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Victor Davis Hanson: From ‘Clingers’ to ‘Garbage’—Why the 16 years of Vilification?
American Greatness ^ | 4 Nov, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 11/04/2024 3:38:35 AM PST by MtnClimber

Derogatory labels highlight the cultural and socioeconomic divide between elite politicians and many Americans, particularly Trump supporters, who feel disrespected by these terms and policies.

Who actually are the “garbage” people?

Are they one and the same with Joe Biden’s “semi-fascists,” “chumps,” and “dregs of society?”

Or Barack Obama’s “clingers?”

Do they include Hillary Clinton’s “deplorables” and “irredeemables?”

Are they FBI grandee Peter Strzok’s Walmart shoppers who “smell?”

Over the last decade-and-a-half, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Harris-Walz, and a host of other self-described elites have variously invented a wide range of smears and slurs—but about whom exactly?

Who are these people that leftwing politicians have so vehemently derided—and why?

They include Trump supporters, of course, or what Biden also dubbed “ultra-MAGAs” and Tim Walz called “fascists,” now without the prior qualifying prefix “semi.”

In general, these adjectives of disdain denote about half the country according to the results of what will soon be the last three presidential elections.

This half is more rural than urban, characterized by larger than smaller families, more high-schooled diplomaed than college degreed, and more conventional and traditional than vanguard and trend-setting.

Statisticians tell us that the new non-clinging Democratic Party finds its greatest support from those who earn less than $50,000 and those who make considerably more than $100,000. These are the rich/poor bookends that surround the reformed Republican party in between.

So, in terms of generalized income and earnings, the left is now the party of the well-to-do professional and credential class and the rich, along with the subsidized poor. The Republicans, by contrast, are increasingly represented by the middle classes.

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1 posted on 11/04/2024 3:38:35 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The middle class has always been the enemy of the marxist elitists. The middle class were the victims of genocide in the Soviet Union and China. Our new leftists must just want to honor tradition.


2 posted on 11/04/2024 3:39:36 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: texas booster

VDH ping


3 posted on 11/04/2024 3:40:07 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

The political class hates Americans and wants to import millions of people who will be more compliant.


4 posted on 11/04/2024 3:43:51 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)
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To: MtnClimber

Those better than thou feel they look taller when standing on those they feel should be considered beneath them.


5 posted on 11/04/2024 3:51:25 AM PST by DOC44 ( )
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To: MtnClimber

Vilificators gotta vilificate. Are those real words? 👍😀


6 posted on 11/04/2024 3:51:38 AM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: MtnClimber

I attribute it to demonic forces in the Cosmos, who are totally opposed to the Judeo-Christian foundation of our country and are speaking through the democrat part of the political spectrum.


7 posted on 11/04/2024 3:52:08 AM PST by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: MtnClimber

They call us names because they hate us. No mystery.

It’s a larger question of why they hate us.

Mainly because we won’t submit, I think.

Same reason muslims hate Jews.


8 posted on 11/04/2024 3:55:01 AM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: ClearCase_guy

it isn’t just the political class of the liberal minded but their rank and file that take bullying to a whole new level in deed AND in word. most Americans who are conservatives just want to enjoy life and relish peace and above all just want to be LEFT ALONE. truest statement on the state of the leftist mind...”Conservatives seek agreement while liberals demand compliance” L.Star


9 posted on 11/04/2024 3:59:17 AM PST by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First ges secnd" L.Star)
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To: MtnClimber

Objectify the enemy. It is one of the steps in genocide.

Unfortunately, we will be the first victims of their wrath someday.

First they came for the bitter clingers, and I did not speak out—because I was not a bitter clinger.

Then they came for the deplorables, and I did not speak out—because I was not a deplorable.

Then they came for the ultra-MAGA, and I did not speak out—because I was not a ultra-MAGA.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

~~rewrite by EBH


10 posted on 11/04/2024 4:03:09 AM PST by EBH (America Blackmailed, The True Story of the World War...Coming Soon (1/21-))
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To: MtnClimber

Jennifer Lopez was crying the other day at a speech saying Trump couldn’t get into office. Sure she doesn’t want that to happen. She is scared her Diddy sex tapes will be released. Tapes of Diddy with young boys. Have you noticed he can’t close his mouth? Diddy is incapable of closing his mouth. Just a fact.


11 posted on 11/04/2024 4:14:04 AM PST by Strict9
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To: Oscar in Batangas

I attribute it to demonic forces in the Cosmos, who are totally opposed to the Judeo-Christian foundation of our country and are speaking through the democrat part of the political spectrum.
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Yes.

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12 posted on 11/04/2024 4:17:02 AM PST by yldstrk
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To: MtnClimber
The middle class has always been the enemy of the marxist elitists.

Absolutely and unavoidably. The middle class is comprised of those who make their own decisions. The elite make decisions for others. The freeloading subsidized let others make decisions for them.

And under Marxism, only the state (i.e. the elite) can be allowed to make decisions, or the authoritarian socialist state would not be able to control everything.

And since authority (to make decisions) and responsibility (consequences of those decisions) always balance in the end, if the state ('society') is making all the decisions, then criminals are breaking the law because 'society' made them do so.

The whole 'global warming', 'anthropogenic climate change' scam is about extending state control into every aspect of our lives. They're already using it for not only what sort of jobs we can have, but how we set our home thermostats, what sort of vehicle we use (ultimately to become mass transit), what sort of food we are allowed to eat, and every other decision.

They're not really after Trump. They're after the middle class, and he just stands in the way.
13 posted on 11/04/2024 4:36:14 AM PST by Phlyer
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To: MtnClimber
It's not just the left. The neocons that infect this site refer to us as WMA dummies and Trump cultists.

There's not a lick of difference between obama and a country club republican.

14 posted on 11/04/2024 4:50:16 AM PST by Sirius Lee (Trump/Vance 2024 or GFY)
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It's not just the left. The neocons that infect this site refer to us as WMA dummies and Trump cultists. There's not a lick of difference between obama and a country club republican.

bump

15 posted on 11/04/2024 4:51:33 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: MtnClimber
On my way to the Trump rally I met some irredemables, haters, garbage, fascists, evangelicals, deplorables, bitter-clingers, and an authoritarin.
new game for long car rides.
16 posted on 11/04/2024 4:55:02 AM PST by small farm girl
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To: MtnClimber

Why the vilification? It’s the Alinsky treatment.


17 posted on 11/04/2024 4:58:13 AM PST by RoosterRedux (Thinking is difficult. And painful. That’s why many people just adopt ideologies.)
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To: MtnClimber

bkmk


18 posted on 11/04/2024 4:59:11 AM PST by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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To: Sirius Lee

Yup—in a few years the leftists and Neocons get to take all that hate and focus it on Vance.

I think he can handle it.

It will be a reminder (for anyone who needs reminding) that the leftist vicious smears and slander are not about President Trump.

They are about you.


19 posted on 11/04/2024 5:01:22 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Forgiven_Sinner; 5th MEB; 6ppc; agondonter; Alberta's Child; AndyJackson; Aria; artichokegrower; ...
Ping! Out to the Victor Davis Hanson list

But it will likely be defined by those who are not just tired of being smeared as the underbelly of America but, far more unforgivably, are beginning to enjoy and mock the disparagement from those who have never earned the right to smear anyone but themselves.

A very good article by Prof Hanson - whetting your appetite before you go vote!

FR Index of his articles: Victor Davis Hanson on FR

Town Hall: Victor Davis Hanson on Town Hall

American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness

His website: Victor Davis Hanson

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20 posted on 11/04/2024 5:06:59 AM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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