{"id":5028,"date":"2017-11-15T16:24:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T16:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/11\/15\/i-may-have-to-eat-my-words\/"},"modified":"2017-11-15T16:24:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T16:24:30","slug":"i-may-have-to-eat-my-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/11\/15\/i-may-have-to-eat-my-words\/","title":{"rendered":"I May Have To Eat My Words"},"content":{"rendered":"

A repost from 5 November 2016, just three days before the historic Trump victory that still has lefties fuming and flailing.  And I did have to eat my words. We sane conservatives who voted for Trump have been vindicated in spades and the quisling, never-trumping, pseudo-cons are sliding deeper into irrelevance with every passing day, bow ties and all.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In January, in Trump's Traction and Conservative Inaction<\/a>, I wrote:<\/span><\/p>\n

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. . . there is no way Trump can beat Hillary.  He has alienated too many groups, women and Hispanics to name two.  Add to that the fact that large numbers of conservatives will stay home, and Hillary is in like Flynn.  Mark my words.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A bold asseveration<\/a> somewhat justified by what had transpired up to that point.  Things look differently now.  I may have to eat my words.  And I hope I do.  I also wrote:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Let's hope that Trump does not get the Republican nomination.  But if he gets it, you must vote for<\/em> him.  For the alternative is far worse.  Politics is a practical business.  It is not about maintaining your ideological purity, but about getting something accomplished in murky and complex circumstances.  It is always about the lesser or least of evils.  Trump would be bad, but Hillary worse. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That's right except that I no longer use the misleading phrase 'lesser of evils.'  It seduces people into asking, 'Why vote for either if both are evil?' when in the vast majority of political contests like these none of the contenders is evil in a way that would justify voting for neither.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not 'lesser of evils' but 'better and worse.'  Trump is better than Hillary policy-wise even if not much better character-wise.<\/span><\/p>\n

The state is not about to wither away.  She shall abide, to oppress, but also to guide and provide.  It obviously matters who has his hands on the levers of power.  It matters who sets the tone and influences the culture in Washington and beyond.    <\/span><\/p>\n

Some are tempted to withdraw and have nothing to do with politics.  That would make sense if one could expect politics to reciprocate by having nothing to do with one.  A highly unreasonable expectation, especially when the Dems are in power.  Never forget that the Left is totalitarian to the core and will lie brazenly to achieve its ends. A good example is the pack of brazen lies put forth by Obama and Co. to ram through ObamaCare, the unaffordable Affordable Care Act.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hillary too lies brazenly<\/a> as should be evident to all by now when it is helpful unto her personal ambition and the leftist agenda (in that order). <\/span><\/p>\n

You know what you have to do come Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In hindsight, I was wrong to hope that Trump not get the nomination. For now I see that none of the others could  have beaten Hillary. Surely the pathetic Jeb! Bush could not have.<\/span><\/p>\n

Memo to self: should you really be using 'surely' in affirmation of a counterfactual conditional?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A repost from 5 November 2016, just three days before the historic Trump victory that still has lefties fuming and flailing.  And I did have to eat my words. We sane conservatives who voted for Trump have been vindicated in spades and the quisling, never-trumping, pseudo-cons are sliding deeper into irrelevance with every passing day, … Continue reading “I May Have To Eat My Words”<\/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-5028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5028","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=5028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}