Good day all. Last week, an opinion column was posted in The Hill by James Bovard. The question asked, “Do Trump’s liberal critics seem increasingly unhinged?”
I think we all know the answer to that of course. However, let’s see what Mr. Bovard has to say, shall we?
Last week’s anniversary of Trump’s election sparked widespread teeth-gnashing by the nation’s pundits. Trump is supposedly the gravest threat to American democracy since the secession of the Confederacy. His presidency, probably, continues to be a boon for antidepressant sales across the land.
New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg, in a column last week headlined “Anniversary of the Apocalypse,” lamented the “terror-struck and vertiginous days” after Trump’s win and the ongoing “metaphysical whiplash” and “hideous interregnum,” which leaves her “poleaxed by grief at the destruction of our civic inheritance.”
Professor Henry Giroux of McMaster University frothed that Trump’s “ascendancy in American politics has made visible a culture of cruelty, a contempt for civic literacy, a corrupt mode of governance and a disdain for informed judgment that has been decades in the making.”
What we have here, is a failure to understand what the utter and complete contempt most of America, the section between the east coast and the left coast, aka “Flyover Country”, have for the people like Goldberg and Giroux. These two are typical of the Proglodyte, (Progressive Troglodyte), elites that infest most universities, Media outlets, and the deepest of blue cities such as New York and Washington D.C.
It is understandable that folks would be riled by Trump’s bluster about revoking the broadcast licenses of his critics or calling for the firing of protesting football players.
President Trump was just saying what most American’s have been saying about those spoiled, over-payed twerps. As for revoking the licenses of broadcasters? Considering that many of these broadcasters are nothing more then propagandists for the Progressive movement, and in many cases, have done actual harm to the United States, pulling the licenses of a couple of them might actually get the attention of the rest. However, President Trump never said that was what he was going to do.
His administration’s rhetoric on trade and the drug war threaten to revive moronic policies that should have been banished forever by perennial failures.
You mean all those wonderfully progressive trade deals that have exported millions of American jobs overseas? Those deals that have actually hamstrung America? Are those the ones you mean?
But while Trump poses plenty of constitutional perils, many of his opponents are even more authoritarian.
Anti-Trump fervor is making liberals far more illiberal. Commentators in The Washington Post and The New York Times have called for selective censorship of ideas and doctrines they abhor. A recent Washington Post article touted 38 fixes for democracy including mandating three years of compulsory labor for young people in the military of AmeriCorps-like programs, outlawing private education, punitively punishing gun owners and vastly increasing redistribution to end racial inequities.
Here’s the thing about modern “Liberals.” They have the exact same mindset as the old National Socialist German Workers’ Party, the Communist Party and the Fascist party. Basically, pick the totalitarian party of your choice, and the modern Liberal Progressive has the same basic ideas. Rule by the elite, suppression of individual rights for “The Greater Good” and destruction of all who stand in their way.
Some liberals believe the federal government should become domineering to vanquish the fascist tendencies of Trump supporters. But this is imprudent unless liberals irrevocably control all three branches of the federal government.
And liberals fail to see that they are the ones with the actual fascist tendencies, not the Trump supporters. However, Mr. Bovard, who lists himself as a Libertarian, makes a number of mistakes of his own with regards to the actions of President Trump.
Unfortunately, Trump’s biggest follies (thus far) have evoked the loudest cheers from his Washington critics. Trump’s finest hour, according to much of the media, was sending 59 cruise missiles to blast the Syrian government based on mere allegations that it had carried out a chemical weapons attack.
Here we see the normal foreign policy ideas of the Libertarians. While many Progressives and Rino NeverTrumpers accuse President Trump of being an isolationist, he isn’t. He just puts America’s interests first. A true Libertarian is, for all intents and purposes, a total isolationist, in the sense that the United States does nothing outside of our borders other then trade. This sort of thinking was prevalent between World War 1 and World War 2. We ignored what was happening right up until the Imperial Japanese Navy sank a good part of the Pacific fleet in Pearl Harbor.
Pulling the rug from under the Iran deal (one of Obama’s solid achievements) was cheered by much of the foreign policy elite as if destabilizing the Middle East was akin to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Obama’s Iranian “Deal” was nothing less then surrendering to Iran. It does nothing to stop their nuclear weapons program and actually, with the transfer of billions of dollars in hard currency, will aid Iran in their plans to destabilize the Middle East. That money will be used to fund terrorism aimed at the United States and the West.
Trump’s threats to “totally destroy” North Korea spurred no effective resistance on Capitol Hill. But blundering into another war would do more harm to American democracy than 10,000 raving Oval Office tweets.
And Bovard once again misses the target. North Korea is being run by a nut. He is a threat to the entire Pacific Rim, and that actually includes both China and Russia. (Even if they think it doesn’t) We don’t want to have to go into North Korea, and Trump’s been working behind the scenes to get the Chinese to take that fat little turd out of the picture and destroy the North Korean nuclear program.
This is where Bovard’s mindset, typical of a lot of Libertarians, proves dangerous to America. He would rather wait until the fat little turd actually launches a nuclear attack on the United States instead of preventing it from happening in the first place. (It’s also why many people, who may support most of the Libertarian Party’s domestic agenda react negatively to their foreign policy and military agenda)
Getting back to the Liberals insanity, Mr. Bovard continues:
Many Democrats sound ready to rush to impeachment regardless of what Trump has actually done. They seem inspired by the Soviet secret police chief who allegedly declared: “Show me the man and I will show you the crime.”
The average Progressive would see no problem with how the Soviet Union handled dissent.
Desperate assertions that $3,000 in Russian-linked Facebook ads swung the election results in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin are indicative of the pathetic logic of many Trump critics.
They need to blame someone, anyone for the total rejection of Felonia von Pantsuit and the previous eight years of stupefying incompetence by the Golf Pro in Chief. They honestly believe that they are the “Chosen ones” and should, due to their many years of education and social justice, just be given the levers of power to rule as they see fit.
Trump’s critics are correct that the president has too much arbitrary power. But many people happy to believe the worst about Trump will heave all their skepticism overboard when the next political savior is anointed. Such naivete is being encouraged at the highest levels of the Democratic Party.
I see that Mr. Bovard has missed something. Yes, President Trump is using the power that Congress handed him. However, he is also, unlike the previous president, actually following the laws and the Constitution. In a number of cases, he has actually taken actions that will force Congress to take back their responsibilities and do their jobs.
Hysteria remains the 2017 political badge of honor. Last Wednesday, thousands of people gathered across the nation to shout at the sky to protest the anniversary of Trump’s victory. But righteous rage is no substitute for focusing on the real perils that Trump and any other president poses to our rights. The Friends of Freedom need to keep their intellectual ammo dry.
Again, Mr. Bovard gets it both right and wrong in the same paragraph. President Trump isn’t perfect, but he wants to reduce the size and influence of the Federal Government. What we’ve been seeing is just how hard the Beltway Uniparty is fighting to keep the federal government’s boot on the neck’s of the American people.
President Trump is actually pushing powers from the Presidency back to the Congress. When he signs an Executive Order that repeals a previous EO, he will turn towards Congress and basically tell them, “If you really want this, pass a bill that I can sign into law. Don’t just throw some vaguely worded crap at the Oval Office and expect the President to act like a king.”
Mr. Bovard also said that people need to keep their intellectual ammo dry. I have a suspicion that he might not know how close we came last year to an all out shooting civil war. Had Felonia von Pantsuit won the election, she would have promptly moved to tear up the Constitution. She has the exact same mentality of your typical tyrant. Paranoid, narcissistic, greedy and power mad. She would have done something that would have triggered “Bad things.”
As we’ve seen in the last year, the attempts by the Progressive Liberal Democrats, with the assistance of the Republican NeverTrumper Rino’s to try and force Trump to resign, or impeach him have backfired badly. Their special prosecutor, Robert Mueller, who was brought in to basically “Get Trump!” has, in fact, been shown to have some rather big skeletons in his closet. How many times has there been a call to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate a sitting special prosecutor?
Mr. Bovard should be offering suggestions and advice to President Trump. He appears to agree with a lot of what President Trump wants to do, vis a vis “Drain the Swamp.” Instead, he comes across like so many “Intellectuals.” He likes to make pronouncements and speeches, but when the rubber meets the road, he’s on the cocktail circuit bloviating. This column of his is a case in point. He couldn’t just go over why the Liberals and Progressives are going off the deep end, he had to stick his toes in as well.
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