Posted on 04/02/2016 10:24:45 PM PDT by Trumpinator
Trump leaves the conservative establishment arrogant and unmoored
By Joe Scarborough April 2 at 11:06 PM
When members of Manhattan’s media elite come to Mark Halperin’s home for dinner, Halperin likes to ask his guests whether they have spent more time in Paris or Staten Island. More often than not, his guests select the destination that does not offer regular ferry service from Battery Park.
Halperin’s dinner quiz provides a glimpse into what conservatives have long mocked as the cloistered existence of liberal elites who report on a nation they don’t understand. Republican critics have long complained that these media elites are schooled, spend their summers and live most of their lives in urbane enclaves that provide little insight into how the rest of America lives.
But in 2016, conservative commentators are sounding as cocooned from their own political party as any liberal writing social commentary for The New Yorker or providing political analysis for ABC News. Even after the passing of Antonin Scalia and the Paris and San Bernadino attacks, many right-leaning pundits are spending their days scolding readers and declaring that no true conservative or God-fearing Christian could support Donald Trump. This simmering rage has now risen to such a level that many conservative opinion shapers are spending their waking hours coping with a festering Zapruder-like obsession over video frames of the Corey Lewandowski-Michelle Fields confrontation while obsessing over the GOP frontrunner’s latest embarrassing gaffe.
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The March 28th edition of National Review ran a column that described Donald Trump as a “Father-Fuhrer” for poor white men raised without a strong male figure. “It is easy to imagine a generation of young men being raised without fathers and looking out the window like a kid waiting for Daddy to come home,” National Review’s Kevin Williamson wrote, “waiting for the Father-Fuhrer figure they have spent their lives imagining.”
Williamson concluded that white working class men victimized by globalization were not actually victims at all, but rather losers whose own poor choices have led them down a path of “welfare dependency, drug and alcohol addiction, and family anarchy.”
It is not quite as rosy a lens as what conservative writers once used to focus on these same Reagan Democrats. “The white American underclass is in thrall to a vicious, selfish culture whose main products are misery and used heroin needles,” wrote Williamson.
“Donald Trump’s speeches make them feel good. So does OxyContin.”
Wow.
Imagine the reaction from William F. Buckley if such an article were written about the same voters who helped propel candidates like Reagan, Gingrich and Bush 43 to power.
more time in Paris or Staten Island...
mother @#$@#$@#$@#$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Where’s my bat?!!!?!?!?!
My hometown is more conservative than you snob ####s will ever be.
Whew!
Good thing Trump isn’t arrogant!
Nice enough to me the two times I met him
“Suggesting that faithful Christians and life long conservatives like my brother cannot support Donald Trump while believing in Jesus is offensive enough. But denigrating millions of working class Americans let down by a quarter century of Bush-Clinton rule as drug addicts or white supremacists is even more destructive to the conservative cause.”
I didn’t leave the GOP, the GOP left me.
ah...must mean he’s not arrogant....
How has he behaved in EVERY interview, debate, or speech?
Ain’t that the truth.
I’m no Trump fan but that characterization is as condescending as can be. Can everyone be a writer or a doctor? A nuclear scientist? I dare say if everyone would attempt to be a journalist the writer would be one of the unemployed who made a bad choice.
Trump isn’t arrogant. It’s those in D.C. who are the arrogant stiffs, who done nothing but drive America into decline. You’re mistaking arrogance for self confidence, being forthright and stating the truth.
Truth sounds like hate to those who hate truth.
HAHAHA. i read the first sentences and knew it was you cuz.
Boastful is different from arrogant. Trump is a boastful and “it ain’t braggin’ if you can back it up.” (Dizzy Dean).
how ya been man? :)
always good to see your name.
Saw the Brooklyn cousins recently
“how ya been cuz?” “when we getting together cuz?” :)
the word didn’t survive the trip over the Verrazano and I miss it!!!
yeah, it was a dead giveaway it was me lol
I met a lot of Hollywood folk in Rock Plaza. They had a hard time not showing their arrogant side.
Nicholas Gage was nice :)
Agreed - Trump is not arrogant - he is boastful and Trump is a boastful and “it ain’t braggin’ if you can back it up.” (Dizzy Dean).
doing good, Don’t you ever sleep? I was outraged by that post just like you were. Love to meet the author so i could send him home crying.
lol. I’d like you to meet him too.
work overnight during the week. sleep during the day when I can.
head injury keeps me up 20, 30 even 50 hours at a times sometimes. Brutal insomnia.
Klonopin helps, but not always. And if I got more, I would just take more!!
I just woke. I’m so used to getting up during the week to do dialysis that i do it on weekends too. Sorry about the head. I’ve had 4-5 concussions and had my skull stitched up a few times so i do have an idea. Its a good thing we’re two cheery guys by nature. Catch u later. time to hook myself up!
Trump 2016
Damn, you probably told me that but I forgot. :(
hang tough bro.
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