WASHINGTON — There’s a phenomenon that has been creeping throughout America for a minimum of the previous 30 years that I’ve but to touch upon. Social scientists, nevertheless, have been writing on it for a very long time. It’s the phenomenon of individuals on the suitable shifting into neighborhoods which are already closely conservative. However, individuals on the left finish of the political spectrum have a tendency to remain in areas which are historically left-wing. This phenomenon has led to the rising polarization of American politics.

Accordingly, individuals with the views of, say, Sean Hannity once they transfer transfer to locations like Dallas, Texas, or Raleigh, North Carolina, or Indianapolis, Indiana. However, individuals on the left keep in locations like New York Metropolis, Chicago, Los Angeles, — all historically left-wing enclaves. Folks residing in these older left-wing haunts don’t transfer round rather a lot. One can not think about a New Yorker being keen about loading up the household Prius and heading off to, say, Indiana. Individuals who reside in these left-wing enclaves keep in them regardless of the excessive crime and homicide charges that make a mockery of their stringent gun management legal guidelines. Even through the holidays, the gunfire doesn’t cease.

This development goes to persist and doubtless worsen. I might not be stunned if the left-wing cities start altering their names to accord with their politics. I can nicely think about New York Metropolis altering its identify to New Moscow. Or Chicago changing into New Beijing, or presumably Los Angeles changing into Marxville or Leninville. Hollywood’s stress on personalities can’t be ignored, and Marx and Lenin have lengthy captured the creativeness of many Los Angelenos. Bear in mind how they lionized Fidel Castro, particularly when he swore off tobacco.

I considered the rising polarization of America this previous weekend whereas I visited South Florida. I’ve at all times relished the large cities of America, however I can not banish the thought that every one of America’s actually huge cities have been taken over by the left. The place am I to reside if issues get any extra threatening within the Washington space.? Washington is ok for now, however sometime I would actually have to maneuver. The propaganda painted on the sidewalks is a premonition. Furthermore, the homeless have turn into a real menace. Each park on this once-beautiful metropolis has turn into a tent metropolis, and each streetcorner has turn into a latrine. The place are the police? Issues are getting worse.

But, over the weekend in South Florida, I used to be launched to a really agreeable small city the place I might reside very comfortably. Not solely that, however the conservative migration has already begun there, and within the final election, the governor of Florida — not surprisingly a Republican — rolled over his opposition. He did so nicely that I imagine he has a vibrant future. The small city that I’ve been talking of is Palm Seashore. The governor is Ron DeSantis. And I’m maintaining my choices open.

In fact, the man who began the conservative migration was the inimitable Rush Limbaugh, and he referred to his locale in Palm Seashore as his “Southern Command.” Limbaugh lamentably vacated South Florida for a greater place again on Feb. 17, 2021, however by the point he did, he had began a migration. Among the many migrants was Ann Coulter, the author, Laura Ingraham, the author and tv persona, and Chris Ruddy. Ruddy started as a author for the New York Publish, however he has since branched out and turn into an entrepreneur. Some years in the past, he based Newsmax as a community contending with Fox Information to be the nation’s primary conservative community. He’s nonetheless struggling, but when Fox stumbles, Ruddy is yapping at Fox’s heels. Chris has introduced others to Palm Seashore, and, after all, Sean Hannity can also be in Florida frequently. Nor can one overlook Donald Trump, who additionally has introduced a variety of conservative consideration to Palm Seashore.

Then there’s Elizabeth Ailes. She is the widow of Roger Ailes, the brains behind a lot that went on at Fox Information. It seems to me that she has the expertise and appeal to be the Madame de Stael of the conservative migration to South Florida. I spent a while with Elizabeth Ailes lately, and as I listened to her, I obtained the concept a salon overseen by her within the little city of Palm Seashore is simply what America wants within the dying days of Bidenism.

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R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. is founder and editor in chief of The American Spectator. He’s a Senior Fellow on the London Heart for Coverage Analysis and the creator most lately of “The Demise of Liberalism,” printed by Thomas Nelson, Inc.