Greenfield: The Obama Era is Over

The Sultan Knish blog ^ | November 10 2016 | Daniel Greenfield

[trebb]

Obama, Clinton, and Bush eras have been relegated to the dustbin of history....

[Verginius Rufus]

Yes, I'd like to be as optimistic as Daniel Greenfield, but...

"The evil men do lives after them."

--Shakespeare

[left that other site]

In my humble literary opinion, this is the BEST essay that Dan has penned so far. And he has written some good ones. Some have been more complex, some more erudite, and some more intellectual.

But THIS one goes straight to the HEART of America.

[COUNTrecount]

great post!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Liberals whine about "Fascism” but they wouldn’t ^don't know Fascism if they tripped over it sipping lattes in Starbucks. ^{for exactly the same reason that fish don’t know water.}

[Billthedrill]

That one certainly put a smile on my face. This election was an unmistakable statement of dissatisfaction on the part of the American people for a progressive agenda that appeared to be getting entirely out of control. One indication of just how far is the high degree of support for Trump within the demographic that has become the default target of sundry social justice agitations: white males over 25. And, as well, the surprise on the part of more or less honest activists that this should be the case. These have, up to now, dismissed this sort of resentment as racism and unworthy of consideration; that may be less the case now that it's bit them in the collective ass.

Those movements were supported, funded, nurtured, and protected at the highest levels of the federal government, hardly the Constitutional function of the positions but as levers of power, highly attractive to energetic progressives with a clear bent toward vindictiveness. Those positions are about to be purged and reloaded, which is what the shouting is all about at the moment.

One thing signally absent from the psyche of the average social justice warrior is any sense of moderation, which is why the reflexive denial of the mere possibility that they might be going too far, painting with too broad a brush, employing violence where reason is called for. It takes an event of this magnitude to drive the lesson home to that minority of activists who are actually willing to learn.

I expressed the hope after the elections of 2008 that 0bama would grow in office, that he would discard some of the pretensions and excesses that were necessary to run a political campaign. He has not, and his programs have suffered for it. What became apparent during this period and expressed during the last election is that there is a single mandatory characteristic for a candidate without which he or she will fail, either in election or in office, and it is this: the candidate must love the country and respect its citizens. That sounds so simplistic it borders on the trite, but in truth neither 0bama nor Hillary Clinton displays that characteristic, nor do most of the more strident social activists. If you love and respect something but still wish to change it, you learn tact and discretion. If you hate it and its inhabitants, you learn nothing but hatred. If you regard the citizens as sheep to be led and sheered, or clay to be molded to your own inner vision, you end up on the losing end of a godawful political shellacking such as the one we see before us. Some learn from it. Some don't.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

January 20, 2017: The End of An Error.

[Silentgypsy]

“The evil men do lives after them.” That just meant that the deceased would be remembered for the damage they did. Obie purported to be an honorable and upright person. Hopefully, the new government will conduct investigations revealing the corruption that pervades the current administration. Obie didn’t do much good so, if the good is indeed interred with his bones, that’s fine.

[Silentgypsy]

Good point!