He is a great writer. A little heavy on the Latin references, but a truly great mind.
He absolutely nails the NeverTrumpers, Cuckservatives, and why Conservatism has failed for 50+ years.
That was a fantastic piece. One of the best things posted on FR in the last few years.
Thanks for posting!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3520541/posts?page=1#1
Ping! “Publius Decius” unmasked.
Anton sounds like he was better suited for the position than Crowley was.
Quite an interesting article. I read the “Decius” piece during the campaign and found it to be directly on target. It sounds like Monica Crowley’s resignation was a blessing in disguise!
From the article:
In “The Flight 93 Election,” Decius considered the 2016 election as a game of Russian roulette for conservatives. A President Clinton would all but assure annihilation of everything they hold dear. “With Trump, at least you can spin the cylinder and take your chances,” he wrote.
Excellent article, very reassuring. One more indication that the adults are in charge. Thanks for posting.
Great job, Michael Anton!
And good for President Trump putting him in the White House.
I hope Anton has moved beyond Straussianism.
The Neocon Straussians are a strange lot. Their intellectual pedigree began with 20th century Jewish emigres from Central and Eastern Europe who were Trotskyists.
Eventually they rejected Trotskyism and embraced free markets, but they did not return to Judaism.
They reject Judeo-Christianity and appear to adhere to elements of Classical Greek philosophy. But they are “esoteric” in writing about the true basis of their belief system, apparently because they think Americans would reject them if they were more open about this.
Their roots in our country are rather shallow, and they support Globalism and have little concern for the well-being of fellow Americans. They are embarrassed by strong feelings of American patriotism and consider national spirit and self-government based on nation-states, to be retrograde and passe.
Ironically, while they are strong supporters of a Jewish nation in Israel, they are not strong supporters of an American nation in the USA, and are one of the most influential voices in demanding mass third world immigration into the USA, including in particular Islamic immigration, on the basis that America is merely a “proposition” nation and not really a people with its own culture, tradition and history with a right to determine who may immigrate, unlike Israel.
Many of them, such as Jen Rubin, Bret Stephens and Bill Kristol, have become completely unhinged because of the election of Trump and view an American people that would elect Donald Trump as little different than Nazis. They have become very influential through magazines like the Weekly Standard, National Review, Commentary and the WSJ editorial page.
Exactly! National Review, Peggy Noonan, George Will and David Brooks come to mind here. The fault lay not in our stars, but in ourselves, e.g. the argument over who was the "true conservative" in the election, as if anyone cared or it would have been of any consequence to have a conservatively defensible answer to the question.
To ask the question is to answer it. No. Conservatives had no proposals for radical change. Conservatives have been fighting at best a rearguard retreat since RR. We didn't need to turn and fight another war of attrition. We need to move 1000 miles to the right, and march forward along another axis entirely freed from both liberal oppostion and the baggage of so-called conservative so-called friends.
That is what Trump has done and he is marching at high speed in a new direction where no one can figure out where he is, where he is going, much less what they need to do to get out in front and stop him - as if anyone should even want to stop him. We have too much lost ground to make up.
The gentleman is a credit to our country and our cause.
Early on, when people were bickering about “Trump isn’t really conservative,” it seemed obvious to me that he was the only candidate who was proposing that the United States should continue to exist. That made him the ONLY conservative in my eyes.