The Return of The Mule (Short and to the point)

The Z Man ^ | October 10, 2016

[2ndDivisionVet]

If you go back and watch videos of Reagan in the 70’s and 80’s, one of the things that jumps out is how aggressively he attacked the Left. In his first inaugural address, he attacked the very essence of what Jimmy Carter stood for as a politician. The man was sitting just behind Reagan as the Gipper explained that everything Carter believed was dangerous nonsense. The other thing that jumps out, when watching old Reagan speeches, is that no Republican talks like that anymore.

Instead, every Republican that has aggressively pressed the attack against the Left over the last quarter century, has been attacked by the media and so-called conservatives as unacceptably “polarizing” as if that is a thing. Official Conservatism has instead insisted that they abide by a set of gentile rules designed by the ruling majority, intended to perpetuate their hegemony. You could be forgiven for thinking that maybe the whole thing was a setup, a game of bad cop – worse cop, in order to rig the results.

Whenever the futility of this arrangement has been pointed out to Official Conservatism, they sigh and concede that it is unfair, but principle demands “we abide by the rules because that’s who we are.” If you pointed out that “who they were” was a bunch of losers, they would put on their lemon face and suggest that perhaps you were disloyal or some sort of hate thinker. Conservatism in America became the candy coating to the liberal nut inside the system.

I was thinking about that over the weekend as first we get the leaked tape of Donald Trump talking like a normal man, who believed he was in a private conversation with another man. The beta male pansies in the managerial class don’t know anything about this, but normal men in private like to tell dick jokes, boast about women and reminiscence about their exploits. The faggots that take up space in Official Conservatism don’t know about these things.

Watching one traitorous fink after another decry Trump’s locker room talk from a decade ago, I was reminded once again that these people were never on my side. It was always a con, a grift, to fool otherwise decent people into putting down their weapons and surrendering to the Left. Buckley-style conservatism, whatever it was, is now just a tool of the managerial class to clear the field for nation-wrecking policies to benefit the ruling elite at the expense of the middle class.

Last night, I was reminded of why Trump was able to obliterate the GOP field despite being out spent a million-to-one. He is not a pussy. Any other Republican faced with the dirty trick pulled on Friday would have gone into the debate prepared to grovel and plead, begging for a second chance. It is not all all inconceivable that he would have offered to step aside. Trump went into the debate prepared to deliver a counter bunch designed to knock the old fat cow on her ass.

It was a sterling performance that turned the tactics and strategy of the government party back onto them. If the contest is going to be a referendum on Trump’s character, then Trump is going to make a big show of exploring the character of the Clinton Gang. Having Bubba’s many sexual assault victims at the event was a missile landing directly into the weapons cache of the Clinton campaign. His demand for a special prosecutor reminded everyone of the elephant in the room.

When even the most disloyal of craven rumpswabs concedes Trump won the debate, you know it was a great night for The Donald.

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Guys like Jonah Goldberg would sooner take a job in the dreaded private sector than say anything nice about Trump or the people prepared to vote for him. As I’ve pointed out in the past, Goldberg is Exhibit A for the case against Official Conservatism and the party it has infested. Trump stands as the rebuke of the surrender caucus, that has profited guys like Goldberg so handsomely over the last two decades. If he has to concede to Trump, you know it was a great win.

Trump probably will not win and even if he does, it’s probably too late to avoid disaster anyway. Democracies always murder themselves. That is the lesson of history and ours will do the same, sooner rather than later. If the worst is to be avoided, then the present arrangements must be de-legitimized in order for a reform effort to have room to grow. That’s the role of Trump in the election. He the destroyer of worlds that need destroying.

When this all started, I compared Trump to the character in the Asimov Foundation series called The Mule. One way of interpreting this character is as a destroyer that sweeps away that which must be swept away in order for something better to rise in its place. That’s the Trump campaign. By cracking the Conservative Industrial Complex and challenging the legitimacy of the managerial class, he is exposing the whole thing as a racket, one which the people can no longer trust.

Last night The Mule Returned.

[Ciaphas Cain]

The Republican Party as has existed for way too long is dead.

It had become a diseased and corrupted and self-mutilated parody of a principled party. Its demise was coming sooner or later.

On Sunday night Trump delivered the death blow.

[TXBlair]

Good find, 2ndDivisionVet! Thanks!

[wastoute]

The Uniparty has been revealed.

[nathanbedford]

Official Conservatism has instead insisted that they abide by a set of gentile rules designed by the ruling majority, intended to perpetuate their hegemony

A point well taken. Another word for this "Official Conservatism" is political correctness. The problem is not only have we abandoned the definition of political correctness to the left but we have conflated universal notions of cultural decency with political correctness.

Before we castigate Rinos for resorting to political correctness or "official conservatism" to cover their sins, and before we date the beginning and the end of the Republican Party with the blowup over Trump, we might consider that the true date, if one considers only recent history, is the date the Republican Party walked away from Ted Cruz who stood on his feet all night long filibustering for you and me.

Unfortunately, Cruz was not abandoned by Rinos only, he was abandoned by the people who are now rationalizing the destruction of the Republican Party as an event to be welcomed and with it the possible demise of conservatism.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Return Of The Hero

[556x45]

This all started around the time the GOP adopted the ‘Big Tent’ policy. IOW you can be anything and we’ll accept you. Only the GOP is stupid enough to go that route. Notice the dems are true to their ideology and shun anything not liberal.

[Lurker]

Nice find.

L

[Dr. Sivana]

This all started around the time the GOP adopted the ‘Big Tent’ policy.

I like Reagan's and Trump's Big Tent, reach out to old school Democrats who have been neglected/sneered at by the Democrats, at the expense of some Unfettered Free Trade/Open Borders/NWO types with money who actively undermine the other Republicans on every other issue.

[Dr. Sivana]

And yes, I know Reagan’s defalt position was free trade, but he made exceptions as needed, never made it an idol, and was competing on comparatively level ground with Japan, because WE DIDN’T HAVE FREE TRADE WITH the CHICOMs, nor were we intending to pursue it in any serious way until Bush the Elder and WTO deals.

[ClearCase_guy]

I stopped calling myself a Republican after George W Bush put in place The Patriot Act and allowed rampant deficit spending.
I stopped calling myself a Conservative when so many “Conservative” (Beck, Cruz, Ryan, Will, Krauthammer, etc.) tried to make sure Hillary became president rather than Trump.

I’m a nationalist. Trump is a Nationalist. I want to put America first.

You want a big tent? Go find every American voter who wants to put America first.

The federal government isn’t supposed to be engaged in social engineering, so ignore that stuff. Trade deals, immigration, national security, economic growth. Put America first.

With that as a focus, you can get a lot of people under the bigtop.

[odawg]

“...the date the Republican Party walked away from Ted Cruz who stood on his feet all night long filibustering for you and me.”

The Republican Party, as Congressmen and voters, never walked up to Cruz in order to walk away.

There are multitudes of people who stand on their feet night and day doing their job. With Cruz I can safely assume is was a one-time event. And, he knew before he did it that it was just a scene-stealing moment.

Trump, never being a politician and and always having the bottom line in mind, doesn’t cloak himself in political ideology. For him, building a wall in not conservative ideology, it is common sense. Ditto blocking Muslim refugees, redoing trade agreements that have de-industralized the nation, etc.

[Little Ray]

You do know that, once upon a time, the ‘Pubbies were the progressive party and the Democrats the conservatives? Lincoln had a number links to Marxists (really). https://www.amazon.com/Red-Republicans-Lincolns-Marxists-Marxism/dp/0595446981

This started changing only during the FDR administration when the Democrats dodged to the Left to buy votes and power.

Parties are about power, not principles. And, apparently Trump threatens the power of both parties - which makes me feel better about voting for him!

[nathanbedford]

Trump, never being a politician and and always having the bottom line in mind, doesn’t cloak himself in political ideology. For him, building a wall in not conservative ideology, it is common sense.

It is my not desire nor intention to trash Trump here and now that will occur with brickbats or hosannas on November 9 as Trump supporters seek to shift the blame or take credit.

With Cruz I can safely assume is was a one-time event. And, he knew before he did it that it was just a scene-stealing moment.

Except it wasn't a one-time event, it was one of a series of actions, for example he successfully lobbying the house (with the help of the win by Prof. Bratt in Virginia) against immigration amnesty. There are so many examples of Ted Cruz taking the principled conservative stand and so many examples of the people now bleating about conservative principles who turned a blind eye and a deaf ear. Even today we hear Donald Trump himself criticizing by innuendo the Speaker of the House for failing to control the budget, a fight Ted Cruz lead on time after time and did so with very very few people watching his six.

How many times have you heard people excoriate politicians for failing to get out and lead but when Ted Cruz does it you call him an opportunist. How easy and cheap.

[odawg]

“...he successfully lobbying the house (with the help of the win by Prof. Bratt in Virginia) against immigration amnesty

According to Senator Sessions, it was the election of Bratt and the defeat of amnesty proponent Cantor that changed the vote. Boehner already had the votes to pass the bill, but the next night or so Cantor was defeated. Scared the other Representatives. Cruz could do nothing with the Senate, his turf.

[nathanbedford]

I wanted to be absolutely straightforward about this so I advanced the contribution of the election of Dave Bratt in conjunction with Ted Cruz' efforts. It was my understanding that Sen. Sessions credited both.

But even if Ted Cruz ' efforts were not the efficient producing cause of blocking amnesty, how about giving him credit for the effort? Instead, the cynical slander is to distort his efforts to kill the bill by insinuating poison pills to be a sign of sellout, the opposite of the truth. This is typical of the Kafkaesque treatment of Ted Cruz around here.

Are you surprised that he could avail nothing in Mitch McConnell Senate against the likes of Rubio, Schumer and McCain? It's become part of the mantra that Ted Cruz cannot be credited for his efforts on behalf of conservative values because he acted without Rinos' support as though that is his failing. Maybe you should consider that he sounded the toxin for a general awakening.

[mrsmith]

“When this all started, I compared Trump to the character in the Asimov Foundation series called The Mule.”

Hey so did I!!!!!! (After the southern primaries anyway,)

Trump can’t win as a “Ryan ally”. He has to run against ALL the establishment.

[mrsmith]

Cruz was abandoned by the Party, but he was rejected by conservative voters.
He just ran an awful campaign. That’s his own fault.

[nathanbedford]

Ted Cruz ran a very respectable second in a field of 16 or 17 and Donald Trump got only 38% of the vote while the issue was contested.

[mrsmith]

He lost the linchpin of his campaign strategy- the southern primaries- to “the Mule”, Trump.
(The Mule is a ‘black swan’ type political character in Asimov’s story)
The he fumbled around trying to develop a new strategy and, failing, eventually allied with the GOPe at the end.

I voted for him in VA as the most conservative but it was already obvious he couldn’t win the primaries or the general.

Cruz didn’t lose because of his conservative beliefs, he lost because he couldn’t present them ‘winningly’.