Media Hubris and the Fall of the Center

American Thinker ^ | Dec 14, 2017 | Taylor Lewis

[Fiji Hill]

Mitch Daniels, the former governor of Indiana, went from estimable presidential candidate to nondescript university president in the political timeframe of a nanosecond.

Purdue isn't a nondescript university. The academic world needs more conservatives like him.

[Walrus]

From George Washington ‘s Farewell Address:

In contemplating the causes which may disturb our Union...

I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State...Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.

This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.

[Timocrat]

The country was always this divided. The only difference is that the right is actually fighting back now. The bullies in the left, who are used to getting their way, call that aggression.

What has enabled the right to fight back has been the emergence of new electronic news channels where people can see events as they actually happen and before they are "sanitized " by the overwhelmingly left of center media.