{"id":3845,"date":"2019-04-18T15:15:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T15:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/04\/18\/norman-podhoretz-on-trump-and-never-trumpers\/"},"modified":"2019-04-18T15:15:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T15:15:50","slug":"norman-podhoretz-on-trump-and-never-trumpers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/04\/18\/norman-podhoretz-on-trump-and-never-trumpers\/","title":{"rendered":"Norman Podhoretz on Trump and Never-Trumpers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Ace of Spades<\/a>: <\/span><\/p>\n

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Norman Podhoretz praises Trump for being a — yes — fighter, while the soft-handed crew of the S.S. Cuck all counsel surrender.<\/span><\/p>\n

One disagreement I have: NeverTrumpers are, in fact, willing to fight. They're willing to fight viciously and bitterly — so long as the opponents are conservatives.<\/em> Then the knives come out, then the eye-gouges and low-blows begin raining, then the shivs start getting sharpened.<\/span><\/p>\n

But they won't fight this way against their neighbors — physical neighbors — in the leftwing cities and tony suburbs. For them, the seek compromise and understanding.<\/span><\/p>\n

Have they ever tried to seek compromise with Trump supporters?<\/span><\/p>\n

No, them they brand as Nazis and Deplorables.<\/span><\/p>\n

They are among the most tribal people on earth — it's just that their real tribe is, and has always been, the cosmopolitan intellectual class of the left. They share most of their political, cultural, and social DNA with the left.<\/span><\/p>\n

CRB: Some people say that Trump has a blue collar sensibility. Do you see that?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

NP: I do see it and even before Trump–long before Trump–actually going back to when I was in the army in the 1950s, I got to know blue-collar Americans. I'm "blue collar" myself, I suppose. I\u2019m from the working class–my father was a milk man. But in the army I got to know people from all over the country and I fell in love with Americans–they were just great!<\/span><\/p>\n

. . .<\/span><\/p>\n

That's one of the things–it may be the main thing–that explains his political success. It doesn't explain his success in general, but his political success, yes. Also–I often explain this to people–when I was a kid, you would rather be beaten up than back away from a fight. The worst thing in the world you could be called was a sissy. And I was beaten up many times. Trump fights back. The people who say: "Oh, he shouldn't lower himself," "He should ignore this," and "Why is he demeaning himself by arguing with some dopey reporter?"<\/span><\/p>\n

I think on the contrary–if you hit him, he hits back; and he is an equal opportunity counter puncher. It doesn\u2019t matter who you are. And actually Obama, oddly enough, made the same statement: "He pulls a knife, you pull a gun."<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Norman<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via Ace of Spades:  Norman Podhoretz praises Trump for being a — yes — fighter, while the soft-handed crew of the S.S. Cuck all counsel surrender. One disagreement I have: NeverTrumpers are, in fact, willing to fight. They're willing to fight viciously and bitterly — so long as the opponents are conservatives. Then the knives … Continue reading “Norman Podhoretz on Trump and Never-Trumpers”<\/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":[30,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-psychology","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845","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=3845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}