First 9-11, now 11-9: Hard to Believe!
I myself don’t know what’s going to happen now, but on the other hand, I too figured Hillary would just be the “same ‘ol, same ‘ol”. I had liked how the angry, dog-whistling Right was divided earlier in the race, when the other Republican contenders were still vying against him for the nomination. The Christians almost solidly were against him, in favor of Rubio or especially Cruz. When they dropped out, they began to come back together, against Hillary (the Christians now compromising the moral stance they previously had against Trump).
If she won, it would just be a continuation of the last eight years, with them all against Obama. If he won, than they would have everything they want, and seemingly would no longer have a liberal scapegoat. (But of course, they could always say that any problems are really Obama’s fault, for “messing things up so bad”, which is what some did when they had Bush in, along with the Congress. Blaming the previous administration, which they excoriated Obama for, would all of a sudden become good. Or, if problems are undeniably Trumps’ fault, I’ve already seen a meme saying they had to elect him because of Obama. You can see this sentiment expressed right here: http://reason.com/blog/2016/11/09/trump-won-because-leftist-political-corr “If you’re a leftist reading this, you…probably can’t understand why someone would get so bent out of shape about being told their words are hurtful. You probably think it’s not a big deal and these people need to get over themselves. Who’s the delicate snowflake now, huh? you’re probably thinking. I’m telling you: your failure to acknowledge this miscalculation and adjust your approach has delivered the country to Trump.” A similar argument is this, but which makes a lot of good points about the party’s cockiness: https://medium.com/@trentlapinski/dear-democrats-read-this-if-you-do-not-understand-why-trump-won-5a0cdb13c597#.y7zpo06d1).
I was for Bernie, who was populist, like Trump, but populism can be either right or left (separate dimensions), but has become more associated with the far right brand, of Trump. I didn’t feel like bothering to vote for Hillary, and figured Trump was discrediting himself more and more as the time drew near. Just last night he was quoted as saying “If I lose, you’ll never see me again”, sounding like a childish “sore loser” even before the votes were being counted. I thought that might be the final wake up call regarding his character. But since my wife wanted to vote, I went, and figured I might as well too. I had mulled writing in Bernie, but what would that really prove, so I might as well cast my vote for Hillary. (So now, I can feel safe assured that I had no part in the responsibility for whatever is to befall us now).
They seemed to run neck and neck, and certain states seeming to go to one, but then falling to the other. But by 10-11PM, his numbers suddenly began getting bigger, and he was grabbing Florida, North Carolina and Michigan, which were really needed to win. So we went to bed, not sure what we would hear when we awoke. I still thought she might snag it as the final results came in. Surely, the country would never really elect such a virtual madman. But sure enough, when I got up, around 6:30 and turned on the internet, he had done it!
So here are several articles, videos and memes on this shocking turn of events:
AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/an-american-tragedy-donald-trump
Donald Trump The Change Agent Won By Vowing To Stop Change
America has its first radical reactionary leader. Now what?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-change-won_us_5822c53ce4b0e80b02cdefa3
Hillary Clinton’s Weakness
She had been in power and prominence so long, and, as everyone knew, she was the very embodiment of a political establishment that most voters — and not just Trump supporters — have come to despise in recent years.
The US has elected its most dangerous leader. We all have plenty to fear
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/09/donald-trump-us-president-nightmare
America Elected A Man Who Said ‘Grab Them By The P***y’ Over The First Female President
It really happened.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-wins_us_582296a9e4b0e80b02cdcc8a
Here Is What Donald Trump Wants To Do In His First 100 Days
http://www.npr.org/2016/11/09/501451368/here-is-what-donald-trump-wants-to-do-in-his-first-100-days
Trump Elected President, Thanks to 4 in 5 White Evangelicals
Dramatic election ends with historic victory for Donald Trump.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/gleanings/2016/november/trump-elected-president-thanks-to-4-in-5-white-evangelicals.html
President Trump: Now What For the Church?
http://www.russellmoore.com/2016/11/09/president-trump-now-church
Huge Margin Among Working-Class Whites Lifts Trump to a Stunning Election Upset
‘This was a whitelash’: Van Jones’ take on the election results
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/09/politics/van-jones-results-disappointment-cnntv/index.html
This Election Has Completely Debunked The Myth Of A ‘Post-Racial’ America
Donald Trump has emboldened racists to new heights.
It’s Our Fault: Donald Trump Is The President We Deserve
We should be appalled, but we should not be surprised.
Dear Trump Supporter – A Message From American Minorities
http://shows.huffingtonpost.com/video/dear-trump-supporter-a-message-from-american-minorities-58230bdf869ea9683c401857
http://shows.huffingtonpost.com/b3980d43-2fbd-4b94-8ef8-8f6fdc7a632e
Nobody Called This Election Quite Like Michael Moore
The Founding Fathers ensured that rural white votes count more than others
Blame the electoral college, among other things.
Here’s a conservative video explaining the good intentions of the system:
https://www.prageru.com/courses/political-science/do-you-understand-electoral-college
But on the flipside of the “tyranny of the majority”, is the tyranny of an agitated minority against a “silent majority”:
Tim Wise, November 9 at 5:47pm:
In case you’re still inclined to believe Trump’s win was simply about working class hardscrabble whites ignored by the system…this wasn’t a class revolt. It was a racial and ethno-cultural one dressed up as a “salt of the earth” rebellion…
(On Philip Yancey’s Facebook discussion post about the election https://www.facebook.com/PhilipYancey/photos/a.430130023698153.101173.118057118238780/1311468422230971):
Jay Merritt Four years ago, the Mormon religion was on the Billy Graham website under the category of CULT. Then Mitt Romney became the candidate for the Republicans. Franklin Graham had a meeting with Romney. Suddenly, the cult status was removed, and Graham threw his quiet support of Romney behind the campaign.
This time, Graham had a rather public meeting in June with Trump and a few hundred hand picked Evangelicals. And they threw their support behind the Trump campaign, disguised as a push for Values, sidestepping Trumps character.
Waiting to see if the Billy Graham website will redefine character, and repentance.
Maurice Infinite (someone I grew up with, and now connected on Facebook)
Wednesday, November 9, 2016 at 2:46pm·
I never thought I’d see a black President in my lifetime. I’m glad for that. He did a great job and made us all proud (all of us intelligent humans). He was dignified every step of the way and is an example of what a leader should be. His grace under fire instilled fear in his detractors. Trump’s only genius is realizing that this fear was real to a large group of disenfranchised, uneducated, and misled people and capitalizing on it effectively. He became a leader of a herd of sheep with no shepherd.
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” – Sun Tzu
The Democrats didn’t respect their enemy. They under estimated him. Even more important, they overestimated themselves. Elitism and entitlement is what lost this election. You can’t under estimate an enemy that has nothing to lose.
“All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.” – Sun Tzu
Trump played dumb. If you notice… his victory speech was coherent and calculated. Unlike any other speech he’s made during this election process. He played the Democrats and the Republicans. His been planning this for 20 years. He’s been invited to dinners, shook hands, donated money… all the while he was studying his enemy.
“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win” – Sun Tzu
Respect it. Don’t fear it. Learn from it. Don’t repeat it.
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sanders-statement-on-trump
"ERIPEDIA" 
STOP And Read Michael Moore’s Viral Post On How Liberals Can Recover From Pres. Trump
http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/11/10/stop-read-michael-moores-viral-post-liberals-can-recover-pres-trump/
Democrats once represented the working class. Not any more
Robert Reich
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/10/democrats-working-class-americans-us-election
Reich: Trump’s three biggest enablers
http://www.freep.com/story/opinion/contributors/2016/11/10/reich-trumps-three-biggest-enablers/93603270/
History Tells Us What Will Happen Next With Brexit And Trump
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tobias-stone/history-tells-us-what-will-brexit-trump_b_11179774.html
After Trump, a Call for Political Correctness From the Right
Downplaying the racist views of Trump supporters is an evasion of the facts.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/after-trump-a-call-for-political-correctness-from-the-right/507155/
INSIDERS: Trump Was GOBSMACKED That He Won, Never Saw It Coming
http://www.liberalamerica.org/2016/11/10/revealed-trump-gobsmacked-won-never-saw-coming/
While conservatives continue to point to all the “rioting” as they call it, and now compare to how gracefully they handled Obama’s wins, we shouldn’t ignore this:
Not sure if he would have won (and also, strong language), but really nails it on the liberal side of the problem:
11:25: “Fear is not a viable electoral strategy…If you want to win an election, you have to give voters something to vote for. You can’t expect to win based on what they are voting against. Hillary Clinton, and the Democrate, and Democratic so-called ‘strategists’, said the ultimate political mobilizer for liberals will be Donald Trump. Vioters will come out in droves to defeat Donald Trump. That’s not how this works. Give us something to vote for, not against. If we’re not inspired, we just stay home”.
(And this also at the same time rings true for this union I’m in, which figures prominently as both the contract is up, and also, management continues to turn up the heat, in increasingly ridiculous ways. Yet all I’ve heard in years of elections is names of the candidates, starting with the incumbent, and even long gone previous leaders, and why they are [or were] no good, or just management shills, or this and that, or whatever. The fact that the dirt candidates of any election sling at each other usually has some ground of truth [just spun different ways by each side, usually by re-attribution tactics] shows me they’re all no good! All they care about is their political career. That doesn’t do anything for me, so I and others don’t bother —which they then try to use to blame us the uninvolved members for whatever happens. But you just don’t get it. As the guys in these videos say; we simply don’t trust what you say! You all show, again, that you have nothing to offer but each other’s dirt, and who wants dirt, whether [completely] true or not?
NEWS Obama Addresses Republicans: ‘I Didn’t Create Trump, Your Bigotry Toward Me Did’ – But He Has A Plan
http://liberalsociety.com/obama-addresses-republicans-i-didnt-create-trump-your-bigotry-toward-me-did-but-he-has-a-plan/
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/stop-asking-me-empathize-white-working-class
Trump Won Because Democratic Party Failed Working People, Says Sanders
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/11/10/trump-won-because-democratic-party-failed-working-people-says-sanders
Trump Just Picked A White Supremacist As His Chief Policy Advisor
http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/11/14/trump-just-picked-white-supremacist-chief-policy-advisor/ [post-dated]
White Nationalists Are Thrilled With Donald Trump’s Pick Of Steve Bannon As Chief Strategist
“It is easy to see why the KKK views Trump as their champion,” one Democratic spokesman said.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/steve-bannon-white-nationalists-thrilled_us_582a0536e4b060adb56f86b5
4 reasons to be disgusted and alarmed that Trump made Breitbart’s Steve Bannon a key adviser
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/4-reasons-to-be-disgusted-and-alarmed-that-trump-made-breitbarts-steve-bannons-a-key-adviser/
POLITICS Chomsky Just Responded To Trump’s Election, And It’s Terrifying
http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/11/14/chomsky-just-responded-trumps-election-terrifying/
Farewell, America
No matter how the rest of the world looked at us on Nov. 7, they will now look at us differently.
http://billmoyers.com/story/farewell-america/
Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems
Financial meltdown, environmental disaster and even the rise of Donald Trump
— neoliberalism has played its part in them all. Why has the left failed to come up with an alternative?
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/15/neoliberalism-ideology-problem-george-monbiot
Apparent “libertarian” piece that points out an important truth, but in a typical lopsided fashion:
http://www.collective-evolution.com/2017/01/17/a-completely-different-perspective-on-trumps-presidency-this-will-make-you-think/
Interesting, but would they acknowledge then that the same applies to conservatives’ views of Obama (with all the horrible stuff they feel about him? Or Clinton, or even the “government” itself?) “Any negative reactive emotion you have towards the ‘man’ (or woman) or his supporters”? Or do they think they have no “shadow”; which Jungian theory would define as [ego] “inflation“).
Jung himself said: “If you imagine someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, then you get an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick Shadow [all his own evil]. Such a man…is now unable to say that THEY do this or that, THEY are wrong, and THEY must be fought against. Such a man knows that whatever is wrong in the world is in himself”. http://www.shadowdance.com/cgjung/cgjung.html
It’s BOTH sides who are speaking of “they” a lot.
Should also point out, (touching on the “Political matrix is 3D discussion), with libertarianism being on a separate axis from Right/Left, most so-called “libertarians” here show themselves to be clearly on the Right, even though some will claim to be centrist, and sometimes purport to criticize both sides. Authoritarianism, which is the opposite of libertarian, is assumed to be specifically Left, so the libertarians think they can make these specific criticisms against liberals [Left] and not be associated with the Right, but all that means is that they are Right-Libertarian, while many liberals are Left-Authoritarian.
However, Trump is clearly showing himself to be Right-Authoritarian, as all the notions of “freedom”, small unintrusive government and austerity go right out the window in favor of what he calls “law and order”, with talks about this ridiculous wall dominating the news now (another one on this), and recently talking about sic-ing the Feds on Chicago crime-ridden areas, and the entire Right (including even many of these so-called “Libertarians”) cheer it on as the dawning of their new day in America!
So in reality, Trump is more the “Shadow” of the Right, ultimately embodying everything they claimed to eschew (but continuously blame on everyone else; add [sexual] “morality” to that as well), and luring them in with their own “conservative” talking points.
In Makers-Takers which could use an update, as what I was pointing out there as the more explicitly racist radical fringe of “conservative rhetoric” is now out in the open as the “alt-right”), I had cited Carl Rowan The Coming Race War (really wish he was alive to followup that book now!):
“Reagan ran proudly on [the welfare “dog whistling”] platform, and once in office, began executive branch sabotage of all the programs enacted by Congress at the behest of Kennedy and Johnson. The Klansmen and other haters quickly got the message, and began to crawl from under the rocks from Mississippi to Montana.
Every white supremacist figured that his time in America had come again, and the bigots had a field day that lasted all of Reagan’s eight years.”
If they thought their day had come then, they must be at the gates of Heaven now! In just two weeks, Trump’s reign is making Reagan look like Kennedy!
‘Trump is setting us free:’ White supremacists celebrate reports that Trump will dial down scrutiny
“This is absolutely a signal of favor to us.”
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-is-setting-us-free-white-supremacists-celebrate-reports-that-trump-will-dial-down-scrutiny-136039e12fad#.701u9nmtw
Here, Reich suggests that “‘right-wingers’ may have been behind Berkeley protests”
http://thehill.com/homenews/media/317773-reich-suggests-right-wingers-may-have-been-behind-berkeley-protests
Considering the whole premise that people like Yannopolis are about “trolling”, which includes faking stuff just to get a rise from people (see http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/03/29/an-establishment-conservatives-guide-to-the-alt-right ) it’s easy to imagine people like that doing something like this (as they also likely did at BLM rallies, so the whole movement would be trashed as the real racial agitators).
Here’s a great one that goes after conservative Christian charges of “relativism”. They end up relativistic when they equivocate others’ actions with their own:
View at Medium.com
Been planning this ever since the election:
Here’s the aforementioned story on Trump sic’ing the feds on Chicago:
Trump calls Chicago violence ‘very easily fixable’ and blames it on political correctness
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/01/26/trump-calls-chicago-violence-very-easily-fixable-and-blames-it-on-political-correctness/
Wall Street Is Even More Craven Than We Thought
The new alliance between financial executives and Donald Trump.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jamie-dimon-donald-trump_us_589670cce4b09bd304bbb417
Conservativism in general:
Why conservatives are more likely than liberals to believe false information about threats
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-conservative-believe-false-threats-20170202-story.html
Even with the “authoritarianism” Trump is being accused of, his followers still claim to condemn authoritarianism and be the advocates of “freedom”:
So,
Conservative Pat Robertson Says Those Against Trump Are “Going Against The Will Of God”
https://www.truthexaminer.com/2017/02/conservative-crazy-person-pat-robertson-says-those-against-trump-are-going-against-the-will-of-god-watch-here/
“They want socialism. What we’re looking at is free markets and freedom from this terrible, overarching bureaucracy. ”
You mean you want “freedom” for yourselves only (the good, “worthy” people who “deserve” it), and authoritarian “law and order” for everyone else!
That’s why this ideology can turn into something as bad or worse than “socialism”, and they’ll keep pointing at that system to distract everyone from what they’re really doing!
And here we see the start of it, with this again, now apparently picking up the pace:
Newly Unearthed FBI Report Warns That White Supremacists Are Infiltrating The Police
http://occupydemocrats.com/2017/02/17/newly-unearthed-fbi-report-warns-white-supremacists-infiltrating-police/
Southern Poverty Law Center says American hate groups are on the rise
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/southern-poverty-law-center-says-american-hate-groups-are-on-the-rise/2017/02/15/7e9cab02-f2d9-11e6-a9b0-ecee7ce475fc_story.html
The SPLC “attributed some of the growth to President Trump, who it described Wednesday in its quarterly Intelligence Report as having ‘electrified the radical right’,” and “many groups are trading overt symbolism for a more ‘intellectual’ approach. More prominent now are the groups born as think tanks and nonprofits, and the correlated emergence of the ‘alternative right,’ which the SPLC argues is a ‘rebranding of white supremacy for public relations purposes.'”
“Oren Segal, director of the Anti-Defamation League’s center on extremism, said in December that he, too, had seen an uptick in white supremacist messaging, some of it targeting college campuses as part of an outreach to appeal to a younger audience. He said at the time that it appeared supremacist groups viewed Trump’s electoral victory as a victory for their cause, noting that ‘the alt-right in general thinks this is the time to pounce.’”
Popular neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website changed its masthead from “The World’s Most Visited Alt-Right Web Site” to “America’s #1 Most-Trusted Republican News Source” the day after the election!
People like this claimed the blacks would start “acting up” when “their man” got in, but we see they were really [yet again] describing themselves!
A lot of good talk about “facts” these days:
Why conservatives are more likely than liberals to believe false information about threats
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-conservative-believe-false-threats-20170202-story.html
Why People Are So Averse to Facts
https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2017/02/27/why-the-american-public-seems-allergic-to-facts/
WHY FACTS DON’T CHANGE OUR MINDS
New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont-change-our-minds
(See also https://erictb.wordpress.com/2015/05/25/duggar-controversy-and-the-battle-over-who-has-morals-and-can-judge-morality/#comment-4268)
Book Review: Henry A Giroux America At War With Itself San Francisco, City Lights Publishers, 2016-7
My mother gave me this one to read over the winter. Pretty good, and contains so much needed critique on the current political system, especially race and economics, reflecting not even yet the time of Trump’s election, but rather the 2016 campaign season leading up to it. The second chapter is “Donald Trump’s America”. (the first sets the stage with “the Sand Storm”, where “In white America’s collective psyche, and in traditional narratives of historical memory, authoritarianism is always views as existing elsewhere”. (p3)
Giroux frequently mentions “authoritarianism“ (so then ch. 3 is “The Menace of Authoritarianism”) and even “totalitarianism”, which, after listening to over 30 years of conservative Republican rhetoric, sounds odd coming from a liberal whom those conservatives solidly tagged as the [“big government”] authoritarians, and with hardly any rebuttal. “Totalitarianism” had been represented by Soviet Communism; hence its association with “the Left”. But as I’ve been saying, authoritarianism lies on a totally independent pole, so the people condemning left wing authoritarianism could easily promote their own right wing version. And by confounding left with authoritarian, they would do it under the very guise of defending “freedom” and “liberty”; the familiar “libertarian” principles.
But (as one meme points out) the catch is, is that it’s not everyone’s liberty they are fighting for. It’s only those deemed “earning” it, which is those at the helm of business success, and those who aspire to them (whose struggles have come to be blamed on leftist “government” and lazy citizens gaining all the money at their expense). Authoritarian control over *them* is not seen as compromising liberty; it’s seen in terms of “law and order” over
those who have basically forfeited the “inalienable” rights.
So authoritarianism is only wrong for the so-called “makers”; but greatly needed for the “takers”. It’s overall like “I delayed gratification and earned the right to rule over you”. Only they don’t put it like that in their speeches; it’s only implied, and then easily denied when called out. (So already, I’ve seen one conservative article scoff at the idea that the liberals “now all of a sudden claim to be upholding the Constitution”. The conservatives had long co-opted that to themselves, and built a strong narrative that the liberals were against it, which I’ve never until now heard liberals even bother to deny).
Chapter 4 is “Poisoned City”, based on the Flint crisis and also “connects the dots” from Katrina and other incidents. It discusses the “disposability” of marginalized race and class groups.
Chapter 5 is “the Appetitie for Destruction”, covering our obsession with guns and how this is a step in the direction of totalitarianism.
6 is “Sandra Bland’s America”, about police violence, which of course is a sure sign of authoritarianism, but of course, the “libertarian”-preaching Right doesn’t see it that way when it is other peoples rights and lives being violated by a police state.
7 is “Paris, ISIS and Disposable Youth”, on our war practices and how it is helping create more terrorism. HE points out this is creating exactly the narrative ISIS wants.
Final chapter 8, “Memories of Freedom” lays out the ideal solutions, of course, with a great stress on “pedagogy” (teaching).
In what’s like the summary of all the good points made in the book:
“In the United States”, the extreme right in both political parties no longer needs the comfort of a counterfeit ideology in which appeals are made to the common good, human decency and democratic values. [i.e. “conservative” rhetoric of decades past, that they have abandoned ins supporting Trump]. On the contrary, control is in the hands of relatively few ultra-wealthy individuals and corporations, while power is global and free from the limited politics of the weakened democratic state. In fact, as authoritarian hierarchies consolidate, state and corporate power increasingly merge. These processes only serve to further normalize the militarization of local police forces, the increasing invasiveness of the surveillance state [all of the things conservatives have long eschewed and complained about], and all if the resources brought to bear by a culture of national insecurity aligned with the war on terror.. Informed judgment has given way to a corporate controlled media apparatus that is enriched by the theatrical bullying and turmoil that bigoted intolerance clearly seems to generate, all the while reinforcing the racialized class war and value systems of the white-dominated financial elite”. (p228-9, emphasis and bracketed comment added).
Excellent answer for something we’ve seen tossed around the past half year:
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-many-most-liberals-feel-that-there-is-no-way-outside-of-their-own
http://occupydemocrats.com/2017/08/28/joe-arpaio-just-issued-pathetic-public-demand-racist-past/
Way Back Pre-Trump, Republicans Actually Wanted To Do Better With Minorities
The president’s courting of disaffected white voters could be painting his party into a demographic corner.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-republican-party-minorities_us_59a0a7c7e4b06d67e337af62
What Is ‘Whataboutism,’ And Why Is It Suddenly Everywhere?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/what-is-whataboutism_us_59932909e4b00914164043a4
HOW THE RIGHT LOST ITS MIND AND EMBRACED DONALD TRUMP
http://www.newsweek.com/2017/09/29/right-lost-mind-embraced-donald-trump-668180.html
Great article, but doesn’t realize Trump was inevitable, even from the older conservatives he praises from the 50’s through Reagan; as their “small government”, “political correctness” and other concerns were ultimately driven by the same things that Trump appealed to. As the nation continued to turn away from their “values”, they became more desperate and would elect anyone who promised to “make us great again”, meaning restoring the way things were 60 years ago.
Other comments:
Donald Trump’s ‘nationalism’ isn’t racist or wrong, it’s what America needs right now
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/10/25/donald-trump-nationalist-racist-patriotism-unity-progressives-america-column/1749803002/
«Trump’s nationalism is also a patriotic appeal for national unity and pride. It is a response to progressive tribalism, which seeks to divide the country into grievance groups and promote a narrative of shame. Decades of revisionist history and grievance ideology have corrupted the American story. The left defines politics in terms of alleged oppression that forms the root of their demands as purported victims.»
It’s basically ONE “grievance group”, that claims it alone represents “the nation”, and so others’ rights and grievances (or lack thereof) don’t even count. (Hence, this group itself complaining rather loudly for half a century, of having stuff “taken” from them, as well as “revisionism”, after insisting, in the face of others’ complaints, that everything is fine and going the way it should be, so no one should complain, but instead be “thankful”).
The nation was already divided, and from its beginning. It did not magically heal of all the old divisions, and only these other “grievance groups”, or only one political wing or party is dividing it. If anything, it’s those trying to hold on to power (which they never wanted to give up to begin with), who are trying to maintain division; but again, they think only they and their interests represent the legitimate “united” nation.
With Trump sitting nearby, Macron calls nationalism a betrayal
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ww1-centenary-macron-nationalism/with-trump-sitting-nearby-macron-calls-nationalism-a-betrayal-idUSKCN1NG0IH
“By pursuing our own interests first, with no regard to others’, we erase the very thing that a nation holds most precious, that which gives it life and makes it great: its moral values.”
How the Right Wing Convinces Itself That Liberals Are Evil
Since the 1950s, the conservative movement has justified bad behavior—including supporting Donald Trump—by persuading itself that the left is worse.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/july-august-2018/how-the-right-wing-convinces-itself-that-liberals-are-evil/
The Real Reason Trump Supporters Hate Liberals
We betray the straight white patriarchy
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All this time, I’ve been curious as to what good ol’ Michael Horton had to say about the election of Donald Trump. At some point after the election, I tried looking on the Whitehorse Inn to see if he wrote something there, but that page doesn’t get much into politics. So I try again, and just google him and Trump, and find this great treatment:
A Radical Proposal for Dealing with Trump Supporters After Biden Wins
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No Sir, I Won’t Move to Canada
Why don’t you move to Russia instead?
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