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2019-09-22 Home Front: Culture Wars

[PJ] If anyone thought the status quo would fold up after the hammer blows of the 2016 populist revolt, they were wrong. Ben Rhodes noted the effects of unremitting resistance with approval. "Bibi backsliding. Boris flailing... Fight back. It will work." Victor Davis Hanson conceded the crushing weight of the establishment riposte: "After nearly four years of ceaseless attacks by Democrats and the press, the strange thing is not that Trump can be occasionally wearisome, but that he is even still breathing."

The tone of the fight was set by Greta Thunberg's declaration to a crowd of environmental supporters: "We can't save the world by playing by the rules because the rules have to change." It was a ringing call to victory over the Deplorables, victory by any means necessary. It was as if the old legalisms themselves had become too restrictive to allow the truly good guys to win. As Hillary Clinton told an audience at George Washington University: "You can run the best campaign and have the best plans and get the nomination and win the popular vote and you can lose the Electoral College and therefore the election."

...She deserved to win but the rules betrayed her. If you can't win the old way, change the rules. To avoid another setback to history, Elizabeth Warren proposes to abolish the Electoral College. "Every vote matters, and the way we can make that happen is that we can have national voting, and that means get rid of the Electoral College," Ms. Warren said. If that doesn't work, keep getting rid of stuff until it does.
It is their livelihood -
they can't give up

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-09-22 02:24|| || Front Page|| [18 views ] Top

#1 They are so overwhelmingly correct about everything that basic rules don't apply to them. We are The Other to them, and must be crushed the same way they crushed the Plains Indians.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2019-09-22 03:05|| 2019-09-22 03:05|| Front Page Top

#2 I suppose we could fight back while having as much regard for the rules as the left does.

But then our "That is not who we are!" contingent would promptly stab us in the back while counting their dinner party invitations.

Posted by charger 2019-09-22 12:11|| 2019-09-22 12:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Again I agree with (sarcastic) Herb - what’s wrong with me?

Posted by Glenmore 2019-09-22 18:28|| 2019-09-22 18:28|| Front Page Top

#4 I thought the "That is not who we are!" brigade has already self identified and all but left the building.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-09-22 18:40|| 2019-09-22 18:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Oh, they're still out there, trying to sidewind their way back into perches of influence.

Just look at almost anyone the egregious Ed Driscoll links to at Instapundit.

Posted by charger 2019-09-22 20:30|| 2019-09-22 20:30|| Front Page Top

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