Posted on 10/11/2024 3:35:25 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
In 1978, I visited my first war zone, Beirut. There were, in fact, several wars going on. The Israelis had made an incursion in the south, but there was chaos everywhere, with various local militias squaring off in the streets. Two of them had battled each other for control of the Holiday Inn. Imagine that. Beirut, clearly, had been a civilized and sophisticated city; parts of it still were — and yet it was descending into the unthinkable. The lesson was stark: My American soul, my life experience, had assumed that civilization was a rock-solid given, especially in historic cultural and commercial centers like Beirut. But it wasn’t. It was a tenuous state of grace. It needed to be nurtured, protected. That is why I’m voting for Kamala Harris for president. Civic order is the predicate for a diverse democracy like ours. It is the predicate for freedom. And we have been flirting, dangerously, with disorder and disunity in the Trump era.
My case for Ms. Harris is a conservative one, but it has little to do with the current nihilist havoc of the Republican Party — or its precursor, the libertarian, neoliberal reaction against government led by Ronald Reagan. It rests primarily on Ms. Harris’s respect for the traditions and institutions of our remarkable country. It also rests on two necessary adjustments she’s made to Democratic Party dogma: a move away from identity politics and a move away from the notional, indulgent pessimism of the academic left. That’s it. Three words: stability, unity, optimism.
In his first Inaugural Address, in January 1981, Ronald Reagan said, “In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.” He was wrong. Government could be arrogant and clumsy; it could make foolish attempts at social engineering and...
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Globalist Klein wants more war!
“Ms. Harris’s respect for the traditions and institutions of our remarkable country” ... who is he kidding?
He’s been a democrat propagandist for 50 years.
He doesn’t “cover” politics, he participates in them.
Joe Klein is a psychopathic, gaslighting, POS.
The author of this piece is a complete gaslighter and probably idiot if he truly believes the bilge he’s spewing.
More garbage from the NY Slimes.
You mean traditions like unchecked immigration, homosexual marriage, packing the Supreme Court, no cash bail, insane deficit spending, class warfare, etc...
What respect is this cretin referring to? Ms. Harris shows total disrespect for the Constitution with a dazzling regularity. Apparently, Joe has decided to overlook Camela's failure to perform, at least in her official duties. Or, perhaps. he really is as stupid as his screed suggests.
Trying to sound smart and used words you don’t know, eh Joe “Little”?
1.I think you mean prerequisite, precondition, or something. 2.If you think that, why are you Dems enamored with civil disorder?
Please shut up, poser.
And Joe you will leave your job as an idiot and a traitor to the United states.
That one popped straight out at me too.
Still ☭#Dem_Insanity !
“All the news we fit to print.”
There is no case for electing Harris, other than hating Trump. She is a nothing, a cipher who stands for nothing. She will be nothing but a figurehead for whatever leftist ideologue who can put his particular strain of arugula in her word salad.
He’s covered politics for 50 years. Has he ever not supported the Democrats? Has he ever not thought the Republican candidate was a danger to the country?
He has been a complete idiot for 50 years.
Yes, a gal who prostituted herself for political office is someone who should be elected to the highest office in USA.
Willie Browns trashcan.
Yeah they always lie
No, it really isn't.
Bye, Joe.
WILL the NYT go downhill far enough to get sold for $1 ????
"traditions"?....like unelected bureaucrats dictating to the people? That only became a "tradition" after the Chevron case in the early 80s. If that's a "tradition" its a damn recent one. It certainly wasn't a tradition in this country before that.
Finally....."institutions"? You mean like the corrupt intel agencies which routinely broke the law to interfere in domestic politics, and censor Americans on the giant tech monopolies? The corrupt DOJ which prosecutes the regime's political opponents for things people simply were not prosecuted for before while giving its supporters a complete free pass for acts that are far worse than anything its opponents were even accused of? You mean the ranks of petty tyrants who again, nobody ever elected effectively creating laws out of thin air and then prosecuting people for in front of crooked federal kangaroo courts? Those institutions? They need to be torn down with a wrecking ball. I will be gleeful to help Trump swing it. Hell, that's not enough. I want several of the ringleaders of those crooked agencies prosecuted for their crimes. I'm voting against this corrupt regime for exactly the reasons you cite.
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