Kaus: it’s not 1934
You might consider sending it to some frightened liberals you know, if you want to bring up the subject at all.
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You might consider sending it to some frightened liberals you know, if you want to bring up the subject at all.
Speaking for my liberal friends, I notice they reject outright any information which is not certified fresh from a liberal source.
Mickey Kaus has some liberal cred but he has been too contrarian to be considered reliable from their POV. Now that he also writes for Breitbart, well, there you are….
Perhaps it can be filed under “Alternative Facts” — the left vs right worldviews have become so disjunct that it seems near impossible for rational debate between the two sides.
How would neo or any of the commenters here have a discussion with, say, Ta-Nehesi Coates, the darling black intellectual of the moment?
I can’t imagine how anything productive would emerge from that.
I’ve been on the left and the right. Both sides have their issues, but it does seem to me more a problem from the left
Does Mitsu ever stop by here anymore?
Does Mitsu ever stop by here anymore?
Not for years.
Are you the same Huxley that used to comment here and then stopped?
Yep.
I started drafting an email to send the Kaus screed to folks who have expressed comparable levels of irrational fear; but, as I read it more critically, it seemed disjointed and vacuous.
We need something better than that.
You could do it Neo.
The article’s premise is that their fears are rational… if not certain to be manifested. Trump may turn out to be all they fear but where their irrationality lies is in their willful denial of the nature of the Left. Totalitarians with at best, the best of intentions.
Geoffrey Britain:
The premise of the article is that some amount of fear is rational. And it is, considering Trump’s campaign rhetoric.
The premise of the article is also that the degree of fear these people feel is not rational, and that they should hold off such panic unless and until worse events do manifest.
Welcome back, Huxley.
Thanks, Gringo!
I was disappointed Adam Gopnik of the New Yorker was Lib Idiot #2 in the Kaus piece.
Gopnik is a lib idiot, but he also writes quite intelligently when it comes to poetry and literature.
If one believes Trump is the American Hitler wouldn’t they be not only fearful, but instead keeping their promises to flee the country? So I conclude they have talked themselves into an emotional frenzy. Trump should tweet an offer to provide them with free prozac or valium.
parker: Well, imagining one is a steely resistance fighter who sees the fascist night falling and is willing to speak truth to power is a heady emotional release — much better than prozac or valium.
I think that’s much of the bottom line for the left. I was seduced by that drama in the Reagan years.
Plus, unlike historical resistance fighters who faced torture, imprisonment, and death, calling out Trump as Hitler turns out to be a pretty safe gig in the US of A.
Bruce Cockburn — Lovers in a Dangerous Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IX4gWkFqvU
Basically, the Left, encouraged by a shamelessly dishones media, is whipping itself into frenzied hysteria.
This after proudly and gladly supporting a dishonest, lawless, radical, agenda-driven administration for eight years.
And after supporting a dishonest crook for the Presidency, who—unfortunately for them—was unable to continue with four to eight more years of dishonesty and lawlessness.
And now they’re all worried about fascism and quoting Orwell!!
The question is how to stop this utter insanity….
Where are the adults on the Left?
It occurs to me that we finally have a phobia worthy of the name: Trumpophobia.
Barry Meislin,
As you well know there are no ‘adults’ on the left; only monsters, lackey dogs, pussy hats. and pajama boys.
Perhaps a good number of them are “sensible citizens,” but I guess that word doesn’t mean what I think it means. A good many are useful idiots, and I believe the “resistance” is really just large scale virtue signaling. We all know the type – live in a 4,000 square foot house and driving a Prius. Back in the day they used to go to the Jackson Browne “No Nukes” concerts. It was the cool thing to do.