As for Hillary being 0bama's biggest mistake in eight years by far, that is not a single blot on an otherwise stainless escutcheon, but merely one more glob of filth sprayed on a mountain of mud. Sullivan can't bring himself to admit that 0bama brought nothing more than melanin to the office, and it was far from enough. And why, precisely, we would have benefited as a country from estrogen being brought and nothing else tells me only that Sullivan has learned nothing from the last eight years.
The personality cult around Hillary is, to be sure, a bit of a mystery, a triumph of psychological projection from those who knew her least and of a mind-numbingly persistent public relations campaign. This "most qualified" candidate had a perfect record of incompetence, corruption, and personal aggrandizement in every one of the roles that supposedly "qualified" her. A wastepaper basket resting successively in the White House, a Senator's office, and overflowing with classified documents at the State Department would be this "qualified" if proximity is all it takes. And considerably less harmful.
It is refreshing to read a New York columnist defend his country against the pervasive accusations of racism - one notes that blind spot in 0bama's direction, perhaps the most racist occupant of that office ever - but what is this?
Asian-Americans are among the most prosperous, well-educated, and successful ethnic groups in America. What gives? It couldn’t possibly be that they maintained solid two-parent family structures, had social networks that looked after one another, placed enormous emphasis on education and hard work, and thereby turned false, negative stereotypes into true, positive ones, could it? It couldn’t be that all whites are not racists or that the American dream still lives?
Careful there, Andrew, that is not an attitude welcome in the thin air of New York intellectual heights. And, as long as we're bringing bigotry up (not to mention self-awareness), what are we to make of a fellow with the surname of Sullivan pulling in his kind of loot for scribbling in the Big Town so shortly after his people came stumbling in from the potato patch? Well, never mind, I suppose we should be grateful for any positive mention of the American Dream and two-parent families from the mavens of high culture. That those are points that we knuckle-dragging Trump voters have been trying to get through his thick skull all along doesn't appear to register with Sullivan. Could it be there actually is something to them after all?
Your post # 17 is awesome!
“Quite a bipolar piece from Sullivan, and one measure of how the Dems he’s talking about don’t get it is that he doesn’t himself. Three paragraphs wasted in an insensate misrepresentation of Trump’s first weeks in office didn’t help. It isn’t a New York real estate developer that’s the problem, it’s the New York media.”
You read it precisely as I did.