{"id":3685,"date":"2019-08-02T11:12:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T11:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/08\/02\/the-main-thing-is-to-be-polite\/"},"modified":"2019-08-02T11:12:03","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T11:12:03","slug":"the-main-thing-is-to-be-polite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/08\/02\/the-main-thing-is-to-be-polite\/","title":{"rendered":"The Main Thing is to be Polite: Or So Rod Dreher Seems to Think"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As you may have gathered, I have a high opinion of Rod Dreher.  A friend and I are currently working through his The Benedict Option<\/em>. But the scent of Never-Trumpery is large about him. His Trump Summons Demons<\/a> begins as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tonight at a rally in North Carolina, the President of the United States criticized Rep. Ilhan Omar, which he is certainly entitled to do. But listen to the crowd: \u201cSend her back! Send her back!\u201d Did he try to stop them? Of course not.<\/span><\/p>\n

Where does he think this is all going to go? This is horrifying. Republican members of Congress need to stand up right now and say that this is unacceptable behavior in a president, whipping up a mob like this.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Dreher adds:<\/span><\/p>\n

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There are things worse than a president who is radically pro-abortion, opposed to religious liberty, and favoring open borders. It\u2019s having a president who recklessly endangers the lives of people for the sake of winding up a mob.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A perspicacious comment by one 'Seoulite':<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Future scholars: these sentences exemplify the "Polite Conservative" . . . . According to the Polite Conservative, someone who actively supports the annual murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent human beings (radically pro-abortion), the punitive imposition of radical progressivism and the trouncing of freedom of conscience in the public space (religious liberty), and the actual destruction of the nation itself (open borders); such a person is preferable<\/strong> to someone who insults the Polite Conservative's sense of decorum and acceptable discourse. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Above all one must be polite and courteous, even as an invited guest insults you in your own house, even as uninvited guests smash the windows and clamber in, even as the house itself burns and knives are at your children's throats, you must be polite and not wind anybody up.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Could I have said it better? I doubt it. But that this intelligent person fears to appear under his real name says something about the state we are in and the nature of our enemies.<\/span><\/p>\n

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As you may have gathered, I have a high opinion of Rod Dreher.  A friend and I are currently working through his The Benedict Option. But the scent of Never-Trumpery is large about him. His Trump Summons Demons begins as follows: Tonight at a rally in North Carolina, the President of the United States criticized … Continue reading “The Main Thing is to be Polite: Or So Rod Dreher Seems to Think”<\/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":[122,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civility","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685","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=3685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}