{"id":6038,"date":"2016-11-16T04:53:30","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T04:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/11\/16\/the-republic-repeals-itself\/"},"modified":"2016-11-16T04:53:30","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T04:53:30","slug":"the-republic-repeals-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/11\/16\/the-republic-repeals-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"The Republic Repeals Itself?"},"content":{"rendered":"

And the Left continues to melt down over the election result.<\/span><\/p>\n

A curious exercise<\/a> in hyperventilation from the pen of Andrew Sullivan.  Here are a couple of gasps:<\/span><\/p>\n

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In the U.S., the [populist] movement \u2014 built on anti-political politics, economic disruption, and anti-immigration fears \u2014 had something else, far more lethal, in its bag of tricks: a supremely talented demagogue who created an authoritarian cult with unapologetically neo-fascist rhetoric.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Anti-political politics?  That's like saying that proponents of limited  government are anti-government.  To oppose the politics of the Left is not to oppose politics unless the only politics is the politics of the Left — which is not the case.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anti-immigration fears? Andy is as mendacious as Hillary. Few conservatives, populist or not, oppose immigration. Conservatives oppose illegal<\/em> immigration and an immigration policy that does not discriminate between those who share our values and are willing to assimilate, and those who do not and are not.  Conservatives hold that immigration must have a net positive benefit for our nation.<\/span><\/p>\n

That Sullivan elides the distinction between illegal and legal immigration shows that he is intellectually dishonest.  <\/span><\/p>\n

And then there is the endlessly deployed leftist tactic of  reducing the political opponent's view to  a mere product of emotion, in this case fear.  Probably the only effective response to this shabby tactic is to reply in kind. "Look, Sullivan, you are just a hate-America leftist scumbag who wants to undermine the rule of law."<\/span><\/p>\n

We could call it the De Niro\/Lamotta Riposte<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

By the way, Trump understands that it does no good to respond to a leftist with a learned disquisition (not that Trump could produce one); he understands with his gut that punching back is far more effective.  He understands that the leftist thug will ignore your careful and polite arguments and go right back to name-calling: racist, sexist, homophobe, Islamophobe, bigot, deplorable . . . .<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is now Trump\u2019s America. He controls everything from here on forward. He has won this campaign in such a decisive fashion that he owes no one anything. He has destroyed the GOP and remade it in his image.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is delusional.  How delusional?  An army of proctologists in a month of Sundays <\/a>could not bring Sully's head into the unsullied light of day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump controls everything?  False: the Left controls almost all mainstream media outlets, the courts, public education K-12, the universities, and many of the churches. (Think of all the leftist termites in the Catholic Church.)<\/span><\/p>\n

He won in a decisive fashion?  False: he lost the popular vote, a fact the liberal-left crybullies trumpet repeatedly.<\/span><\/p>\n

He has destroyed the GOP?  False: The GOP retained both houses of Congress.  The truth is that he destroyed  the Dems and the legacy of Obama.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sully's rant does not get better as it proceeds, as you may verify for yourself. <\/span><\/p>\n

Addendum<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

M.B. of Alexandria, VA writes:<\/span><\/p>\n

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You said:  "Trump controls everything?  False: the Left controls almost all mainstream media outlets, the courts, public education K-12, the universities, and many of the churches. (Think of all the leftist termites in the Catholic Church.) "<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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You could add:  the federal bureaucracy, most charitable foundations (Rockefeller, Ford, Soros etc), and, not least, the human resources (HR) departments of most corporations, which are now heavily staffed with ideological diversicrats.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Excellent points which I shouldn't have omitted, especially the one about the HR departments of most corporations.  Why can't leftists see the extent of leftist control of the culture?  Well, why is the fish unaware of the medium that sustains it?  <\/span><\/div>\n
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And the Left continues to melt down over the election result. A curious exercise in hyperventilation from the pen of Andrew Sullivan.  Here are a couple of gasps: In the U.S., the [populist] movement \u2014 built on anti-political politics, economic disruption, and anti-immigration fears \u2014 had something else, far more lethal, in its bag of … Continue reading “The Republic Repeals Itself?”<\/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":[158,163,245,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invective","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-polemics","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6038","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=6038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}