To see the entire article, post the title into Google and do a search. That usually works.
This was a good article.
Can we find it where it’s not behind a paywall?
Found it here in the clear.
Ah.... The same frigging brilliant paywalled article I couldn’t read yesterday that I can’t read today.
GENIUS.
I agree with her.
Wonderful article. Peggy Noonan often gets a lot of incoming here on freerepublic. This time she hits it out of the park.
She also discusses this in another column about two weeks ago:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-sanders-and-the-american-rebellion-1455236273?tesla=y
In a similar vein, here is another article from several years ago that was the first, I think, to discuss this issue. America’s Ruling Class.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3001142/posts
It is time for me once again seize an opportunity to repeat Nathan Bedford's first Maxim of American politics to explain why the establishment elites do not understand their divergence from the rest of the nation writhing under their policies especially including immigration and trade:
All politics of America is not local but ultimately racial
The elitists believe that they are on the right side of race and American history tells them that must be the end of the inquiry.
“Those who do politics for a living, some of them quite brilliant . . . “
Objection, your Honor! Speaker implies attributes without producing facts.
If you haven’t read this article. It’s actually pretty decent. Link at post 7.
Yes and no. The fact is that Obama got elected by playing the same card, claiming to be the only one who understood minorities and their miseries (even though they are actually protected, they have been taught to perceive themselves as victims). Eight years later, the situation of blacks - in everything from the murder rate to their income and employment rates - is far worse than when he started.
But blacks are still fanatically loyal to Obama simply because of the image created for him by the media handlers and because they had committed themselves not to somebody with a plan, but to this image, the Great Deliverer.
Trump , of course, comes from the protected class and, in fact, that is what has enabled him to get as far as he has (his own money and connections and his resulting impunity from the effects of everything from his shady business deals to his corrupt political connections to his trashy sexual morality). I see posters all the time defending Trump by saying that he has all this money so he must be doing something right...as if they think he is somehow going to decide to share it with them at some point.
Sadly, what they don’t see is that Trump has no use for them and once he has gotten what he wants, he won’t even have to pretend. The way he jeers at them now and boasts of their fanatical loyalty to his person (not his program, since he doesn’t have any) is cruel and cynical. He doesn’t plan to protect anybody from anything but will just do whatever is most advantageous for him.
There’s nothing new about this. Eight years of Obama and a powerful, remote internationalist government, combined with a stagnant, controlled economy, have definitely left a lot of people justifiably angry and resentful. The disturbing thing is that people aren’t looking for a realistic solution (in my opinion, it’s all about reducing the government and growing the economy) but for a savior.
People have always wanted to believe in the man on the white horse and they have always been disappointed and things have always ended worse for them than before.
Is anybody else as sick of these WSJ subscription ads as I am??
“Social philosophers are always saying the underclass must re-moralize. Maybe it is the overclass that must re-moralize.”
A crucial point she misses, probably because she has a blind spot for it, is that many of the ‘protected’ of which she writes are just not that bright, and that's why they don't get it.
Excellent article!
A most excellent article. She gets it!
I think Noonan is pussy-footing around the real issue. The country is not merely being made less safe. It’s being dismantled, deliberately, by the Marxists, Muslims, and globalists. But Noonan would rather die than sound too much like Alex Jones.
About 230 years ago, give or take, a member of the “protected” class summed this up in four words: Let them eat cake.
She found she wasn’t as “protected” from the real world as she thought.
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