{"id":447,"date":"2024-11-06T03:36:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T03:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/11\/06\/morning-in-america\/"},"modified":"2024-11-06T03:36:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T03:36:17","slug":"morning-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/11\/06\/morning-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning in America!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hats off to all the patriots who did their civic duty.  But this is no time to gloat over the defeat  of our enemies. They will not give up or give in. For these totalitarian dogs, the political is everything.  They do not suffer, as we do, from The Conservative Disadvantage<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

The war is just starting and the national sanitation project will take at least a generation to accomplish.  To give you a taste of what we are up against, here<\/a> is David Frum writing in The Atlantic<\/em> this morning:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Donald Trump has won, and will become president for the second time. Those who voted for him will now celebrate their victory. The rest of us need to prepare to live in a different America: a country where millions of our fellow citizens voted for a president who knowingly promotes hatred and division; who lies\u2014blatantly, shamelessly\u2014every time he appears in public; who plotted to overturn an election in 2020 and, had he not won, was planning to try again in 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n

Above all, we must learn to live in an America where an overwhelming number of our fellow citizens have chosen a president who holds the most fundamental values and traditions of our democracy, our Constitution, even our military in contempt. Over the past decade, opinion polls showed Americans\u2019 faith in their institutions waning. But no opinion poll could make this shift in values any clearer than this vote. As a result of this election, the United States will become a different kind of country.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In a post from January of this year, Dueling Articles<\/a>, I arrange a confrontation between Frum and Steve Cortes. The comment thread is a very good one, featuring contributions by the most distinguished among the MavPhil<\/em> commentariat.<\/span><\/p>\n

World leaders congratulate<\/a> Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n

UPDATE 3:42 PM<\/span><\/p>\n

Leftist incomprehension<\/em>:<\/span><\/p>\n

Jonathan Chait, Americans Didn\u2019t Embrace Trump, They Rejected the Biden-Harris Administration<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

But Lanny Davis, remember him? displays some self-awareness:<\/span><\/p>\n

The Morning After: Lessons to Learn — and not to Learn<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hats off to all the patriots who did their civic duty.  But this is no time to gloat over the defeat  of our enemies. They will not give up or give in. For these totalitarian dogs, the political is everything.  They do not suffer, as we do, from The Conservative Disadvantage. The war is just … Continue reading “Morning in America!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,295,30,44,138,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-pathocracy-and-totalitarianism","category-political-psychology","category-political-tactics","category-political-violence","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","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=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}