{"id":3568,"date":"2019-10-03T12:11:43","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T12:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/10\/03\/fusionism-in-flux-main-street-rising\/"},"modified":"2019-10-03T12:11:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T12:11:43","slug":"fusionism-in-flux-main-street-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/10\/03\/fusionism-in-flux-main-street-rising\/","title":{"rendered":"The Virtuous are Too Scrupulous to Rouse the People against their Tyrants"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Describing Wilkes and two of his allies, Walpole wrote, \u201cThis triumvirate has made me often reflect that nations are most commonly saved by the worst men in [them].\u201d Why? Because, he concluded, \u201cThe virtuous are too scrupulous to go the lengths that are necessary to rouse the people against their tyrants.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Until the coming of The Donald, that had certainly become the case in recent American politics. Until the Orange Menace loosed the fearful lightning of his terrible swift tweets, the \u201cvirtuous,\u201d rather battle-fatigued traditional conservative movement\u2014even when controlling both houses of the Congress\u2014had been out-shouted and outmaneuvered by the unholy alliance of a Left-dominated, morally nihilist pop culture and educational establishment, and what is laughably referred to as the \u201cmainstream\u201d media, all nudging an increasingly radicalized Democratic Party further and further to the left.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There comes a time when a corrective is needed, an outsider self-powered, unowned, and unafraid to kick the asses of the Demo Rats to his Left and expose the fecklessness of the cuckservatives to his Right.  A corrective and a clarifier. No more of the usual Left versus Right. The battle for the soul of America is now a contest between the borderless globalism of the greedy elites and an enlightened nationalism, populist and patriotic.  Hillary versus Donald, to personify it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here: Describing Wilkes and two of his allies, Walpole wrote, \u201cThis triumvirate has made me often reflect that nations are most commonly saved by the worst men in [them].\u201d Why? Because, he concluded, \u201cThe virtuous are too scrupulous to go the lengths that are necessary to rouse the people against their tyrants.\u201d Until the coming … Continue reading “The Virtuous are Too Scrupulous to Rouse the People against their Tyrants”<\/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":[56,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-social-and-political-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568","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=3568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}