I always get inspired when I lunch with my liberal friends. Something about their conversation opens doors in my mind to the mysteries of life, the universe, and everything.
And something happened last week to help me understand the fact that Trump is the Insult President and that is what we elected him to do.
OK, so I've been writing about this at least since "All I Know is That Gentlemanly Conservatism is Dead."
The point is that for fifty years liberals have been insulting ordinary white middle-class Americans as racist sexist homophobes and our political and cultural leaders have failed to defend us.
And now the preferred liberal insult is "white supremacist."
Last week "protesters" invaded a speech given by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and you can see a protester next to her with a huge sign "WHITE SUPREMACIST".
Imagine Harvard allowing an alt-right protester to stand right next to Al Sharpton with a huge "BLACK RACIST" sign. That kid would have been gone before you know it.
Hey, you know what real white supremacy looks like? It looks like lefty protesters not even thinking of daring to insult a Secretary of Education with a lefty insult slogan, because the enforcers of White Supremacy would make sure that they would pay, big time, for such an insult.
Also, there is the little problem that the people most shortchanged by the bureaucracy-is-everything government school system are minority kids in the inner city. And that is the boil that Betsy DeVos is trying to lance. So what do those protesters know about anything?
And last week President Trump had an insult interaction with the blonde mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Yeah, the sweetie pie was trying to Katrina him, and naturally Trump punched right back.
It makes you think of Martin Niemöller. First they called us racists, and conservative leaders did nothing. Then they called us sexists, and conservative leaders did nothing.
Well, the purpose of government is to protect people from existential dangers, and I'd say that failing to counter the left's propaganda machine counts as a failure to protect.
When the usual idiots can't or won't protect us from the lefty thugs then we are forced to look for other idiots to protect us.
Yep. What made Trump stand out in the Republican debates was his willingness, and his shameless talent for insult. And the Republican voters liked it. They obviously wanted a candidate with the talent and the cojones to tell his opponents to take it where the sun don't shine.
I don't blame liberals for being embarrassed and insulted by the Trump presidency. Why, the whole point of the Constitution and civil rights is that liberals can insult anyone they like and, when losing an argument on the merits, play the race card.
And for fifty years, Republican politicians didn't know how to respond. Until Trump.
And still, a bunch of Republican officeholders still don't get it. Here is Speak Paul Ryan saying that Trump needs to be more "inclusive with people." No, Speaker Ryan, you do not use lefty catchphrases like "inclusive" except ironically and sarcastically as a way to reverse and denormalize the left's culture of name and shame. In fact, the left's notion of "diversity and inclusion" is a lie, part of a political grand strategy to divide the American people into silos of race and gender identity so that liberals can conquer. And you, Paul Ryan, should know it.
Bottom line: We elected Donald Trump to take it to liberals and tell them to put it where the sun don't shine. It may all turn out to be a disaster, returning Democrats to power for a generation. Or it may not.
But if Democrats return to govern for a generation we are basically returning to the old trajectory, of what Margaret Thatcher called the "ratchet" where each lefty program ratchets us another step to the complete administrative state, and the succeeding conservative administration fails to restore the status-quo ante, let alone actually letting freedom and limited government unfold its wings. Hello Obamacare.
So why not try Trump the Insult President? He might lift morale among us normals and actually alter the course of civilization as we know it.
And something happened last week to help me understand the fact that Trump is the Insult President and that is what we elected him to do.
OK, so I've been writing about this at least since "All I Know is That Gentlemanly Conservatism is Dead."
The point is that for fifty years liberals have been insulting ordinary white middle-class Americans as racist sexist homophobes and our political and cultural leaders have failed to defend us.
And now the preferred liberal insult is "white supremacist."
Last week "protesters" invaded a speech given by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and you can see a protester next to her with a huge sign "WHITE SUPREMACIST".
Imagine Harvard allowing an alt-right protester to stand right next to Al Sharpton with a huge "BLACK RACIST" sign. That kid would have been gone before you know it.
Hey, you know what real white supremacy looks like? It looks like lefty protesters not even thinking of daring to insult a Secretary of Education with a lefty insult slogan, because the enforcers of White Supremacy would make sure that they would pay, big time, for such an insult.
Also, there is the little problem that the people most shortchanged by the bureaucracy-is-everything government school system are minority kids in the inner city. And that is the boil that Betsy DeVos is trying to lance. So what do those protesters know about anything?
And last week President Trump had an insult interaction with the blonde mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Yeah, the sweetie pie was trying to Katrina him, and naturally Trump punched right back.
It makes you think of Martin Niemöller. First they called us racists, and conservative leaders did nothing. Then they called us sexists, and conservative leaders did nothing.
Well, the purpose of government is to protect people from existential dangers, and I'd say that failing to counter the left's propaganda machine counts as a failure to protect.
When the usual idiots can't or won't protect us from the lefty thugs then we are forced to look for other idiots to protect us.
Yep. What made Trump stand out in the Republican debates was his willingness, and his shameless talent for insult. And the Republican voters liked it. They obviously wanted a candidate with the talent and the cojones to tell his opponents to take it where the sun don't shine.
I don't blame liberals for being embarrassed and insulted by the Trump presidency. Why, the whole point of the Constitution and civil rights is that liberals can insult anyone they like and, when losing an argument on the merits, play the race card.
And for fifty years, Republican politicians didn't know how to respond. Until Trump.
And still, a bunch of Republican officeholders still don't get it. Here is Speak Paul Ryan saying that Trump needs to be more "inclusive with people." No, Speaker Ryan, you do not use lefty catchphrases like "inclusive" except ironically and sarcastically as a way to reverse and denormalize the left's culture of name and shame. In fact, the left's notion of "diversity and inclusion" is a lie, part of a political grand strategy to divide the American people into silos of race and gender identity so that liberals can conquer. And you, Paul Ryan, should know it.
Bottom line: We elected Donald Trump to take it to liberals and tell them to put it where the sun don't shine. It may all turn out to be a disaster, returning Democrats to power for a generation. Or it may not.
But if Democrats return to govern for a generation we are basically returning to the old trajectory, of what Margaret Thatcher called the "ratchet" where each lefty program ratchets us another step to the complete administrative state, and the succeeding conservative administration fails to restore the status-quo ante, let alone actually letting freedom and limited government unfold its wings. Hello Obamacare.
So why not try Trump the Insult President? He might lift morale among us normals and actually alter the course of civilization as we know it.
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