns? In this vacuum arose the “manosphere.” Figures like Andrew Tate offered refuge. They told men it was OK to be men — and as they were among the only ones saying so, they had free rein to define what it meant. If honor, discipline, and respectful courtship were only going to get you mocked and condemned, manosphere influencers reasoned that you might as well double down on boorishness, lust, and aggression.As distrust of the government and institutions grew, young men turned elsewhere for truth. In gnostic fashion, figures like Nick Fuentes promised to reveal “how things really are.” But as Christopher Rufo has noted, it is a ruse. Fuentes exploits the crisis of masculinity to peddle resentment and historical denialism. Progressive Gen Z women, seeking fulfillment in the depths of the online space, are little different from the young men seeking connection and meaning from those like Fuentes.Gen Z is a generation longing for roots. Its members are trying to find them on the fringes of society, since their own roots were dug out years ago. Progressivism creates nomads. Social systems that seek to reorient reality by means of uprooting history and tradition will ultimately create a rootless and disaffected class in search of belonging. And they will find it in dark places.The men and women of Gen Z are not uniquely radical. They are uniquely rootless. They have inherited a moral landscape stripped of shared meaning, through which they drift amid ideologies that promise belonging but deliver only bitterness. The progressive order unmoored them; now the reactionary order recruits them. And unless a deeper renewal of faith, family, and community takes root, this generation will continue to wander — searching for the very home that modernity taught them to forget.Editor’s note: A version of this article appeared originally at the American Mind.

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