{"id":5087,"date":"2017-11-02T05:45:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T05:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/11\/02\/david-gelernter-on-trump\/"},"modified":"2017-11-02T05:45:57","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T05:45:57","slug":"david-gelernter-on-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/11\/02\/david-gelernter-on-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"David Gelernter on Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Power Line<\/a> (emphasis added):<\/span><\/p>\n

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I remain absolutely a supporter and a sympathizer of Trump. And you know, no president checks every box. I think his virtues far outweigh his faults. I do wish he would take the office and the history of the office more seriously than he does . . .<\/span><\/p>\n

Just the fact of getting elected was an extraordinary accomplishment. I mean, you could say it was the most culturally democratic moment in the history of the world. Never before has a great power spurned everything the elite \u2014 the intellectual and the social elite \u2014 knows, left and right, about who should be running the country. Never before has a great power said to hell with that. The dignity of the country is important and has a lot to do with the power of the country, but this is an emergency<\/strong> and we\u2019re going to make use of the best candidate who\u2019s out there. And the implications are enormous. The left believes that, since it refuses to report on the right, the right doesn\u2019t really exist, that it\u2019s just a bunch of uncollected morons with no serious thought.<\/span><\/p>\n

We all know this. We\u2019ve reached a point where the left\u2019s blindness is aiding the collapse of the intellectual structure built up since the rise of Marxism . . . The left is too arrogant, too complacent, too self-satisfied to notice it or do anything about it \u2014 I hope.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is indeed an emergency and I would go so far as to say that the so-called conservatives who refused to support Trump displayed a morally censurable degree of willful stupidity. And they are paying the price for it. The 'stock' of Bill Kristol and George Will et al. has plummeted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via Power Line (emphasis added): I remain absolutely a supporter and a sympathizer of Trump. And you know, no president checks every box. I think his virtues far outweigh his faults. I do wish he would take the office and the history of the office more seriously than he does . . . Just the … Continue reading “David Gelernter on Trump”<\/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-5087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5087","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=5087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}