{"id":3919,"date":"2019-03-08T16:53:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T16:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/03\/08\/leftist-scum-pose-an-extential-threat\/"},"modified":"2019-03-08T16:53:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T16:53:47","slug":"leftist-scum-pose-an-extential-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/03\/08\/leftist-scum-pose-an-extential-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Destructive Leftists Pose an Existential Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peggy Noonan appreciates the threat, but remains<\/a> a Never-Trumper:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Noonan, who's a NeverTrump, must feel the same way about having to state the obvious from such a superb description of the parallel events.  That missing conclusion in her piece is that the only one thing standing between this repulsive neo-Cultural Revolution and us is President Trump, someone she will never be able to bring herself to say good things about.  She's a NeverTrump, after all, and her NeverTrumpism signals she's probably still a something of a stylist after status, which is roughly speaking, how Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit argues the NeverTrump crowd rolls<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet Trump won because he defends us, the people, and our interests, favoring law and not just law, but the same set of laws for everyone.  He couldn't care less about niceties or even being polite to these Cultural Revolutionaries who are out to kill us, because he's not concerned with status or making any such weasels at war with law, history, or civility feel good.  He is <\/em>the status. <\/span><\/p>\n

This is why we got Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Glenn Reynolds nails it:<\/span><\/p>\n

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And as far as I can tell, although Never-Trumpers talk a lot about morality and principles, their actual beef seems to be a combination of aesthetic dislike of Trump\u2019s messaging style, and resentment that he\u2019s not hiring them, and never will hire them. I suppose a lot of people confuse their own social standing and economic prospects with morality, but color me unpersuaded.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps in 2016 you could imagine that Trump would be such an awful President that you had a moral duty to oppose him. But in 2019, it\u2019s obvious that that\u2019s not the case. In fact, he\u2019s pretty darn successful. Instead of gay concentration camps, he\u2019s trying to end discrimination against gays worldwide. Instead of being a warmonger he\u2019s now ending wars \u2014 and getting grief about it from Never-Trumpers. The Russia-collusion thing was always twaddle, but nobody is even pretending otherwise anymore. And Trump\u2019s background and personal life certainly don\u2019t stand out as compared to many other occupants of the Oval Office whom the establishment deemed entirely acceptable.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peggy Noonan appreciates the threat, but remains a Never-Trumper: Noonan, who's a NeverTrump, must feel the same way about having to state the obvious from such a superb description of the parallel events.  That missing conclusion in her piece is that the only one thing standing between this repulsive neo-Cultural Revolution and us is President Trump, someone she will never be able to bring … Continue reading “Destructive Leftists Pose an Existential Threat”<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-of-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919","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=3919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}