The Anti-Trump Bourbons: Learning and Forgetting Nothing in Time for 2020

American Greatness ^ | Aug. 14, 2017 | Victor Davis Hanen

[libstripper]

Just seven months into Donald Trump’s administration we are already bombarded with political angling and speculations about the 2020 presidential race. No one knows in the next three years what can happen to a volatile Trump presidency or his psychotic enemies, but for now such pronouncements of doom seem amnesiac if not absurd.

Things are supposedly not going well politically with Donald Trump lately, after a series of administration firings, internecine White House warring, and controversial tweets. A Gallup Poll has him at only a 34 percent positive rating, and losing some support even among Republicans (down to 79 percent)—although contrarily a recent Rasmussen survey shows him improving to the mid-forties in popularity. Nonetheless, we are warned that even if Trump is lucky enough not to be impeached, if he is not removed under the 25th Amendment or the Emoluments Clause, if he does not resign in shame, even if he has the stamina to continue under such chaos, even if he seeks reelection and thus even more punishment, he simply cannot win in 2020.

[libstripper]

VDH finally, and quite articulately, gets it about our PRESIDENT Trump. This causes me to wonder if he, along with a lot of other generally smart others, wasn't coerced into writing an anti-Trump article for that utterly disastrous issue of National Review, which came out during the primaries.

[headstamp 2]

[Finally, the Democrats failed to see that class-based populism is a far more inclusionary and thus dynamic phenomenon than is racial tribalism—for both whites and non-whites.]

Sheer VDH gold.

[arthurus]

I almost gave up on VDH after years of his trenchant analyses. He wrote several in a row that seemed to indicate he was starting to wander off into the broken ground that McCain occupies. He put his glasses back on, obviously, and turned his hearing aid up. I can put him back in my quick contact list.

[Behind the Blue Wall]

I’ve read VDH pretty closely the whole time, and barely recall him ever actively opposing Trump. Maybe in the primary, but he was fully on board by the general election, I’m pretty sure. Best political commentator on the scene today, IMHO.

[PGalt]

Namely, Trump’s enraged critics still do not grasp that he is a reflection of...

Finally, some representation. HOORAY President Donald J. Trump. Thank you, sir.

[GOPJ]

Second, if Obama did not bequeath an upside legacy, he certainly left a downside. Tribal obsessions with identity politics were implicitly an attack on the white working class. Those in Ohio and Pennsylvania were not just angry for being written off as bitter clingers, irredeemables, and deplorables, but also furious to be scapegoated for having “white privilege” by those who alone enjoyed it. A party run by Pajama Boys, half-educated media talking heads, Middlebury-prolonged adolescents, Bay Area billionaire techies in t-shirts and flip-flops, Hollywood gated grandees, Al Gore green elites, and Black Lives Matter activists is not going to win easily back Michigan and Wisconsin. Finally, the Democrats failed to see that class-based populism is a far more inclusionary and thus dynamic phenomenon than is racial tribalism—for both whites and non-whites. Democrats are finally worrying that they have lost the white working class; they should be even more terrified that they might lose 40 percent of the traditional minority vote if the economy keeps growing and Trump keeps talking about protecting low wage-earners from the dual threats of globalization and illegal immigration.

Victor Davis Hanen's one of our better thinkers... maybe his name could be included in the headline. I'd hate to miss him...

[tumblindice]

Great article! VDH is an erudite conservative treasure.
He’s Ann C., when she was good, but without the drama.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

2018 is going to be a Bloodbath for members of the Socialist Democrat Party, while 2020 will be a Cakewalk for President Trump, if he wants it.

You read it here, first. ;)

[nicollo]

... and this one on Obama: “mellifluent banality.” Classic!

[GOPJ]

Finally, the Democrats failed to see that class-based populism is a far more inclusionary and thus dynamic phenomenon than is racial tribalism—for both whites and non-whites.

Democrats are finally worrying that they have lost the white working class; they should be even more terrified that they might lose 40 percent of the traditional minority vote if the economy keeps growing and Trump keeps talking about protecting low wage-earners from the dual threats of globalization and illegal immigration.

ping

[Albion Wilde]

Hanson was NOT one of the authors in that "Against Trump" issue.

[politicianslie]

2018 is going to be a Bloodbath for members of the Socialist Democrat Party, while 2020 will be a Cakewalk for President Trump, if he wants it.

You read it here, first. ;)

I totally agree, let me be the first one to REPEAT what you said here.

Maybe, just maybe, even RINO traitors like Lyndsey Graham (loon-SC) might get the message: WE THE PEOPLE ARE TIRED OF THE LIES AND THE TRAITORS.