Posted on 06/10/2019 2:33:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
Theres a debate going on inside conservatism between the insufferable sissies who insist that we Normals are morally obligated to submit to being crushed by the leftists who hate us and want us enslaved or dead, and actual conservatives. Maybe Im simplifying this intellectual dispute a bit wait, no Im not. You either want to defeat the liberal elite that despises us or you dont. Its those of us who seek to win versus the Never Trump losers, and theres no middle ground.
Win or lose. Pick one.
The Never Trumpers are willing, even eager, to lose, regardless of the consequences for you and me. They would thrive in defeat. After all, theres always a place for a slobberingly loyal conservativish opposition, right over there at the liberal elites kiddie table.
I say we should fight to win and preserve our liberty.
David French is the poster-scold for the Surrender Caucus, a fussy man who is always at the ready with some hitherto unknown conservative norm, rule or principle that boils down to you not being allowed to effectively resist the massive attack on your liberty and prosperity by our garbage elite. These conservative norms, rules and principles are pretty remarkable in that they only apply to limit our options and actions they never apply to protect us from our enemies.
I have my own conservative principle regarding conservative principles, and it goes like this: Any conservative principle that makes me poorer or less free is a pretty crappy conservative principle and Im not going to do it.
Basically, its a choice between Please clap and Ill sock you in the face.
Civility and decency is the common refrain within the French Fredocon Legion. Understand that the civility and decency requirement applies only to us, and it operates only to restrict our ability to accurately describe and aggressively fight our enemies. It does not apply to our betters conduct toward us. Look at their last three years of attacks on Donald Trump and we who support him super civil and super decent, right? My Twitter feed is an endless series of vicious tweets from libs and True Conservatives telling me what an awful, awful person I am for thinking that we should jam that same civility and decency right back down their collective throat.
French himself recently dubbed us the gutter right in a tweet, wherein he also described himself as a real man. Peak cringe aside, Im pretty sure gutter is not a term of civility or decency, but then the rules never apply to protect us, only to restrain us. Remember, you are morally obligated to lose for some reason. Anyway, this utter nonsense is why we should ignore the Priss Platoons rules and do whatever we have to do to protect our liberty and property.
Similarly, we are also morally obligated to submit to the loss of our rights. When Steven Crowder was demonetized by YouTube because he uttered words the elite disapproves of, I immediately began my countdown to the Lido Deck League validating it. I didnt have to wait long.
They have plenty of cheesy rationales for justifying the censorship of actual conservatives they disapprove of:
Oh, he says mean things!
Oh, its a private business!
Oh, well I never!
The excuses they give why its cool to gag us dont matter. The end result for actual conservatives is always the same. Its always okay to censor the people the Collaboration Cons disapprove of. Heres their thought process template:
If this is how you roll with conservative principles, count me out.
Now, to his credit, French has personally litigated for conservatives in free speech and religious liberty cases, yet while this legal fight is necessary it is not sufficient. Defending some bullied cake baker is fine, but all the Frenchies are asking the elite for on behalf of Normals is the little tiny dispensation of not being hassled in a small corner of their lives. Pleading for a pass on pro-gay marriage confections is nice, I guess, but thats marginal skirmishing that doesnt challenge the metastasizing liberal paradigm. The rest of us arent satisfied with the garbage liberal elite grudgingly letting us control our own cake decorating options. We want to burn the whole garbage liberal elite down.
Not the Never Trumpers. They are no threat to the elite because, at their hollow core, they support the existing power structure. Thats why they are so blind to the manifest corruption of the institutions that they are a part of and are therefore invested in. Thats why these saps were so easily suckered by the RUSSIA TREASON COLLUSION!!!! scam. And thats why Trump and those of us who support him terrify them because, unlike the Conservative, Inc., cabal, we have nothing to lose if the whole teetering edifice of our crummy ruling class collapses under the sheer weight of its lies and incompetence.
They dont want things to truly change, except around the margins a Christian gets to keep his assistant professorship at Gumbo State, slightly fewer babies get butchered because some minor abortion limitation is upheld. Thats all fine and good, but what they really want is just the status quo with a few bespoke tweaks. Thats why they embrace losing the big battles and demand that we do too. Thats why they were eager for Hillary to win. In the nightmare world of infanticide, corporate collectivism and SJW oppression that Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit would have ushered in, people like David French would still have a place, even if it is at their liberal masters heels.
But they have no place in the conservative future were going to build on the ashes of the liberal elite that we are going to destroy by any means necessary. We choose to win.
What does losing look like anyway? It looks like you being silenced by the liberal corporations, if not the government itself. It looks like taxpayer-funded abortion on demand until kindergarten. It looks like the borders thrown even opener, your guns confiscated and your church denied a license to operate if it isnt part of the creepy climate cult.
We're just lazy malcontents, like Kurt Schlichter. ;-)
Many Establishment Republicans are Intellectual Wannabes first, and Conservatives second. Approval from their Deep State friends, neighbors, and relatives is more important to them than winning on Conservative principles. They are more happy to be the Quisling minority than standing up to the new Socialists in the Democrat Party. These people are not our friends and they are not looking out for the country.
Never Trumpers should be called what they are, Collaborators.
“David French is the poster-scold for the Surrender Caucus”
No one had ever heard of this miserable little quisling until the Jonah Goldberg National Review selected him to replace the equally unknown Egg McMuffin. Evan McMullin. Whatever.
This reminds me how exposure of Jeff Session as Judas took me totally off-guard.
Unfortunately Buckley is the culprit who turned over National Review to the losers who have run it into the ground.
He was still around when it became a mouthpiece for Bush Republicanism.
“Im not a software expert, but it seems to me that a small bunch of smart people could write the code for a YouTube competitor over a long holiday weekend.
Software isn’t a problem. Market Power and massive investment in server farms is a problem.
The absence of competitors in the lucrative social media world is itself a big clue that there are barriers of entry that aren’t obvious on the surface. A firm need only control 25% of a market to exert market power, and the social media platforms control far above 25%.
While I think a lot of what Kurt Schlichter says about Never Trumpers is correct, I don’t think his analysis of people like French fully captures what’s going on with them.
I haven’t bothered to read most of French’s idiocy, but I gather he was dismissive of the theories that the Deep State had illegally meddled in the election 2016 (and continued to do things even after) and was saying Devin Nunes should stop digging to find out what had happened. He thought there was something wrong with Nunes, and all those who thought he was on to something.
What I’m saying is, French and other Never Trumpers don’t have all their marbles. It’s not just being wimps or identifying with the establishment, although that may be a part of it.
The fact is most of them don’t have both oars in the water, and many of their statements, including those of French, clearly reflect that. People who keep taking the arguments they come up with seriously, such as out of the blue formulating all these new rules for what conservatism is, and trying to respond in some logical fashion, don’t get that. They should just be dismissed as the loons that they are.
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