Posted on 02/24/2016 7:41:04 PM PST by 20yearsofinternet
For the last eight months or so, a significant portion of the Republican party's voters have been in thrall to a bizarre, Occupy-esque conspiracy theory, which holds as its central thesis that sabotage and pusillanimity are the root causes of the Right's recent woes. In this mistaken view, the conservative movement's failure to counter all of the Obama era's excesses is not the product of the crucial democratic and structural factors that prevent any one faction from ushering in substantial change, but of a lack of will or desire. Sure, the advocates of this view will concede, the shutdown of 2013 was doomed from the start, in large part because the public sided with President Obama. But if the GOP had just held out a little longer, they imagine, the "power of the purse" would have prevailed and the popular dynamics would magically have shifted. The same insistence obtains elsewhere: Sure, there is no precedent in which a second-term president willingly repeals his centerpiece legislative achievements simply because the legislature has elected to play hardball with its powers. But somehow, the critics believe, this time would have been different. Why, they ask repeatedly, didnât the Republican party just "fight" harder?
Given how broadly this opinion is held, one would have expected the 2016 primary season to reveal a penchant for purity that redounded to the favor of a candidate such as Ted Cruz. And yet, oddly enough, quite the opposite has happened thus far. Led by Donald Trump, the most frustrated voters have instead put their efforts behind a well-telegraphed attempt to burn down the whole political edifice and reconstruct it from scratch. Because it has been imperfect, the GOP must be destroyed.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Pop! Pop! Pop! Fizzle.
National Review likes to hire freaks; this guy is from England and thinks he should lecture all us rubes on how to handle things, because things back home are being handled so well.
About sums it up. Apparently this message is hard to understand? Comes from decades of stabbing voters in the back. Uniparty hunting season is open.
The buyers aren’t used to having to deal with a rooster. They’re used to fat capons, geldings, sycophants fisting their foreheads when they get their marching orders. Trump is driving them nuts.
“.......the conservative military historian Max Boot tweeted: “Trump is a fascist. And that’s not a term I use loosely or often. But he’s earned it.”.......”
Have you read this one...
Go whine to your mother, I’m busy.
I doubt it would happen this way, but the NR people seem traumatized by the mere thought of Trump winning.
Sniveling Limey hipsters suck.
Burn, baby, burn!
Worship? No, if you want to see worship, watch the tediban in action. Something to behold.
At first it seemed like National Review had become Salon and then I realized how they all play a role in the Uniparty. They are all defending their elitist turf.
Machine-gun the man to the floor? Excuse me, for a moment there I thought I was reading a serious, adult magazine, not the wilder fantasies of some sophomore Ivy League journalism major. "Ted Cruz, save us!" Uh...why?
The candidacy they are likely to get from Cruz is, after all, hardly the manning of the barricades to guard Reince Priebus's cocktail parties to buy time for them to groom a replacement more suitable than Cruz. I wouldn't do it if I were Cruz and I wouldn't advise him to do it. For what? They can't offer him the Presidency because as it has become painfully clear, they don't have a clue how to get it. Cruz needs better allies than the ones who thought Yeb! was a good idea.
Guys, it's a done deal. The only hope the current DC establishment has of hanging onto power is a crooked sot named Hillary Clinton. They deserve one another.
..... Heck ..... I have to wonder .... Is he the socialist fail-safe .... the proverbial placeholder to maintain a status-quo for 4-8 years until another socialist liberal takes back the reins? Like it or not .... this is a legitimate nagging concern.
..... Mr. Trump was/is a little bit too buddy, buddy with the Clinonista Family for my liking. For Pete's sake .... he was almost willing to do anything to have them attend his wedding. So now he is going to prosecute the arse outta Hillary?
.... My gut instinct is telling me there are way too many red flags with this guy.
What a histrionic, melodramatic, unbalanced, shrill, and demented article ;)
Has anyone counted how many hit pieces on Trump have been posted today? It seems like every third or fourth story is something about what a dastardly bastard he is.
I noticed they all seem to be coming from the left (GOPE), the far left (Democrat mainstream) and the tinfoil hat left (Ed Schultz types).
Enough with the lies.
It didn't stop Obama.
Trump IS our Manhattan Project.
Exactly right.
The piece is hysterical, incoherent, conceited, and its writer is unhinged. It's the epitome of the disconnect which is occurring.
These idiots actually think they're wiser and smarter than the conservative "unwashed masses". They actually think they are the ones who should determine the parameters of true conservatism, and "guide" us to make the right choice.
This election year is going to be both fun and exhilarating...
What have I ever done to you?
“These NR people are creepy.”
They really, really are.
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