WHY I CALL FOR A STATE OF GOOD REPAIR.

That has been a recent theme, with two of today's posts continuing it.  I object to the term "backlash."  A Pajamas Media essay by Tyler O'Neil makes clear why I don't like that term.  "Trump’s decision to appoint J. Christian Adams to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission may indicate a rising backlash to the Marxist reinterpretation of civil rights and the pernicious ideology behind the riots."

"Backlash" is a term borrowed from mechanical engineering (it's something that happens in gear trains) that self-styled progressives like to use to dismiss objections to the changes they would like to have us believe are progress.  As the full sentence clearly shows, "Marxist reinterpretation of civil rights and the pernicious ideology" clearly refer to breaking things.  When people get tired of things being broken, they seek to restore a state of good repair.

Stop referring to attempts to restore a state of good repair as somehow a disruption to the workings of somebody else's ideas of progress.