Victor Davis Hanson swings a wrecking ball;
The children of Republican elites do not sit in classes where a quarter of the students does not speak English. When that specter of diversity looms, parents yank their kids and put them in the prep schools of Silicon Valley that are rapidly reaching New England numbers (or maybe better southern academies that followed integration). Their children are not on buses where an altercation between squabbling eight-year-olds leads to a tattooed parent arriving at your home to challenge you to a fight over “disrespecting” his family name. The establishment Republicans have rarely jogged around their neighborhoods only to be attacked by pit bulls, whose owners have little desire to speak English, much less to cage, vaccinate or license their dogs. They have never been hit by illegal-alien drivers in Palo Alto. In other words, they do not wish to live anywhere near those who, as a result of an act of love, are desperately poor, here under illegal auspices, and assume California works and should work on the premises of Oaxaca.
Also excellent: Sympathy for the Donaldites
Much of that could apply to Canada as well.
And THIS is why The Donald has such vociferous and loyal support. It has little to do with his behavior, his domestic policy or anything he’s done. It’s about the average American being told for 25 years that This Election Means Everything and that We Work For You. If you just voted Republican more and donated to the RNC more, everything would be fixed. And for 25 years they’ve been lied to.
And they want blood. If they’re not heard through the candidates or ballots this time, there will be.
VDH’s columns on illegals and the overall general decline of 98% of California (that would be the areas outside of Palo Alto & Beverly Hills) are gold. The hyper regulatory state, the impact of illegals, the insanity of the eco-scolds – nobody chronicles the mayhem like he does.
Steyn, Coulter, & VDH – required reading for those of us who wish to see the world as it really is.
Actually surprised how well Ted Cruz is doing,
Someone said a Canadian can not be president.. ha.
Anyway…
If Cruz wins, or Trump wins, The GOPig elites are threatening to split up the nominations and push their delegates at the convention, [delegate-committing (powers, functions, etc.) to another as agent] to vote for another nominee.
Mitt Romney, Ben Sass, etc. etc..
“Don’t change horses in midstream” – Abraham Lincoln
But Be Advised !
If they do, and if they succeed, all hell will break loose.. The party will be split and
Hillary Clinton will be the next president of the USA.
Anyone out there believe things are bad now, just wait till that happens..
America will become Dangerous..
I personally can not believe these bastards would do something that stupid,
but the hatred they have for Trump and Cruz is well known..
Democrat convention will be a Battle Zone,
but the GOPig convention will be a frigging Civil War..
Interesting times..
conservatives shooting themselves in the nuts over ‘personalities’ is nothing new.
I wont bore you with examples.
Hansen is just another elite sniffing downwards. After a page of trump insults he goes on to explain how people could possibly back him. He has no idea. Trump support is the opposite of nihilism.
Just read the additional link. Same garbage. Message to Conservatives here and in the states: conservatives cannot and will not win a fedreal election so long as they insist on pure conservatism. Also, they need to stop acting like liberals, attacking people they don’t like with lies and exaggeration. If the sniffy cons want to ever win another election they will need trump supporters. If they continue to make it us against them…..
The gop and it’s many experts need to make a distinction. Trump wasn’t created by the GOP or anyone else. He gets support because of what he says: secure the border,bring back manufacturing, stay out of foreign wars, even health care reform. People like these ideas, and they don’t feel like they ought to apologize for them. They get angry and defiant when they see the party they have always supported attacking their favourite and calling his supporters idiots. Worse still are the Hansen’s et ql who insist on analyzing the fools who support trump and finding them angry or gullible or nihilistic. The gop opposition to outsiders and their contempt for their voters is what created the problem the GOP now has.
The frustration with the GOP isn’t from betrayal from conservatives. It’s because real conservatives haven’t held power. Aside from Rand Paul and Ted Cruz, who has been in any position to challenge the reach-across-the-aisle progressives. Trump is as described by VDH, a loose-cannon populist, period.
The loss of $25.00 per hour manufacturing jobs is because the unions could never allow $16 or $18 per hour to save those jobs in a competitive environment and the progressives of both parties insist on high noncompetitive corporate tax rates.
The progressive establishment is keeping Rubio in the race in futility partially to keep Cruz from potentially beating Trump. Trump, in reality is “their man”.
There is a theme running thro both articles,
The presumption that Trump will betray those who vote for him.
Because this is what politicians do.
Same BS from Presstitiutes all over;’All politicians Lie”.
Used to defend their comrades and smear the politicians who fight the big lie.
Trump is under attack from all sides, I expect he is enjoying this.
Not conservative enough, too liberal, not liberal enough…
Projections from the cheap seats.
Funny how the voter is supposed to listen to the spiel from the Guild of Parasites and pick the parasite most appealing to themselves, yet when they chose, “NO Parasite,” all of the Guild cooperates to accuse the voter.
Every person slandering Trump seems obsessed by those who chose to vote Trump.
Voter choice is only “democratic” when you vote establishment?
Republican or Democrat the rip off of the citizen expands every year.
Logically they all contribute to this .
Kleptocracy Rules.
Sean and others, well said.
The RHINO pundits are warning that Trump will not follow through and break his promises. Well that is what the lying RHINOs have been doing for decades, in fact, ever since Reagan.
The irony of Carl Rove that because Trump will support Social Security & Medicare, he is not Republican…
The truth is that SS & Medicare are incredible successful, such that they have collected more than 37 Trillion, a huge pile of IOU Trust Bonds.
What is in trouble is the wild spending (General Revenue) of the existing payroll collection.
The Democrats use the SLUSH fund to pay for all kinds of social programs that can’t qualify for taxation justification.. Pelosi’s Wide body Plane ETC
The Republicans don’t care to stop the Democrats from funding their social programs as long as the money comes from the SS Trust…Unfunded. Paul Ryann bemoaned the Theft of 1 Trillion from Medicare for Obama care before he ran for VP.. he than flipped to the Carl Rove theory
The fraud is that SS & Medicare is NOT in a lock Box. Social Security & Medicare have a surplus of 37 Trillion.. collecting MORE from existing employees or increasing the age does nothing except provide more Money in General Revenue to waste in the drunken free-for-all..
Stop the Lies & nonsense
God bless VDH. Bless this highly intelligent conservative communicator for actually living in the REAL world, albeit two parts of that world – simultaneously. His perspective from BOTH the pinnacle of American wealth and class on the SF peninsula … and simultaneously residing in a REAL WORLD Mexifornia community in Fresno … is unique, and valuable. The (vast) majority of his hardcore leftist (and blue man group Republicans) should listen and learn from his experience.
I live in a safe, beautiful, lily-white (and Asian) bedroom community across the Bay from Palo Alto. A community whose only contact with the REAL California comes in the form of; gardeners, contractors, nannies, and baristas. A community with housing prices just 4-figures below the average Silicon Valley home. I have a similar experience as that of VDH, in that I come from a very lower middle class upbringing; divorced parents, alcoholic father who bounced from low-paying to low-paying job. I literally had to leave home in my sophomore HS year because there was not enough food to eat. I revealed my plight to my HS Dean of boys who helped find a foster home to take me in. I was a poor, dependent foster child. As I like to joke with my friends in this community … that I am not really one of them … because I didn’t arrive with a trust fund.
VDH is 99% correct in his analysis of the Trump voter. It IS emotional with us. Emotion born of the REALITY of living in a so-called melting pot of loving, grateful, “immigrants”. We know and live the reality of the world engineered by the political elites. And it is a world becoming a 3rd world dumpster … not the “loving” multi-cultural stew theorized by Jeb (using his nom-de-campaign). Yes, this country IS getting more and more divided between the haves and the have-nots. Me ? I am personally hanging on by my fingertips to a disappearing middle-class. Luckily, I live on the elite side of the fence … but I clearly see the other side. I have lived on the other side, and DO NOT want to live on that side ever again (go ahead call me an elitist wannabe … but isn’t that what conservatism is all about ? lifting my boat on a rising tide ?). I clearly see the result of Jeb’s desired GOPe policies (which are perfectly aligned with Hillary’s) … and it is only going to further divide this country. The “haves” are huddling into smaller and smaller economically-gated communities. The have-nots are spreading like a cancer across our formerly healthy middle-class landscape. And the disease is malignant. Our country is terminal, currently on the life-support of deficit spending and huge doses of the destructive chemotherapy of devalued dollars. Formerly healthy cells of quality jobs, Investment interest rates, and cheap energy have been destroyed -intentionally. What amazes me most about the assisted-suicide of our country … is that the “elite” Dr. Kevorkians don’t see the REVOLUTION they are fomenting. No, you cannot force-feed the have-nots a “cake” of “free” medical care, food stamps, and child welfare. We will not be satisfied with THAT “cake”. We want to WORK for our living. We have PRIDE, and won’t be enslaved by government “generosity” … even IF it includes “free” college. I know what it feels like to be a foster-child of the government … and it is a sad existence. Thankfully, for me, I grew-up in a time of REAL HOPE for a better life. Sadly, the current policy of open borders is destroying that HOPE for our current residents. It needs to STOP. If not, the political elites will no longer be safe in their insular islands of unreality.
PS … Note to VDH: your auto spell correct morphed the Baja-Mexi-slang “esse” into a high school book report … “essay”. I am certain that YOU know the difference … not so, the Apple engineers in Cupertino who programmed the spell check program. Ironically making your thesis, all the more real
I wish we could try an experiment. One section of the North American landmass, from Texas on up to Alberta and the Northern parts of BC and Alaska, gets to be its own country, run Trump’s way as outlined by John s (secure borders, etc). The rest of the landmass gets to enjoy being run by “progressives.” Then let’s see which section in 20 years is the one people try to flee to as they seek refuge from the economic and social hellhole their section turned into. Which section would actually be the best place to live regardless of one’s race, economic class, religion or s*xual identity? We all know the answer. I wish the elites would let us try.
“Hansen is just another elite sniffing downwards.”
John, you nailed it.
His columns have become extremely tedious in the past 3-4 years. When he strays from the evils of Mexifornia and the evils of the Leftist takeover here he is, at his core, a “Professor”.
His hate for Trump, and by extension, Trump’s supporters, is visceral.
PJM, NRO, and so many other other pubs and blogs have been smoked out for what they really are: uniparty globalists.
We have had enough of the bullish!t, lies and backstabs. We will burn this GOPe bitch down, one way or another and replace it with a party of patriots.
Exactly. Trump is a populist. Some of his most ardent supporters are blue collar workers. “You didn’t build that!” does not apply to Trump; he has great respect for industry and those in the trades. As for Cruz, he was policy adviser to George W. Bush; both Ted and Heidi Cruz are establishment insiders. Ted hires sharks for his campaign; he’s the opposite of upfront and honest. Re. the last debate, “Breathe, breathe, breathe”…Such a condescending ACT.
I am still gonna buy gold.
And silver.
And ammo.
Maybe a bigger dog.
And here’s a helpful hint. It’s not going to do the Republicans any good to point out that Dems live in the same neighborhoods and eat in the same restaurants and buy the same goods that the Mexicans maintain and prepaid/cook and make. You f***d us. Now it’s our turn.
i encourage you all to read donald trumps newest book crippled.
then tell me he is a liberal.
The real beatdown is “Sympathy for Donaldites.” A highly recommended read indeed. Here are some tasty bits:
“Immigration and free trade are generally good, but they impose real costs and our base is getting handed the bill. These folks have been asking us for help, and what was our response? Shut up, stupid racists. Well, they finally found someone who is taking their side. His name is Donald Trump, and we made him possible. Hell, we made him inevitable.”
“Individual conservatives have every moral right to act on their principles and refuse to vote for an unprincipled, unconservative individual. Though I intend to vote for the GOP nominee, each new round of appalling idiocy by that vulgar human troll doll tests my resolve. But as much as we wish to focus on the flawed messenger, the problem is that we have refused to heed the message he has adopted (and which I have little doubt he will abandon if elected). It’s not the illegals who are living in the shadows; it’s our own base, the guys and gals who got the short end of the globalization stick. The vast majority of Trump’s supporters are good people who we have let down, and as free agents in the political free market they have found someone who saw a need and is filling it. ”
The GOPe must go away. And their Democrat Clintonista pals too.
I voted for Cruz, and I prefer Cruz. But Donald Trump is perfectly acceptable.
I’ll even take Bernie and a Glorious Socialist Revolution if the GOP wants to be stupid.
Chamber of Commerce delenda est.
Ted Cruz’s record isn’t that conservative (whatever that means anymore)…unless a standard conservative platform has been to screw over the American working/middle class, and right now he’s got all the establishment folks lining up to support him (the same ones who said they’d vote for Hillary before Trump), so he’s not an outsider either.
Arguably the worst piece ever written by VDH. I generally like his stuff, but this time he came off as just another elite snob who in this case was “name dropping” downwards.
He’s ignoring the fact that a very large swath of Trump voters are not lower middle class, but educated middle class and upper middle class.
And, what VDH and all the harpies call “vulgar” is simply American (or Canadian). In fact, it’s amazingly tame in comparison to modern culture, both at home and in media. Trump “vulgarity” is what we live with and hear and participate in daily.
Funny too, how VDH is so quick to point out the Trump contradictions, yet ignores the fact that the entire GOP is one big contraction constantly getting elected by promising one thing, then doing the opposite once in power or at least in a position to put up a fight. Furthermore, each and every candidate is one big walking contradiction and some, like Cruz, have a double life.
So, screw you VDH, you should stick to Ancient Greek History.