{"id":3003,"date":"2020-07-16T16:23:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T16:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/16\/what-we-are-up-against\/"},"modified":"2020-07-16T16:23:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T16:23:41","slug":"what-we-are-up-against","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/16\/what-we-are-up-against\/","title":{"rendered":"What We are Up Against"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">It helps to know the enemy and not be as naive as a Mona Charen. Despite her manifold lovelinesses and virtues, <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2020\/07\/mona-charen-and-political-equivalentism.html\">Charen<\/a> is a useful idiot for the Left and a <em>useless<\/em> idiot for us. (She is what I call a &#39;topical idiot&#39;; she is obviously not a total idiot. And while I am abusing her to some extent, my abuse is for her own good, grounded as it is in fact and in a concern for her mental clarity.) <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Never-Trumpers, who are mostly journalists and lawyers, and have never built anything, allow themselves to become unhinged and distracted by Trump the inarticulate builder and political interloper, by his foibles and fatuities, his ungrammatical tweets, his exaggerations, sexual peccadillos, and what all else. And so they cannot see who the real enemy is.&#0160; They cannot see the threat to their own way of life and to the set of values which they espouse but are impotent to conserve.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">At the same time, these yap-and-scribble quislings and quibblers, these cruise-ship &#39;conservatives&#39; who succeed in conserving nothing except their status and salaries, propose no candidate who could do better than Trump.&#0160; They are impotent nay-sayers and obstructionists. A pox be upon them, and their dwellings and cruise ships and seminar rooms and all their works and days, and their progeny, intellectual and loin-driven, unto the seventh generation. <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Please study the following<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2020\/07\/the-smithsonian-has-lost-its-mind.php\">Powerline<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0264e2e8f278200d-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Whitey One\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c0264e2e8f278200d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0264e2e8f278200d-800wi\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Whitey One\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0263ec28599b200c-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Whitey Two\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c0263ec28599b200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0263ec28599b200c-800wi\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Whitey Two\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It helps to know the enemy and not be as naive as a Mona Charen. Despite her manifold lovelinesses and virtues, Charen is a useful idiot for the Left and a useless idiot for us. (She is what I call a &#39;topical idiot&#39;; she is obviously not a total idiot. And while I am abusing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/16\/what-we-are-up-against\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What We are Up Against&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,163,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-of-the-west","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}