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Tuesday, April 26. 2016

VDH on Trump

VDH on Trump:


"What the elites now consider normal and standard seems, to a growing minority of Americans, aberrant and unhinged — and they are looking for a remedy, even if it is mostly rhetorical and chimerical."

Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 12:31 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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I was frankly surprised to see that sensible column in National Review which has lost its mind this year
#1 Mike K (Link) on 2016-04-26 13:17 (Reply)
Nails a lot of points.

My bottom line support for Trump is he is the only candidate who can beat Hillary. He will destroy her in the debates, and he is going to pull a huge number of Democrats away from the Democrat party to vote for him rather than vote for Hillary.

Someone like Cruz will make all the right ideological speeches, and then go down to defeat as the rigged special interest groups brought out by the political machines dutifully vote for Hillary. You need someone like Trump who will disrupt and destroy that system.
#2 Jim on 2016-04-26 15:13 (Reply)
How is Trump going to destroy Hillary in a debate? He was clownish in the GOP debates, ill-informed, buffoonish, rude and petulant. He actually has the capacity to make the inept, lying Clinton look well by comparison. Cruz would slice and dice Clinton.
#2.1 bill on 2016-04-27 00:57 (Reply)
The gang at National Review has really revealed itself to be ugly, vulgar, snobbish and immature. Goldberg, Williamson and Lowry, especially. Every one of them would vote for Hillary Clinton in a heartbeat. Victor Davis Hanson at least understands reality.
#3 D on 2016-04-26 16:25 (Reply)
All my life, I have heard that the pendulum swings. I guess we will find out.
#4 Exasperated on 2016-04-26 17:17 (Reply)
Cruz is right about most things, not electable.
Trump is wrong about most things, but possibly electable.
Kasich is .... past his sell date, same as Hillary.
Bernie is absurd.

How does the circus end? Usually by shooting somebody out of a cannon.
#5 Bird Dog on 2016-04-26 18:20 (Reply)
The citizen must not be so narrowly circumscribed in his activities that, if he thinks differently from those in power, his only choice is either to perish or to destroy the machinery of state.

Mises, Ludwig von (2010-12-10). Liberalism (p. 59).
#6 JK Brown on 2016-04-26 19:07 (Reply)
QUOTE:
One, Kendrick Lamar (said to be Obama’s “favorite rapper”), has a current album whose cover shows a number of African-American males on the White House lawn, boozing, holding wads of cash, and celebrating, while the body of a dead white judge — black crosses mutilating his eyes — lies before them. Deep, profound, heavy symbolism?

Add art to the many subjects of which Victor Davis Hanson is ignorant.
#7 Zachriel on 2016-04-27 10:45 (Reply)

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