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The Elites’ War on the Deplorables
Real Clear Politics ^ | August 5, 2018 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 08/11/2018 8:45:33 AM PDT by yoe

ecently, Politico reporter Marc Caputo was angered at rude hecklers at a Trump rally who booed beleaguered CNN correspondent Jim Acosta.

So Caputo tweeted of them, “If you put everyone’s mouths together in this video, you’d get a full set of teeth.”

[snip] Again, demonizing the Trump voter as beyond cultural redemption is nothing new. During the 2016 campaign, Hillary Clinton infamously dismissed Trump supporters as “deplorables” who were “irredeemable” and were “not America.”

After her defeat, Clinton proved her early smears were no accident. Speaking in India, she again slurred Trump supporters as being racist, sexist, and xenophobic for their inability to appreciate her progressive godhead. All this from the 2008 candidate who earned the sobriquet of “Annie Oakley” from Barack Obama for quaffing boilermakers, shooting, and bowling while pandering to what Clinton had once endearingly called “hard-working Americans, white Americans.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: culturewars; deplorables; elites; elitism; elitists; privilege; racism; vdh; whiteprivilege
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Jim Acosta, Julia Ioffe, Sarah Jeong among others were aping their messiah,,,"When Obama periodically wrote off Americans as “lazy” and ignorant of the world beyond them (this, from another Harvard law graduate who thought Hawaii was in Asia and Austrians spoke “Austrian”), he was, to use a progressive metaphor, dog whistling the themes of his clingers speech."

Read the article Hansen never disappoints and is honest in his assessments.

1 posted on 08/11/2018 8:45:33 AM PDT by yoe
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To: yoe

Nothing is changed, they just have to be more explicit than before.


2 posted on 08/11/2018 8:56:06 AM PDT by the_daug
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To: yoe

If you put everyone together at CNN, you’d have a brain the size of a mustard seed. Smaller for Congress. Still smaller for Democrats.


3 posted on 08/11/2018 8:59:47 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: yoe

Hansen is verbose. I’m not a fan.


4 posted on 08/11/2018 8:59:56 AM PDT by be-baw (still seeking...)
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To: the_daug

So we are all :

racist
sexist
xenophobic
Islamophobic
homophobic
trans-phobic
global warming deniers
don’t celebrate diversity

etc. etc.

Yep we are not bicoastal elitist liberals. We don’t worship and adhere to what’s fed to us by the media in the New York/Washington axis.

So we are obviously deplorable people. (sarcasm)


5 posted on 08/11/2018 9:08:22 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

So we are obviously deplorable people. (sarcasm)
................................................
and proud of it.


6 posted on 08/11/2018 9:13:40 AM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: yoe

Fascists always hate and dehumanize their opponents. It makes actions like the Final Solution more palatable.


7 posted on 08/11/2018 9:15:10 AM PDT by Spok
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To: be-baw

Couldn’t disagree with you more.


8 posted on 08/11/2018 9:21:49 AM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: yoe
Thanks, always enjoy VDH columns.
Here is the best of it, imho:


9 posted on 08/11/2018 9:22:32 AM PDT by BroJoeK ((a little historical perspective...))
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To: Dilbert San Diego
We should ALWAYS reply to accusations of 'Islamophobia' as follows:

"There is no such thing as 'Islamophobia'. It is a unicorn: it simply does not exist.

A 'phobia' is an irrational fear of something. The fear of being murdered by someone in the name of their so-called 'religion' is a perfectly rational fear."

10 posted on 08/11/2018 9:24:09 AM PDT by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a' white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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To: yoe

“If you put everyone’s mouths together in this video, you’d get a full set of teeth.”

This makes zero sense. It’s kind of like someone’s trying to make a point and not doing a good job of it.


11 posted on 08/11/2018 9:25:12 AM PDT by Cats1
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Marc Caputo was angered at rude hecklers at a Trump rally

Well then, a logical person would expect that Caputo must have been positively apoplectic at what happened to Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk during their breakfast earlier this week in the "City of Brotherly Love".

12 posted on 08/11/2018 9:26:04 AM PDT by glennaro
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"....Read the article Hansen never disappoints and is honest in his assessments."

He does a very nice job on this article.

13 posted on 08/11/2018 9:27:08 AM PDT by Sa-teef
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you’d get a full set of teeth.

He's labeling the crowd (and us) as poor, stupid, toothless rednecks, peckerwoods, hooligans, etc.

14 posted on 08/11/2018 9:31:03 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: be-baw; Nothingburger; yoe
be-haw: "Hansen is verbose. I’m not a fan."

VD Hanson is a very mild mannered conservative academic, highly understated in tone, but he is thorough, just as you'd expect from a scholar.
So his articles invariably consists of a long list of examples which make the point he's driving home.
For those with no patience, you need read only his first few examples to see where he's going.
Everything else simply bolsters that point.

By now Hanson is not simply a national treasure, he's a highly endangered species -- a California conservative academic of northern European ancestry.
So he's our canary in the leftists' political coal mine.

15 posted on 08/11/2018 9:37:49 AM PDT by BroJoeK ((a little historical perspective...))
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To: yoe

There is never anything wrong with a narcissist, to them, it’s always the rest of the world that is messed up. The cabal of bankster globalists and those who serve them in DC for over 100 years now needs to come to an end.


16 posted on 08/11/2018 9:48:48 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: Fightin Whitey

Ah... Weird way of doing it. But in 50 plus years I’ve only had 2 teeth pulled... both wisdom. :)


17 posted on 08/11/2018 9:53:21 AM PDT by Cats1
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To: BroJoeK

I like some of his stuff, but too much is padded. Wonder is he gets paid by the word. His points could probably be properly expressed in about a third of what he writes.


18 posted on 08/11/2018 10:03:37 AM PDT by be-baw (still seeking...)
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To: BroJoeK

Yes, Hanson’s columns tend to run a little long.

But then, he always has something important to say, so I read every word.

On the other hand, his book “Mexifornia” is a model of brevity about the immigration crisis.


19 posted on 08/11/2018 10:03:44 AM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: BroJoeK

Fabulous quote....thanks!


20 posted on 08/11/2018 11:40:20 AM PDT by yoe (Mid-term vote for our Constitution.....not Socialism...keep on draining the swamp!)
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