Posted on 06/21/2016 2:08:58 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Other public figures won’t admit they agree with him — but they often quietly adopt his ideas.
Donald Trump has a frightening habit of uttering things that many people apparently think, but would never express. And he blusters in such an off-putting and sloppy fashion that he alienates those who otherwise might agree with many of his critiques of political correctness.
Nonetheless, when the dust settles, we often see that Trump’s megatonnage strikes a chord — and, with it, sometimes has effected change. In an odd way, the more personally unpopular he becomes for raising taboo issues, the more resonant become the more refined variants of his proposals for addressing these festering problems.
A better metaphor is Trump as a loose nuclear weapon. Once he is dropped onto an issue, no one quite knows exactly the parameters of the ensuing explosion — only that it is going to blow up lots of things, and foremost Trump himself. In the subsequent charred landscape, no one emerges unscathed from the fallout, and many suspect that they should have adopted proactive solutions well before they were nuked by Trump.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
why does such an excellent writer continue to work for THAT FOOLISH PUBLICATION..?
Concur.
VDH rocks!
....and what makes him think such wordy, pompous, bloviating psychobabble is impressive?
I can communicate every bit as much in far fewer words.
“Trump kicks butt! Behave yourself accordingly.”
Trump is hated precisely for uttering the truth.
The fallout from his statements shows just how far our country and society has drifted off into fantasy land.
No. Romney would continue smiling and would back away from Hillary in a debate. Ryan would sue Trump to prevent him from excluding more Muslim terrorists from entering our country.
VDH is dead wrong here. There are no "more refined variants of his proposals." Some situations are so toxic that the only resolution is to take off an nuke it from space.
I hope the tut-tutting editorialists at National Review read this article, it might help them get a clue. Spiro Agnew had the perfect tag for such people: “effete snobs.”
-——....and what makes him think such wordy, pompous, bloviating psychobabble is impressive?-——
I don’t know....maybe a few folks enjoy to read something that takes a little bit of time to digest and roll around in their head....
Soak in the words to understand how they are being used to make a point...
... Instead of the typical fifth grade level pablum most news and media organization put out filled with syntax errors and bad grammar
But that’s just me...
The National Review is owned and operated by these guys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbEu-OLMKLQ
He really is the new Manhattan project... ;')
Trump is a symptom, not a catalyst. He was created by the hyperpartisan unconstitutional overreach of Barack Obama, and by the appeasement of much of the Republican establishment, who wished to be liked and admired for their restraint and Beltway moderation rather than feared for their insistence on adherence to the Constitution and the protection of the individual from an always growing and encroaching government.
No. Everything VDH claims about 0bama here is spot-on, but Trump is not a symptom of anything except the people who have been outrageously provoked beyond the boundaries of politesse. There is no need to be polite with people who mean this country's destruction and frankly it has proven a waste of time. The mule won't listen to reason, at least until a two-by-four between the eyes has gotten his attention. Sometimes it takes repeated application. I'm fine with that.
This isn't a pillow fight. This is war, and if VDH chooses to style it some elevated faculty meeting tea party he's barking up the wrong tree. We've done that and have received what in reply? Union thugs, BLM thugs, anarchist thugs, media condescension, and a concerted effort to force us into submission to the political will of people who are not our opponents but our sworn enemies. We fight back now or it only gets worse. And that fight isn't going to be polite.
Good article. I like his examples. A couple more I think Trump’s already had a huge influence
Before his “ban all Muslims temporarily” statement (which VDH mentioned) we had 10-20 congressmen a week (including Rs) demanding we accept more Syrian refugees faster. 50,000. 100,000. up to 750,000. After his statement (and San Bernardino) not a single person said we should accept refugees for months - I was looking for it since I was pissed at the congressmen on TV every night telling us we need to be compassionate. I attribute that directly to Trump’s statement and their attacks of it that would have been embarrassing if a refugee did something. The Ds were definitely telling Obama “don’t screw up on refugees” even if they weren’t saying anything publicly.
Trump was attack by almost everyone for saying “we may need to print money and restructure our debt”. I bet we don’t have another round of quantitative easing since those attackers would either have to admit they don’t know what QE was or that their attacks on Trump were lies since that’s what it was. He has very likely forced congress to deal with the debt sooner than they’d like since it will be harder to print money next time we can’t find enough buyers of our debt without admitting that Trump was right and they were wrong.
For later.
“Trump kicks butt! Behave yourself accordingly.”
“I’m to cowardly and precious to call things the way they really are and I’m jealous of someone who does”.
VDH is a very good write and usually is 100% right in his articles, this was just a cheap hit piece and unworthy of VDH's talent.
No matter how many big words he uses, us hayseeds can still recognize B$ when we see it.
Otherwise known as wallowing in pseudo-intellectualism.
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