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@fairwarning4267
I doubt that you're a patriot, and you don't seem to know anything about liberalism.
Liberalism, a large group of philosophies that emerged across the West in the fourteenth through eighteenth centuries, is what put an end to the Middle Ages. It is not satanism, it is humanism.
Far from being the enemy of humanity, it is one of humanity's best efforts so far at expressing itself, developing itself, and protecting itself -- against ignorance, stupidity, disease, and all its other enemies.
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Biden is being ver-ree canny: he gets to make half-a-dozen speeches to the whole media audience, time after time saying the same thing, be calm, I'm the boss, everything's going back to normal, be calm.
Never boasting once. Just being quietly but clearly in charge!
And then, at a time of his own choosing, after everybody has gotten used to the fact that he's won, only then will he come out and make The Big Speech.
Acceptance, not proclamation of victory! Damn, but that's smart!
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@neilprintz8428
Neil,
I dunno, I can't take this buzzword-of-the-day thing seriously. Where did "cancel culture" come from? Women's Wear Daily? Some afternoon TV show with a bunch of Anaheim housewives in the audience?
Whenever "people" say that X is "a thing," the way cancel culture is a thing right now, my tendency is to tune out.
Kaleigh McElvaney seems to me an interesting character in exactly the same way as Sarah Sanders was. Both of them are strong women, both with a solid twenty or thirty IQ points on poor Donnie, and both of them with the same very difficult job, making sense out of a totally incoherent policy program.
They have a basic simple problem: Trump's "program" is the dumb shit that half-wits talk in bars all the time. It's the meat and potatoes of Fox programming -- all the stuff that twelve-year-old Roman Catholic boys believed in 1970. It's nonsense because it doesn't make sense in the real world. You can write novels about it, and Ayn Rand and any number of pessimistic mitteleuropisch novelists have done so.
That is not the kind of thing you can hold a pep rally for in the White House Briefing Room.
The Evangelicals have a different set of problems but the same hard situation: they've backed themselves into a corner. They've voted for destroying their own pensions, health care, and even their furshlugginer soy-bean markets. All in the name of a white, blue-eyed Jesus. At the margins, 12~20% of all families, the kids are just looking at their parents funny.
I come from a little village where there is a Camp Zion, where they have Holness Meetings every summer. The people who go to those meetings are perfectly nice people. But they didn't vote for a narcissistic failed real-estate hustler to run their lives when I was a kid.
All across America something like 10% of the people, a third to a quarter of the Republican base, have made a mistake, and if they don't know it, they very certainly feel it.
This doesn't make them suddenly Aristotelian logicians. It leaves them more like chickens with their heads cut off.
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I'm not sure that's true. Trump's entire career has been a downward slope, starting with the years he spent destroying his father's and grandfather's fortunes and very much impairing his siblings' inheritances while he was at it.
He started out rich and loved, and he's never gotten back to where he was when he was five years old.
He has confessed from time to time in offhand ways that he ran for President as a promotion. I think of it as a way, his typically flamboyant way, of pretending to be a New York Republican for the sake of the New York banks. Fail, but another horse came along just in time, lo! the Evangelicals.
And so it goes. He's on the skids now -- but he would probably have been on the skids had he lost the election, too. Suppose he'd lost, given a sweet and sucky concession speech, and gone off to Moscow? He'd have been hit by service-servers on his stop-off in Scotland, Oleg Derispaka's thugs at the airport in Moscow, and a flock of warrants, bills, and sour, incompetent, unemployed children when he got back.
He's a loser every step of the way. You can tell it from the fact that he has no friends.
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