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National Review ^ | 11/27/16 | Kevin D. Williamson

Posted on 11/27/2016 5:56:29 AM PST by randita

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1 posted on 11/27/2016 5:56:29 AM PST by randita
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The Democrat party is becoming the splinter party of large urban area ghettos, where the party faithful are dependent on the party masters to hand out living expenses one way or the other. And the Democrats have to figure out how they can run a Caucasian candidate at the top of the ticket and not suffer a severe decrease in votes. Right now their best course of action is rotate stereotypes at the top of the ticket and hope for the best.


2 posted on 11/27/2016 6:01:39 AM PST by Bernard (The Road To Hell Is Not Paved With Good Results)
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Good points here; in the end, Hillary simply didn’t make the case that she would be a good president to many people.


3 posted on 11/27/2016 6:04:35 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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The disparity of wealth within American cities will ot be tolerated for ever. The control of the cities by corrupt black scoundrels will not continue. The cities will continue to fall apart as sections are burned and abandoned. The city centers will continue to be safe until the first fires destroy real money, real wealth.

Then theory and ideology will be abandoned and the power will crush the people and progressiveism will die


4 posted on 11/27/2016 6:14:52 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Does America still have lots of safe closets?)
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Never miss the opportunity to bask in the glow of victory provided by Trump, as if they were entitled to it. Considering how this mag fought tooth and nail to undermine Trump, the tone of article is rather disingenuous, even though many valid points are raised. If you read this article without any knowledge of what they did prior to the election, you could get the feeling that they saw all signs of momentous change and worked to make the best out of it.

Here is what he wrote back in August

Donald Trump's Media Supporters Have a Lot to Answer For
Trump Is Losing, and Losing It


5 posted on 11/27/2016 6:17:07 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster (dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
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To: Bernard

The story of this election is how those ghettoes DIDN’T deliver for Hillary; many people stayed home, and some even voted for Trump.

The urban riots in the last 2 years of Obama’s presidency boded ill for Democrats; there was no way to hide the fact from urban blacks in particular that they were worse off than at any time since slavery. The succession of funerals for young blacks couldn’t be concealed anymore, and it had nothing to do with police shootings; many live in a hopeless world ruled by drugs, unemployment, and illiteracy - reduced to beggars, drug dealers, and prostitutes...

Trump asked them the million dollar question: “What do you have to lose?”


6 posted on 11/27/2016 6:21:12 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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The Dems are in serious danger of becoming a regional party.

So. . . .don’t stop them. ENCOURAGE them. Fluff-up their lunacies. . .


7 posted on 11/27/2016 6:26:27 AM PST by Salgak (You're in Strange Hands with Tom Stranger. . . .)
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Some years ago, some TV did interview with black kids living in housing projects. A phrase coming up again and again is, “It is boring here.” They get their welfare checks to get by. That leaves them nothing else to do other than bum around and make troubles. The place was apparently devoid of hope and future.
8 posted on 11/27/2016 6:28:06 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster (dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
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Sadly, what else can they do? They often have no education/skills, no work ethic, not even loving parents - they are bred to provide a life of leisure for their parent(s). Some saw the military as a way out of the cycle, and while it may work at this point it is a risky proposition. Also, I believe tightened standards have made it inaccessible to many of them.


9 posted on 11/27/2016 6:33:07 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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This creates a vicious political cycle. As they become more helpless, liberals use it to justify more handouts to them. Their worsening misery becomes a further rationale for liberal policy around which Dem politicians have built their career around. In the end, they are made to stay miserable so that liberals can maintain their political power.
10 posted on 11/27/2016 6:40:40 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster (dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
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I have a number of issues with the article, which I read in an earlier iteration. The overt sexism is fun but not particularly true or helpful.
Progressives are most effective when out of power and throwing bombs at those in power. Since it is not actually ideological so much as it is purely left wing political it resembles a war machine more than a political party. Progressives are best at breaking things and killing, even when in power.
Obama will be remembered for his attacks on traditional American values - family, culture, religion - and not on building anything at all. Even his vaunted medical program had more to do with destroying the greatest medical system in the history of the world than it did making those services available to the masses.
Hillary, for her admirers, was all about vagina politics. She has nothing constructive to offer. It is especially ironic that the only smear that half way landed on Trump was a private boast between boys about their sexual exploits. Ironic because Trump boasted of grabbing the very essence of the Clinton candidacy.
The article never quite breaks from its insistence upon identity politics as the sole means of achieving a plurality. It overlooks entirely the most basic element of Trump’s campaign, his appeal to basic American values. His was not an appeal to a group or a class but to an idea, a way of life, and a set of principles that is at the core of what it means to be an American.
Clinton kept yammering away about “American Values” but she never described them and showed an indifference to their more specific application. (free enterprise, religious values, family in the strictest sense, brotherhood, and unity) Trump was all over these specifics.
The article is at best a half hearted attempt to acknowledge Trump’s political genius while not giving away the leftist farm.


11 posted on 11/27/2016 6:43:14 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (The Left has the temperament of a squealing pig.)
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It is a vicious cycle, but I see hope in this recent election; enough urban blacks rejected “business as usual” with Hillary and instead either withheld their support or actually supported the independent candidate on the Republican ticket. It can’t be concealed from blacks any longer that their relationship with the Democratic Party for the last half century has been CATASTROPHIC for them.


12 posted on 11/27/2016 6:48:03 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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Trump’s lack of conservative principle is unwelcome,..

Lol. But Jeb Bush, he's a real fighter for conservative principle, right NR?

Trump has already put together a far more conservative agenda than any of the pantywaists that the Never Trump NR cowards and insiders wanted to foist on us.

To coin a phrase: Pussies

13 posted on 11/27/2016 6:52:14 AM PST by ecomcon
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Also posted under comments at NR.


14 posted on 11/27/2016 6:59:41 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (The Left has the temperament of a squealing pig.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Good critique. Better written than the article.


15 posted on 11/27/2016 7:04:18 AM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: randita

Kevin is part of the game, because if conservative intellectuals did not take seriously those crazy white women of the Left no one would. Oh thank god for conservative intellectuals and their egos, >sarcasm off


16 posted on 11/27/2016 7:09:04 AM PST by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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"Good points here; in the end, Hillary simply didn’t make the case that she would be a good president to many people."

(Hillary's crimes...pages and pages of her transgressions to the rule of law)

Hillary is the classic case for a person who would make the worst sort of POTUS.

17 posted on 11/27/2016 7:35:01 AM PST by yoe (I am getting my country back! Hooray!)
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To regular people, yes; to criminals who buy access and favors, she was a dream candidate (and many openly supported her - including Republicans - for that very reason).


18 posted on 11/27/2016 7:56:59 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Good points on your links - he's not exactly right on Trump... but Kevin D. Williamson DOES HAVE insight into the Democrat Party. THIS is insightful:

The Democratic party is an odd apparatus in which most of the power is held by sanctimonious little old liberal white ladies with graduate degrees and very high incomes — Hillary Rodham Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, Randi Weingarten — while the manpower, the vote-power, and the money-power (often in the form of union dues) comes from a disproportionately young and non-white base made up of people who, if they are doing well, might earn one-tenth of the half-million dollars a year Weingarten was paid as the boss of the teachers’ union. They are more likely to be cutting the grass in front of Elizabeth Warren’s multi-million-dollar mansion than moving into one of their own.

19 posted on 11/27/2016 8:03:16 AM PST by GOPJ (Democrat 'recounts and tricks'? We must hope for the best and prepare for the worst)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Good observations!


20 posted on 11/27/2016 8:03:26 AM PST by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid)
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