Bret Stephens in a hard-hitting piece in the WSJ on Donald Trump:
For now let’s speak plainly about what the Trump ascendancy says about the potential future of the Republican Party and the conservative movement.
It says that we may soon have a conservative movement in which the American creed of “give us your tired, your poor” could yield to the Trumpian creed that America must not become a “dumping ground” to poor immigrants from Latin America, as if these millions of hardworking and God-fearing people are a specimen of garbage.t says that a movement that is supposed to believe in defending old-fashioned values and traditions against the assorted degradations of the postmodern left might allow itself to be led by a reality-TV star whose meretricious tastes in trophies, architectural and otherwise, mainly remind me of the aesthetics of Bob Guccioni“
and
“The leader isn’t the problem. The people are. It takes the demos to make the demagogue.”
Well, here Mr. Stephens is only saying things I said a while back:
Regarding Donald Trump, I made a similar observation about his houses and his wives:
“Obama Birth Certificate A Forgery Says Sheriff Arpaio”
I once exchanged a couple of emails with Stephens, I guess before he took a look at my blog and passed out.
I take some faint consolation in thinking that a bit of my thinking got through to him in some way, perhaps not in the way I hoped for.
In any case, I know he’s a neocon, but not everything neocons say and do is wrong.
On Trump the demagogue, Stephens is correct and it’s a shame to see this impresario, who shilled for the oligarchy at the most crucial time, being passed off as a folk-hero by libertarians and conservatives, no less. I’ve no doubt the whole Trump candidacy is intended to make any rational criticism of immigration look bad and thus drive more people to the liberal-left consensus on that and other things.
Trump, the bankster-shill, is a Trojan-horse, and any knowledgeable person pushing him is not a dupe but a knave.