“Do what I like
Like what I do
Kinda hope you like it too
You don’t like it, F88k You,
Find another Monkey to dance with you"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqCUJ_HbVzA
Better to reach the correct position by common sense, than the wrong position by high brow “intellectualism.”
Career ambitious. intellectual big government lawyers got us into this mess. Clinton X2, Obama X2 for examples.
An artificially created distinction where no real difference exists.
This article precisely identifies my problem with the never Trumpers. I’m partial to the intellectual and theoretical bases for conservatism myself, but there has to be a populist dimension to the movement if it is to get any traction given the liberal cultural hegemony. Build a broad tent with Trump, imperfect as he may be.
I want less government regulation because I believe it is philosophically illegitimate. At the very least, it's irreconcilable with the intent of this country's founders.
I believe in gut-instinct and common sense and Trump has both. I trust him to do what he says and bring the know-how to get it done! GO TRUMP!
Intellectualism often becomes becomes rationalization for justification of personal whim ... what the Bible speaks of as worldliness
Vs honest question for truth by inquiry via reason
Wisdom is knowing you know nothing
This article is dripping with condescension towards the rank and file American Patriots. It is saying the average Patriot is a dolt but we pointed heads like them as cute pets.
Now think on the question a little bit before you answer.
This republic was founded on Gut Patriotism. Don't agree? Perhaps you need to restudy the writing's of the founding father.
No Never Trumpers your whole behavior this election season as been the epitome of Anti-Intellectualism. You have thrown away all reason, out of childish petulance and ego, to actively work to elect Clinton who is 100% opposed to every item on your political agenda.
I consider myself an intellectual, insofar as I value ideas, precise definitions, and clear and rational arguments. I have advanced degrees in mathematics, and have been a practitioner of quantitative analysis for 20+ years.
I am a pragmatist. The ultimate test of an idea is whether it works.
Some of the Nevertrump literati such as Ben Shapiro don’t meet my standards for intellectual excellence. Shapiro has a narrow, elitist, Platonist view of the role and edification of political leaders.
My view is broad, accepting, and Aristotelian.
I strongly support Trump in this election.
I’d like everyone in America to have read and understood the difference between Locke and Rousseau, and if I become king of America by golly they will.
In the meantime, we picked Trump because he gets it, in his gut, he gets it, and most importantly he fights.
You don’t get to be where he is without being an intellect of the first order, and it is a mark of a truly deep intellect that you can break complex ideas down into short monosyllabic anglosaxon words and lay them out so that anyone can understand it. He does that every day all day long.
The supposed giants of intellect get hoisted on their petards, they go weak in the knees, they fold like wet suits when it comes time to actually face an enemy that hits back. I have great faith in intellect but not a lot of faith in intellectuals and much less in politicians as a class.
I love Pence, he is one of the best. But they asked him the other day if Hillary was corrupt, and he hemmed and hawed, he couldn’t answer. Is Loretta Lynch corrupt? Couldn’t answer. Gave us a word salad for an answer. It is Trump’s gift that not only can he answer with one word, he can show you up for a fool for even asking the question when the answer is so obvious. That’s when I realized that, however much I like Pence, it is Trump who must lead the ticket.
Excellent!
Ben Shapiro is an a$$ hat. His snooty belief that Trump doesn’t have an understanding of what makes America great and unique is so far out in left field. Ben is way younger than mister Trump. When Trump was being educated in his early years even public schools taught the importance and specialness of the American republic. Shapiro cannot claim the same
Tell both of these writers that they need only listen to Trumps children to know he has a deep understanding of America and lives her because of it
Trump is above all a pragmatist and someone who loves his country.
I also have to wonder if there is a certain amount of unconscious hostility within Medved seeing Trump as representing a sort of stereotypically villainous Jew-hating Christian. No doubt Medved was raised with tales of pogroms in his ancestral home of czarist Russia. I have to wonder if deep inside Medved he fears that Trump's supposed coziness with Russia, and his comments about barring Muslim immigration, is indicative of some sort of dog whistle appeal to bigoted whites who might extend their ire to Jews. There really is no real honest intellectual reason that any Republican would oppose Donald Trump to the extent that people like Medved have.
One other factor with Medved I believe is that he has never completely abandoned his faith in big government from his days working as a lefty speech writer for Robert Kennedy and protesting the Vietnam War. This is quite different from the likes of David Horowitz, who has experienced a complete reversal from his earlier philosophical and political belief system of the 1960s.
Dennis Prager, unlike Medved, has IMHO displayed a very commendable sense of fairness throughout the primary and general election process. Prager is also Jewish, but displays a consistent disdain for intellectualism as its own merit. He is a huge critic of higher education, and decries overly intellectual writings using almost impossible to decipher language. I don't think it's a coincidence that Prager’s attitude towards Trump has been so markedly different from Medved’s and Shapiro's.
Trump has more intellect and a firmer moral/ethical compass than all those who try to say he and his supporters ain’t that bright/educated...
“Do what I like
Like what I do
Kinda hope you like it too
You don’t like it, F88k You,
Find another Monkey to dance with you"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqCUJ_HbVzA
Ben Shapiro and Andrew Klavan lost me in January, when they started parroting Cruz’s lies. Donald likes Obamacare. Donald wants single-payer.
“It’s because common sense and innate morality often steer people better than intellectualism.”
Yes, and a brilliant scholar by the name of Clive Staples Lewis profoundly understood this.
Shapiro
Hate to say it but stereotypical anti pluralism