Maggie's Farm

The irony is that President Trump is the third party candidate.

Is [Trump] any sort of thinker? Neither candidate is a thinker. One's ignorant and one is pure schemer.

Huh. I'd say tossing off boilerplate disclaimers like that in twenty words or less and expecting them to stand there, reasoning, isn't the most thoughtful thing I've seen lately either.

In fact, the whole NeverTrump movement is intellectually numb, uninformed, and as a-philosophical as it is unthought.

Want to know why? It's not hard, even if I too adopt a #NT attitude that the man's no "conservative" but without all the #NT presumptive nonsense and with some logical perspective. In other words, I could say this equally as legitimately as a liberal than as one of these ostensible "conservatives" we hear so much about defending Lyin' Ted and the Magic Republican Candidate that never, ever existed. Like this.

1. The right lost the country. That's correct, the right gave up as far back as 1913. Almost none of them know how and why, even with that year in plain sight;

2. As such, the right has handed the left rope. Yup, the right gave its destroyer every opportunity and most of its tools, save for the ones the right cannot bring itself to moral grips to use, to its sole faint credit;

3. Pursuant #2, the right has by now actually adopted fifteen or thirty major policies, programs, and/or institutions derived or intellectually inherited from leftism and, also by now, vociferously defends them as the statist failures they are. And as before, not one rightist in a hundred can enumerate them;

4. This all makes the right codependent. As with sub-twenty word quips designed to disclaim and distance for their own sake, the right has to lead off any commentary about the present Republican candidate - the guy more than brilliant enough that he, sans political experience, overwhelmed the entire sacred rightist machine - with these meaningless disclaimers about his presumed morality or his presumed decency or his presumed temperament, all of which it adopted from the left.

5. The right has no remaining perspective, meaning the right, true to this history, has no ability to sleuth out its own platform, such as it no longer has any clue, and actually philosophically idealize its ostensible principles before keeping the nation so trained so as to run viable candidates. The right couldn't do this to save its life and so it has not done this to save its own life;

6. The right has less knowledge of the Republican candidate than any it's run in the past yet the right is convinced that all the levers pulled in all the polls for all the other ones were for all time necessary capitulations while this one - the Big One - somehow is not. Nope, this one is different;

And on and on. This is the tip of that general iceberg and its the right, with all its bleating and carping and double think and double talk that's solely to blame for putting up not a single meaningful defense, candidate, or reason against its clear and present danger, against its Destroyer, all the while making gasping noises about the one guy who took the bull by the horns and ran probably the most wildly successful populist campaign on behalf of all the desperate, fed-up, last-ditch and a-political protesters against the state of dysfunction that threatens an entire nation.

THEY DID YOUR JOB FOR YOU.

But Trump? Trump is through all this somehow a moron. A moron for identifying what you never did, a moron for acting against it with his own time and treasure, and a moron showing all of you what you should have done half a century ago.

Trump the idiot. And you with your blogs and your rationalizations and your complaining and your once or twice a year emails to your congressmen about Solindra or the price of gas or reroofing the veterans hall or will there be a train into town next year and how much will it cost on Sundays.

So ask yourself which is the more effective.

See, you don't know what Trump even is, which is the only thing I'll agree with you on. But you don't know what you're really up against either, with a hundred three years of history to guide you and your feckless protestations while he's formulated the single most cutting, effective, energizing, and appropriately conservative message in any of your lifetimes. This moron has.

And that's what else we don't have in common. Because I can itemize what apparently you haven't bothered to even think about (and I did it without taking a partisan position because it's that obvious).

MissT gets it too.

Correction: the left handed the right rope, which the right happily accepted.

Sorry, I dashed that off because the whole #NT premise is so very, very flawed.