Posted on 05/25/2019 9:55:55 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Sometimes you write about the most obvious thing in the world because it is the most important thing. Reaction to the outcome of Robert Mueller’s investigation shows Americans again how divided we are. If you are more or less of the left, you experienced the probe as a search for truth that would restore the previous world of politics. Instead the traitor got away with it and you feel destabilized, deflated. If you are of the Trumpian right, it was from the beginning an attempted coup, the establishment using everything it had to remove a force it could not defeat at the polls. You are energized, elated.
Now both sides will settle down, with the left as forthcoming in its defeat as the right is forbearing in its victory. I just wanted to show you my fantasy life. The Trump forces will strike with a great pent-up anger, and the left will never let go.
Both sides will be intensely human. And inhuman. Because the past few years the character of our political divisions has changed, and this must be noted again. People are proud of their bitterness now. Old America used to accept our splits as part of the price of being us—numerous, varied, ornery. Current America, with its moderating institutions (churches) going down and its dividing institutions (the internet) rising, sees our polarization not as something to be healed but a reason for being, something to get up for. There’s a finality to it, a war-to-the-death quality.
It is shocking, and I say this as a person always generally unshocked by American political division. When I was a kid we came together as a nation when John F. Kennedy died and manned rockets went up, but after that it was pretty much turmoil—Vietnam, demonstrations, Watergate.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
I think it starts much sooner.
“Two Americas” is a shopworn liberal talking point.
There’s one America, and there’s a metastasizing cancer.
“ If you are of the Trumpian right...”
The “Trumpian right”?
That would be, living in the real world. Facts.
Ms. Noonan, you can do a lot better than that.
I’m not sure how it would play out, to be frank. Only one side has the guns and most of the emotional support (but not the armaments) of the military (that’s our side), and the communists have the globalists and the enemy armies on their side.
If a Democrat gets elected over Trump in 2020 — and it could happen given the way the Democrats game the electoral system in many states — the Democrats will strike out at us with a fury. The gloves will come off and I expect the Dems will get penned up pretty quickly in a few major coastal cities like the Spanish Loyalists did. And the cities of the 21st Century will collapse much more quickly than the cities of the 20th did.
Peggy Noonan is a dolt. It’s why she writes for WSJ
An interesting read if you have a few minutes. Expounds about
the world formation but an interesting read on the Americas. IMO.
Have always enjoyed reading Peggy Noonan since the days of the Gipper.
She has a gift of using words that paint an accurate picture.
I, too, fear for the Republic and have for many decades now.
I am not quite sure the open violence will wait until 2039 to begin though.
If the lefties keep accosting (milkshakes or whatever) conservatives it won’t be long before a conservative or group thereof respond with instruments that do much more damage than ruining a suit.
So the Hussein Heads at WSJ are telling us that Trump is as bad as his enemies.
NO SALE you Pieces of Obama, FOAD!!!!
Sooner than that. You can't safely walk the streets in many places while wearing a MAGA hat. It'll be ten percent of the population that fights, be armed and ready (despite laws against being armed) because you don't know when you'll encounter those ten percent.
She canshove her Trumpian slam up her wazoo.
If you are an Obamunist you believe it when Master Obama says he never had a single scandal in his administration
Crooked Commies at the head of the FBI and CIA.
Get outta here
Has anyone found a way around the WSJ paywall? Outline doesn’t work there.
Rich Americans could buy tax free or low tax enclaves from foreign countries.
Another possibility is pay American tax rates for ten years and no further taxation thereafter.
Two sides grown fiercer? No. Our side has nowhere to back up to anymore. 50 odd years of it and here we are...
I proposed creating new and independent countries out of the United States, which could have been done by simply majority votes in Congress.
If you are the Left you are blah, blah, blah. . .if you are the right you are blah, blah, blah, if you are Peggy Noonan you are an empty-headed aging columnist who once wrote a few good speeches for Reagan and is trying desperately to remain relevant on the Swamp cocktail circuit. BOR-RING!!! This column must have been written 3000 times by 3000 other geniuses since 1990.
Enticing people to hate each other can be profitable
We have all of the guns all the ammunition and all the aim
Good luck leftist morons
And you, Saint Peggy, sit in the middle, deploring all this ugliness and division. Please tell us, wise lady, what shall we do? It surely is not the fault of those who would end the US as we know it, right?
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