Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Politics

  • Trump, the Right’s Alinsky

    I said recently that  in this age of post-consensus politics we need fighters not gentlemen.  We need people who will use the Left's Alinskyite tactics against them.  Civility is for the civil, not for destructive leftists who will employ any means to their end of a "fundamental transformation of America." So please enjoy the graphic…

  • Why Trump Over Hillary?

    In Kristol's Betrayal Gets Serious, David Horowitz explains why conservatives ought to unite behind Trump: Will he build a wall the length of the Mexican border? Probably not. But will he secure the border? Probably so.  Will a Democrat – whether Hillary, Bernie or Joe Biden, secure our borders and stop the flow of illegals,…

  • Political Argumentation: The Cogency of the ‘Hillary is Worse’ Defense

    The Trump phenomenon provides excellent fodder for the study of political reasoning. Herewith, some thoughts on the cogency of the 'Hillary is Worse' defense for voting for Trump. I'll start with some assumptions. A1. We are conservatives. A2. It is Trump versus Hillary in the general: Sanders will not get the Democrat Party nod, nor…

  • Jeb! the Gentleman

    Remember him? Whatever you say about Donald Trump he did us all a great service by dispatching low-energy  Jeb! early on.  Jeb Bush and the rest of his family are decent people.  His brother and father are gentlemen.  No one could confuse Trump with a gentleman.   Unfortunately, in this age of post-consensus politics we…

  • Hillary’s Enablers on the Right

    Stephen Moore lays into Michael Gerson here as I did here.  In other 'enabling' news, French concert organizers ban Eagles of Death Metal. If you want to know how lost Europe is, how thoroughly it has abandoned freedom of speech, get this: two French music festivals have banned Eagles of Death Metal, the American rock…

  • Crooked Hillary

    Bought by corporate American for 21 million semolians. Here: Mandatory financial disclosures released this month show that, in just the two years from April 2013 to March 2015, the former first lady, senator and secretary of state collected $21,667,000 in “speaking fees,” not to mention the cool $5 mil she corralled as an advance for…

  • Trump For and Against

    For: The Thinking Man's Guide to Donald Trump Against: This is How Fascism Comes to America You decide. 

  • Will the ‘True Conservative’ Please Stand Up?

    Every morning I find a new batch of anti-Trump articles by so-called conservatives.  These anti-Trumpsters clearly see the man's many negatives, but most of them refuse to come clean on the question: "Do you advocate not voting for Trump thereby aiding and abetting a Clinton victory?  Yes or no?" Add to the list Michael Gerson…

  • Clinton Cash, The Movie

    Official trailer. Money, power, sex, and recognition form what I call the Mighty Tetrad of human motivators, the chief goads to action here below. Hillary specializes in the inordinate love of the first two, Bill in the inordinate love of the second.

  • Micro-aggression

    When macro-aggression is no more, when wrongs have been righted and justice has been promoted and protected to the extent that it can be by government, it is then that leftists invent micro-aggressions to keep themselves in business and assure themselves of an ever-expanding clientele of victims and losers.   Leftists have lost their minds.…

  • Peter Wehner on the Dennis Prager Argument for Trump

    Peter Wehner, Trump Supporters are Wrong, not Evil:   The argument of people like Prager is that we know how Mrs. Clinton would govern if she were president: as a person of the left. In addition, she’s an ethical mess. The Trump-over-Clinton crowd also argue that Mrs. Clinton is sure to nominate Supreme Court justices…

  • The NeverTrump Mentality

    Jonah Goldberg, 10 May 2016: For conservatives, party unity is another way of saying “suicide pact.” I will never vote for Hillary Clinton because she believes things I can never support. I will never vote for Donald Trump because he’s a bullying fool who believes in nothing but himself. The conservative movement can wait out…

  • Paul Johnson on Political Correctness and Donald Trump

    Article here.  I reproduce it in toto so that you can read it in peace without being assaulted by advertising.  Bolding added. The problem with Johnson's article is that he does not define 'political correctness' and seems dangerously close to conflating politically incorrect speech with "vigorous, outspoken, raw and raucous speech" and politically incorrect behavior…

  • Obama as Precursor of Trump

    Trump perpetuates the post-modern politics perfected by Obama and inaugurated by the first PoMo Prez, Bill Clinton, who was also the first black president.  You know you're in PoMo Land when a honkie from Hope, Arkansas gets to be black.  Well, why not? Race is just a social construct, isn't it?  And what can be…

  • Can We Live Together in Peace Despite Deep Differences?

    A large part of the appeal of Donald Trump even to those of us who oppose much of his style and substance is that he and he alone appears prepared to fight the Left and fight to win, which of course means using all their dirty tactics against them.  He alone seems to grasp that…