Posted on 06/01/2016 9:43:36 AM PDT by Brookhaven
While Donald Trump has called on the GOP to become a “worker’s party”— a development Sen. Jeff Sessions called for two years ago, ironically, in the pages of the National Review— French has defended the idea that white working-class communities “deserve to die.”
Specifically, French wrote a piece in support of Kevin D. Williamson, who had said:
The truth about these dysfunctional, downscale communities is that they deserve to die. Economically, they are negative assets. Morally, they are indefensible. Forget all your cheap theatrical Bruce Springsteen crap. Forget your sanctimony about struggling Rust Belt factory towns and your conspiracy theories about the wily Orientals stealing our jobs. Forget your goddamned gypsum, and, if he has a problem with that, forget Ed Burke, too. The white American underclass is in thrall to a vicious, selfish culture whose main products are misery and used heroin needles. Donald Trump’s speeches make them feel good. So does OxyContin. What they need isn’t analgesics, literal or political. They need real opportunity, which means that they need real change, which means that they need U-Haul.
French insists that the devastation of the working-class’ livelihoods is unrelated to failed federal policies such as mass immigration:
[I] have seen the challenges of the white working-class first-hand. Simply put, Americans are killing themselves and destroying their families at an alarming rate. No one is making them do it. The economy isn’t putting a bottle in their hand. Immigrants aren’t making them cheat on their wives or snort OxyContin. Obama isn’t walking them into the lawyer’s office to force them to file a bogus disability claim.
When readers responded with outrage to French’s piece, French doubled down in a post entitled “The Great White Working-Class Debate: Just Because I’m ‘Nasty’ Doesn’t Mean I’m Wrong.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
No, only the very naïve encounter unintended consequences. These consequences are very predictable as well as inevitable.
The funny thing is, the US could shift to a coal-based energy economy and not need to import a single BTU for two centuries, if the US coal deposits could be fully exploited. Between modern coal-fired generation plants and coal gasification for liquid fuels and other petroleum products, the US could tell OPEC to FOAD, thereby launching a much-needed round of creative destruction in some of the world’s worst s#itholes.
That’s not what he said. He did not say that “the little people” deserve to die.
French is indeed saying that. Where do you suggest the over 90 million Americans who are currently out of the labor force move ?
That’s who this A-wipe is? It was bad enough that he was the XO for Petraeus.
thank God for sen. sessions. he’s been right to this point about the abandonment of working Americans by the ruling d.c. elite, right about how a d.c. outsider can win this election by representing the views of working class Americans, and—assuming the gope doesn’t take the gop nomination away from him at the convention—i trust he’ll be proven right again this november with his endorsement of apparent d.c. outsider in this race, trump.
French is the Harvard Law School graduate.
figured as much that a columnist, a man who is paid to write opinions, would have some interesting stuff in his portfolio. So long, President French.
One Mr. French, I presume?
Thanks for this link!
As for people having to leave their communities, where their roots are--having to abandon cultural heritages, which in many instances go back for many generations? That is not an acceptable solution in a land where many of the original settlements were motivated by people who desired a particular cultural path--often Faith motivated.
As for hardships? Consider the hardships of those who originally built some of those communities in a wilderness.
The arrogance of those who would dismiss other Americans' ties to particular American heritages, as something trivial to be easily abandoned, is rather offensive. It of course fits in nicely with crack-pots like Bill Kristol's indifference to American values.
So French is such an insecure cluck that he wrote a list of of rules that the little wife not so much as talk, look, or breath on a man....you can’t make this stuff up.
This is going to be good...my prediction is he changes his mind on running before the popcorn I bought to watch this unfold is done popping...
Excellent observations on our current troubles. When you divorce culture, heritage & family from the marketplace people become interchangeable parts....that’s how nations die, look toward the European Union.
I didn’t know Alan Grayson had a brother.
“They ignore the law of unintended consequences at their own peril.”
I wonder if anyone else caught what you did there. Nice.
“The truth about these dysfunctional, downscale communities is that they deserve to die. Economically, they are negative assets. “
Now there’s a good campaign slogan.
If there was any doubt in anyone's mind that the neoconservatives and the GOP elites have exactly the same agenda as the liberal elites, this should finally erase it. The best thing about Trump's candidacy is that it has finally and blatantly shown America whose side the neoconservatives and the GOP establishment are really on.
Wow.....just wow!
Gore Vidal once said that the Chief Editor of the New York Times and the CEO of GM don’t need to actually conspire, because they both think the same sort of thoughts in the first place, otherwise they would not even be in the positions they are in. I think I see the same thing at work here. The graduate of Harvard Law has the same elitist disconnection that many of the progressives do.
As for the whole “giving up” looking for work after “only a few hours”, well... If your only option for a job is at Walmart (part time with no benefits) for $8 an hour, the $3,000/month disability check, with Medicaid coverage looks pretty dammed good. And if you’re not a writer or artist, you have a lot of free time on your hands and day time TV is awful. That’s where the hillbilly heroin and booze kicks in — enough of that crap and even daytime TV is watchable at that point.
But this guy would have no idea of what that option looks like. And the U-hauls? Those can take you to the Walmart in another state, but not to anywhere that has a factory paying $25/hour with benefits. The companies that have factories these days are paying Malaysians $25/week for a job that only needs a high school diploma or less. Jobs that used to be here in the US, where a blue collar worker could own a home, a couple of cars, and raise 9 kids being a welder his entire life. I saw my Grandad do that in San Diego with my own two eyes.
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