Article

2019-07-06 Home Front: Politix

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-07-06 07:04|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Victor Davis Hanson, The Case for Trump, pages 316-317.

The Very idea that Donald Trump could, even in a perverse way, be heroic may appalling to half the country. Nonetheless, one way of squaring both Trump's personal excesses and his accomplishments is that his traditionally non presidential behavior may have been valuable in bringing long-overdue changes in foreign and domestic policy. Tragic heroes, as they have been portrayed from Homer's Iliad and Sophocle's plan (e.g. Ajaz, Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Philoctetes) to modern western fim, are not intrinsically noble. They can often be obnoxious and petty, if not dangerous, especially to those around them. The mercurial sorts rarely end up well, and on occasion neither to those in their vicinity. Oedipus was rudely narcissistic. In the film Hombre, antihero John Russel (Paul Newman) proved arrocant and off-putting.

Tragic heroes are often unstable loners. They are aloof by preference and due to society;s understandable unease with them. Sophocle's Ajax soliloquies about a rigged system and lack of recognition accorded his undeniable accomplishments is Trumpian to the core. They are akin to the sensational rumors sthat late at night Trump is hold up alone, brooding, eating fast food, apart from his wife, and watching Fox News shows.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-07-06 09:11|| 2019-07-06 09:11|| Front Page Top

#2 "IT'A ALL TRUMP"S FAULT I ACT LIKE A HOMICIDAL MANIAC!!" ---screamed by Antifa rioters and MSM news presenters (one wears a face mask so you can tell them apart).

Posted by magpie 2019-07-06 12:10|| 2019-07-06 12:10|| Front Page Top

22:20 trailing wife
21:40 jpal
21:26 anymouse
21:25 anymouse
21:21 anymouse
21:19 anymouse
21:13 anymouse
21:04 magpie
20:50 Rambler in Virginia
20:35 Procopius2k
20:00 gorb
19:19 Seeking Cure For Ignorance
18:14 Skidmark
17:10 trailing wife
16:49 Vernal Hatrick
16:46 Frank G
16:37 trailing wife
16:34 trailing wife
16:34 Frank G
15:46 Dron66046
15:24 SteveS
15:21 Bobby
15:20 Judge Smails
15:19 Regular joe