Jonah Goldberg and the Anti-Trump Bourgeoisie
After saying he would build the border wall, for two long months our corrupt media, in a desperate bid to disqualify this policy, dropped Trump in The Barrel. He was called every “ist” in the book, boycotted by numerous business partners, and more times than I can count, called “road kill” by all The Smart People.
This media storm (aided by some weak-kneed Republicans) only served to boost Trump because unlike so many in the Republican Party, when confronted by a media attack, Trump not only refused to back down, he effectively fought back.
Those in favor of The Wall are neither racist nor nativist nor rubes. In fact they are smarter than many of the so-called GOP intellectuals hurling those insults because The Rubes “get it” — they understand that our open border is an existential threat to conservatism, and by extension America. It’s this simple: We either fix this problem or left-wing Democrats win a permanent majority and the Obama-era never ends.
Maybe the bourgeois GOP are too “smart” to grasp such a simple concept. Nevertheless, it is perfectly conservative to be a one issue voter on this one issue.
I don’t care how much you hate him. Read it all.
You can’t have open borders AND an overly generous welfare state. It’s national suicide. The #GOPSmartSet is in fact too stupid to understand this simple concept.
“…because unlike so many in the Republican Party, when confronted by a media attack, Trump not only refused to back down, he effectively fought back.”
Paging Mr. Harper…
Trump says he can’t be bought by special interest groups, we need to hear that from all politicians. The thing about Trump, he can’t be bought by anybody,what you see is what you get, that’s a leader to stand by.
Another irony is the complaint that Trump isn’t “conservative enough” or “not a real conservative.”
This is rich coming from an establishment that’s been saying for decades we don’t dare nominate anyone who is TOO conservative, that we need somebody who can “reach across the aisle” and “appeal to a broad base.”
I doupt very much that the evil United Nations and the Council of Foreign Relations(CFR)would ever allow a Border Fence their the ones behind this invasion of america along with just about everyone in the District of Crinimals
What’s wrong with America extends far beyond the sinister, malevolent ideology of the current occupant of the Oval Office. He is a serious problem, alright, but there are others more pressing, more immediate, because more destructive even than he. They include the fact that Washington, and therefore the nation, is run by a ruling class of some of the worst people the country has coughed up. They are dishonest, corrupt, self-serving, professional liars and thieves. They have, not surprisingly, turned government itself, and all our most important institutions, from education to law, into weapons to be used against the people.
Many of us on the receiving end understand this all too well. But some political luminaries on the right, theorists who can quote Hobbes, Locke, Burke and Kirk, et al., do not. These theorists, Goldberg among them, seem to think that what ails America now can only have a theoretical remedy. If only we could find another Reagan, someone who has his political mind right, our troubles would be solved. They are wrong. More important than ideology is the underlying wreckage of politics. That must be squarely faced and fixed before the right political ideology could have its intended effects. Until these “structural” problems are fixed, even the sainted Ronald Reagan could not undo the damage Obama and his kin have wrought.
This the conservative wise-guys do not see. The cannot see that Trump the Impure may just be onto to something important when he urges us to focus on replacing failure, the goal of the current administration in matters both foreign and domestic, with success; that he’s on to a fundamental problem when he urges us to remember that what defines we the people, and what distinguishes us from others, are the personal and political virtues that once made America great and promised to make it greater, but which are nowhere to be found in Washington.
Trump is not well-educated in political theory. But he may know a thing or two about how to get the right sorts of things done. He might just make a good manager. In a democracy, that should be enough. Leave the theorizing about which goals we should pursue to the sovereign-citizens in whose name the president should manage. We’ll tell him where we want to go.
Moral: If you enter the voting booth with the idea that you will only vote for the candidate who most closely approximates your ideal of ideological purity, you’re doing it wrong!
Regardless of what you think of Trump , the American people are so disgusted with the corrupt jellyfish in the GOP and the criminals in the Dems and the anti American agenda of Washington, that he is on track to upset the apple cart.
He has all career polis running scared and he has the DNC and Whitehouse soiling their depends.
Now there is another wild card in the deck with John MacAfee running – establishment politics is in for an upset this election.
“District of Criminals”. I’m stealing that.
Well said Nick and Occam. Jonah is right.
The American people are starting to realize that they have been had by the establishment of both parties.
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2015/09/09/why-donald-trump-and-ben-carson-are-leading-the-pack-249341
Yeah, really, PAGING MR HARPER!
Going OT, There’s one thing a little disturbing from PMSH interview with Mansbridge.
PMSH seemed to have a “take it or leave it, nonchalant attitude” as to becoming PM, again.
There’s nothing like indifference to the task that someone says that they want, but showing indifference.
I’m voting CPC, but we better get used to the sound of PM Tommy the Commie.
TRUMP 2016
“(Trump is) beating the GOP Establishment….He’s beating the hundred-million dollar man Jeb.”
That’s why he’s so popular with people who always voted Republican back when it meant something. This quote (Camp of the Saints quoting Physic Geek quoting Empire of Jeff) hits the nail on the head:
Rand Paul is the best long term solution but the nation isn’t there when it comes to principles or wisdom. A German Shepard, even a Lab would be better than the incumbent. Trump is a loose cannon populist and he rings a very popular bell these days. One wonders how much of his bluster would carry through to holding office when he finds his trade “policies” are in violation of treaties and when he discovers the realities of the regulatory leviathan state. But the Border and immigration are a no-brainer and a hit with the electorate, as they should be.
Americans elected a GOP congress and senate in order to defund Obamacare and stop the Obama amnesty. The GOP has done neither. So yeah I think a lot of people are looking at the GOP establishment types and thinking yeah sure we believe what you say about Trump. As for Jeb the merry illegal immigrant santa claus he’s going down worse than hitlery.
Trump: We need to take in more Muslims
https://twitter.com/imraansiddiqi/status/641626074657325056
HAHAHAHHA, ok that who article was worth it just for that.
I would agree that a set of the Republican base is supporting Trump because they are sick of the GOP establishment and its repeated betrayals and failures. But I wonder how much of this just comes down to ‘he’s famous’. Trump is polling well among blacks and Hispanics – both Democrat constituencies – and against Democrats generally. I wouldn’t be surprised if more Americans know who Trump is than know who Hilary Clinton is and they like him cause he’s famous.
This is Jonah walking back his column of the day before. Eventually, all the Beltway Bourgeois will awaken to the anger in the real world. F him. Remember, it seems you can’t spell RINO without NRO.
“It’s a bizarre thing existing in a Netherworld where you neither support nor despise Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.”
I both support and despise him.
Ken (Kulak) and dr kill:
This isn’t Jonah. It’s a different writer calling out Jonah Goldberg for his recent snotty hit piece on Trump. As the writer explains, the brilliant Goldberg is utterly clueless on the reasons for the rise of Trump.
I was thinking today that I find myself being a fan of Trump’s candidacy despite my never having really liked him much. For this reason: there’s a tape running in my head all my waking hours. No politician talks like that tape. Trump does, a lot of the time. It’s like yelling at the TV and the TV taking back saying I Hear You Brother. Whoa, this is a really different experience for me.
As to his conservative credentials, I don’t give a hoot. I’m down for his pragmatism and his get her done ethic.
You are right.
If the US immigration policy is so great the way it is, why doesn’t Canada or any other country adopt a similar policy?
Other than the fact we’re not insane and suicidal…
I’m liking Trump more and more all the time.
That’s a bad sign, …liking.
My like is all about Trump being a Lightning Rod, he’s not a Ground Wire.
Obama was the blank canvas for expectations, Trump is the lightning rod for anger about the failure to have those expectations met.
I still think we’re getting played. The game is Ping-Pong, and voters are as sharp as the ball.
Trump is just the back hand.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038969/quotes
Nobody can deny Trump is entertaining.
Yet, it seems to me he’s more than that.
He’s actually offering solutions to ongoing problems, something you’d be hard-pressed to find, give or take a Carson and Fiorina. All those, BTW, are outsiders.
How’s Obama’s blank canvas (h/t Oz) working out so far? There are no solutions, only divisive policies that work for the divide-and-conquer crowd. Hey, that tactic worked just fine for Chretien on this side of the border.
From where I sit, the time might be right for an outsider to run the USA.