The Conservative ‘Resistance’ Is Futile

The Wall Street Journal via Lux Libertas ^ | July 5, 2017 | David Gelernter

[EveningStar]

Democrats, in their role as opponents of President Trump, have taken to calling themselves “the resistance.” But I was startled a few days ago when a thoughtful, much-admired conservative commentator used the same term on TV—casually, as if “the resistance” was just the obvious term. Everyone is saying it. It’s no accident that the left runs American culture. The right is too obsessed with mere mechanics—poll numbers and vote counts—to look up...

Many intellectuals think Mr. Trump is vulgar. That includes conservatives... It never dawns on them that the president can’t stand them any more than they can stand him. Yet they expect him to treat them with respectful courtesy if he ever runs into them—as he should, and on the whole does. Conceivably they should treat him the same way...

I’d love for him to be a more eloquent, elegant speaker. But if I had to choose between deeds and delivery, it wouldn’t be hard. Many conservative intellectuals insist that Mr. Trump’s wrong policies are what they dislike. So what if he has restarted the large pipeline projects, scrapped many statist regulations, appointed a fine cabinet and a first-rate Supreme Court justice, asked NATO countries to pay what they owe, re-established solid relations with Israel and Saudi Arabia, signaled an inclination to use troops in Afghanistan to win and not merely cover our retreat, led us out of the Paris climate accord, plans to increase military spending (granted, not enough), is trying to get rid of ObamaCare to the extent possible, proposed to lower taxes significantly and revamp immigration policy and enforcement? ...

Conservative thinkers should recall that they helped create President Trump. They never blasted President Obama as he deserved...

[EveningStar]

David Gelernter

[ActresponsiblyinVA]

The resistance sounds like Prince Edward County.

[Jim Robinson]

Garbage.

[jonno]

Worth repeating:

“Some conservatives have the impression that, by showing off their anti-Trump hostility, they will get the networks and the New York Times to like them. It doesn’t work like that. Although the right reads the left, the left rarely reads the right. Why should it, when the left owns American culture?”

[IWontSubmit]

Cucks will cuck.
Nature!

[donna]

I’d love for him to be a more eloquent, elegant speaker.

This sounds like President Trump to me.

Eloquent

Having the power of oratory; speaking with fluency, propriety, elegance and animation; as an eloquent orator; an eloquent preacher.

1. Composed with elegance and spirit; elegant and animated; adapted to please, affect and persuade; as an eloquent address; an eloquent petition or remonstrance; an eloquent history.

[EveningStar]

Jim, this is a strongly pro-Trump article.

[newfreep]

To save America and our Constitution, we needed a pro-American NYC street fighter and NOT a nice, respectable republican.

[tophat9000]

I have taken to calling them the Confederacy II

After all It’s a rebellion after a contentious election against the duly elected Republican President that likes to wrestle ...that this trying to free the “slaves” to the state

And its lead by CNN...The Confederate Network News... in Atlanta GA

Its got a bunch of crazy actors running around calling for the assassination of the president

It even has is as its own version of the Ku-Klux Klan ..called AnitFa... trying to terrorize people

The thing about this new left wing Confederacy’s is they don’t have the class of the original confederacy

(My apologies to the Southern freepers but you know comparing this new left wing Rebellion to the Confederacy will just piss the left off)

[CincyRichieRich]

How come when I read about these so called intellectuals, I keep hearing the Oscar Meyer wiener song in my head?

[EveningStar]

Did you read the rest of the paragraph?

[YogicCowboy]

You are correct.

[sergeantdave]

We’ve had enough Republican mice occupying the White House. Now a lion has taken up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Deal with it, you weenies and wimps.

[Nuc 1.1]

Chuckles, don't forget their slaves, the tax payers. And I would have to say not just class but men of stature belonged to the Confederacy. Something the left has never had. We should have freed the slaves and tamped down the anti-black bigotry before session because it was the right thing to do. And we should never have fired on Fort Sumter. But we didn't and we did, and the rest is history.

[donna]

The point is, the author’s eloquent speaker is lying. Lies can never sound eloquent to those who prefer the truth.

Pres. Trump is eloquent because the truth is eloquent.

[tophat9000]

Oh I Did mention the slave tax payer....

[ridesthemiles]

I seriously doubt that this country has ever had a President more VULGAR than Bill Clinton-—AND his ‘wife’.

[tophat9000]

Well look.at it this way

The left is Talking rebellion and secession because they didn’t like the outcome of an election ....so is the left Threats of rebellion and secesston a just for unjust cause?

I think most here would say its an unjust cause on the lefts part with no honor or dignity to it ....the left wants to keep our citizens in servitude to the state

[kiryandil]

Many conservative intellectuals

The mask got ripped off of many "conservative" intellectuals by President Trump...