Friends, few products are more quintessentially American than Coca-Cola. That's why it's so fitting that Coke recently tipped its hand on the question of whether white people suck. (Spoiler alert: of course we do!) Coke has gotten in hot water for a training program for its employees that encourages them to be "less white", meaning "less arrogant" and "less oppressive" and "less ignorant". Well! When attitudes like these contaminate the American corporate world, in addition to our education system, our media, and our popular culture, you know that our society is pretty darn sick. The question is: can we even hope to recover from such a serious malady?
This poll exposes why it's suicide for the Republican Party to disrespect Donald Trump. He remains, by far, the most powerful and most popular Republican in America. If he were ever to leave the party and strike out on his own, the Grand Old Party would be toast. Ergo, the only kind of Republican who can win in 2024 is the kind that has DJT's blessing.
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/gop-maga-republicans-thirdparty/2021/02/21/id/1010908/
Mark your calendars: Trump will be speaking at CPAC on February 28th. It will be his first address since leaving office, and it will, we assume, set the tone for the role he intends to play in public life going forward. My guess is he'll be up to his old tricks and letting the Dems, the media, and social media have it. I expect him to deliver some devastating broadsides to his enemies. Should be fun!
The pernicious and highly inconsistent censorship on major social media platforms continues. Expect it, in fact, to get worse before it gets better. The Left is demanding that the suppression of conservative speech should increase, as a matter of fact, and the inclination of Big Tech seems to be to comply (eagerly) with such requests. This makes it more necessary than ever for us to find alternative platforms, in anticipation of our permanent and total expulsion from Facebook, Google, YouTube, Twitter, etc.
https://thepostmillennial.com/newsmax-trump-interview-censored-by-youtube
Finally, the situation at the border is getting worse by the day. The good news is that border chaos will give the Biden administration severe political headaches. The bad news is that, by the time the American people realize that the integrity of our borders has been sacrificed (again), there may be enough illegal aliens voting that we will have lost our ability to change course. It really is plausible that millions, or tens of millions, of "asylum seekers" could soon be headed our way. That's a tidal wave of humanity that our social fabric and our economy might not survive.
Nick, what you seem to be forgetting is that Trump lost the House, Senate and Presidency during his one term. Plus, while his hold on the GQP is significant now, it is nowhere near what it was. Might Trump have an impact on GQP primaries. Sure, in some cases (certainly not in Adam Kinzinger's district where Kinzinger got 65% of the vote to Trump's 56%). But, the true test will be in the general election. If Trump-backed candidates lose in 2022, the diminished influence Trump has now will continue to decline.
ReplyDeleteElections are merely the form of liberal politics, not the essence. Our incipient liberalism, deliberately lowercase, is unequal to the task of confronting the burgeoning domestic Totalitarianism we see being consolidated; a veritable gallows in the public square, fitted to our necks. Such a task will require us to think beyond the narrow confines of electoral politics and ask real questions regarding the nature and object of politics.
DeleteThe Founder's themselves acknowledged this.
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” -John Adams
“The pious and the moral weep over these scenes as a sepulchre destined to entomb all they revere and esteem. The politician, who loves liberty, sees them with regret as a gulph that may swallow up the liberty to which he is devoted. He knows that morality overthrown (and morality must fall with religion) the terrors of despotism can alone curb the impetuous passions of man, and confine him within the bounds of social duty.”- Alexander Hamilton
We need to admit that losing the election was not the same as losing at politics, failing to capitol-ize (haha, so funny!) on the events of January 6th was losing at politics. We need to admit that, and all it entails.
-Lee
That's certainly a plausible scenario, Rod, but it's much more likely that the Trump effect in 2022 will be muddier than that. Yeah, Trump lost the House and Senate. So did Obama: the greatest president of our time, right? Trump will likely have a big impact in primaries, but whether he will be a net plus or a minus in the midterms themselves is debatable. My guess is he'll concentrate on races where he can have the greatest and most positive impact. He'll steer clear of races where the Republican would prefer not to be tarred with the Trump brush. In other words, he'll set himself up to say, "See! My guys won. I'm awesome." I doubt he'll go out of his way to defeat any Republican candidates, but we'll see.
ReplyDeleteLong Live King Joseph I. As his subjects, we must learn to become more obedient every day. We must also submit to all of his decrees with joy and hope. Long Live King Joseph I.
ReplyDeleteBy the time that most of the population of Central America has arrived here, the Nicaraguans will eventually dominate, and a new party will be formed. The Democrats will officially become the BIDENISTA NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT (Bidenistas for short), which will become the sole leading party, and the only legitimate and allowed party in a newly created United Socialist States of America. Spanish will become the primary language. There will be other changes too, but they are too exciting to discuss at this time.
ReplyDeleteRay, all that could easily come to pass. But there's good news: once all the "wretched refuse of their teeming shore" moves here, only the cream of the crop will be left in Nicaragua! I've got my eye on a nice house in the suburbs in Managua, therefore. You gotta be nimble in this fast-changing world...
ReplyDeleteYou know Nick, I think it's about time Nicaragua had a Gringo President, and I think that could be you.
DeleteDr.Waddy et al from Jack: I very much like the comments from Ano ymous above.
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy et al from Jack:President Trump enjoyed a GOP House for two years and a GOP Senate all four years. He completely stymied Hillary's plan to turn Scotus into a far leftist rubber stamp!
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy et al from Jack: There have been two sincere voices for the real America made President since 1980: Reagan and Trump. But the one most willing to take off the gloves and get down a d dirty on the left' s very level has been Trump!
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy et al from Jack: All this, from the most apolitical background ever. It was a monumental achievement! Human imperfection? Yes, he has that. But we of the real America cherish and trust him and you of the left must ignore that at your peril! Equally at hazard are your insipid efforts to dis credit him post 1st term!
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddyom Jack: Looking forward to CPAC! Let tne real America
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Dr.Waddy fromJack: We need another Rush, who would do for social media what he did for radio.The market is surely there. We can be certain that official censorship of conservative expression is intended by the American left.
ReplyDeleteRay, you may be right! I could go places in Nicaragua... I've never been, but I'm sure it's beautiful. I like Colombia. Colombia has also been right-wing for decades, and I think Venezuela has scared them straight for a generation or two. Of course, Marxism and woke-ism are everywhere. Ergo, nowhere is entirely safe.
ReplyDeleteWise words, Lee! We're very glad to have you here. :) I agree: democracy only thrives -- only survives, in fact -- among a wise and virtuous people. That the American people fall short in both respects has been obvious for a while. What you say about Jan. 6th implies (I think) that we've allowed ourselves to be outmaneuvered and outsmarted. There's no question about that. I would add: bullied! The sad thing is that we had all the tools at your disposal to prevail in that precarious moment...and we screwed it up. And as for the urgent task of reviving the wisdom and virtue of the American people, I hardly know where to begin, especially since we'd be working at cross purposes with the entirety of our educational and cultural establishment. There comes a time, arguably, when we have to accept that the only thing to be done is, as Hamilton said, institute some kind of benevolent despotism, OR run the country into the ground and hope we can rebuild it from scratch.
Jack, yes -- Trump saved us from a leftist SCOTUS. That's very significant. He didn't, however, save us from a SCOTUS chastened and hobbled by the awesome power of the Left. So far those six "conservative" Justices haven't done us much good.
I'm looking forward to CPAC too. I have mixed feelings about Trump...but his reappearance is guaranteed to make progressives tremble, which is a win in itself!
Yes! A Rush Limbaugh of Big Tech would be wonderful. If even ONE major social media platform was conservative, our prospects would be far, far brighter. Parler is back, but the Left succeeded in knocking it off its game. I think it will be up to Trump where most conservatives end up, digitally speaking.
Trump making progressives tremble? Progressives are moving on from Trump, and toward repairing the damage that he caused. Progressives know that Trump is diminished. Yes, he is supported by as much as 70% of the GQP. But, he had 95% of the GQP.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy et al from Jack: Well, perhaps some of the left have moved "beyond Trump" ( " we got work to do, oh yes! "), but their Presidential factotum hasn't. "If Trump enabled it, I'll ORDER it reversed! Kumbayaa y'all!" That is obvious from his executive onslaught of the last month.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: I'm very intigued by your implication that Trump could be the orginator and perhaps the financier and perhaps the voice of a significant conservative social media. Rush outflanked the presumptious left; who better to do it now than Trump himself!
ReplyDeleteRod, I think your reading of the polls is pretty selective. Trump has recovered whatever ground he lost with the GOP since January. But that's neither here nor there: we need more than just Republicans to win an election.
ReplyDeleteJack, I agree: I see little evidence that progressives have "moved on" from Trump. Remember, he hasn't even made his big "comeback" yet...and still the news cycle is focused as much on him as on Biden. Once those prosecutions get cranking, you better believe that the media will cover the "Trump trials" obsessively.
Could Trump set up his own social media platform? Sure. It wouldn't be easy, though. It would take Trump way out of his real estate comfort zone.