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| Victor Davis Hanson: Deport the Deplorables? |
| 2018-07-21 |
| [AmGreatness] Deport the Deplorables is a slogan of popular culture, found on bumper stickers, t-shirts, and internet postings. But now the mini-industry of deplorable/deportable sloganeering has made its way into more elite circles. With just three words, the phrase "deport the deplorables" sends two popular messages: one, get rid of undesirable American citizens who voted for Donald Trump and who were properly written off in 2016 as deplorables by Hillary Clinton. And, two, by implication, don’t deport the illegal aliens who broke U.S. immigration law. Or put more succinctly, foreign nationals who crash our borders are innately superior people to citizens of the working- and middle-classes who voted for Trump. A bipartisan disdain exists for the middle and working classes, whether periodically politically manifested as the old blue-dog Democrats, Perot voters, Reagan Democrats, Tea Party activists, or Trump supporters. On the Left, they were derided as the clingers of rural Pennsylvania whom Obama blamed for his 2008 primary loss to Hillary Clinton in that state and who never appreciated his genius: "And it’s not surprising, then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." |
| Posted by:746 |
| #8 Is that the other side of "open borders?" |
| Posted by: james 2018-07-21 19:43 |
| #7 Late Roman Empire -- make taxes so being a freedmen is ruinous, then wonder where all the city tradesmen (their middle class) disappeared to with their tax revenues...? Madness, short-sided madness... |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-07-21 14:05 |
| #6 I'd suggest the "elites" crack a history book on the late Roman Empire for the effects of making citizenship more costly than non citizenship. But that presupposes they're capable of learning anything. |
| Posted by: charger 2018-07-21 12:47 |
| #5 Do they still have a place in the geography of Quantico called "Skid Row"? Back a few years ago it was where they had the "aggressor platoon" for the combat simulation training. Mostly men "just" back from Vietnam and they were sort of de-pressurizing from that and doing what they were familiar with for a time. You can see the sense of that. Cross the railroad tracks and out on a spit of land swamp on three sides. You understand, that sort of thing. 4 murders in a year depressurizing. Good aggressor troops, let's be realistic. Height of the Peace Movement, McGovern ? I forget. Marines tend not to be political much. But we knew how America felt about us and treated us. Your haircut gave you away when you tried for dates in DC sort of thing. My ploy was the Cosmetic Counter girls at the Dept. stores at the Malls and the Coffee shops on Connecticut Ave. up from Georgetown. A few Girls like men who look like men and some do. It was sometimes a way of sorting out your chances. that or take a squad of PLC's and drill them on the grass at Mary Washington College. That worked too. Dinner and dancing at the George Washington Inn and a tour in the Moonlight at the battle of Fredricksburg overlooking the river. We had a McGovern favoring Captain who drove a Cadillac. We slipped a pillow case over his head one night and put him naked into an Ice Cream truck icebox parked at the airstrip. And then we stripped his Cadillac and left it up on blocks. You can imagine how the average Marine feels about the Donk Party, Obama, and the California Left now that we are all grandfathers and have grown sons of our own. As aggressor troop it was 30 of us against 200 to 400 of the men we were "training". They were going over to Viet Nam as soon as they graduated. We were just back from there. A good quarter of a million of us today. And maybe another 2 or 3 million of us with wounds we remember every day. Holding a new grandson and drinking my Coffee this morning. The Left doesn't stand a chance as long as I and the USMCorps are still here. No one is going to Deport me, or my son, or my grandson. My deplorables are still safe. |
| Posted by: Enver the Well-mannered1085 2018-07-21 10:56 |
| #4 It might be instructional to the Donk Blue state Elites to go down to a USMarine Corp barracks just about dawn They'll find true diversity they keep whining about among their circles. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-07-21 09:01 |
| #3 Deport the Deplorables is a slogan of popular culture. Mostly in California and other lefty areas. Let them sell T-shirts to each other. It is to the advantage of the elite globalists to keep us divided and at war. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-07-21 06:55 |
| #2 This is why we have to vote. Once the Dems get power again, they're going to put an end to us. No more America. Turn us into a Third World shithole of rich and easily bribed desperate poor. |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy 2018-07-21 03:05 |
| #1 It might be instructional to the Donk Blue state Elites to go down to a USMarine Corp barracks just about dawn and introduce themselves to the Platoon already up since about 4AM and stringing machine gun ammo together and explain their views to the men and see what they think. Just ask if you can park your Mercedes or your Porsche back there and come up on the loading dock and sit on the ammo bases and offer to "help" stringing the bullets into the little metal links. You can join in the conversation by being of use and sharing the work load. It might be a bit rash to join in the PTThat starts about dawn and you need time to allow the Mess Hall food to settle... and the daily seventy be a bit too arduous for you ( plus you aren't dressed for it ). Ask the men if they Embrace the Suck ? See if they laugh at your sense of civilian camaraderie . |
| Posted by: Enver the Well-mannered1085 2018-07-21 01:16 |