Posted on 03/18/2016 5:53:50 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
I remember back in 1980 Reagan being called the same thing. Actually worse , he was going to start a nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
Exactly so. Breitbart nearly became another victim of the demagogue takeover, and has barely been left standing. We're heading into what will obviously be a helluva storm, and we may be utterly without reliable media -- unless by reliable we mean, reliably against us.
You write with all the confident ignorance of what you decry. Go and sell your little man.
My little man isn’t for sale, wife says to keep it in my pants.
Yes. The president is not elected by the people under the Constitution.
Wow, your “compelling argument” has certainly put a damper on my whole day! I will begin earnestly rethinking my whole life. (/sarc)
Actually John Adams would side with Trump.
Re-establishment of the rule of law and the people over a government that has demonstrated 8 years of contempt for the law and the people would be exactly the sort of thing Adams would favor.
No child, the hysteric screaming bile laced tirades at everyone who does not worship their chosen canidate are the actual fools in this equation.
Actually John Adams would side with Trump.
Reestablishment of the rule of the Constitution, and the people, over a government that has demonstrated 8 years of contempt for both, would be exactly the sort of thing Adams would favor. The examples" this author creates to validate his emotional opinion exist no where but in his fevered imagination. They are a pathetic straw-man created to avoid having to have a honest discussion of facts.
Actually the article is pathetic trash. However, the rebuttals are quite interesting and thoughtful so of course they will be ignored by you since they refute your emotional opinions
When I was younger I thought Nat. Review was one of the most intellectual magazines on Earth after seeing an ad with Buckley in it. The man just radiated sophistication while being able to give a rhetorical middle finger to the left so easily.
But good grief has it become a circus! Every article is a meltdown!
Exactly an Adams would have nothing but contempt for those of you so swept up in your passionate hate for Trump you have refused to think a single rational thought about him in months.
My-my! NR has now become psychic. My personal estimation is that they’ve become a physic; not a psychic.
But the idea that NR would claim to know that John Adams had prescient nightmares about some future “Donald Trump”, but was blissfully carefree about all the Dingy Harrys, and John Boners, and Barky Obamas, and John McCains, and John Robertses, and Mitch McConnells, is complete, insane hate-filled panic. And it’s been triggered by the thought of Donald Trump bringing their Cheap Labor Lobbyist Payola Express to a screeching halt.
John Adams and his ilk are nothing but the most eleetly, eleetiest, elites of the “e” of their day.
They’re the problem not the solution.
Jeez, break off from mother Britain and they think they are such hot stuff.
Well....I’m on Earth’s surface looking up at that big space station where the beautiful people live. Yah, let’s blow it up.
Quite an indictment. Say, when is the crony class going to give us free trade in the U.S.?
Kevin Williamsen, clutching at his pearls again...
I think you've nailed it. Thanks!
The writer quotes John Adams at great length, to indicate some understanding of Adams' reasoning. He does not quote Donald Trump at great length, but substitutes his own ex cathedra type of conclusions about Donald Trump, thus indicating no actual understanding of Donald Trump's reasoning. He baits the reader with Adams--a fine mind;--and then switches to his own ex cathedra theories about Donald Trump.
The writer has written a hit piece; but analyzed, it is a very awkward hit piece that should not persuade anyone with the intelligence of a fifth grader--to reduce this to the writer's cognitive level.
Look, if you would understand Donald Trump, both now and in the future, you need to understand his focus in different situations, and his reactions to what he focuses on, which will indicate aspects of his personal inclinations.
My stab at such analysis has convinced me Trump: Metaphor For American Conservatism. He is the best, perhaps the last hope for saving our heritage--the heritage of Adams in New England; the heritage of Jefferson in the South; the heritage that Reagan alone of any of the Presidents since Coolidge, both understood & honored.
We Stand With Trump!
I will grant you that each of those writers deserves to be judged by his or her individual product. Thus my above post on this writer's product.
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