A.J. Melnick – Country music expresses the heart of America.  The left hates the heart of America (“the fruited plain,” as Rush Limbaugh used to call it), so the left hates most country music.  The woke mob’s attacks against Jason Aldean and his hit song “Try That in a Small Town,” as country superstar Lee Greenwood has noted, have “struck directly through the heart of country music.”  Greenwood added: “Cancel culture mob attacked Jason Aldean.  They came for ‘God Bless the USA.’  But they can’t cancel all of us.”

Jason’s song has been denounced as “racist” by the progressive elites.  The New York Times (promoter of the “1619 Project,” which views America’s beginnings as the story of a “slaveocracy”) claims that “critics” of the song have denounced it as an alleged “call to racist vigilantism.”  But the song and accompanying video are nothing of the kind.  Even Joe Rogan — who survived his own attempted takedown by the left’s cancel mob — has remarked on the ridiculous outrage against the song. Continue reading →