“How the P.C. Police Propelled Donald Trump:”
When The New York Times tells the rubes that it’s time to hand in their guns, when The Washington Post suggests that Jesus is ashamed of them for not welcoming Syrian refugees the week after a terrorist attack, people react not because they love guns or hate Syrians, but because their natural urge to being told by coastal liberals that they’re awful people and that they should just obey and shut up is to issue a certain Anglo-Saxon verb and pronoun combination with all the vigor they can muster. And if they can’t say it themselves, they’ll find someone who will, even if it’s a crude jerk from Queens who can’t make a point without raising his pinky like a Mafia goon explaining the vig to you after you’ve had a bad day at the track.
(h/t Ed Driscoll at Instapundit)
If only Ted Cruz would take Trump’s honesty on Political Correctness, outspokenness on the Dems dishonesty, own it all, and we would have a winner
“Rather, the pestilence that is the Trump campaign … the significant cadre of kooks attached to Trump…”
Unlike the disease-free Clinton campaign or the cadre of wonderful people attached to Obama.
Interesting article but the author just doesn’t quite get it.
Love how the biggest stupidest moron EVER is the only one to figure out how to win.
Cruz seems to be following the GOPe “Shoot yourself in the foot” routine:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/01/04/ted-cruz-calls-oregon-protesters-stand/
I don’t get the attacking of centrists like Stephen Harper as rabid right wingers. Strange narrative they are creating. I’m a right winger and he didn’t do much to keep me happy. In the 2012 Us election the media even had the lefty Mitt Romney pegged as a right winger.
I don’t like the thesis of this article, penned by a leftist posing as a conservative. Notice how on the one hand he says that moderate, ordinary Americans who hold differing views should be respected, but on the other, he scrambles to claim the moral high ground by excoriating a man who publicly espouses these views.
If you strip away the verbiage, the crux of it is “Play nice to the rubes, or they’ll be attracted to the evil, racist, stupid genius of bad men who share their twisted views.”
he’s a cuck. that’s why you’ll note he would rather have Hilary than trump.
I sense cognitive dissonance:
“By assailing sensible conservatives as sexists, racists, and imbeciles, they paved the way for a jackass who embodies their worst fears.”
Why is he a jackass? “It’s pointless to try to explain Trump in terms of political platforms because Trump himself is too stupid and too incoherent to have any kind of consistent political views about anything beyond hating minorities and immigrants. Nuclear weapons? “With nuclear, the power, the devastation is very important to me.” Drugs? “That whole heroin thing, I tell you what, we gotta get that whole thing under control.” A random word generation program could do better.”
Methinks Trump is way smarter than the writer. Ironically, Trump speaks the language of the working class. There very fact he won’t be cowed into silence helps him grow his vote. But the writer crosses the line with:
“If in the end God turns his back on America and we’re left with only the choice of Trump or Hillary Clinton, I will vote for a third candidate out of protest—even if it means accepting what I consider the ghastly prospect of a Clinton 45 administration.”
Are you out of your mind, thinking Clinton would make a better president than Trump? My God Justin Trudeau would make a better president than Clinton (maybe it’s a toss up). The actual point of the American people are making, & not just GOPers, is they are sick of political insiders taking the technocratic & self-serving point of view rather than the wishes and needs of the people. That’s why Bernie Sander is in the 30’s in Dem support.
Probably a fresh look is needed, not from an inexperienced insider, as in Obama, but from an inexperienced outsider, one with vast business experience for a change; though certainly not one with the far reaching incompetence of HRC. Sho couldn’t even delegate a military rescue plan in Benghazi without having a sit down to go over the political and then election implications of helping distressed consular and military staff.
Shame on her. I encourage everyone to watch the movie about the military contractors firefight with an AQ force at the CIA annex, being repeatedly told to “stand down” (which apparently the State Dept/CIA denies was said). Then she flippantly states, in her infamous “what does it matter” rant, the attack consisted of a “couple of people walking by.”
Give yer head a shake man, God forbid, I’d rather have another round of Obama than HRC 45.
“Interesting article but the author just doesn’t quite get it.”
No Kidding!
He’s a McCain Republican, still has his panties in a knot.
These type of Republicans are those that Joe Sixpack is fed up with, yet these Republicans would rather see Hildebeast in the WH than TRUMP.
The funny part is that what is coalescing behind Trump, in terms of supporters, looks very much like what happened with Reagan. Time for the establishment Republican dummies to recognize that victory is better than defeat. McCain and Romney were too mealy mouthed to win……..maybe its time to learn something
Now Hillary tells us she supports Obama’s gun control.
I dare anyone to show me one mass murderer that was a card carrying NRA member.
Most were democrats.
So.
All democrats should be banned from buying guns.
I think he secretly admires Trump but feels he should be above all that. So he goes overboard something along the line of “protests too much”. Typical fence sitter who can’t hold his own convictions unless he has a cheering section.
It’s hilarious to hear Glen Beck call Trump a progressive.
Nothing Conservative about that writer.
Definitely a “Legend in his own mind”.
Now it is Trump Derangement Syndrome and he has not even secured the nomination.
Interesting how these intellectuals.AKA full time parasites do not get Trump.
Notice the demeaning language toward voters who support Trump, or any other true individual .
CBC uses same playbook, always sneering at the voters choices as Ill informed,ignorant,racism, knee jerk…or just plain dumb.. because we chose differently to them.
“We believe in democracy and voter choice.. No not that choice.”
What difference exists between most of our professional political class?
They may style themselves Right or Left, but all I see is fools and bandits.
I forsee a flash point coming, where the pollsters and presstitutes will still be telling us what we think, as they are fed to the guillotine.
Along with the union parasites who will be haranguing us about our best interests as we throw them into jail.
Liberalism is a progressive disease, highlighted by this smarmy certainty of the parasites, that they know best how their host shall live.
Trump looks the least idiotic in an amazing selection of fools, leeches and apologists.
I think the writer is right about why the Trump phenomenon has staying power and possibly is even snowballing. A large part of society is sick and tired of being told what to think and say, sick and tired of having their pockets picked to service neer-do-wells, sick and tired of politicians pretending to be opposed to each other all the while colluding to fleece and enslave the people.
From the article, “Trump’s staying power, however, is rooted in the fact that his supporters are not fighting for any particular political outcome, they are fighting back against a culture they think is trying to smother them into cowed silence. What they want, more than any one policy, is someone to turn to the chanting mobs and say, without hesitation: “No, I will not shut up.” How long this will go on, then, depends on how long it will take for those people to feel reassured that someone besides Trump will represent their concerns without backing down in the face of catcalls about racism, sexism, LGBTQ-phobia, Islamophobia, or any other number of labels deployed mostly to extinguish their dissent.”
A large segment of society feels disenfranchised and Trump is giving them a voice.
“I don’t get the attacking of centrists like Stephen Harper as rabid right wingers.” Scar, that is just the modern everyday operating procedure of the left and which they copied from their more radical brethren the Bolsheviks. That being demonize anyone who does not agree with their worldview. It is a tried and true method that has worked well for the left for decades. The LIVs fall for it constantly until they get angry.