Posted on 06/01/2016 9:43:36 AM PDT by Brookhaven
While Donald Trump has called on the GOP to become a “worker’s party”— a development Sen. Jeff Sessions called for two years ago, ironically, in the pages of the National Review— French has defended the idea that white working-class communities “deserve to die.”
Specifically, French wrote a piece in support of Kevin D. Williamson, who had said:
The truth about these dysfunctional, downscale communities is that they deserve to die. Economically, they are negative assets. Morally, they are indefensible. Forget all your cheap theatrical Bruce Springsteen crap. Forget your sanctimony about struggling Rust Belt factory towns and your conspiracy theories about the wily Orientals stealing our jobs. Forget your goddamned gypsum, and, if he has a problem with that, forget Ed Burke, too. The white American underclass is in thrall to a vicious, selfish culture whose main products are misery and used heroin needles. Donald Trump’s speeches make them feel good. So does OxyContin. What they need isn’t analgesics, literal or political. They need real opportunity, which means that they need real change, which means that they need U-Haul.
French insists that the devastation of the working-class’ livelihoods is unrelated to failed federal policies such as mass immigration:
[I] have seen the challenges of the white working-class first-hand. Simply put, Americans are killing themselves and destroying their families at an alarming rate. No one is making them do it. The economy isn’t putting a bottle in their hand. Immigrants aren’t making them cheat on their wives or snort OxyContin. Obama isn’t walking them into the lawyer’s office to force them to file a bogus disability claim.
When readers responded with outrage to French’s piece, French doubled down in a post entitled “The Great White Working-Class Debate: Just Because I’m ‘Nasty’ Doesn’t Mean I’m Wrong.”
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He's everything the Trump movement is fighting against.
Now they BOTH look like FOOLS!!!
I am impressed about how quickly this hater was researched and exposed.
Wow! Kristol calling for death. Beck, in essence, calling for assassination of Trump...who is the new ‘party of death’, or, have Kristol, Beck et al converted to the actual Democrat party of death. Include abortion, and it is a full conversion.
Didn’t Kasich say something similar recently?
Arrogant elitists who think they are better than “the little people” deserve to die.
And there is a lot more of us “little people” than there are arrogant elitists.
And plenty of 5.56x45 and .308 to go around.
WoW!
Hey David French good luck with that — The American’s in your detested fly over country will love you.
But hey, the good news is you won’t actually have to bother campaigning there, soooooo, you got that going for you.
He is Open Borders Man!!! Get him outta here!
Bill, do you see anybody else in you Kristol Ball? Then keep looking.
They ignore the law of unintended consequences at their own peril.
Firstly, I do believe that there are communities that simply have to pack up. For example, coal is NEVER, NEVER coming back. The people who mined it need to deal with it. The people who CAUSED the collapse (i.e., the Uniparty) needed to create a good labor environment and improve the (once excellent) mobility of the US workforce so that they can move to where there are jobs.
There had to be a better way of saying it.
Trump really is writing a lot of checks he won’t be able to cash...but at least he could help turn the tide. The definition of “good jobs outsourced” is going up and up and up. No one seems to worry about this...until it involves them.
“It’s Springtime for Hitler,”.....
Those U-hauls had better float...because those good-paying, low-skill jobs don’t exist east of the Pacific Coast.
Read the anti-white psychotic filth spewing from the mouth of this Harvard Law School educated monster.
What the hell is wrong with people anymore?
“...improve the (once excellent) mobility of the US workforce so that they can move to where there are jobs.”
The jobs are in Vietnam, China, Burma, and Mexico, thanks to our government’s policies.
That’s the achilles’ heel of the economic mobility theory. Massive numbers of Americans are not going to move to third world, non-english speaking countries to find a job.
Would YOU consider moving to Vietnam to get a job?
what causes a man to totally shoot own his long built professional reputation and to reclassify himself as a f-wad forever ?
I predict this guy is going to jump out of a high window at some point ,
There better not be an attempt on our candidates life, because then it will be civil war.
Bill Kristol has jumped the shark.
Ugh. Hitler could have borrowed those words when he spoke about his pet hates.
Hope this makes it onto Fox. Yeah, right.
Do these people actually know any working-class people???
>>He’s everything the Trump movement is fighting against.
I’d like to think that the GOPe is secretly working with Trump to wake up the complacent American middle class and to get them plumb mad dog mean (to paraphrase Josey Wales) to end Progressivism once and for all, by whatever means is necessary.
I’d like to think it, but I don’t think they are smart enough to pull that off. I fear that they really believe what French wrote: that broke, poor people can just pick up and move to a high cost of living city where there is work and it costs $3k+ just to move into an apartment.
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