Dear Bari Weiss, Machiavelli Was Right. It Is Better To Be Feared Than Loved

Especially when your enemies are utter moral frauds

Do you remember the time that 60 Minutes covered the Arkansas ban on pediatric sex lobotomies by interviewing someone from the conservative nonprofit Alliance Defending Freedom, leaving almost everything they said on the cutting room floor without interviewing any of the parents or clinicians they recommended, instead airing pro-trans advocacy and minimizing regret rates? Pepperidge Farms remembers, and so does Emilie Kao. It was 2021:

Shortly before the “60 Minutes+” interview, the traditional Sunday night version of “60 Minutes” ran a story in which correspondent Lesley Stahl interviewed 30 “detransitioners,” including one who said he became suicidal for the first time after surgery on his genitals.

There was intense backlash from the Human Rights Campaign and other LGBT activists against “60 Minutes” for including the voices of those who have become skeptical about “gender affirmation.”

Activists immediately tried to discredit the ex-trans youth Stahl interviewed. GLAAD called it “fea…