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Fantastic and concise editorial from Spectator Magazine.
Even so, here's less than half the article if you don't have a lot of reading time, I tried to choose wisely.
Quote:
Liberalism is dying, and the American right is ascendant. That’s the lesson of the last six or eight years of national politics. Barack Obama should have been the beginning of a generational renewal for the Democratic Party. Instead the Democrats have been prisoners of their past. They looked backward in 2016 and nominated Hillary Clinton. After she failed, they reached even further back to nominate Joe Biden, a man born during the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration.
What’s left of the old country would rather take its chances with the GOP, even if that means Donald Trump — perhaps especially if that means Donald Trump. The Republicans still speak the language of opportunity, which appeals to a great many voters who might once have been Democrats, including a growing number of Hispanics. The GOP still espouses the more popular and self-confident elements of liberalism. At the same time, it welcomes voters who are thoroughly disenchanted with liberalism as well: those who have returned to religion, often of a very traditional kind; those who disdain liberal institutionalism because they identify it with a thoroughly corrupt elitism; and those who reject the universalist implications (and aspirations) of liberal theories and ideals. Free trade, open borders and the “liberal international order” can no longer count on support among Republicans.
The Democrats abandoned liberalism before Republicans did. They ceased to think of America as a nation dedicated to an always-advancing Jeffersonian ideal of personal freedom (however mythical that ideal might have been); instead they came to think of America’s story as a story of oppressions overthrown by successive revolutions. Thomas Jefferson, the founder of the Democratic Party — and long celebrated by Democrats as the true spiritual founder of America — was someone to be ashamed of, not to celebrate.
As elite liberals repudiate America’s past, liberal institutions lose their broad base of support. And as institutional liberalism decays, liberal intellectuals become all the more histrionic in their hype about “fascism” and threats to “our democracy.” They increasingly view a third or more of the American public as “deplorables.” Naturally enough, the voters they deplore then come to take an even dimmer view of the institutions that liberals control. The panicky way Democrats respond to Republicans makes the GOP grow stronger, and the stronger the GOP grows, the more shrill the Democratic response becomes.
I honestly agree with all of that. And it is all ultimately positive and hopeful, if you find yourself anywhere on the right side of the spectrum. (Maybe even center left?)
Freedom is, above all, the essence of America. And we should be striving for it, even if we fail; instead we have a gargantuan Federal govt. poking its nose into each facet of every citizen's existence. From cradle to grave they want to add more taxes, more stifling bureaucracy, and downgrade the quality of American life via the degradation of our freedom.
But the author contends that is all about to change - and we are entering a new political era as the present one approaches its dramatic climax.
For a touch of realism, I do recommend the conclusion of the article, however, where he alludes to the fact that Republicans are now going to be responsible for where our culture goes next - and they will need to learn that MAGA is the glue of the new coalition.
A return to the Republican party of yore, would be a devastating mistake.
So you must not vote Democrat then - because the current cabal of authoritarians clearly do not share your view.
I should also add there are plenty in the Left Wing media that seem to concur with this article at least being a distinct possibility.
That's why they are constantly talking about a "coup" and saying Trump is going to try to "steal" another election.
He is a direct threat to the Establishment.
It is true that the world is turning more authoritarian. Not sure I want to see that happen in this country though. That's what scares me about the GOP.
Trump is only after what benefits Trump, nothing more. If the establishment got him into office, he would be all about it. He is a narcissist first and foremost.
It is true that the world is turning more authoritarian. Not sure I want to see that happen in this country though. That's what scares me about the GOP.
Trump is only after what benefits Trump, nothing more. If the establishment got him into office, he would be all about it. He is a narcissist first and foremost.
As always: Projection followed by derangement syndrome.
No examination of facts or results.
You just don't get it.
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