Biden’s Speech Had It All Backward

WSJ ^ | 9/4/2022 | Morrow

[Phoenix8]

The Democrats have the “fascist” business wrong.

Donald Trump isn’t a fascist, or even a semi-fascist, in President Biden’s term. Mr. Trump is an opportunist. His ideology is coextensive with his temperament: In both, he is an anarcho-narcissist. He is Elmer Gantry, or the Music Man, if Harold Hill had been trained in the black arts by Roy Cohn. He is what you might get by crossing the Wizard of Oz with Willie Sutton, who explained that he robbed banks because “that’s where the money is.”

As for Mr. Trump’s followers, they belong to the Church of American Nostalgia. They are Norman Rockwellians, or Eisenhowerites. They regard themselves, not without reason, as the last sane Americans. You might think of them as American masculinity in exile; like James Fenimore Cooper’s Natty Bumppo, living in the forest has made their manners rough.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

You guys? It may surprise you, but nobody gives AF about what you think they “need” to do.

Doesn't surprise me in the least. You guys think that hard-core MAGA voters alone are a clear majority in the country, so you don't have to worry about persuading anyone else. You can just amuse yourself with name-calling because you're actually this massive silent majority.

You're really not, though.

[Glad2bnuts]

....... WORD......

[Verginius Rufus]

At least The Wall Street Journal no longer runs columns by Bret Stephens, whose hatred of Trump is pathological.

[olivia3boys]

Napa is the best part of CA