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| VDH: The Wages of Trump Fixation |
| 2019-11-18 |
| [AmGreatness] Max Boot recently wrote that my arguments against the impeachment inquiry are prima facie proof of why the Democrats should, in fact, impeach Trump: "If even the great historian Victor Davis Hanson can’t make a single convincing argument against impeachment, I am forced to conclude that no such argument exists." In fact, I made 10 such arguments, all of which Boot attempted, but has failed, to refute. In this context, Boot’s intellectual erosion as a historian and analyst is a valuable warning of stage-four Trump Derangement Syndrome. I offer that diagnosis with regret given I once knew and liked Boot. But his commentary over the last three years has become sadly unhinged. ...No one should know better the horrific crimes of a mass-murdering Josef Stalin than the Russian-born Boot. Stalin’s purges, orchestrated famines, gulags, show trials, liquidation of the officer class, and atrocities during World War II perhaps accounted for over 20 million Russian deaths. So how could Boot write, "I would sooner vote for Josef Stalin than I would vote for Donald Trump"? Twenty million dead souls don’t quite match Boot’s hatred of Trump. ...After the former Republican Boot saw Trump elected, by defeating his own particular favored Republican primary candidate, and Hillary Clinton, he seemed a bit embittered: "For the health of our republic, I think we need to destroy the Republican Party." ...Boot claims there "have been many legitimate investigations prompted by the president’s unethical and even illegal conduct." Well, there certainly have been "bombshell" hysterias designed to subvert or abort his candidacy, his transition, and now his presidency. But note that if Boot truly believes Trump’s conduct has proved serially illegal and there have been many "legitimate investigations" into his alleged criminal conduct, why then has not a single act resulted in a criminal referral? What is now the fate of all those who swore to us that Trump was a Russian asset, traitor, treasonous, or pervert such as James Comey, Andrew McCabe, James Clapper, John Brennan, and Christopher Steele? ...Boot’s analyses are not factually based. So when he writes, "All that is left is the tribal loyalty that Republicans, including Republican intellectuals, feel toward a Republican president. They would never make such excuses for a Democrat." In fact, I’ve never been a registered Republican, and remain an independent. In reference to tribal loyalty and the damage it does to institutions, Boot should consult James Piereson’s recent essay on Democratic partisan obstruction:
...At many levels, the psychological pathology of projection has characterized this entire three-year effort to remove Trump. That syndrome also applies to the NeverTrump rump that for over 1,000 days has misled and smeared in its self-righteous pursuit of supposed truth and civility. IMO, the biggest problem in the modern world is pretend-intelligentsia |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #9 I'm not sure which is more impressive: Boot's historical ignorance or his bitterness. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2019-11-18 13:53 |
| #8 how could Boot write, "I would sooner vote for Josef Stalin than I would vote for Donald Trump"? Because he would sooner vote for Josef Stalin than for Donald Trump. Never underestimate little man's resentment. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-11-18 13:14 |
| #7 Reminds me a bit of Governor Schwarzenegger in California. Democrat State Senate circled wagons and said they wouldn't help at all. He had to get referendums for anything which meant he ws powerless. Voters put these vermin in power, not much can be done until voters wake the F-up. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2019-11-18 13:12 |
| #6 how could Boot write, "I would sooner vote for Josef Stalin than I would vote for Donald Trump"? Maybe because the guy actually does NOT know much about Stalin or his crimes. He's too young, he grew up here, he's long been a hack who views the world entirely through a domestic US political lens. IIUC he hasn't even spent any amount of time in Russia since he was too young to remember anything. We are ruled by morons-- who are advised by naifs and ignoramuses. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-11-18 10:19 |
| #5 /\ We have a BINGO at table #4. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-11-18 07:25 |
| #4 Ukraine was "COVER FOR BIDEN" and Kerry and Pelosi and Clinton. They, and others yet to be exposed, used Ukraine as their families' personal slush fund. |
| Posted by: Slomomp Shaper6028 2019-11-18 07:23 |
| #3 Russia was "GET TRUMP" Ukraine was "COVER FOR BIDEN" |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-11-18 05:42 |
| #2 The same motivation that brought you the Russian Collusion Hoax is what is bringing you the "inquiry" of Trump as an evil traitorous Impeachable. Its ALL Democrat Butt Dump. We elected Trump to give us HIRING signs all along the highways and get rid of Obama 'the "smartest man in the room" and all his rule pileup bureaucrats. The American People don't LIKE bureaucrats. Its Genetic. The Democrtats literally have NOTHING to offer America. |
| Posted by: Spuck Cruns3588 2019-11-18 04:45 |
| #1 Also see Blame the Impeachment Flop on Botox where the author makes the cases that Pelosi and Co are sociopaths. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-11-18 03:46 |