{"id":3935,"date":"2019-03-01T11:31:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T11:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/03\/01\/charles-r-kesler-on-trump-2020\/"},"modified":"2019-03-01T11:31:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T11:31:44","slug":"charles-r-kesler-on-trump-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/03\/01\/charles-r-kesler-on-trump-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles R. Kesler on Trump 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.claremont.org\/crb\/article\/2020-foresight\/\">Includes<\/a> a perspicacious analysis of President Trump&#39;s Second Inaugural (<em>emphases<\/em> added):<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><em>Perhaps the most striking moment, sending a kind of premonitory shudder through the Democrats and offering a clear preview of the 2020 contest, was Trump\u2019s warning against socialism.<\/em> \u201cAmerica was founded on liberty and independence, and not government coercion, domination, and control. We are born free and we will stay free. Tonight,\u201d he declared, \u201cwe renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country.\u201d He had Venezuela at hand as an example of socialist folly and evil. He didn\u2019t have to mention that the Nazis were socialists, too. From their dreams of socialism, a Green New Deal, and Medicare for All, the Democrats in the chamber suddenly seemed\u2026woke. They sat there, stunned, or at least silent, realizing that soon they would have to face this man in the ring. As Mike Tyson said, \u201cEverybody has a plan until they get hit.\u201d And Trump was only sparring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">At the end Trump returned to D-Day, to those \u201cyoung men of 18 and 19, hurtling on fragile landing craft toward the most momentous battle in the history of war,\u201d and to those whose lives and freedom they saved, including the two Holocaust survivors in the gallery. Why did those young men do it? Trump asked. \u201cTheir cause was this nation and generations yet unborn\u2026. They did it for America. They did it for us.\u201d <em>They chose greatness, and freedom, and life, as we should, too. Let the Democrats run on infanticide, socialism, and porous borders.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Can you imagine Romney or one of those miserable never-trumping milque-toasts issuing a clear statement like that?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Includes a perspicacious analysis of President Trump&#39;s Second Inaugural (emphases added): Perhaps the most striking moment, sending a kind of premonitory shudder through the Democrats and offering a clear preview of the 2020 contest, was Trump\u2019s warning against socialism. \u201cAmerica was founded on liberty and independence, and not government coercion, domination, and control. We are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/03\/01\/charles-r-kesler-on-trump-2020\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Charles R. Kesler on Trump 2020&#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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935","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=3935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}