No matter how good the training, no matter how just the cause, no matter how tight the bonds of fellowship with comrades, when the shooting starts, some soldiers just don’t have the nerve for it. They turn and run.
Desertion and cowardice before the enemy have been some of the most serious military crimes since the dawn of time, and for good reason. Turning your back on your brothers-in-arms and your nation puts them both at mortal risk.
Popular anti-woke intellectual Eric Weinstein decided to do just such a thing mere days before an election of colossal importance. On Tuesday, he posted a declaration to his nearly a million followers on X that, morally, he just can’t bring himself to take a side in the ongoing race between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.
With as much self-righteousness as he could muster, Weinstein said, “I…
