{"id":4465,"date":"2018-06-25T11:50:35","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T11:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/06\/25\/richard-fernandez-on-the-border-crisis\/"},"modified":"2018-06-25T11:50:35","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T11:50:35","slug":"richard-fernandez-on-the-border-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/06\/25\/richard-fernandez-on-the-border-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Fernandez on the Border Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

His piece concludes<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Trump and the European populists are picking up political assets at a bargain. Glenn Reynolds<\/a> observed:<\/span><\/p>\n

[T]he press has three main kinds of power. One is to motivate the left. Another is to swing the middle. And the third is to demoralize the right. It\u2019s pretty much lost the last of these, and I suspect the second one is fading too.<\/span><\/p>\n

A status quo that used to be able to buy on the margin has let its account fall below the minimum level, and perhaps for the first time has nothing more it can deposit.  The media is shrill in the way a customer whose credit is bad must shout at the waiter to get service. But it was grand while it lasted — the idea we could live without borders, without defense, or even without civilization. Money for nothing and your checks for free. The music played for so long that even now no one can even imagine it could stop. How many will really prefer reality to illusion?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Reynolds is right: far from demoralizing the Right, the mainstream lamestreamers are energizing the Right. Why are the progs behaving so stupidly? Do they have a death wish?  <\/span><\/p>\n

Things should prove 'interesting' come November.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

His piece concludes: Trump and the European populists are picking up political assets at a bargain. Glenn Reynolds observed: [T]he press has three main kinds of power. One is to motivate the left. Another is to swing the middle. And the third is to demoralize the right. It\u2019s pretty much lost the last of these, and I … Continue reading “Richard Fernandez on the Border Crisis”<\/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":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465","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=4465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}