Posted on 01/23/2016 10:53:08 PM PST by VitacoreVision
Establishment "conservatives" are threatened by Trump, much like how Russia's intelligentsia are skeptical of their country's own populist, Vladimir Putin
Hats off to Donald Trump for his disparaging remarks about The National Review and their pitiful attempt at a demo job on his campaign in their latest issue. TNR has assembled a collection of testimonials from personalities reputed to be "conservative" and all laying into The Donald.
We are defined by our enemies, and the editorial board of The National Review, in defending what it calls the conservatives' "ideological consensus" has highlighted just what is wrong with the party's establishment.
America grew to its present strengths not by ideology but by pragmatism and a can-do philosophy, which is what Donald brings to the 2016 presidential campaign. He has taken "common sense" and run with it as his campaign platform on many, though, to be sure, not all issues. To that we can all say thanks.
And as for conservatism, with William Kristol at the center of the TNR jeering team, what we see is not "conservatism" but "neo-conservatism", which is a radical, extremist distortion of conservative principles. Indeed they are alarmed about Donald, whose approach to global issues is precisely non-ideological and realistic. This is a central issue because foreign affairs are precisely where a president has the greatest freedom to dominate the national agenda.
The foregoing is not an unqualified endorsement of Donald Trump for the November elections. But it is a call to reason among American intellectuals who are as skeptical of voting for a populist, one of the unwashed, as the Russian intelligentsia are skeptical of their country's own populist, Vladimir Putin.
Meanwhile, on the Democratic side of the ledger, regrettably both leading candidates, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, are enthralled to their ideologies of choice at the expense of common sense and realism. Still more sadly, with respect to the number one security issue facing the United States, relations with its nuclear-armed peer, Russia, both candidates offer only more of the same smallness of mind and spirit that we have seen in the past 7 years of the Obama presidency.
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DT has to like this article. National Review DID jump the shark with their stupid “special edition”.
so I guess putin can expect some more flowers from the trump team.
The dem party has abandoned any thought of competing in any sort of a marketplace of ideas and tries to win via technique and gaming, including attempting to simply import voting blocks for themselves and, sooner or later, that sort of an approach to politics drives brains and talent out of the picture; there simply isn’t any sort of natural selection for brains and talent within the party under those circumstances.
That’s why they end up with a witch, a has-been washed-up commie, and a former governor of Maryland as the closest they can come to finding a presidential candidate...
No need for insults.
The NR and their ideological cohorts are turning “conservative” into a dirty word.
Someone suggested maybe Patriot would be a new description for those of us who no longer align with such self-described stalwart “conservatives” as the NR staff.
“so I guess putin can expect some more flowers from the trump team.”
Don’t think so. But Gilbert Doctorow might. It’s the writer praising Trump, not Putin.
I prefer the term “Constitutionalist” because I support the founding principles of the United States.
“Patriot” is too vague and means different things to different people.
I Like “PATRIOT”; it’s what I am and it’s what Trump is too.
Putin has praised Trump recently though.
Putin praises ‘bright and talented’ Trump
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/17/politics/russia-putin-trump/
Donald Trump’s bromance with Vladimir Putin
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/18/politics/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-bromance/
>> “Patriot†is too vague and means different things to different people.
Yup, to the Democrats, it means socialism.
Yes, Constitutionalist is a good one. It’s specific.
I’ve been using FReeper PATRIOTS for over 3 years now.
I MUCH prefer PATRIOT!!
In fact, almost all, if not all of us on JIM’S FReepathon TEAM now use PATRIOT.
It’s easy to say and remember. I like it too.
Right and everyone understand the meaning of Patriot!
A patriot means different things, in Trumps case he is a patriot because he is willing to put his entire holdings into a trust basically give up everything for at least 4years and try like hell to turn this sinking ship around!!! Who on Gods green earth would want this job with the wealth Trump has! He has nothing to gain and damn neat EVERYTHING to lose!
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The National Review feel they’re being Patriots by trying to stop Donald Trump.
Donald Trump feels he’s being a Patriot by taking on the GOP Establishment.
Who’s being the real Patriot? No answer is correct because the term “Patriot” is vague.
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onyx: Right and everyone understand the meaning of Patriot!
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