BUT THOSE ARE STILL THE PEOPLE WITH WHOM HE IDENTIFIES.

Dreher isn’t a grifter and he does actually care about and believe in things but his self-absorption and class loyalty render him incapable of ever not reflexively being anti-Trump.

Mike

Of course dreher is moving to orbans hungary who makes trump look like q tabbby cat

Ill forgive petersens ‘modest proposal’ about kavanaugh because that was a one off

“Not ordinarily a big fan” is a more tepid lack of enthusiasm than “don’t like.” I know that I’ve read things he’s written that strike me as wrong, but I don’t read enough of him to be able to say off the top of my head exactly what they’re been. However, for example, just looking at this recent piece of his from two months ago, several things immediately leap out at me. One is that when the MAL raid happened, Dreher’s immediate assumption was that the FBI/DOJ must have a really enormous justification for it. I think that was extraordinarily naive of Dreher. Another is in the phrase, “I think Donald Trump is capable of doing just about anything.” Really, Rod? Why? And he doesn’t mean “anything” in a good way. Or this, “There was Russiagate, which turned out to be nothing, but consumed a massive amount of time and resources, and damaged the Trump administration. ” “Nothing” is a euphemism for “a massive propaganda lie concocted to destroy Trump.” He writes as though its effects were an accident. In that same essay, he spouts the Tucker Carlsonish paleocon “the Ukraine war is just a proxy war we’re supporting for no good reason” argument that I’ve spent a lot of time arguing against on my blog.

Then a few weeks later, Dreher backtracks and decides that there were really good reasons for the raid and that Trump is at fault, based on what? Leaks, as far as I can see, and a lack of understanding of the law involved – as well as Dreher’s own dislike of Trump.

Speaking of the latter, we have this sort of thing from Dreher, which was written when Trump said mean things at a prayer breakfast:

Trump is a small, ugly, godless and graceless man. This is not news — but don’t you start with the whiny “but you’re still going to vote for him” stuff again. Maybe I will, but that’s because I would rather have a president who is all those things, but who in the end does what he can to protect the lives of the unborn than a president who is personally decent…

I could say a lot about that, but I’ll just limit it right now to the fact that I don’t think Dreher should be commenting on whether another person who professes to have religious faith actually has it or not, and also did Dreher really think that Trump’s 2020 opponent would have a chance of being “personally decent”? If not, why would he hesitate to vote for Trump in 2020?

Nope, I’m not a Dreher fan.

How long you got to listen?

Peterson is a genuine intellectual but I worry he thinks that means he can talk politics like he does the subjects about which he’s actually knowledgeable. I’m also starting to suspect his emphasis on individualism blinds him to the importance of societal change.

MBunge

Ps. I don’t waste my time with the “thoughts” of Obama, the Preener-in-Chief.

He went ‘of counsel’ at his law firm in 1996, and allowed his license to practice lapse in 2002. It wasn’t until 2003 that Freddie Mac slashed underwriting standards. Nearly all of the underwater mortgages in 2009 were on loans extended after 2003.

Frank davis had much greater influence on his youth than say his grandfather

Likely peer cultures were most influential. His granddad was a goof who’d largely failed in his work life.

Obama’s career as community organizer:

Two years after graduating from Columbia, Obama moved from New York to Chicago when he was hired as director of the Developing Communities Project, a church-based community organization originally comprising eight Catholic parishes in Roseland, West Pullman, and Riverdale on Chicago’s South Side. He worked there as a community organizer from June 1985 to May 1988. He helped set up a job training program, a college preparatory tutoring program, and a tenants’ rights organization in Altgeld Gardens. Obama also worked as a consultant and instructor for the Gamaliel Foundation, a community organizing institute.

It probably helped him get into Harvard Law, too.