In the Age of Blowback

American Thinker.com ^ | Novemver 14, 2021 | G. Murphy Donovan

[Kaslin]

“Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last.” - Winston Churchill

Not long ago, the adjective “bully” meant superb or wonderful. Indeed, Teddy Roosevelt coined the phrase “bully pulpit” to describe the Oval Office, an ideal perch from which to define or support policy. Like so many English words, over time, meaning often migrates to the opposite pole. Today, a bully might be rhetorical thug, an entrenched demagogue who uses the political pulpit to demean, belittle, or humiliate opponents - or abuse pretty much anyone who departs from the prevailing orthodoxy.

Alas, political issues that require their orthodoxy today by the establishment are as numerous as they are varied: pandemics, Russia, China, Israel, Islam, Donald Trump, race, addiction, immigration, public education, climate, and even gender (née sex) pronouns/adverbs, just to name a few hot buttons. If you challenge mandates on these issues, you do so at the risk of being “cancelled” online, in the press, in the workplace - or even at the ballot box.

Hecklers with cameras recently pursued a Democrat senator into a restroom because she refused to vote for the latest “Christmas tree” spending legislation.

Bullying is now a standard tactic in the public square; at the same time, a kind of political Russian roulette. “Blowback” is a term intelligence operatives use to describe operational folly that produces unintended consequences, sometimes catastrophic failure.

They should know. American intelligence failures litter the historical landscape from Pearl Harbor, to Vietnam, to the Bay of Pigs, to 9/11, and on to the recent fiasco in Afghanistan – just to name a few.

[TalBlack]

“Were it not for the weaponization of the Wuflu pandemic and election shenanigans that COVID hysteria enabled, Trump probably would have won in a 2020 by a landslide, given his rude pragmatism and policy hutzpah.…”

Trump WAS winning by a landslide to a degree that the usual dirty tricks were ineffective. That is why, in sheer criminal desperation, they unprecedentedly stopped the count in five states.