The late, great Andrew Breitbart was one of the most quotable conservatives of his era. “Walk toward the fire,” he exhorted his fellow activists. “Don’t worry about what they call you. All those things are said against you because they want to stop you in your tracks.”
It was good advice when Breitbart said it during the contentious Barack Obama years, and it’s even better advice during the era of hyper-woke dogma today. But if Breitbart the man is singularly identified with any one line, it would undoubtedly be his well-known quip that “politics is downstream of culture.” Indeed, this pithy formulation became known as the “Breitbart Doctrine.”
Breitbart, a native Angeleno who frequently inveighed against the fetid rot in his nearby Hollywood, was a culture warrior to his core. He correctly observed—and lamented—the immense power that comes with…
