{"id":6419,"date":"2016-05-24T05:57:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T05:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/05\/24\/jeb-the-gentleman\/"},"modified":"2016-05-24T05:57:45","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T05:57:45","slug":"jeb-the-gentleman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/05\/24\/jeb-the-gentleman\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeb! the Gentleman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember him?<\/span><\/p>\n

Whatever you say about Donald Trump he did us all a great service by dispatching low-energy  Jeb! early on.  Jeb Bush and the rest of his family are decent people.  His brother and father are gentlemen.  No one could confuse Trump with a gentleman.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, in this age of post-consensus politics we need fighters not gentlemen.  We need people who will use the Left's Alinskyite tactics against them.  Civility is for the civil, not for destructive leftists who will employ any means to their end of a "fundamental transformation of America."  For 'fundamental transformation' read: destruction. <\/span><\/p>\n

It's a war, and no war is civil, especially not a civil war.  To prosecute a war you need warriors.  Trump is all we have.  Time to face  reality, you so-called conservatives.  Time to man up, come clean, and get behind the 'presumptive nominee.'<\/span><\/p>\n

Don't write another article telling us what a sorry specimen he is.  We already know that.  We are a nation in decline and our choices are lousy ones.  Hillary is worse, far worse.<\/span><\/p>\n

Consider just three issues: The Supreme Court, gun rights, and the southern border.  We know where Hillary stands.  We also know where Trump stands.  Suppose he accomplishes only one thing: he nominates conservatives for SCOTUS.  (You are aware, of course, that he has gone to the trouble of compiling a list of conservative candidates.  That is a good indication that he is serious.)  The appointment of even one conservative would retroactively justify your support for him over the destructive and crooked Hillary.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jonah Goldberg recently made the point that his vote doesn't matter.  True.  Each of our individual votes is vanishingly insignificant.  But that is not the issue.  The issue is whether conservatives as a group<\/em> should support Trump.  The answer is obvious: of course.<\/span><\/p>\n

The alternative is to aid and abet Hillary. <\/span><\/p>\n

Are you a conservative or a quisling?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Remember him? Whatever you say about Donald Trump he did us all a great service by dispatching low-energy  Jeb! early on.  Jeb Bush and the rest of his family are decent people.  His brother and father are gentlemen.  No one could confuse Trump with a gentleman.   Unfortunately, in this age of post-consensus politics we … Continue reading “Jeb! the Gentleman”<\/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-6419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6419","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=6419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}