Posted on 07/26/2020 7:53:29 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Enter the nasty lot that make up the effete-Right.
Ostensibly, this lot stands for the “principles” that President Trump lacks. No one outside of their allies at CNN or their own circle believes that but, so far as they are concerned, that’s all that matters.
As a group, they are exemplified by the uniformly anti-Trump publication, The Bulwark. As for specific individuals, a few names come to mind; yet with his recent endorsement of Joe Biden for president, Washington Post columnist and NBC News commentator George Will is an exemplar.
Will retreated from the GOP in June 2016, incensed at Donald Trump’s then-imminent nomination as the Republican presidential candidate. In a recent conversation with USA Today, Will emphatically pledged his vote to Biden, arguing that Trump and the GOP deserved to lose because they had betrayed conservative principles.
Remember, Biden plans to extend citizenship to 11 million illegal aliens. His gun-control plan will compel individuals who own AR-15-style semi-automatic rifles, and magazines holding more than 10 rounds, to either surrender them in a federal buyback program or register each of their qualifying items under the National Firearms Act (NFA).
The process to register with the NFA is $200, on top of extra fees, and it would apply for every qualifying item in one’s possession.
Such policies used to be anathema to most conservatives. Control of the borders and Second Amendment rights are basic and bedrock principles on the Right.
Yet Will and the writers at The Bulwark are angry that “their” conservative movement (whatever that is) has walked out on them. Trump has stolen “their” party, they say. He has co-opted “their” platform, and perverted “their” cause with poisonous populism and vile nationalism. Essentially, they are driven mad by an unfaithful social force that they feel is their rightful possession. They have, in other words, been made a cuckold by their bride, Middle America, and have been wearing the horns of shame and humiliation ever since.
A quick search for “cuckshed”—that is, a location in which one is certain to find cuckolds—with the DuckDuckGo search engine shows The Bulwark as the top result. Algorithms don’t lie.
“Today, conservatism is soiled by scowling primitives whose irritable gestures lack mental ingredients,” writes Will in the very conservative Washington Post. Which “mental ingredients” we scowling primitives lack is unclear from his description, but with all the swagger of a bespeckled Keebler Elf, Will himself declines to offer much beyond “sugar and spice, and everything nice.”
When asked if his formula of conservatism has been rejected by the people who have been hurt by it the most, Will’s response is typically haughty. “There is a cohort of the American electorate that has said economic dynamism is too stressful.” Middle America, in this view, simply cannot handle the “dynamism” of the economic and political globalism that has devastated American industry, eroded national sovereignty, and flooded the country with foreigners.
Here National Review’s Kevin Williamson says what Will perhaps wishes he could: “The truth about these dysfunctional, downscale communities is that they deserve to die.”
“America needs a reminder of conservatism before vulgarians hijacked it,” Will writes, “and a hint of how it became susceptible to hijacking.”
After all, Will is peak conservatism. He says so himself and will remind you of his Reagan bona fides with pursed lips and beady eyes peering over the rims of gilded spectacles.
No one could look at the track record of these duncy doyens and take them seriously. They have been wrong about Middle East interventionism, wrong about globalism, wrong about immigration, and wrong about so much more. The death of The Weekly Standard should have put them on notice, but it didn’t. They just got nastier and morphed into the troglodytic caricatures they complained others made of them.
Will and his kind are smear merchants precisely because they are boring, unimaginative, walled-off, inadequate, and jealous. Whatever flaws Trump has—and they are many—Middle America does not seem at all interested in renewing its vows with the likes of George Will, Bill Kristol, or David French.
In 2016 they said that they "weren't voting for Trump", their way of giving the finger to the millions of conservatives who held their noses and voted for them and other establishment Republicans in general elections because they were the only viable alternatives to liberal Democrats.
No confiscation of AR-15s will not happen. Also, won’t be able to force NFA on them either.
The 11 million have foreign relatives eager to share in the American welfare system.
If twenty extra people show up at a birthday party, the slices of cake must be cut smaller.
Care to share, freeloaders?
Bolshekrat is not an alternative to Trump.
with pursed lips and beady eyes peering over the rims of gilded gentiles... to become castrati... Chicken balls of Chinese.
A bunch of draft dodging warmongers; Biden can have the lot of them on condition that they are never allowed near any Republican event in the future. Glad to be rid of them!
They’ve been using that same 11 million number for 20 or 30 years. Haven’t there been any new arrivals over the years? I guess anchor babies don’t count.
Correct. And the conclusion one must draw is that the bush-league is fully onboard with the commie agenda.
In a time of universal masks, President Trump keeps forcing the hidden enemy to take theirs off.
Yeah, that tired old 11 million figure is a gross undercount. The actual number is surely much nearer 40 million.
Independent of whatever their espoused political views, all of these people shared the ‘world stage’, or so they thought. While they collectively (Democrats and a fair number of Republicans) squandered what generations of Americans had built with their labors, blood, and sweat, the ‘connected’ enjoyed cocktail parties in Manhattan, DC, etc., invitations to/access to the White House, and the self-satisfied belief that they were the absolute movers and shakers of the world.
That a politically inexperienced outsider can come in and out-do all of the ‘connected’ in a few years totally destroyed the false foundations upon which their stature was perched. That, more than anything, is why they hate him.
Very good !
Glad to be rid of them!
Old Hank #5 knew it well.
O that we now had here
But one ten thousand of those men in England
That do no work to-day!
KING HENRY V
What’s he that wishes so?
My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin:
If we are mark’d to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God’s will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
Sounds like a whole basket full of deplorables.
If Will and his chamber of commerce crew are not Chinese plants, then they are their useful idiots.
” or if they’ll just vote for him and keep quiet about it.”
That’s the ticket!
“Today, conservatism is soiled by scowling primitives whose irritable gestures lack mental ingredients,” writes Will.
It is another of Will’s silly sentences. He probably spent an hour on it. People are wise to his fatuous ways.
I like when these self-important idiots publicly support the left. That accelerates their leaving the party. If you pretend to support the president, even if out of fear or wanting to stay in the game, you might get a seat at the table. I want these people to find a different table, so we can better throw things at them without collateral damage.
They are also foolish if they think the other table is going to give them anything other then spoiled table scraps !
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