Posted on 02/02/2017 10:31:27 AM PST by billorites
He is a great writer. A little heavy on the Latin references, but a truly great mind.
He absolutely nails the NeverTrumpers, Cuckservatives, and why Conservatism has failed for 50+ years.
That was a fantastic piece. One of the best things posted on FR in the last few years.
Thanks for posting!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3520541/posts?page=1#1
Ping! “Publius Decius” unmasked.
Anton sounds like he was better suited for the position than Crowley was.
Quite an interesting article. I read the “Decius” piece during the campaign and found it to be directly on target. It sounds like Monica Crowley’s resignation was a blessing in disguise!
Kudos to Micheal Anton!
From the article:
In “The Flight 93 Election,” Decius considered the 2016 election as a game of Russian roulette for conservatives. A President Clinton would all but assure annihilation of everything they hold dear. “With Trump, at least you can spin the cylinder and take your chances,” he wrote.
Yes, Anton is a brilliant writer. I get the same thrill I get when I read Victor Davis Hanson. Glad to know he’s on the team.
Antonius, that you?
We the People: “Let’s Roll!”
Excellent article, very reassuring. One more indication that the adults are in charge. Thanks for posting.
I had forgotten what it was like to have grownups in the White House.
Just read “The Flight 93 Election”.
It is good, but misunderstands how we got to where we are.
The Left did not just happen to take over the schools, academia, and think tanks. It happened because of the centralization of the media, its takeover by “progressivism” and the lack of any serious opposition to it for decades.
Trump’s rise did not happen because Trump picked the right issues. That was part, but not the most important part.
The most important part was that we had built new and alternate media that could get Trump’s message out. He was able to fight the Establishment media and win. The new media was not built by Trump, but he took full advantage of it.
That is why Trump’s election will prove effective and lasting. The Mediacracy’s hold on the dissemination of infromation has been broken. It cannot easily be put back together.
And Trump is exactly the President we need to fragment the media establishment, and set it to fighting each other and aggressively checking each other for “Fake News”.
The Establishment media is the key, and Anton does not emphasize that enough.
Do you have a link to that article? Thanks.
Never mind, found it and read it.
Great job, Michael Anton!
And good for President Trump putting him in the White House.
I hope Anton has moved beyond Straussianism.
The Neocon Straussians are a strange lot. Their intellectual pedigree began with 20th century Jewish emigres from Central and Eastern Europe who were Trotskyists.
Eventually they rejected Trotskyism and embraced free markets, but they did not return to Judaism.
They reject Judeo-Christianity and appear to adhere to elements of Classical Greek philosophy. But they are “esoteric” in writing about the true basis of their belief system, apparently because they think Americans would reject them if they were more open about this.
Their roots in our country are rather shallow, and they support Globalism and have little concern for the well-being of fellow Americans. They are embarrassed by strong feelings of American patriotism and consider national spirit and self-government based on nation-states, to be retrograde and passe.
Ironically, while they are strong supporters of a Jewish nation in Israel, they are not strong supporters of an American nation in the USA, and are one of the most influential voices in demanding mass third world immigration into the USA, including in particular Islamic immigration, on the basis that America is merely a “proposition” nation and not really a people with its own culture, tradition and history with a right to determine who may immigrate, unlike Israel.
Many of them, such as Jen Rubin, Bret Stephens and Bill Kristol, have become completely unhinged because of the election of Trump and view an American people that would elect Donald Trump as little different than Nazis. They have become very influential through magazines like the Weekly Standard, National Review, Commentary and the WSJ editorial page.
I imagine the ascendancy of Trump is as disturbing and distasteful to some in this country as the election of an Untouchable to high office would be in India.
For all his wealth Trump will never be mistaken for being one of the manor born.
I find much to admire in him, but even I have to look beyond his taste for white furniture trimmed in gold.
Exactly! National Review, Peggy Noonan, George Will and David Brooks come to mind here. The fault lay not in our stars, but in ourselves, e.g. the argument over who was the "true conservative" in the election, as if anyone cared or it would have been of any consequence to have a conservatively defensible answer to the question.
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