
Source: Above painting “Bacchanale devant une statue de Pan translated Bacchanal before a Statue of Pan by Nicolas Poussin circa 1631-1633, Wikimedia Commons.
Unified Patriots by Bob Montgomery
It was a teensy bit satisfying to see former National Public Radio CEO Ken Stern on Tucker Carlson’s show last week talking about taking a year off and traveling about the interior of America and discovering how a lot of the East Coast elitists’ conceptions of the denizens out there are often misconceptions. I say just a teensy bit satisfying because the worth of it is that it is nice once in a while to hear someone say he was wrong. At least about the darkness of the heart and mind of your everyday American in flyover country. But I doubt that he will, safely back in the confines of the corridor, change a lot of hearts and minds there.
Now, in case you have been otherwise occupied,there have been a lot of strange- sounding attacks on the faithful Constitutional Conservative from some surprising quarters over the past two years, not least the outfit we all (used to) know and love, National Review. It coincided of course with the presidential bid, the successful bid, of one Donald J.Trump. If you have been paying attention to these, occurring as they have amongst the din from the USUAL suspects at NYTWAPOUSATODAYGANNETTABCCBSNBCCNNMSNBC, et al, you know whereof I speak.
Well. Suffice it to say, many of us have been flummoxed by the ad hominems thrown at us by those we thought were our compatriots in the fight against Leftism. At times it seemed that it was not personal, that it was only meant to shame us for falling in with the Trumpmeister and falling for his silly little Make America Great Again mantra[…]