{"id":5735,"date":"2017-02-28T04:59:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T04:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/02\/28\/trump-derangement-syndrome-the-kristol-variation\/"},"modified":"2017-02-28T04:59:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T04:59:56","slug":"trump-derangement-syndrome-the-kristol-variation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/02\/28\/trump-derangement-syndrome-the-kristol-variation\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Derangement Syndrome: The Kristol Variation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Julie Kelly explains<\/a> why she decided to break up with Bill Kristol.<\/span><\/p>\n

Part of my explanation of the meltdown of Kristol, George Will, John McCain and other nattering nabobs of Never-Trumpism is that the Orange Man is an uncouth interloper who crashed their party and consigned them and theirs to irrelevance.<\/span><\/p>\n

"The era of empty talk is over," Trump announced in his CPAC speech. And with it the era of Kristol and Co.  These yap-and-scribble do nothing boys in their bow ties don't like it; hence their steaming and spluttering.<\/span><\/p>\n

In his many years in office what has Arizona Senator John McCain done to secure the southern border? Praise him for his military valor in the past.  What we need, however, is civil courage in the present.  Too much go along to get along, senator. <\/span><\/p>\n

Part of the explanation for the effete establishment conservatives' hatred of Trump has to do with his personal style and lack of 'class.' He's not one of them. As if 'class' trumps sound conservative actions<\/em>. Hanson<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Even conservatives sometimes seem more bothered by Trump\u2019s raw uncouthness in service to a conservative agenda than they were by Obama\u2019s saut\u00e9ed orneriness in advancing progressive hope and change. Years of the Cairo Speech, the apology tours, the Iran deal, the Iraq pullout, Obamacare, record debt and low growth \u2014 editorialized by chronic attacks on Fox News, along with \u201cyou didn\u2019t build that,\u201d \u201cpunish our enemies,\u201d and \u201cI won\u201d putdowns from Obama \u2014 never prompted calls for the 25th Amendment like those in some anti-Trump tweets. Is the difference predicated on class, accent, education, tone, appearance, tastes, comportment, or the idea that a shared Beltway culture trumps diverse politics?<\/span><\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/span><\/p>\n

The final irony? The supposedly narcissistic and self-absorbed Trump ran a campaign that addressed in undeniably sincere fashion the dilemmas of a lost hinterland. And he did so after supposedly more moral Republicans had all but written off the rubes as either politically irrelevant or beyond the hope of salvation in a globalized world. How a brutal Manhattan developer, who thrived on self-centered controversy and even scandal, proved singularly empathetic to millions of the forgotten is apparently still not fully understood.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Some will say that the Lord works in mysterious ways. Of course, Trump might still blow it bigly. (That is indeed a recognized word.) We shall see.<\/span><\/p>\n

By the way, Obama got away with his "saut\u00e9ed orneriness" [brilliant phrase, Victor!] because of the black privilege black politicians enjoy and exploit to the hilt: the race card is used to deflect any and all criticisms as originating from anti-black animus alone. That is why no black pol ever leaves home without it. The race card, I mean.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Julie Kelly explains why she decided to break up with Bill Kristol. Part of my explanation of the meltdown of Kristol, George Will, John McCain and other nattering nabobs of Never-Trumpism is that the Orange Man is an uncouth interloper who crashed their party and consigned them and theirs to irrelevance. "The era of empty talk … Continue reading “Trump Derangement Syndrome: The Kristol Variation”<\/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-5735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5735","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=5735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}