Oh, yeah. On his best day he’s a pencil-necked juvenile version of “Lonesome Rhodes” from “A Face in the Crowd.”
That doesn’t mean he’s not dangerous, especially when people like Ingraham empower him.
“This is quite instructive. Hogg was handed an opportunity to be fair or even gracious but no, he doubles down on the venom. Speaks volumes as to who he really is. And it’s pretty ugly.”
The quick reaction by companies to dump Laura Ingraham, in response to the tweet of a 17 year old, speaks volumes about the types of people running US companies today. These are the same executives who lobbied aggressively for to lower US tariffs in the 1980’s and 1990’s so they could outsource American manufacturing and middle class jobs. These are the same executives who fight any effort to restrict immigration. These are the same executives who while firing American workers, and holding the pay of those who remained flat, conspired through their interlocking board relationships to increase their own compensation to obscene levels even when their companies missed plans and performed poorly. They put in place golden parachute package to ensure they were richly rewarded even when their decisions resulted in bankruptcies for the companies they stewarded. Then in 2008-2009 their multimillionaire CEO friends at “too big to fail banks and companies” ran to the government for multibillion dollar bailouts during an economic downturn which destroyed hundreds of thousands of small businesses and cost the jobs of millions of average citizens. I seem to remember the beneficiaries of the government bailouts were paying themselves multimillion dollar bonuses within a year of being saved by taxes paid by the fellow citizens they callously cast out of their companies with no remorse.
Our society has become immoral. Leaders have no respect for the people they lead. No one accepts personal responsibility nor due institutions impose accountability on leaders and the morally depraved. Even children engage in the politics of hate and personal destruction.
A society cannot endure in which there are no reasoned arguments when subjects are debated, and disagreement with preferred groups results in complete destruction of those trying to point out facts contrary to the politically correct meme of the day.
Tyranny is running unrestrained in this country. People are afraid to stand in the way. The trend line is clear and the story will not have a happy ending for anyone.
Young Mr. Hogg might want to take some time out from trying to destroy those he perceives as against him and spend a little time reading history. During the French Revolution, even the tyrant Mr. Robespierre ended up resting his head on the guillotine.