I just love this - am I blind to similar contradictions on the liberal side (I stand firm on a 50 year claim there is NO prominent Left in the US, and the DEI/woke uproar was manufactured by Right wing media - so I must be blind)
in any case, just this morning I saw a post about the McCullough foundation report claiming (lying about) a report on vaccines "proved' they cause autism. I noticed in the statement about the foundation that among other things, they are dedicated to protecting and defending the Constitution.
Imagine supporting a president who at least twice a day violates some fundamental constitutional law!
What gets me the most is the allegedly middle of the road Right of center Jewish writers like David Frum, David Brooks and Bret Stephens - "Really guys - you had no idea these neo Nazis have been part of the conservative movement since the 1930s? You didn't notice those "very fine people" were chanting "Jews will not replace us?"
And the good Christians like Peter Wehner who profess to be "shocked - shocked!!" that neo Nazis and white supremacists are in the Republican party. "Really Peter? When you were working for Reagan, it never even occurred to you for a moment that the symbolism of his speaking in Philadelphia, Mississippi - the site of the murders of civil rights workers in 1964 - might be, you know, a tad racist?"
I mean, of course there are racists, misogynists, and anti semites among the .001% of the academic community that feasts in incredible bad, even loathsomely ugly postmodern critical theory type language. But among the 3000 or so Democrats in the state and national legislatures or on the courts - you have anti semitic racists bigots on the Supreme Court appointed by Republican presidents - is there anything in the mainstream Democratic party that remotely resembles anything like support for Fuentes?
Great piece - thank you! I'm hoping that you'll pursue this further and examine more deeply how the Jewish henchmen for MAGA, in & out of the administration, fit in to the now glaring antisemitism of their movement. I just cannot understand where Stephen Miller fits in for example. Does he think that he's the one Jew whom the antisemites will embrace? Or Jared, or Ivanka for that matter? Or the Adelsons (as you refer to in your piece)? Or do you think there really will be a crack up?
No doubt the Fitzgerald quote will live for another 100 years as based on what? Unless some idea has stood the test of thousands of years, such as the Bible or books from ancient Greece, "The Iliad", "The Odyssey" onward in the Adler-Van Doren list of books, how can we take this seriously?
You had a good interview with Sidney Blumenthal last week on "Legal AF". We should speak of "the Trump phenomenon" as it is a lot less about a person than about a contemptible trend in modern American culture, especially the depraved NYC area frothy mix of obscene wealth, disgusting people and their ostentation and manipulative tactics to exploit others for advantage with many victims.
We should be plumbing the depths of psychological and other literature that addresses the demonic obsessions and plumbs the depths that people sink to especially with power. Navarro, Miller, Bannon, Bove, Blanche and the rest are like characters out of the underworld of pulp novels of the last century. Milton and CS Lewis (Screwtape) would have insights. The inability to fight the abysmal Trump creature was due to a lack of courage, will and imagination as the threat of this malignant narcissist haunted us.
I just love this - am I blind to similar contradictions on the liberal side (I stand firm on a 50 year claim there is NO prominent Left in the US, and the DEI/woke uproar was manufactured by Right wing media - so I must be blind)
in any case, just this morning I saw a post about the McCullough foundation report claiming (lying about) a report on vaccines "proved' they cause autism. I noticed in the statement about the foundation that among other things, they are dedicated to protecting and defending the Constitution.
Imagine supporting a president who at least twice a day violates some fundamental constitutional law!
What gets me the most is the allegedly middle of the road Right of center Jewish writers like David Frum, David Brooks and Bret Stephens - "Really guys - you had no idea these neo Nazis have been part of the conservative movement since the 1930s? You didn't notice those "very fine people" were chanting "Jews will not replace us?"
And the good Christians like Peter Wehner who profess to be "shocked - shocked!!" that neo Nazis and white supremacists are in the Republican party. "Really Peter? When you were working for Reagan, it never even occurred to you for a moment that the symbolism of his speaking in Philadelphia, Mississippi - the site of the murders of civil rights workers in 1964 - might be, you know, a tad racist?"
I mean, of course there are racists, misogynists, and anti semites among the .001% of the academic community that feasts in incredible bad, even loathsomely ugly postmodern critical theory type language. But among the 3000 or so Democrats in the state and national legislatures or on the courts - you have anti semitic racists bigots on the Supreme Court appointed by Republican presidents - is there anything in the mainstream Democratic party that remotely resembles anything like support for Fuentes?
Anyway, please forgive the rant - thanks again!
Nazi are great. JD Vance says so
Great piece - thank you! I'm hoping that you'll pursue this further and examine more deeply how the Jewish henchmen for MAGA, in & out of the administration, fit in to the now glaring antisemitism of their movement. I just cannot understand where Stephen Miller fits in for example. Does he think that he's the one Jew whom the antisemites will embrace? Or Jared, or Ivanka for that matter? Or the Adelsons (as you refer to in your piece)? Or do you think there really will be a crack up?
No doubt the Fitzgerald quote will live for another 100 years as based on what? Unless some idea has stood the test of thousands of years, such as the Bible or books from ancient Greece, "The Iliad", "The Odyssey" onward in the Adler-Van Doren list of books, how can we take this seriously?
You had a good interview with Sidney Blumenthal last week on "Legal AF". We should speak of "the Trump phenomenon" as it is a lot less about a person than about a contemptible trend in modern American culture, especially the depraved NYC area frothy mix of obscene wealth, disgusting people and their ostentation and manipulative tactics to exploit others for advantage with many victims.
We should be plumbing the depths of psychological and other literature that addresses the demonic obsessions and plumbs the depths that people sink to especially with power. Navarro, Miller, Bannon, Bove, Blanche and the rest are like characters out of the underworld of pulp novels of the last century. Milton and CS Lewis (Screwtape) would have insights. The inability to fight the abysmal Trump creature was due to a lack of courage, will and imagination as the threat of this malignant narcissist haunted us.
Oh, we all know exactly who will win this battle. I don't think there's even a tiny doubt as to which viewpoint will become dominant.