He disdains Trump and he disdains the Left in equal measure.
It comes off as moralistic and preachy.
But I have no objection to moral standards that are lived out consistently.
I voted for Donald Trump and I am much more happier than Peter Hitchens.
My concern is that Trump will cave into the Corporatists and carry out the agenda of the elites in the end.
Dr. Martin Luther King was glad to be out of jail because John Kennedy got involved during the 1960 election but he wanted President Kennedy to change things.
Things didn’t change, so King took action.
I would like to see nonviolent protest, civil disobedience if the Left does not give way to Trump or if Trump caves into their demands.
Not really. He blames the "liberal ruling class" for the rise of a monster like Trump. He has policy disagreements with the elite liberals, but saves his worst criticism for Trump, his policies, and his supporters.
Hitchens says, "I have politely warned the liberal elite for years that they were taking this risk. I have many times said and written to such people: ‘Please listen to me now. Or you will end up having to listen to someone much, much nastier in future.’"
Hitchens says this about Trump. "This yahoo, this bully, this groper, a man who threatened his opponent with jail, he surely cannot be preparing to live in the White House? Yes, he is."
"I loathe Mr Trump for his coarseness, his crudity, and his scorn for morals, tradition and law. I am as sorry that he has won as they are, and fear that Britain will have its own Trump before long. But I can at least say that I tried to prevent it."
Hitchens is repeating the same narrative as George Will and NR. He is blaming the elite liberals for this cross that we must now all bear. Trump is the albatross we must now wear around all of our necks. And it gets worse,
"If he is what he says he is, and keeps his promises, then he is bound to do grave damage to the peace and stability of the USA."
"The simplest test of that will be whether he tries to put Hillary Clinton in prison, the promise he made that most pleased his supporters. If he does not, then he is like a medieval wizard who has conjured up the Devil and now does not know how to send him back where he came from.
"Mr Trump has so stirred the mob that they cannot be relied on to go home if he fails them."
"They want the change and the revenge they were promised."
"If they see that they will not get them, they will instead rally behind figures who will make Donald Trump look like John Major."
"And this campaign has done so much damage to the USA, to its tolerance, to respect for the rule of law, to civility, that there is no telling where this may stop."
Hitchens is not only attacking Trump, he is attacking us, Trump's supporters. We are the mob. We are the deplorables and irredeemables.
I would like to see nonviolent protest, civil disobedience if the Left does not give way to Trump or if Trump caves into their demands.
Hitchens clearly prefers that Trump act like a traditional politician and not carry out his promises. As I said this is a vicious hit piece cloaked in right wing intellectualism.
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