Posted on 01/08/2018 4:36:49 PM PST by bitt
On the election of Donald Trump and the first year of his presidency.
“That’s how you got Trump!” This phrase seemed at first to be a playful quip, uttered here and there as the Left’s shock and horror over the election of President Donald J. Trump manifested itself in memorably bizarre ways such as grieving centers on university campuses where tender twenty-somethings and the tenured radicals who instruct them were invited to stroke “therapy dogs,” scribble in coloring books, stack Legos, and do their brave best to cope. At Cornell, they even staged a “cry-in,” with the Ivy League university’s staff providing tissues and hot chocolate, gratis—or as gratis as it gets after mom and dad have ponied up the $65,494 in annual tuition and fees. Alas, it is not a quip anymore. “That’s how you got Trump!” has become a constant refrain.
Shock among self-proclaimed “progressives” has devolved into anger. Rage has fueled a full- time tantrum: a competition among distraught student bodies, Hollywood heavyweights, community organizers, pop stars, sanctuary-city pols, froth-flecked pundits, smoldering social media addicts, and rabble-rousers from Black Lives Matter to Antifa (a fascist projection outfit). All vie to be the most outraged, the most rabidly anti-Trump.
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“A little too little too late, for Andy”..
right..maybe he’s peeved that derschowitz is standing up so strongly for DJT..
He missed a great opportunity when the nuts started calling him crazy..
He should have said “yeah, I’m crazy... crazy LIKE A FOX”!
“Politics is a scam and we’re suckers for playing.”
You don’t have to.
You can ignore politics, but politics won’t ignore you. There are no uninvolved bystanders in politics.
(I’ll tell you a secret - you’re actually quite interested in politics or else you would not be here in FR.)
“Plato to Play-Doh! in ~20 years.”
Indeed. As Yogi Bear used to say, “That’s not funny, Ha Ha, that’s funny, Sheesh!”
Thanks for the reply. To respond:
“I’ll tell you a secret - you’re actually quite interested in politics or else you would not be here in FR.”
Politics is definitely entertaining. Sorta like pro-wrestling. I’m vocally anti politics so I guess you could say I’m “interested” in the sense of wanting to see politics marginalized.
“You can ignore politics, but politics won’t ignore you. There are no uninvolved bystanders in politics. “
If I understand your point, you look at politics in much the same way as death and taxes: unavoidable. I don’t happen to agree, but for a moment let’s go along with your premise that politics is unavoidable. That doesn’t mean that we need to rush forward to embrace it.
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