The Atlantic Sneers at Truck Driver Edward Durr’s Ability to Govern

Breitbart ^ | 10 Nov 2021 | JoelmPollak

[Rummyfan]

The Atlantic, a left-liberal publication that has become a clearinghouse for anti-Republican commentary, published an essay in which it expressed skepticism that a blue-collar truck driver like Edward Durr could perform the duties of his elected office.

Last week, Durr shocked the political world by defeating incumbent New Jersey State Senate President Steve Sweeney, one of the most powerful Democrats in the state and the longest-serving legislative leader in its history.

The essay in The Atlantic, by Tom Nichols, titled “Populism Always Sounds Great in the Abstract,” mocks Durr: “A New Jersey truck driver defeated the state Senate president, but politics needs people who know what they’re doing.”

Nichols said Durr represented a dangerous populism rejected by America’s Founders, and compared him to a “Philistine”...

[GenXFreedomFighter]

The Founders hoped that America would be led by people of moral and intellectual excellence; they built anti-majoritarian firebreaks into the Constitution precisely to avert sudden and intemperate movements.

Oh, so now they care about moral standards, protecting the minority from a tyrannical majority, and emotionally-driven political movements. So that means they demanded that Bill Clinton pay the price for his abuses of the Oval Office, they didn't get behind the movement to abolish the Electoral College, and they don't support BLM and the Defund the Police movement. And I'm sure they're allocating resources to get to the bottom of Joe and Hunter's influence-peddling. Riiiiight.

I don't read the Atlantic, but I'd bet my guesses about where they stand are pretty good.

[odawg]

William F. Buckley Jr. — ‘I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.’

[DoodleDawg]

Best we can hope for is that he will gum up the works for all those grubby graft loving taxpayer money wasting co-workers.

There's not a lot of gumming one person can do.

[Fester Chugabrew]

My best advice to Durr is to pray for wisdom and seek out trustworthy advisors/assistance. New Jersey has a lot of good people.

[AZJeep]

Listening to at lot of Democrats, they do not impress me as an especially enlightened bunch of people. Many/most sound quite illiterate.

[Fester Chugabrew]

There’s not a lot of gumming one person can do.

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Ever hear of David and Goliath?

[lodi90]

‘How much worse could I make it?’”

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LOL. Sounds like our boy is regaining his footing after the old tweet Fake News attack.

[fhayek]

Professional politicians. They got us $29 trillion in debt, left us with a porous border, runaway inflation, decrepit roads and bridges, military humiliations, rampant crime in the streets …yeah, why would we chance it with rank amateurs…?

[ptsal]

Dear Atlantic:
Mr. Durr won. Now, get over it.

[Qout]

Maybe he’ll start with something unusual like actually reading the bills before they come up for a vote rather than just going out drinking with the lobbyists who wrote the bills.

[albie]

Wait. So Durr has been officially declared the winner?

[DesertRhino]

Well, for starters, he was able to kick the ass of a professional. That’s a nice beginning.

[Rodm]

Look where our country is right now with all the smooth talk’n, high fuluton politicians we have presently. The country would be better run if we had truck drivers in every office.

[DesertRhino]

” State Senate President Steve Sweeney”

Oh of course, that New Jersey union leader of intellectual and moral excellence, serving with the metaphysical blessing of Jefferson. Madison and Adams.

[HereInTheHeartland]

I sneer at readers and writers of the Atlantic and their ability to govern.
They are do nothings that have never accomplished anything of significance .

I’m guessing if you took this lowly “truck driver “ out to Los Angeles, he would likely have the shipping fiasco figured out in 12 hours.
Readers of the Atlantic would be incapable of figuring it out.

They have been in charge and run us into the ditch.

[FatherofFive]

This is possibly the best election story of all time, well at least in my lifetime.

Third best. Trump. Reagan. This guy

[texas booster]

Sweeney conceded, finally.

[texas booster]

Links to two threads on the concession.

New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney Concedes Loss to Truck Driver

New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney Concedes Loss to Truck Driver

Have no fear, Sweeney will be appointed to head up some commission to investigate Jan 6, vote fraud and amateur politicians, at a high salary with expenses.

[ChildOfThe60s]

So who gave the Great Unwashed the idea that they should have a say in their own governance. It’s just not right.

[laconic]

My former neighbor was a well-known Protestant “establishment” minister who touted The Atlantic constantly to me and dumped the copies he had read into my mail slot. I finally told him to stop as I had no desire to read elitist Bolshevism written by “citizens of the world”. I doubt it has changed - I would put my life in the hands of a New Jersey truck driver a thousand times before I trusted one of the “modern” establishment ministers and other readers of The Atlantic, whom I doubt even believe in God.