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| The Nightmares and the Realities of Never Trump |
| 2017-05-19 |
| h/t Instapundit Rarely in the last half-century have so many elite conservatives and intellectuals been so estranged both from a Republican administration and from those who voted for it--neither have they become so animated in their antipathy and disgust for a sitting president. During the 2016 election, and the current Trump presidency, there have appeared four implicit tenets to the conservative "Never Trump" position that, we are supposed to understand, justified not voting for him, actively opposing him, or voting for Hillary Clinton: ...So far all the political violence associated with the election of Trump, from Inauguration to the latest campus rioting, has been on the Left. ...The crudity in contemporary politics--from the constant sick jokes referring to First Family incest, smears against the First Lady, low attacks on the Trump children, boycotts of the Inauguration, talk and dreams of killing the president--is on the liberal/progressive side. ...Trump was not so much a reflection of red-state Americans’ political ignorance, as their weariness with those of both parties who ridicule, ignore, or patronize them--and now seek to overturn the verdict of the election. Because people without college degrees in Crit. Lit. are too stupid to vote? |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #2 Rarely in the last half-century have so many elite conservatives and intellectuals been so estranged both from a Republican administration and from those who voted for it. That is because their "conservatism" was a gig, not a cause. And because Trump's success was an embarrassing contrast to their pathetic failures. The question I would ask all the Con Elite is: "What exactly is it that you have conserved?(Your place at the trough doesn't count)" |
| Posted by: charger 2017-05-19 18:54 |
| #1 A read most of the whole thing, skimming a bit, and concluded, "pretty good". Then I saw the author at the bottom - Victor Davis Hanson. No wonder it was good! |
| Posted by: Bobby 2017-05-19 10:03 |