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The Village Idiwitt's avatar

The low character, I mean Trump’s politics is not the most important issue in America; in fact, it may be the most important thing in the world when The Don has no one else left to lie too.

It will never cease to amaze me how many Germans, I mean so called conservatives that have sold ones immortal soul out to the devil incarnate (I should love your take on the new South Park episode, but me thinks that might be to low brow for your tastes). Unfortunately, I only have but a one of a thousand guesses who was the first one to harass you to come out with him and get with the Trump program. God only knows how many friends I have lost to the cult of Trumps personality, including my best friend who went full my pillow guy (where is Mike Lindell now, out to a three martini lunch with Rudy Ghoulliani). We the Living in Idiocracy (think Ayn Rand meets Mike Judge). The bigger the Trump government, the bigger the Trump family. God Help U.S.

Did I liken Dan Beattie to Gauleiter “Doctor, Doctor” (I forget his name)…oh, wait, I just did. Where’s the outrage a piece of pure white trash is representing the U.S. in anything but real househusbands of the klan.

I believe the coronavirus escaped a Wuhan biological weapons and eugenics lab, that’s why I cannot believe it’s not butter and the Chinese Communist Corona Party has not been black labeled by the entire still free western world as Public Enemy Number One. Oh, wait, we have a President that publishes a Bible with his own name on the front of it and the entire planet is not outraged.

Anyone that holds up Donald Trump any higher than pond scum is, by definition, not a conservative, but a rightist, as I like to black labeled them as I detest leftists…not so ironically, for many of the same reasons…they are contrarians that think they have a prism that only they can see the light through.

Who are my types. That would be no one better than you Jay. Thanks for writing, as much as you and most peoples I know do not care for mine. I am a rebel without a cause child of the eighties that heavily indulged in music that would probably hurt your ears. Here I stand. Pray to END TRUMPISM and confront it in all its grotesque forms. Resistance is not futile, it is one’s moral duty. Gotta run on. Peace through superior mental firepower

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David Lundry's avatar

Well done (as usual). I am guessing you didn't plan it, but this makes a pretty good companion piece with Kevin W's latest. You shine a light on one smaller functionary, someone that I bet 99% of Americans wouldn't recognize by name or face. I am sure there are thousands like him in the middle ranks of this administration, toiling away to gradually make this country and the world a worse place.

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Jay Nordlinger's avatar

Thx, Dave.

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Wolfy Jack's avatar

Jay, good piece. We find ourselves on the opposite side of the traditional liberal/conservative split of less or more government, regulation, but both see the bigger problem of illiberality destroying the founders dreams. I am no Bernie Sanders kitchen sink social democrat, more of the Bill Clinton strain, but we share our abhorrence of populist illiberality whether the left shouting down speakers on campus or ignoring the sins of the Venezuela and Nicaragua , or Trump's fickleness with law and the Constitution.

Now, how to form an alliance. The Never Trumper Reaganites have pretty much been purged from the party, of late, and the Eisenhower/Rockefeller Liberal Republicans were purged in the tea party Gingrich Era. A few dinosaurs- Kasich and Hogan roam the Serengeti.

As a conservative Dem I am likely willing to compromise my desires for universal healthcare and a robust environmental policy

For the Reaganites to gain support among the liberal's right flank it seems there needs to be some give on the social democratic viewpoint. One can accept the less social welfare of Eisenhower and Ford or the compassionate conservatism of the Bushes, but Reagan for this conservative Dem was too much into the all government is bad cliché Somewhere between the utter failures of socialism and the fictional utopian return to 1790 is where the best in the world live. To me it is a conservative ethos, Chesterton Fence, that social democracy is the established governance of the free world, people choose it, and there is no example of a Libertarian state that exists outside of Ayn Rand's books and the Libertarian Parties 3% support.

My temperament is conservative, pragmatic, and incremental and like Bill Clinton feel there is a lot of good conservative perspective about personal responsibility so not about supporting deadbeats, but if you work hard, we are a rich enough country to insure your healthcare, and imo being conservative should mean conserving what we have and not gambling on the environment, and I could throw you some Goldwater quotes on that, he was an environmentalist. and as much as he was small government I sense he would have supported renewables. And Nixon started the EPA back before caution for the environment was only a liberal concern.

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Jay Nordlinger's avatar

Well said!

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Jim Weidman's avatar

Thanks for this. You are far from alone.

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Jay Nordlinger's avatar

👍

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Tom McInerny's avatar

Thanks, Jay. Great.

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Jay Nordlinger's avatar

👍

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L. McKee's avatar

Mr. Beattie has his "greater-than" symbols backwards. Along with a good number of other things. Thank you, Jay.

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David K Taggart's avatar

One, what in the living hell is the U.S. Institute for Peace, and, two, its continued existence proves DOGE was a fraud.

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Erich Kather's avatar

Amen!

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jaybrown's avatar

Thank you for this Mr. Nordlinger. I couple to add to my list of people to make sure whoever comes after Trump purges from the government permanently if they want my vote. What vicious, juvenile, ignorant, self-centered people.

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TP's avatar

Keep fighting the good fight while the rest of the media focuses on Epstein. Where is Caitlin Collins when you need her?

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Angie's avatar

Way to respond Jay...good for you.

I wonder if the person who asked you that understands now.

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Mark Ramsey's avatar

Thanks for helping me keep my sanity. And I still think a book of short profiles of people like Kirkpatrick, Conquest, Lewis etc. would be wonderful.

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Jay Nordlinger's avatar

👍

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francesca's avatar

Thanks Jay!

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Jay Nordlinger's avatar

👍

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Randall's avatar

This pretty much describes my experience since 2016.

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James H. McConnell's avatar

Right on, as usual, Jay. Thanks for the trip down memory lane re President Reagan. You mentioned you first vote in 1982; mine was in 1960, for Nixon.

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Mark Ramsey's avatar

1980 for RWR.

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CynthiaW's avatar

Golly. I feel worse knowing these people exist.

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Angie's avatar

Yeah..I keep wondering where they came from.

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CynthiaW's avatar

Colleges, I guess. Colleges produce very weird people. If even 10% are very weird, that's an awful lot in gross numbers.

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Angie's avatar

Ha, well, I came from a college, so I hope I am not weird

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CynthiaW's avatar

Maybe you're in the 90% that aren't very weird.

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Angie's avatar

I can go with that

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