Posted on 01/20/2016 2:17:11 AM PST by WayneLusvardi
Imagine giving this advice to a Republican presidential candidate: What if you stopped calling yourself a conservative and instead just promised to make America great again?
What if you dropped all this leftover 19th-century piety about the free market and promised to fight the elites who were selling out American jobs? What if you just stopped talking about reforming Medicare and Social Security and instead said that the elites were failing to deliver better health care at a reasonable price? What if, instead of vainly talking about restoring the place of religion in society — something that appeals only to a narrow slice of Middle America — you simply promised to restore the Middle American core — the economic and cultural losers of globalization — to their rightful place in America? What if you said you would restorethem as the chief clients of the American state under your watch, being mindful of their interests when regulating the economy or negotiating trade deals?
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I don’t disagree at all with the authors premise.
In fact, we have been here before.
It seems as if it’s a predicable thing, similar to a weather pattern in the Farmer’s Almanac. It’s either that big business get’s too big for it’s britches and a “Teddy” comes along, or manufacturing jobs disappear as shelves fill with cheap imports and “Ross” comes in to save the day with more one liner fixes.
Now it’s “Donald” on his white steed, with the names of teddy and ross emblazoned on it’s flanks, telling everyone who will listen that he can “Make America “Great Again”.
Oh yeah, it does not take a rocked scientist to predict the usual third stage failures and resulting hand wringing, then the “man of the hour” comes to save the day!
rocked scientist?....I did mean rocket....lol
ping
Rush Limbaugh just spent about 25 minutes on this, much to my surprise, and joy.
Rush discussed Sam Francis by name, and his overall message, citing the essay in question and Francis’ advice to Buchanan as an harbiger of Trump’s ascendancy.
Newsflash: White identity and consciousness is not immoral.
Trump ping!
Whites have been intimidated into always, always, always insisting that it’s evil and taboo to try to avoid becoming a minority here in the U.S., or share the same views our wise and exalted founders had on race.
It’s like, how DARE we see life and politics the same way other ethnicities do, and coalesce around kin, etc.
Meanwhile, third world savages have no qualms nor compunction whatsoever gleefully seeking to utterly conquer us, and cuckservatives are all too eager to pretend it’s not happening; that we can make republicans out of all races, etc.
Bookmark
Thanks for the ping.
No, what cuckservatives miss is where and what the rails actually are. Francis got it, and stayed on them.
Abject diversity for its own sake = chaos, conflict, and tension.
Still in process of listening to Rush. He is ‘splaining a great deal this AM
I rather enjoy watching many of these throw temper tantrums every day anymore.
The DC Pundits and so called conservative talk show hosts are in a death spiral economically as Trump becomes president. They are like the horse/carriage and buggy whip makers and salesmen after Ford released his first automobile. They are not wanted, provide zero value and are irrelevant in our current world.
He i8s a sick manic depressive in my opinion. He is really unhinged and goofy. I never listen to him. I think he needs help quickly.
Any some of them are openly vowing to vote and phonebank for Hillary if he is the nominee. To me it’s all been a grift for years.
Hopefully, the grifters will be unemployed after Trump is sworn in next January!
To whom are you referring?
bkmk
Sam Francis wasn’t exactly obscure. He wrote a very popular column for Chronicles, had been an aide to Senator John East, worked for the Heritage Foundation, and wrote for the Washington Times until Dinesh D’Souza decided to make it his goal to ruin Francis’ career by labeling Francis a racist.
DARE
Yes I got it
At least we can talk about him now
Pretty amazing. Too bad we couldn’t when it might have made a difference.
It appears that neocon political correctness is losing some of its power to silence debate.
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