{"id":418,"date":"2024-11-22T05:58:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T05:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/11\/22\/the-coalition-of-the-sane-and-the-reasonable\/"},"modified":"2024-11-22T05:58:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T05:58:02","slug":"the-coalition-of-the-sane-and-the-reasonable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/11\/22\/the-coalition-of-the-sane-and-the-reasonable\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coalition of the Sane and the Reasonable"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been using the title phrase for some time now to refer to Trump-supporting conservatives. But what makes us sane and reasonable? Victor Davis Hanson compiles a list in The Trump Counterrevolution is a Return to Sanity.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

In an earlier post I referred to the take-back of our country as a National Sanitation Project, opining  that it might take a generation or two.  But what does sanity have to do with sanitation? The words are in fact<\/a> connected etymologically, sharing as they do a common root in the Latin sanus<\/em>,  meaning healthy or sane or sound, as in the Latin saying mens sana in corpore sano<\/em>, "a sound mind in a sound body." We Trumpians are of sound mind, and some of us inhabit sound bodies.<\/span><\/p>\n

We need to return the nation to health by draining swamps, enforcing laws, erecting barriers both territorial and  moral, and by fumigating institutions. Leftists want to tear down our institutions; we of sound mind want to fumigate them, removing therefrom the termites who presently infest them. <\/span><\/p>\n

You need to get with the program and do your bit. Don't be  slacker, a defeatist, an ingrate. But if you are on the wrong side of this struggle, understand that we consider you enemies.<\/span><\/p>\n

A threat? No, a warning. Are you wise enough to heed a warning? I can't resist yet another reference to 'Biblical Bob':<\/span><\/p>\n

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Come senators, congressmen<\/span>
Please heed the call<\/span>
Don\u2019t stand in the doorway<\/span>
Don\u2019t block up the hall<\/span>
For he that gets hurt<\/span>
Will be he who has stalled<\/span>
There\u2019s a battle outside and it is ragin\u2019<\/span>
It\u2019ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls<\/span>
For the times they are a-changin\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

The line it is drawn<\/span>
The curse it is cast<\/span>
The slow one now<\/span>
Will later be fast<\/span>
As the present now<\/span>
Will later be past<\/span>
The order is rapidly fadin\u2019<\/span>
And the first one now will later be last<\/span>
For the times they are a-changin\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been using the title phrase for some time now to refer to Trump-supporting conservatives. But what makes us sane and reasonable? Victor Davis Hanson compiles a list in The Trump Counterrevolution is a Return to Sanity. In an earlier post I referred to the take-back of our country as a National Sanitation Project, … Continue reading “The Coalition of the Sane and the Reasonable”<\/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":[306,6,43,44,56,121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism-and-quietism","category-language-matters","category-political-language","category-political-tactics","category-politics","category-populism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","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=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}