Trump Gores a Sacred Cow, and Liberals Lament

American Thinker ^ | January 18, 2017 | Daniel L. Mallock

[Kaslin]

The great Broom of Time recently swept away another failed ideology and political movement.

On the 20th of January, the dustbin of history will slam shut on the Utopian American Progressive Left. Followers, leaders, and philosophers of this dangerous and failed global movement will not go quietly, however; ideas die hard, and ideologies, movements, and political theories do not simply disappear overnight.

Inauguration Day 2017 will mark perhaps the greatest political and cultural shift in American history as the Utopians of the Progressive Left kick and scream, wail and whine as they shuffle off into forced retirement and irrelevance. Perhaps not since Lincoln's trip to Washington in early 1861 to begin his first term has so much vitriol, so many official and unofficial attempts to derail and delegitimize the president-elect, been seen.

Many have commented on the astounding and disturbing reaction of those now out of political power in the United States. The gross irony of Mrs. Clinton's admonishments during the election that Mr. Trump must promise to accept the election results (her victory was assured, remember?) in light of her supporters' post-election unwillingness to do the same is lost on the majority of them.

That the reaction of the Utopian Progressive Left is based upon anger, resentment, hatred, intolerance, and pique rather than logic is not important to them; it is a point that remains always unaddressed. Every political "dirty trick" that seems obviously a sham is accepted at face value, and bitter attacks built upon these false accusations immediately begin. The dizzying speed of the reactions, the overwhelmingly standardized nature of the talking points and commonly invoked yet faulty arguments, suggests a uniformity of thought more typical of an ideological movement or cult than of reasoned, cogent advocacy for a political candidate within a democratic open society.

[dsc]

“He did advocate for the free flow of trade and labor across borders.”

Road apples. If you have borders, the flow is not free; it is subject to regulation. He advocated for an absence of senseless and counterproductive restrictions, not for their complete absence.

“And it is a classic, established conservative position.”

You fail to make the crucial distinction between a suicidal lack of control, which is the leftist position, and sensible policies that maximize prosperity, which is the conservative position.

“One from which the Republican party will not deviate.”

Are you seriously trying to equate the Republican Party with conservatism? Really?

“And that’s because Conservatives hold nationalism below orthodoxy. Ideological purity is their goal, no matter the result.”

Hillary, is that you? Bill Ayers? Cloward? Piven? Is that you?

You’re as full of crap as a Christmas goose.

[exDemMom]

We need to keep up the fight, not retire from the battlefield believing that the war is won.

We also need to stop letting the left define the argument. Although we won the election, the left is *still* shaping the debate. As evidence: the completely unfounded claim that Russia influenced the election has been at the top of the news cycle for days, despite the fact that absolutely no evidence of such influence or description of how the Russians supposedly effected such influence has yet to be produced. Fox News should be dismissing the claim mockingly, not taking it seriously, and certainly not giving it hours and hours of coverage.