https://www.nationalreview.com/2012/07/did-state-make-you-great-charles-krauthammer/

That’s not what his mission is going to be rated off of, what political victories he may or may not have helped contribute to.

The Nationals didn’t do much winning in those early years, but it didn’t matter; Krauthammer couldn’t quit them. He managed to find joy in the losing, and described Nationals Park, which opened in 2008, as his “own private paradise.”

“I go for relief,” Krauthammer wrote in 2010, with Washington in the midst of a 93-loss season after two consecutive 100-plus loss campaigns. “For the fun, for the craft (beautifully elucidated in George Will’s just-reissued classic, ‘Men at Work’) and for the sweet, easy cheer at Nationals Park. You get there and the twilight’s gleaming, the popcorn’s popping, the kids’re romping and everyone’s happy. The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.” …

“Yes, I know that the world is going to pieces, and that the prowess of three gifted players doesn’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world,” Krauthammer wrote. “But I remind you that FDR wanted baseball to continue during World War II. I make no claim that elegance and grace on any field will ward off the apocalypse. But if it comes in summer, I’ll be waiting for it at Nats Park, Section 128, hard by the Dippin’ Dots.”

May he Rest in Peace.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/01/14/krauthammer_everyone_knows_the_difference_between_islam_and_radical_islam_except_obama.html

I came late to conservatism and undoubtedly that affected my perceptions of Krauthammer. His most incisive commentary appeared to me to have passed.

I found his commentary on Obama to be too polite, indicative of a failure to see deeply into Obama’s motivations. I suspect he saw Obama as a perhaps somewhat more radical version of McGovern.

Overlooking Obama’s connection to Bill Ayers’ Marxism, Jeremiah Wright’s racist hate and Farrakhan’s embrace of Islam as a means of leveraging racist hate into societal power and most significantly, what those connections revealed about Obama’s deepest motivations.

That perception was solidified in Krauthammer’s commentary on Donald Trump. Clearly he couldn’t get past Trump’s bombast and vulgarity. As though courteous manners were a never-to-be-relinquished prerequisite for Presidential office, failing to see that Leftist inroads required and demanded an unapologetic street fighter rather than a gentleman boxer that would never kick an opponent when he’s down. Even when that opponent intended to kill him…

Krauthammer appears to me to have failed to fully grasp that with the rise of Obama and his supporters into dominance, the American Left that most fully embraced the “dialectic of the Left” is fully committed to the American Republic’s destruction, which “fundamental transformation” is code for… Krauthammer’s comments demonstrated that he failed to appreciate that America faced mortal threats from the domestic Left and Islam itself that were every bit as totalitarian as were the Japanese and Nazis of WWII.

“When I am the weaker, I ask for mercy because that is your principle. But when I am the stronger, I show no mercy because that is my principle”

RIP.

Dr. Krauthammer’s writings will, I am sure, survive him a long, long time. He was truly one of the great ones.

He will be long remembered, and greatly missed.