Posted on 07/12/2015 9:48:24 AM PDT by jimbo123
Kevin Williamson of National Review Online attacks the conservative base of the Republican Party in his latest column, “WHINOS: On the Martyrdom of the Holy, Holy Base.”
His critique makes the valid point that conservatives who favor ideological purity or populist venting over electability are going to lose a lot of elections. He is as irritated as his colleague Jonah Goldberg is worried about the Donald Trump insurgency in the Republican presidential primary. However, both he and Goldberg fail to note the reason for Trump’s ascendancy.
Trump is surging for the same reason that Newt Gingrich enjoyed a brief bubble in the 2012 primary: he is taking on the media. Or, more accurately, he is being victimized by it.
The media’s over-reaction to Trump’s comments about Mexicans is of a piece with the “two minutes’ hate” against the Confederate flag, and the courts’ pursuit of Christian bakers. You don’t have to have a soft spot for billionaires, or like the Dukes of Hazzard, or enjoy beating the Bible to feel a sense of alarm at the media’s mob behavior. It is intended as a warning to the rest of us.
People are rallying around Trump even more strongly after the shocking murder of 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle, who was gunned down by an illegal alien felon who lived in the U.S. due to the “sanctuary city” policies of the Democratic Party. Trump is perceived as speaking for the victims–and the potential victims, who include every single American.
The leading candidates of both political parties all support some form of immigration reform that will grant legal status to illegal aliens before the border is secure. Trump is finally giving voice to the opposition.
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Didn’t you read his reply to Goldberg? It was practically the whole of his argument. And it wasn’t the first time he’s used it.
Goldberg wrote in a column that Trump was a “failed man”, so I’m not really concerned what niceties he avoided in addressing Goldberg. National Review is known to always have money problems. Trump was drawing a contrast.
I don’t know if I care about niceties or not but normally a politician does not use his wealth against the opinions of a columnist but Trump seems to be a very special case.
Not to belabor the point, but why in the world would a columnist compare a billionaire to a “failed man”? As a columnist I once respected, he used his reputation as a writer to attack and belittle Trump the man with that particular phrase, and not just his ideas and efforts, which are fair game. Trump responded in kind, he attacked Goldberg the man, and Goldberg must have forgotten he has a louder megaphone.
“I think maybe the most telling difference is that Trump needs constantly to brag about how smart he is, whereas Newt’s IQ comes thru loud and clear in the obvious brilliance of his political analysis and his grasp of history. No bragging needed.”
That’s because in Donny’s world its all about Donny. He figured something out, if he run for President he could get his name in the media.
We Minnesotans have some experience with someone like that...does the name Jesse Ventura ring a bell?
When he became Governor there were major flame wars here, some of us tried to warn people about him. I suspect many of those who today are singing Donny’s praises today are the same as those who though Jesse was the answer to a maidens prayer then.
The larger problem can be found in 2 words Ideology....Politics.
PS: Let him without sin....etc etc etc
Real problem (or root problem, if you will) with increasingly more and more folks at National Review (and elsewhere) is that they have very very dim view of ‘the conservative base’.
Soaking in the miasma of their circle, “the conservative base” is a cartoon character drawn up by these elitists (no different than the Left elitists).
That we all have missing two front teeth, a jug of moonshine in one hand, a shotgun in another, and Bible nearby.
That we don’t comprehend any word more than 6 alphabets, any concept than just our simple daily lives, let alone sophisticated philosophical intricacies.
>> I suspect many of those who today are singing Donny’s praises today are the same as those who though Jesse was the answer to a maidens prayer then <<
Great point!
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