Moving on to Politico, telling us how Democrats are sounding the alarm about Trump. Notably quoted is Mary Kay Henry, the head of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which is just about as corrupt an organization as you can find. Bandied about in the article are the usual epithets; bigot, hate-filled, dangerous, alarming, ugliness, and threatening.
Mary Kay has gotten together with some of her best friends, including those at MoveOn, the Sierra Club, NARAL Pro-Choice America, and Greenpeace, to pen a missive telling the left why they need to oppose Trump - or something.
It appears to me that the "conservative" pundits, bloggers, and assorted others, who have already chosen their savior™, have joined up with a bunch of the most odious types on the left to stop Trump.
None of this "hate Trump" rhetoric is productive.
Rush Limbaugh:
The wise men and the smart money says
that there is no way that the powers that be will deny Trump or Cruz
once we get to Cleveland. They just won’t do it. It can’t happen. It
won’t happen. Too many people will have voted. And I’m sorry, folks, I
don’t think that’s automatic because of the way I know the people in the
Republican establishment that we are all talking about here.
This crowd is very stubborn. They have not come to grips with what’s
happened to them here. They by no means have accepted that the top two
delegate getters are outsiders and are not part of the Republican Party
ranking establishment in any way. … And the reason they haven’t come to
grips with it is that they don’t want to. This operation is theirs. It
has been their life. They trained for it in college. They trained for it
with family connections. They trained for it, they got involved in it,
and they climbed the ladder within it from the moment of young
adulthood, those that wanted to be in it that early.
Some have been recruited, of course, over the years because they’ve
recently acquired a lot of money and, therefore, have influence. But for
the most part, these are lifers. They fear losing their virtual
professional existence. They fear losing their self-worth, the thing
that gives them swagger. The thing that validates their success is their
position in this club, the establishment, the Republican Party and, in
fact, the entire Washington establishment.
They’re not just gonna let some outsiders come in and take it. It
just isn’t going to happen. The thing to keep in mind here, these people
to whom I’m referring, they have all of this whether the party wins or
loses elections. That’s the key. They have all of the perks and the
power, the lifestyles, the connections, even if they lose elections. As
long as they run the party, as long as they run their part of the,
quote, unquote, establishment. They fear losing their standing in this
club more than they fear the party losing the presidency or any other
election.
And let’s talk about other members of the establishment. Let’s talk
about other conservative media types. How about the people who – and
this is not personal. But how about the people whose very lives are
devoted to the intellectual pursuit of conservatism, supposedly? They
may have magazines. They may be at think tanks. They may be policy
aides. They might be legislative aides. But their existence is to
continue to write about the superiority and the preferability of
conservatism. That’s the role they play in this whole arrangement.
That’s the reason for their existence. That’s what gives them their
swagger. They are considered leading opinion makers and opinion leaders.
They are considered superior intellects when it comes to the
intellectual pursuits of conservatism.
What is the reason for their existence if Trump wins the White House?
The think-tank people, what would be the point? Trump has not welcomed
them; they haven’t welcomed Trump. Trump is not going to be identified
as a movement conservative who is going to be seeking the advice of
these people. You think they’re not paranoid? Their whole lives have
been rooted and based on that identity. They’re the go-to guys to
explain the conservative view of the Middle East. They are the go-to
guys to explain the conservative view of Putin and the Ukraine and China
and whatever. And now they’re on the outs because nobody will be
interested. Theoretically.
Now, they could make a move here and try to sidle up to Trump if and
when the day comes, but they don’t want that to happen. They’re scared. I
mean, their identities, their self-worth, they’re just not going to
peacefully let all this happen.
No comments:
Post a Comment