So suddenly we’re all supposed to switch sides again on whether dissent is patriotic. In a continuing effort to prove that it all depends on whose ox is gored, a lot of people on the Right suddenly now think that it’s super-rude for constituents to send a public message to their elected officials. They are denouncing the cast of the hit Broadway musical “Hamilton” for making an impassioned appeal to Vice President-elect Mike Pence at the end of a performance he attended Friday night.
On the one hand, I get why this could rub people the wrong way. Yes, you’re tired of getting political lectures from left-leaning cultural elites embedded in your entertainment every time you turn on the TV or go to the movies. So when the cast of “Hamilton” gives a speech aimed at Pence, it might feel to you that they’re once again lecturing Middle America.
On the other hand, I don’t get it. They didn’t lecture Middle America, they made an appeal to the incoming vice president of the United States.
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