Category: Political Psychology
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The ‘Paranoid’ Dems: Is Trump’s D. C. ‘Takeover’ a Prelude to Something Worse?
You decide. If you want my opinion, Dementocrat 'paranoia' is but a manifestation of TDS. Never forget: our political enemies are ever at work bringing Trump's 'inner Hitler' to light. Related: No Entity without Identity Addendum (8/22): Trump's One-Week D. C. Clean-Up. Does it show that the Dems are destroying their cities by choice? It…
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Why Do the Dems Hate Us?
You can count on the inferior to hate the superior. It's human nature, and an eternal war. Dio Cassius 38.39.2 (speech of Caesar; tr. Earnest Cary): Against this prosperity many are plotting, since everything that lifts people above their fellows arouses both emulation and jealousy; and consequently an eternal warfare is waged by all inferiors…
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Retribution and Psycho-Political Projection
'Retribution' has two main senses in English, and they are importantly different. The word can refer to revenge or to a form of justice, retributive justice. Do I have to explain that justice is not revenge? Conflating the two, journalistic shills for deep-state malefactors try to dismiss as revenge what is a quest for justice…
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Another Transparently Worthless Argument that Justifies the Questioning of Motives
From my Facebook page, three years ago, today. Dick Durbin (D-IL): “I’m going to take you back in history for a moment. When that Second Amendment was written, we were talking about the likelihood a person could purchase a muzzle-loading musket.” The implied conclusion, of course, is that the Second Amendment does not protect…
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On Lame Appeals for Civility
Trey Gowdy issued one on his show last night. The man needs to stiffen his spine and realize that our political opponents are enemies with whom we share insufficient common ground for productive debate. They don't need debating but defeating. He did guest a Dem pol who talked some sense and seemed decent, but the…
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Ray Monk on Frege, Russell, Patriotism and Prejudice
Excerpt: The single thing I can imagine Russell finding most shocking would be Frege’s endorsement of patriotism as an unreasoning prejudice. The absence of political insight characteristic of his times, Frege says, is due to “a complete lack of patriotism.” He acknowledges that patriotism involves prejudice rather than impartial thought, but he thinks that is…
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Ronald Radosh on David Horowitz: A Critical Appreciation
On very rare occasions, something surfaces at The Bulwark worth reading. Radosh, who is well worth reading, gives his take on Horowitz's flipping of his ideological script, and takes him to task for his late extremism. But how is this judgment by Radosh not itself extreme: What David is being celebrated for is the opposite…
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The Psychology of the Pollyanna . . .
. . . and the political ponerology of Leftism. A Substack article from exactly one year ago.
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Musk Derangement Syndrome
Political pathologies are not to be multiplied praeter necessitatem, but given the praeter-natural lunacy of the Left, a certain amount of quasi-psychiatry is tolerable, and perhaps even helpful unto political salvation and national sanitation. Move over, TDS. I now hand off to Roger Kimball.
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Morning in America!
Hats off to all the patriots who did their civic duty. But this is no time to gloat over the defeat of our enemies. They will not give up or give in. For these totalitarian dogs, the political is everything. They do not suffer, as we do, from The Conservative Disadvantage. The war is just…
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Auschwitz Survivor: Trump’s not Hitler, but a Mensch
Here: Jerry Wartski, a 94-year-old Holocaust survivor, says that Kamala Harris comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler is "the worst thing I have ever heard in 75 years living in the United States." "I know President Trump and he would never say this, and Kamala Harris knows this," he told the New York Post. “Adolf…
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No Complacency! All Hands on Deck!
The Republic hangs by a thread. We must defeat the Kamalists* and do so decisively. They need not just defeat but demoralization. Unfortunately, too many 'influencers' are predicting a Trump victory. Not wise. We must not wax complacent. Our political enemies will do anything to win. No moral or legal considerations constrain them. We know…
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Repost from Election Day, 2016: Catholics Must Support Trump
This is an unredacted repost from 8 November 2016. My opinion of Trump is higher now than it was then. But the piece is basically on the right track and I stand by it. I threw the dice for Trump and the sequel showed that I was right to do so. I was vindicated in…