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A Deplorable Strategy Beyond 2020
AMERICAN GREATNESS ^ | Dec 2, 2019 | Angelo Codevilla

Posted on 12/03/2019 7:33:32 AM PST by Jack Black

The moment that Hillary Clinton’s reference to those disinclined to vote for her as “deplorables” and “irredeemables” made this unmistakable, Donald Trump’s victory became possible.

The people who voted for Trump, many despite reservations about him, did so seeking a shield against insult and injury from above. But the 2016 results confirmed the ruling class in its judgment, and emboldened it to act in “resistance” and in ways no one had ever imagined.

Ordinary Americans in voting for Trump got a loud voice on their behalf, but no shield. Between 2016 and 2020, we have been pressed as never before to bow to the ruling class’s ever-escalating demands for conformity to its whims—such as to pretend that we join them in accepting that men can be women, and women can be men, on pain of dire social and economic consequences.

Not even the monsters depicted in Darkness At Noon, in Nineteen Eighty-Four or in Animal Farm, never mind Stalin’s Soviet Union or Mao’s China, or Hitler’s Germany, ever demanded such subrational submission.

Superficially, the ruling class’s “resistance” since 2016 has focused on Trump. Our temptation to focus on fights regarding Trump has obscured the fact that their objection is to us. The instant after the 2020 elections, whatever happens, there will be no excuse for not paying due attention to the real question: What will become of us? What can we, what must we, do for ourselves?

Dreadful Prospects, Regardless of the Outcome Were Donald Trump to be reelected in 2020, as is likely, there is no reason to think his second administration would loosen the ruling class’s tightening grip on our lives any more than the first did. Were any Democrat to win, we can be certain that the demands on us would escalate, and the government’s choke hold on education, speech, religion, medicine, law, and all manner of administration would tighten further.

In either case, after the 2020 elections ordinary Americans will have to deal with the same dreadful question we faced in 2016: How do we secure and perhaps restore our fast-diminishing freedom to live as Americans? And while we may wish for help from Trump, we have to look to ourselves and to other leaders for how we may counter the ruling class’s manifold assaults now, and especially in the long term.

Since 2016, the ruling class has left no doubt that it is not merely enacting chosen policies: It is expressing its identity, an identity that has grown and solidified over more than a half century, and that it is not capable of changing.

That really does mean that restoring anything like the Founders’ United States of America is out of the question. Constitutional conservatism on behalf of a country a large part of which is absorbed in revolutionary identity; that rejects the dictionary definition of words; that rejects common citizenship, is impossible. Not even winning a bloody civil war against the ruling class could accomplish such a thing.

Going Our Separate Ways The logical recourse is to conserve what can be conserved, and for it to be done by, of, and for those who wish to conserve it. However much force of what kind may be required to accomplish that, the objective has to be conservation of the people and ways that wish to be conserved.

That means some kind of separation.

As I argued in “The Cold Civil War,” the natural, least stressful course of events is for all sides to tolerate the others going their own ways. The ruling class has not been shy about using the powers of the state and local governments it controls to do things at variance with national policy, effectively nullifying national laws. And they get away with it.

For example, the Trump Administration has not sent federal troops to enforce national marijuana laws in Colorado and California, nor has it punished persons and governments who have defied national laws on immigration. There is no reason why the conservative states, counties, and localities should not enforce their own view of the good.

Not even President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would order troops to shoot to re-open abortion clinics were Missouri or North Dakota, or any city, to shut them down. As Francis Buckley argues in American Secession: The Looming Breakup of the United States, some kind of separation is inevitable, and the options regarding it are many.

Who Will Lead? And Lead Where? One year hence, the practical political problem for we “deplorables” has to do with leadership, looking toward 2024. The chances that appreciable numbers of us might follow anyone like Mitt Romney are negligible. What sort of person, with what sort of attitude, with what sort of priorities shall we seek?

Since what the ruling class does is driven by its identity, whoever would lead us “deplorables” must leave no doubt that his own, at the very least, is in opposition to theirs. In other words, he has no desire to join the ruling class, or to be liked by them, that he understands the harm the ruling class has done to America, and that he is on the side of those who wish to save and repair what is possible to save and repair.

That means a combative attitude. Donald Trump has been all too combative—in generalities. But we are looking for leadership in many fields of socio-political combat. Specific leadership requires attitudes regarding specific problems, such as education and infrastructure. Whoever would be followed will have to explain at what he (or she?) is angry, why, and what kind of action he encourages.

To lead is to show the way, to explain what is to be done and how it’s to be done, and to do it passionately.

Since whoever claims to care about everything cares about nothing, we will take seriously only persons who have cared enough about causes to expose themselves to slings and arrows on their behalf—as Charles de Gaulle put it, to “pay with their own coin.”

In 2016 and since, we have learned that our ruling class has amassed the power and developed the taste to revel in making us miserable. We have also learned that to avoid this, we must undo or separate ourselves from them, their structures, and priorities. Knowing that they regard us as illegitimate, we have no choice but to return the favor. Living as we do in revolutionary times, we—and whoever would lead us—must act accordingly.


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To: Jack Black

Never let Dem take your Guns!-)


21 posted on 12/03/2019 10:12:54 AM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: Jack Black

Bttt.

5.56mm


22 posted on 12/03/2019 10:15:56 AM PST by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
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To: M Kehoe

Thanks for the old school Freepin’ bump, M. Kehoe!


23 posted on 12/03/2019 10:26:07 AM PST by Jack Black
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To: TADSLOS

Mark


24 posted on 12/03/2019 10:52:19 AM PST by sport
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To: Jack Black

And my own home state of Colorado follows fast in the footsteps of Commiefornia, etc...


25 posted on 12/03/2019 11:31:59 AM PST by elteemike (Light travels faster than sound...That's why so many people appear bright until you hear them speak)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

It all has to do with who winds in 2024. Pence is too nice and the knives will be sharpened for him. Don Jr? Don’t think so.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Mike Pence is a statesman, exuding an air of calm equipoise which agrees with the “political class.” We likely will have 4 years or so just to see if Pence can evolve into a populist president who has grown the skills to appeal to ordinary Americans , (the deplorables) .

But our ranks or powerful populist leade4rs are thin, because they do not come up through the acceptable political class family system, finished off with a degree from Yale, Harvard or Princeton.

Of all of them, Nunes likely would be a good bet, or possibly Jordon.They would make a good ticket.Sarah Palin was a populist, maybe she also has a few others in her stable.

If we do not have a genuinely populist president like President Trump, we could back slide into the morass of the Deep State.


26 posted on 12/03/2019 11:49:21 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Truthoverpower; Candor7; Jack Black

27 posted on 12/03/2019 12:49:36 PM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Jack Black
Inexplicably, the best conservative opinion journal on the web is still quarantined in the "bloggers" forum, while crap like Salon and Slate is posted as news.

Add in the hamstringing of PJ-comix, Johmn Semmons and the continuing heavy handed mod deletion of posts, not much mystery why fundraisers crawl along.

May be some sort of legal issues, but this is not the FR of yesteryear.

28 posted on 12/03/2019 7:43:31 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading - T Jefferson)
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