When Is Enough Pandering Really Enough?

Chronicles Magazine editorial ^ | October 2020 | Paul Gottfried

[Pelham]

Paul Gottfried is editor in chief of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. He is also the Raffensperger Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Elizabethtown College, where he taught for 25 years, a Guggenheim recipient, and a Yale Ph.D. He is the author of 13 books, most recently Fascism: Career of a Concept and Revisions and Dissents.

[teeman8r]

i have heard upwards of 40% of support in the black community for trump...

and once you’ve gone black...

[fr_freak]

If Democrats once defended slavery, the Republicans were once blatantly nativist and anti-Catholic (unlike Southern Democrats in the antebellum period).

Not sure if I can take this guy seriously. Part of the KKK's stated mission included protecting southern culture from Catholics. Though they may have sprung into being post-Civil War, it is hard to believe that it was a sudden inclusion.

[Raycpa]

“Protect the downside and the upside will take care of itself.” Trump, Art of the Deal

[buckalfa]

The article kind of dances around the question what becomes of the Republican Party after Trump. Big tent outreach or ideological purity? Somewhere in between or will conservatism have to be reinvented to survive?

[jdsteel]

As my dear, departed father would say....”He must be really smart to be that ***damned dumb.”

[Secret Agent Man]

Dont ask here

Too many idiots here are happy to pander on the basis or race and gender

[rlmorel]

"...No restraint is observed by the GOP when it comes to turning Southern whites into the bad guys. The second path pursued by the GOP and its supporters in trying to wrest constituents from the Democrats is to convince Americans that it is their political adversaries, not they, who are the real racists and sexists. By now there is a vast array of Republican media celebrities, including Dinesh D’Souza, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, and Dennis Prager who routinely assure us that the Southern Democrats were always the party of racism, the KKK, slavery, and treason, while the GOP has always stood with women, blacks, and other minorities..."

The truth really grates on this Leftist turd. Says it all right there.

It is pretty evident that The Left is, and alway has been, the party of Racism. This piece of crap just wants to rewrite history as the Left has been trying to do since the Roosevelt Administration.

[rlmorel]

This piece of crap just wants to rewrite history as the Left has been trying to do since the Roosevelt Administration."

And doing it quite successfully, I might add. If they weren't so despicable, one might admire their success.

[Pelham]

“The truth really grates on this Leftist turd. Says it all right there.”

You might want to revise that. Paul Gottfried is a paleocon scholar and the author of at least 13 books including 5 histories of conservative thought.

[a fool in paradise]

>>Fascism: Career of a Concept and Revisions and Dissents.

Fascinating.

Which nations have active Fascist parties in office?

Which nations have active Communist parties in office?

He needs to stop getting paid to jerk off.

[a fool in paradise]

>>who routinely assure us that the Southern Democrats were always the party of racism, the KKK,

The Klan was founded as an anti-Republican terrorist group.

Jim Crow laws and poll taxes were created by Democrats.

Systemic Racism? That is the Democrat Party. The one that destroyed the black “nuclear family”.

[Pelham]

“The article kind of dances around the question what becomes of the Republican Party after Trump”

I don’t think he intended to solve that issue. Gottfried is a paleocon historian and philosopher. He is writing as an observer rather than offering a prediction.

[aquila48]

Once you start down that path, it’s never enough, and it never gets you what you’re after. It’s a drug.

[Pelham]

He’s a historian. You evidently aren’t.

[Just mythoughts]

Perhaps he can take a closer look at what is happening right under his nose on American colleges and universities... Might as well be indoctrination camps ... Strange the ones doing the teaching never seem to get around to reflecting upon their own results.

[Pelham]

“Part of the KKK’s stated mission included protecting southern culture from Catholics”

There have been three unconnected eras of the KKK.

The 1st Klan was a resistance movement against the 10 year Republican military occupation governments of Reconstruction. It basically ended along with Reconstruction in 1876. That Klan had no interest in anti-Catholicism.

The 2nd era was inspired by the world’s first major motion picture Birth Of A Nation in 1915. It was a combination political and fraternal movement. Popular in the north and west in addition to the south. It was anti-Catholic and along with the WCTU it was largely responsible for passing Prohibition. Corruption and a couple of headline crimes ended it in the late 1920s.

The 3rd era Klan coincided with opposition to the civil rights movement. It doesn’t seem to have any particular concern with Catholicism. The anti-Catholicism of the 2nd era Klan was tied in with opposition to the heavy immigration in the early 1900s.

[a fool in paradise]

He spouts falsehoods about Republicans and Democrats.

You believe that bs?

[a fool in paradise]

1947 Democrat Klansman on the Supreme Court hands down anti-Catholic decision against parochial schools

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Black

[Pelham]

Paul Gottfied is 80 years old. He’s not on a campus. And being a paleocon he can hardly be blamed for what colleges taught when he was there.