Charles Krauthammer, America’s Greatest Tory, a Postscript.

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Bill Kristol, Chjarles Krauthammer, Conservatism, Constitution, Donald Trump, Elitism, Elitism and Class, George Will, Richard Brookhiser

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I wrote the essay that follows in Jan 2015, almost 6 months before Donald Trump announced his candidacy. So read in that context, for the conversation was more about the hard solutions being offered by radicals such as Ted Cruz than the soon to be “clown”, Donald Trump.

Who doesn’t hang on every word of Charles Krauthammer? He is conservatism’s finest wordsmith, the last word on just about every outrage of government for the past 15 years. For many, Charles has been America’s Ben Franklin on every public issue, bringing a historic scope to the sociology and psychology of government and politics unmatched by any other commentator.

There’s only one hitch. Ben Franklin went where Charles isn’t willing to go.

Last Friday, while commenting about Mitt Romney getting into the presidential race again, Charles mentioned that if Mitt jumps in, it would split moderate voters (and establishment big money), regretfully hinting that this might, in turn, hand the 2016 nomination to, well you know, one of “them”; any one of a number of wrecking-crew Sam Adams types such as Ted Cruz, Scott Walker, Rick Perry, just to name a few. In Charles’ eyes, these are all are unsuitable for that high office, or for that matter, a good game of cribbage over a good port after dinner.

It seems the one thing that separates Dr Krauthammer from Dr Franklin was Ben’s willingness to break with the King and start up a new nation here, risking life, fortune and sacred honor in the process. For Charles, being asked to cast his lot in with common revolutionaries seems to be a bridge too far.

Consequently, we should be more careful about Charles’ strategic advice, for while the finest of analysts, it’s a dead giveaway about where he is unwilling to go, or see America taken. He is not alone, so learn to look for this status preference in other conservatives, from seniors such as George Will, to a host of newbies such as Erick Erickson. Their rice bowls and public reputations are bound up in the survival of the current King, the Washington Establishment, and can be relied on to pull their punches when the Establishment, and their place in it, are placed in jeopardy[…]

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After Brexit, Shoot All the Bureaucrats

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Anti-establishment, Brexit, Bureaucracy, Donald Trump, European Union, George Will, Herman Cain, private sector

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“Every successful analysis begins with a unified theory.”

Some Americans credit Donald Trump for the success of Brexit, while others are saying Trump owes Brexit for bumping his campaign toward the presidency.

Actually, both are true to a point, but in a reciprocating way. But the key to understanding that symbiosis is not found in single issues, such as immigration, as some surmise, but in the darkening mood of the industrialized world which has been simmering on a hot stove since the end of the Cold War. Today “globalism”, which only a week ago was acknowledged to be a good thing, when spoken of in the most general of terms, as rolled off the virtuous tongues of world leaders such as Barack Obama and Angela Merkel, has suddenly been shred of its noble raiment and wrapped in a darker aspect; as nothing more than a coterie of corporatists and statists. “Bleeding fascists.” Big Business allied with Big Government had just gotten too damned big. Or so sayeth 54% of the citizens of the United Kingdom.

I doubt Donald Trump foresaw this, or the role he might have played in it. He’s no Wat Tyler. I doubt he even knows who Wat Tyler was. Still, he probably, quite by accident, captured this mood like a firefly, lighting up half the world. A herald of things to come.

About that zeitgeist then, it is aimed at something more elemental than Islamic immigration, or racism and bigotry, as the Left have always called it, and Fleet Street mercantilists and Wall Street crony-capitalists have chimed in to call it lately.

It is aimed, rather, at that underlying, more ancient cancer shared mutually in both Europe and America. Bureaucratism.

Joke: A lawyer with a frog on his head walks into a doctor’s office. The doctor looks up, and the frog says, “Hey, doc, can you get this carbuncle off my behind?” (That’s the cleaned-up version.)

For years, much longer than Donald Trump has been involved in politics, Europe, one nation at a time, has been simmering on the stewpot of over-bearing absentee bureaucracy…with the emphasis of the “over-bearing” and “absentee” inasmuch as one the greatest freedoms a peoples can possess is to be able to decide when enough is enough by saying just how much bad government they are willing to put up with. Much of modern history since the formal formation of the European Union in 1993 has been defined on just where their various breaking points are. When Bulgaria applied for provisional membership after the Kosovo War I warned my government friends there that they would be swapping economic benefits for a few in exchange for burdensome regulation on the many by a faceless, nameless bureaucracy in Brussels. This has been known, and likely a regret, among the majority of the newer EU members for at least a decade[…]

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The Mob Next Time?

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Ann Coulter, Black Death, Bob Montgomery, Donald Trump, French Revolution, George Will, Reign of Terror, Ted Cruz, The Mob

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“The Lord said a fire, not a flood next time”

(from an old Negro spiritual)

I first wrote about this in 2013, but it needs updating. You see, the Quickening is upon us.

I’m not Ann Coulter’s biggest fan. We’re separated by 20 years of a kind of snark that doesn’t sit easy with me. But she does lay liberalism low at times, and sometimes she can be very serious and sober. In Demonic, How the Liberal Mob is Endangering America, she lays out a notion that is important for us to understand today, for the idea of mob psychology transcends liberalism.

Only it’s not liberals I want to discuss here.

It’s us.

You see, Ms Coulter uses as a launching point for her book the French Revolution and Reign of Terror, 1793-94. That’s just seven years after America embraced the U S Constitution, and just twelve years after the about-to-be-shaved French monarchy helped us set ourselves free from the English monarchy.

The Reign of Terror in France wasn’t spontaneous. It wasn’t just a big riot, like Baltimore appeared to be, but was defined by a guiding influence, as Baltimore and Ferguson really were. The Committee for Public Safety and Citizen Robespierre “encouraged” the French mob to first track down, then tie up, bring to ‘”trial” and finally, cheer and escort up the steps to meet the National Razor, an estimated 40,000 undeserving rich people…in a time and place when they really were undeservingly rich.

For Americans it’s always been hard to understand why the Europeans fear bottom-up democracy so much. The French Revolution is why. This grotesque image of “popular will” is why. The mob. This is why they fear it. And by fear it, I mean nightmarish fear. To Euro regulators today, the average Italian villager is still just one deregulation away from taking every member of their management class and hanging his head on a pike[…]

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Media Darling Conservatives

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Bill Kristol, Conservatives, George Will, mainstream media lapdogs, Progressives, William Bennett

The likes of William Bennett, George Will, Bill Kristol, above have become too comfortable in the world of Progressive mainstream media and the trappings attached.

Dare I say that it is time rock the Conservative media boat?

Canada Free Press by Bill Nelson

Ponder this: Why are conservatives such as William Bennett, George Will, Bill Kristol, et al so graciously accepted by the prevailing liberal establishment? Why is there almost a commraderie between today’s prominent conservatives and liberals? It is because today’s conservatives do not challenge the moral premise of statism. Most of today’s conservative leaders are brilliant intellects, but they accept statism’s violation of individual rights and its conveyance of special privileges to a myriad of factions.

Thus, they pose no moral threat to liberalism and are not feared by those who are tyrannizing our lives with omnipresent government. Today’s conservatives are merely a different brand of statist, with their ultimate goal the same as the liberal brand – maintenance of an all-pervasive mega-state in Washington….

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http://canadafreepress.com/article/76637

Bill O’Reilly v. George Will on “Killing Reagan”

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Bill O'Reilly, Fox News, George Will, Killing Reagan, O'Reilly Factor, Politics

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Last week, George Will wrote an article about Bill O’Reilly’s latest book, Killing Reagan entitled “Bill O’Reilly Slanders Ronald Reagan,” and let’s just say that if Will’s intent was to pick a fight with O’Reilly with his critique of Killing Reagan, he got it.

 

O’Reilly invited Will who in his article called Killing Reagan “a no-facts zone”’ on to the O’Reilly Factor to discuss further and things went quickly downhill from there. Talk about fireworks. The segment ended with O’Reilly calling Will a hack “who doesn’t want the truth to be told about Reagan.”

 

The O’Reilly Factor had been taped earlier in the day would not air until after Bret Baier’s Special Report. Will who had the opportunity to review the segment before it aired Friday night while on Bret Baier’s Special Report labeled O’Reilly “unhinged” and “loser of the week.”

 

The article that set Bill O’Reilly off is entitled, “Bill O’Reilly Slanders Ronald Reagan,” written by George Will (excerpt below).

…Because of its vast readership, “Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency” by Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly and his collaborator, Martin Dugard, will distort public understanding of Ronald Reagan’s presidency more than hostile but conscientious scholars could.

Styling himself an “investigative historian,” O’Reilly purports to have discovered amazing facts that have escaped the notice of real historians….

…The book’s perfunctory pieties about Reagan’s greatness are inundated by its flood of regurgitated slanders about his supposed lassitude and manipulability. This book is nonsensical history and execrable citizenship, and should come with a warning: ‘Caution — you are about to enter a no-facts zone.’

As expected O’Reilly discussed Will further while responding to a displeased viewer.

 

For the record, David Forsmark of PJ Media has also taken O’Reilly to the shed for Killing Reagan in his article entitled, “‘Killing Reagan’ More Regurgitated Pop Culture Than Serious Scholarship”

So, this is what we have come to in the Bill O’Reilly KillingIcons series. First, a book that entertainingly hypothesizes an assassination out of thin gruel (Killing Patton) and now a book about a failed assassination attempt (Killing Reagan). Except very little about O’Reilly’s most recent book is even about the assassination attempt on President Reagan—unless you want to count the character assassination by O’Reilly and his (actual) writer, Martin Dugard. It’s little more than the latest attempt by Bill O’Reilly to gain mainstream acceptance.

OUCH!!!

While everyone is entitled to their own opinion, one gets the feeling that the establishment who is panning O’Reilly’s latest work is circling its wagons to either (a) secure Reagan’s legacy or (b) keep Americans in the dark.

Expect more to come.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/bill-oreilly-slanders-ronald-reagan/2015/11/05/d11300d6-83e3-11e5-9afb-0c971f713d0c_story.html
http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Reagan-Violent-Assault-Presidency/dp/1627792414
http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2015/11/08/killing-reagan-more-regurgitated-pop-culture-than-serious-scholarship/
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/before-interview-aired-george-will-went-off-on-unhinged-oreilly-segment/