Some of the increase in Republican primary votes is due to people voting for Trump to sabotage the GOP by nominating him. Some of the increase in Republican primary votes is due to Republicans and conservatives voting against him. None of it has any relevance to what will happen in the general, because we have no way to interpret that increase, and the majority of people in the GOP primaries are voting for someone else anyway.

And size and enthusiasm of crowds is not meaningful in terms of the general, either. I wrote about that in 2012.

OM – because Reagan had a likeability factor which was off the charts. Even the MSM media fell under his spell. No one is running now who even comes close. Cruz is actually negative in that respect.

Jedi — actually, no. I billed a lot of time explaining to people who had never paid taxes before when the rates were 90, 70, and 50%, why they had to pay taxes now that the rate was 28%. (I despair of politicians or the media ever learning that taxes paid are the product of the rate TIMES the taxable income.) Also, there were tons of tax shelters floating around which I had to review and explain to my clients why they didn’t work. Not for long, though, within about six months, Congress started hanging things back on the Internal Revenue Code until it looked like the old Christmas tree, and it was back to business as usual.

BTW, if you think I don’t know I am part of the parasitic class, just a cog in the great wheel of paper (soon to be replaced by electrons) circulating from the public to the intercessors like me to the government and around again, endlessly, you are quite mistaken.

It’s C.M. Kornbluth’s “The Marching Morons,” except it wasn’t the lower classes who overbred, it was the middle classes, and the problem wasn’t solved by creating factories which built things to be shipped to factories where the things were demolished, it was solved be creating the great wheel of paper.

The Post-Constitutiomal Election, Pt. 13: The Language of Violence

Marten Gantelius first caught my attention with the following comment posted at Gates of Vienna during the early days of the merican Betrayal wars:

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Such an assessment sounds shocking; but, I will add, it is one I have heard in hardly dissimilar terms and separately from experienced intelligence professionals, who, having studied the “disinformation campaign” against American Betrayal, have explained it to me as an effort to destroy my work and “kill” me — my reputation as a reputable author — for the future.

Marten Gantelius would later apply his tools to offer a “linguistic perspective” on a subsequent three-part series about American Betrayal, which he published here at J.R. Nyquist. (If you read it, be sure and click on the links so that you can see his underlined worksheets, illustrating his technique.)

But this post is not about all of that — except insofar as the “language of violence” and its use in the destruction of a person or persons is relevant to understanding the unceasing public campaign not usually against the policies of Donald Trump (just as the attacks on American Betrayal were not against its actual contents), but rather mainly against his person and his supporters.

Almost as a lark, I began some weeks ago to collect the jaw-dropping and dehumanizing abuse heaped on Trump and Trump voters from the right side of the political spectrum. I am talking about the writings and utterances of GOP political professionals — consultants, speechwriters, commentators — and journalists, who write for or edit conservative publications, or who are hired to express a conservative or right-leaning point of view.

It is hard to describe what this dictionary or lexicon has since become — but if the Nile were a sewer the metaphor would not be far off. The list of slurs and ugly talk is alphabetical now, but I probably should redesign it by category: the language of Hitler and facsism category (Glenn Beck is a leader here); the language of Trump-as-disease category (cancer, virus, chlamydia, STD); the language of deviant sexuality category (Kevin Williamson, Rick Wilson and Erick Erickson excel here); the Trump supporter abuse category; the Trump supporter as traitor/collaborator category (including talk of blacklists, summary executions); the language of bitterness/contempt category. The language of scatology. All this from the very same people who cluck about Trump’s “tone.”

I could go on and on, subdividing this language of violence. There is even, recklessly, dangerously, the language of literal violence: put a bullet in him … stabbing … slit throats … machine gun … the invocation of assassination from Ross Douthat at the New York Times.

I asked Marten Gantelius what he thought of my lexicon. Of course, I didn’t need his expert opinion to know this rancid body of rhetoric is the language of violence. But I wondered if there was something more he would see. He didn’t disappoint.

He wrote:

“Hello again Diana,

Your Trump Lexicon is a good example of the Language of Violence.

When the LoV is used, violence is both the means and the ends. It can be disguised by a variety of “good” pretexts.

Almost always, the LoV is the source of a following physical violence. And it is important to understand that it is deliberate with the modern roots in the massive Soviet dezinformatsiya industry.

Conclusion: Stop classifying people as leftists, conservatives, environmentalists etc. Classify them according to the language they use! I have done it for years – I know it works.

All the best

Marten”

Maybe cuz Ronnie was bad for the tax lawyering biz as well as many other non-productive government created schemes that churn the hard earned dollars in the accounts of those who are productive.

You seem to have skipped Ronald Regan when discussing elections and conservatives. Why so?

Most anti-Trump people believe that Trump is neither “electable” NOR conservative.

In supporting Cruz they are going by the Buckley rule in terms of their evaluation of both Trump’s political positions and his chances of winning.

But, my words, Cassandra-like, fell on deaf ears, and so we end up with Trump, a complete asshole, and Cruz, who is another Goldwater.

Well, as Dick Cheney said, “You go to war with the army you have, not the army you would like to have.”

As it stands now, the election will come down to a choice between someone who will occasionally do the right thing, even if only for his own ego’s sake or by accident, and who is pro-American, vs. someone who will, by conscious design, never do the right thing, and who is profoundly dedicated to destroying the United States as we know it.

If Jack Kennedy, Scoop Jackson, Sam Nunn, or Joe Lieberman were running against Trump, I would seriously consider voting for them. But Hillary Clinton (and a stay-home or third party vote is a vote for Hillary)? Never, never, never!