Mike Gonzalez
Heritage Foundation
Washington, DC, United States
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Biden’s Pursuit of Racial Balkanization Will Further Divide the Country
President Joe Biden came into office promising to be a unifier, but make no mistake, he’s rapidly becoming the divider-in-chief. He is now reviving former President Barack Obama's idea of adding yet one more racial category to our Balkanized nation and effectively turning Hispanics into a race, not an ethnicity. → Read More
DEI Hasn’t Just Infected the Left
Diversity, equity, and inclusion seems to have entered the bloodstream of U.S. politics, and it’s not just one party with it in its veins. Sure, the Biden administration and its allies have sworn a loyalty oath to this bizarre ideology, but Republicans pledging to fight it are at times indistinguishable from the radical Left. → Read More
DEI Hasn't Just Infected the Left
It is important to repeat again, clearly, what DEI has come to mean. Each of these words means the opposite of what we think. → Read More
Normalcy and Its Enemies
A very American, and very conservative, word may soon find its way back into the political lexicon: normalcy. Its return is required by the times we live in. You can’t beat something with nothing, and so when people ask, “What is your answer to woke?”, the reply may become simply, “normalcy.” → Read More
Cori Bush Exposes the Hollowness of the Left’s DEI Agenda
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) appeared to be genuinely dismayed by the nastiness of the comments of his colleague Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) after he was nominated to be House speaker this month. He needn’t have been. Bush did the country a favor by giving us a lesson on the hollowness of such terms as diversity, equity, and inclusion. We owe her. Donalds, you see, is a black man representing Florida’s… → Read More
Congress Should Investigate the Black Lives Matter Riots
America enters 2023 as a radically different society because of the 2020 violence linked to Black Lives Matter. It took years to knit the revolutionary network that would provoke this sea change. And, indeed, the organizers of the protests met for years to plan how to “disrupt and transform” America. → Read More
The Radicalization of Race: Philanthropy and DEI
The language of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) now infuses the grantmaking of the majority of America’s largest private foundations. As a result, hundreds of millions of dollars are being invested in organizations and programs shaped by the assumptions that underlie DEI. At the same time, because foundation dollars provide early-stage research and development for solving societal issues,… → Read More
What Happens in the Andes Does Not Stay in the Andes
Peru, an Andean nation with deep ports that China covets, is being convulsed by rio → Read More
What’s Really Behind the Biden Administration’s Televisa Univision Sale
By greenlighting the sale of 18 Spanish-language radio stations to a group linked to billionaire George Soros, the Biden administration is handing millions of unwary listeners over to far-left activists. The reason? Hispanics continued their overall migration toward the Right in November’s midterm elections, an evolution that shatters the Left’s playbook. → Read More
America Must Stand Up to China’s Crackdown on Freedom
It’s unlikely that President Joe Biden brought up the name Jimmy Lai in his recent conversation with China’s communist dictator, Xi Jinping. At least the records don’t show it. But Lai’s impending trial in Hong Kong represents a classic showdown between a tireless defender of freedom and a brutal regime. → Read More
How Cultural Marxism Threatens the United States—and How Americans Can Fight It
1989: The Watershed Year > All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a Trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach… → Read More
The Supreme Court Has Upheld Racial Preferences Before. But This Time Is Different
“Diversity is our strength” has been a battle cry of leftists for decades, undergirding their hope that a national “majority-minority” population will one day defeat the mythical “white supremacy.” Ironically, that diversity might be a double-edged sword. It may be about to bury one of the Left’s holy grails: racial preferences. → Read More
Today’s Marxist Leftists Want To Keep Minorities Trapped in Perpetual Victimhood
Sometime about half a century ago, the Marxist Left, determined to force a revolution, came up with what it thought was a fail-proof strategy: Get minorities to believe they are victims, a people oppressed by U.S. society, and they will gladly enlist in the campaign to transform society’s culture completely. This followed the failure of Marxists to foment “class struggle” in the United States.… → Read More
Today's Marxist Leftists Want to Trap Minorities in Permanent Victimhood
According to a Bienvenido poll of 1,200 Hispanic registered voters last week, 70% of them reject the offensive notion that they're victims. → Read More
The Truth About Black Lives Matter
Did former President Donald Trump’s behavior lead to Black Lives Matter, the 2020 riots, and the fraught racial and sexual politics upending American society? That’s a far-fetched theory that can’t withstand the barest scrutiny, yet one of the leading voices in today’s leftist media advances it as an explanation for the present moment. → Read More
Leaked L.A. City Council Audio Shows Result of Leftist Grievance Politics
For decades, left-wing radicals and elite institutions have made it their goal to unite black Americans and Mexican Americans in Los Angeles under shared grievances. But the signs were there all along that the people on the ground resisted comparisons—and we have been reminded again of that fact quite recently. → Read More
Kanye West Dares To Defy Black Lives Matter
The Black Lives Matter organizations have gone full bore after Kanye West. His grievous offense? → Read More
All Over the World, Conservatives Waking Up to Threat of New Marxists
Conservatives seldom have been great at forging international coalitions. But that is changing rapidly. A common enemy always does that. Failure to form global networking is a bit of an occupational hazard for conservatism, inherently a nation-oriented, inward-looking endeavor. Conservatives, after all, seek to conserve very different national traditions, sometimes contradictory ones. What a… → Read More
Christianity Under Siege in Nicaragua
The persecution of Christians has been a common occurrence across much of the Middle East and China, but an equally virulent persecution is taking place not far from American shores with minimal global attention. Nowhere is this more evident than under the regime of Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega. The Catholic Church has been a common target of contempt and accusations of undermining the… → Read More
Democrats Are in Denial About Why They Are Losing Hispanic Voters
Recent brouhahas over Jill Biden comparing Hispanics to tacos, the purchase of conservative Spanish-language radio stations with George Soros’ money and the plucky campaigns of four GOP Latinas in Texas and Virginia are symptoms of something deeper and perhaps more durable than progressives want to admit. → Read More