Posted on 04/11/2022 3:12:52 PM PDT by Mount Athos
In a post all about doubting the good faith of the left, he seems to have a blind spot as far as doubting the good faith of the left's frequent allies, the GOP "Establishment."
He casts this as the "Establishment" actually supporting the right's policy positions, but being too cowardly and too weak to stand up to the media to push for them.
In fact, the "Establishment" despises the right's positions. They are liberals. They always say the same thing: "Guys we're totally on your siiiiiiide on this issue, it's just not the right tiiiiiime for this, we have to worry about the meeeeeedia..."
But they're not on our side. They support the leftwing position -- they're just too chickenshit to say so. Instead, they use the left as a bogeyman to frighten the right from pushing for its own interests and agenda.
That's why they are so supportive of the left and constantly defend them from "unfair" attacks like calling them "groomers:" Because 1, the "Establishment" (liberal) GOP needs the left to fight for the leftwing position on issues, because the fake pseudoright cannot fight openly for these positions but wants them to prevail, and, of course, 2, slurs like "Groomer" also apply to the pseudoright.
They claim they're selflessly defending their political enemies, the left, from these attacks. But that's doubly a lie: The left are not their political enemies, but their primary political allies, and they're not defending just the left from the "groomer" insult: They're defending themselves, because they approve of grooming.
David French is screaming that he's defending the left from the groomer insult while himself defending all the grooming that the actual right objects to.
For anyone who still believes that the "Establishment" just avoids taking the right side in culture war issues out of fear of losing elections -- as opposed to simply supporting the left's side in culture war issues -- consider what they're willing to do when someone, like Trump, outrages them and threatens their monopoly:
They're willing --eager, even -- to throw elections to the Democrats. They're willing -- again, eager -- to Burn It All Down.
So you tell me: If they really are on the right's side of, say, immigration, why are they worried about the media destroying us and causing us to lose elections? They have demonstrated for six straight years they are completely willing to cede elections to Democrats, and even vote and campaign for Democrats, when the right upsets them by advancing a rightist agenda.
They're not "timid." They're not afraid of culture wars -- as we see in the case of David French and Jonah Goldberg and AllahPundit, they are in fact snarling beligerents in the culture wars.
They're just fighting them for the other side.
Yes, their preferred method of fighting the culture war is in the coward's way of embedding themselves in the right as saboteurs and destroying us from within.
But, when they're discovered as saboteurs, they are very willing to run to the enemy's position and put on the enemy's uniforms.
Bill Kristol is not "too timid" to fight the culture wars. No, he is a fierce culture warrior.
He's just leftwing.
And AllahPundit as well. I point him out because he is not only a cultural leftist, but he fights the culture war in the same way all culture leftists do: He claims he actually hates culture wars, and then attacks the right for starting them and fighting them.
He pretends the left has not been waging unending culture war on the country for decades.
Because he agrees with the left, and he agrees with the left's own narrative on culture wars: "We're not fighting any culture wars, because our positions are not leftwing ideological positions. Our positions are 'just right' and simply 'pure justice.'"
They deny there is any ideological preference to their positions; their positions are manifestly the just and right way to consider these issues. There is only one just and good position to have on these issues, and, coincidentally enough, they happen to have the just and good position on every single culture war issue.
In this Narrative, there is no "political struggle" here because the opposing political side does not have any legitimate position at all. It is not a case of the left fighting a culture war which the right opposes; it is a case of the left fighting for the manifest public good and the right evilly opposing it because they're low-minded bigots who Hate.
That is why Allahpundit can repeatedly say he opposes "the right's culture warring" while himself taking the left's position on every culture war issue: Because he doesn't believe this a collision of two ideologies. He simply believes one side is simply Right (as in correct) and the other side is simply... evil.
All of these "Establishment" GOP voices believe this.
They do not resist clamping down on the border because it's "unpopular" and the media would "destroy us" if we "go too far."
No, Trump proved that the border is potent issue... and that the right has the more popular take on it.
There are not "two sides" on cancer, the left says. There is just one side-- just as there is only one side on illegal aliens, the border, Critical Race Theory, grooming young kids to be open-minded about their gender, etc.
That's how AllahPundit always disdains a culture war while fighting it, red in tooth and claw: Because there just is no opposing side to credit as legitimate.
If this were just about the "Establishment's" timidity about taking an unpopular side of a culture war issue and their worry about losing seat, they would have adopted the strong-border position long ago.
Instead, the "Establishment" GOP is back negotiating... amnesty for illegal aliens again:
Yes, even though the GOP is killing the Democrats on this issue, Thom Tillis and his gang of liberal "Republicans" is back negotiating with Democrats to amnesty illegal aliens and give the Democrats one less thing to worry about in November.
This behavior cannot be called merely "timid."
No, Tillis and the rest of the liberal "Republicans" are actually courageous enough to tell conservatives to go fuck themselves and die.
They're not cowards avoiding a fight. They're partisans on the other side eager to fight.
And so they continue to fight for the left's less-politically-popular side of it.
Not because they worry that the immigration hurts the right.
No, it's just straight-up because they support the left's position on immigration and believe that the right's position is... (wait for it...)
Racist.
They avoid saying that, because they know they'd be kicked out of even pretending to be on the right if they just start slinging around the Racist slur like their leftwing comrades do.
But the minute they actually make it official and decamp to join the left -- they do start accusing the right of Racism (and homophobia, and transphobia, etc., etc.) as all of their leftwing comrades do.
While they're still pretending to be on the right, they avoid saying what they believe and accusing the right of racism; but they moment they decide they can make better money grifting the left, they start letting the charges of racism fly.
I love John Haywood, but he is just dead-wrong here.
One more black-ish pill for you:
A lot of the liberal Republicans, who are actually neoliberal Democrats, have been forced to unmask.
But only those saboteurs in one area of the movement: The area of actually writing about politics.
The neoliberal Democrats posing as Republicans have mostly outed themselves, because their jobs require them to express their beliefs (even if those beliefs are often expressed in as deceptive a way as possible).
But most of the Republican Party's workers do not have to publicly announce their beliefs. Most of the Republican Party's grifters work in positions where they can be relatively silent on policy, at least as regards speaking publicly about it.
All the Acela Corridor grifters in fundraising, consulting, polling, etc., can remain masked as they continue to work to sabotage the actual political right.
We need to unmask these people and purge them.
Remember: David French used to pose as rootin'-tootin' sixgun-shootin' Severe Conservative himself for years and years before Trump's embrace of actual rightwing culture war issues caused him to show his real belief system.
David French is no longer pretending he's against the GOP's push to get CRT out of the schools because he worries that it might cause suburban PTA Moms to desert us.
No, he knows that suburban PTA moms hate this CRT poison and want to get it out of the schools themselves.
He supports CRT because, get this, he just supports CRT.
And he says you're not a Christian if you oppose it:
This is what they really believe. All the bullshit about just opposing this stuff because they worry we'll lose seats is chum for the chumps.
Bush League Republicans are Assistant Democrats.
Keep voting for them if you want them to assist the Democrats to a permanent majority.
This is what they really believe. All the bullshit about just opposing this stuff because they worry we’ll lose seats is chum for the chumps.
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Our resident GOP fluffers are really not going to like this.
Fine. We still have to vote for Susan Collins when she’s up. Same with Dr. Oz. We’ve got 6 years to work on Cassidy(La.). Not counting on it.
Enjoy your chum..
He’s almost there.
The job of people like this is to keep us from coming together with our fellow Americans to form a party and a platform which 75% of actual Americans would enthusiastically support.
Social conservatism + a muscular, economically liberal state is what most Americans want. If the system works the way you think it does, it’s hard to explain why we can’t have it.
I thought Ace didn’t like Trump.
But...but...but...
We have to vote for the republiCAN’Ts because... because...
Well, just because.
Who knows if French is really a Christian. He is clearly dishonest. He spent 4 years opposing Trump while giving for extremely vague reasons. He wants us to think it has to do with Trump’s personal conduct. He’s totally phony. I would put my money on him lying about being a Christian.
It’s already started and will get much worse this fall.
It’s amazing that so many people on our side are oblivious to the fact that they’re being played.
It’s like a ‘good cop, bad cop’ scenario. The Democrats are the bad cops. The Republicans are the “good” cops. A lot of Republican voters don’t seem to understand that the bad cops and the “good” cops are in cahoots.
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