Posted on 01/26/2016 8:05:23 AM PST by Hojczyk
The Unwashed have, however, read enough to know that Democrats never do this — never attack their own voters like NRO and the rest of the Establishment have this year.
But maybe — just maybe — because they spend all their time in the Real World and not hiding inside NRO’s erudite reading list, the Unwashed also intuitively understand that what NRO and the Establishment have been peddling for five presidential cycles is pure undiluted, self-serving bull shit.
The Unwashed might not have read Shakespeare, but they can read a paycheck.
The Unwashed might not have read Capitalism and Freedom, but they have read a pink slip as their job went overseas or to an exploited illegal immigrant.
The Unwashed might not have consumed the same library of Greek and Roman classics (in the original or in translation) but they have consumed years of “Dial 1 for English,†Common Core math problems, terror attacks committed by immigrants, and an Establishment so removed Jeb Bush is being sold as a winner because … he speaks Spanish.
The Unwashed might not read a publication that still pines for a Real Conservative, no less than the architect of ObamaCare who has already lost a nationwide presidential election, but they can read a country slipping away into a morass of political correctness, identity politics, and a Republican Party more concerned with the trough that comes with treating illegal immigrants better than Americas working class.
NRO simply cant believe Americans are stupid enough to fall for a slogan like Make America Great Again.
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John Nolte belts another one out of the park!!!
I don’t need an Ivy League Degree to know that anyone trying to convince me that Syria is worth a war with Russia is 100% certifiable.
What NR doesn’t realize is that we see the same things they do. The difference is we don’t look down on people for their lack of a privileged education or for a less sophisticated veneer. That is maybe the last battle of discrimination: to refuse to feel superior to someone who commits a faux pas. It’s called manners. We’re all Americans.
However, Buckley is long dead, and the magazine's influence has waned, as has that of other publications like Human Events.
Got rope ?
Nolte is a trump supporter writing for trump supporters. Only difference is Nolte possibly read some of the articles. The cult continues to try to destroy all who do not kiss their hero’s butt.
Really, got turn it to Cruz? Why?
The establishment is moving to Trump, not Cruz.
Best line in the “Comments”:
The NRO formed a circular firing squad around Trump, who didn’t bother to show up and they didn’t have the sense not to shoot.
The elites consider themselves the best educated, most intelligent people around. The fact of the matter is without the political brothel, they would on our streets ripping off little old lady’s pocketbooks.
Best and brightest? Ha. All they have to offer is a jail bound woman, a Communist, 7 day old pablum in the form of Bush, Kasich, Christie, Huckabee, Paul, etc., 2 first term Senators (one of them doesn’t like the job and hardly shows up), a failed businesswoman and a successful businessman/entertainer. Only Trump and Cruz fit “best and brightest”.
Face it, we ain’t buying what they’re selling.
Andrew Breitbart is spinning in his grave. He’d never have allowed this kind of smear piece on his site.
[T]he candidacy of Donald Trump is something that could not happen in a nation that could read.
This is the full flower of post-literate politics.
Trump supporters are also bigots:
Thomas Aquinas cautioned against homo unius libri, a warning that would not get very far with the typical Trump voter stuck sniggering over homo. (Theyd snigger over snigger, too, for similar reasons.)
I am a Cruz supporter and I am offended by this trashy attack against Trump and his supporters.
I don’t think the vituperation of every single GOPe big-wig will change a single vote.
They are finding out exactly how irrelevant they have become by disserving actual conservatism.
See Bret Stephens’ meaningless roar into the void this morning.
Stocks lining Pennsylvania and the rest of DC until there are enough for the Admin and Congress, ya think?
I personally have read most of the same things and authors as have NR elitests. I really appreciate the history and authors. But, I also see that Trump is a necessary antidote to a Conservative movement that has gone off the rails into a corporatist individualism and yes, an elistist snobbishness with no respect for or understanding of the men and women who work with their hands, who build things( watchTrump there)
In that case, a pitch hat will do..
Gonna be a shortage of tar and feathers one day.
Yes, stocks and don’t forget the cat-o-nine tails.(The Romans covered the road, on both sides, from Rome to what is modern Naples with crosses upon which they hung Spartacus and his rebellious slaves.) Hence, the distance from DC to Philadelphia is not impossible.
National Review - purple prose posers...
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/the-great-unwashed.html
The Great Unwashed:
Meaning
The common, lower classes; the hoi polloi.
Origin
This rather disparaging term was coined by the Victorian novelist and playwright Edward Bulwer-Lytton. He used it in his 1830 novel Paul Clifford:
“He is certainly a man who bathes and ‘lives cleanly’, (two especial charges preferred against him by Messrs. the Great Unwashed).”
See also, it was a dark and stormy night.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_was_a_dark_and_stormy_night
“It was a dark and stormy night” is an often-mocked and parodied phrase[1] written by English novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton in the opening sentence of his 1830 novel Paul Clifford.[2] The phrase is considered to represent “the archetypal example of a florid, melodramatic style of fiction writing,”[1] also known as purple prose.
Good point. Thanks, I had forgotten that he supported the giveaway.
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