The leftist ‘Omnicause’ lies to us every day

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Destructive wildfires in Europe and the suicide of a black professor are closely linked, even though they seem utterly unconnected. The tissue that joins these unhappy events is an activist matrix sometimes referred to as the “omnicause.”

The omnicause, a name coined in 2023, is the protean blob of leftism that engulfs whatever it touches and lets its leaders turn their vast flock of sheeplike protesters from one direction to another whenever their political agenda makes it expedient to do so.

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