Yesterday's top story should have actually been the story that General Michael Flynn apparently met with Pennsylvania Islamofascist Fethullah Gülen. The entire reason that Flynn was popular with the Trump people was his tough talk against radical Islam. So it was shocking that in actuality, Flynn was meeting with the person most responsible for the desecularization of Turkey. Gülen was originally part of the clique surrounding the military government of Turkey in the 1980s. Back then, radical Islam was seen as an antidote to Marxist impulses in Turkish society. (Kinda like Afghanistan?)
Appearances are deceiving, and the supporters of O.B. are often not what they claim to be. In his column from today, Jonah Goldberg diagnoses the paranoid everymanism of the Orange Blatherskite supporters. Goldberg writes:
On the right, a new version of prolier than thou is the new hotness. Steve
Bannon is a multimillionaire former Goldman Sachs globalist who made
much of his fortune in Hollywood. But his new racket--no less of a
racket for bein sincere--is to make himself the Joan of Arc to the
Trumpen proletariat. He sells people--many no doubt decent--on
the idea that there is a Great and Powerful Oz behind the curtain
keeping them down, thwarting their dreams and denying them their
destiny. The Republican Establishment is whatever Bannon or
Sean Hannity (another multimillionaire who wears his
Budweiser on his sleeve) needs it to be. It is simeotaneously oppressively
powerful, blocking Donald Trump's "agenda" at every turn, and out-
rageously weak, full of Quislings refusing to fight the cultural Marxists
and George Soros's army of social-justice ninjas. And because so many
people believe this tripe, everyone in the Establishment pretends they
are against it. They are like aristocrats of the old order donning
workman's clothes to avoid the revolutionary mobs. All of this only
makes Bannon's life easier and the Establishment more pathetic. When
no one will defend or deny the existence of your strawman, it's easy
to win a debate. Nothing proves the need for intensifying the witch
hunt more than the witches' ability to evade capture.
Estase used to talk about the Primrose League. He once thought that the average Republican politician was a squishy moderate who avoided social issues like the plague. In comparison to the ethnically-obsessed Trumpsters and the alt-Right scumbags, the Primrose League looks damn good right now.
Appearances are deceiving, and the supporters of O.B. are often not what they claim to be. In his column from today, Jonah Goldberg diagnoses the paranoid everymanism of the Orange Blatherskite supporters. Goldberg writes:
On the right, a new version of prolier than thou is the new hotness. Steve
Bannon is a multimillionaire former Goldman Sachs globalist who made
much of his fortune in Hollywood. But his new racket--no less of a
racket for bein sincere--is to make himself the Joan of Arc to the
Trumpen proletariat. He sells people--many no doubt decent--on
the idea that there is a Great and Powerful Oz behind the curtain
keeping them down, thwarting their dreams and denying them their
destiny. The Republican Establishment is whatever Bannon or
Sean Hannity (another multimillionaire who wears his
Budweiser on his sleeve) needs it to be. It is simeotaneously oppressively
powerful, blocking Donald Trump's "agenda" at every turn, and out-
rageously weak, full of Quislings refusing to fight the cultural Marxists
and George Soros's army of social-justice ninjas. And because so many
people believe this tripe, everyone in the Establishment pretends they
are against it. They are like aristocrats of the old order donning
workman's clothes to avoid the revolutionary mobs. All of this only
makes Bannon's life easier and the Establishment more pathetic. When
no one will defend or deny the existence of your strawman, it's easy
to win a debate. Nothing proves the need for intensifying the witch
hunt more than the witches' ability to evade capture.
Estase used to talk about the Primrose League. He once thought that the average Republican politician was a squishy moderate who avoided social issues like the plague. In comparison to the ethnically-obsessed Trumpsters and the alt-Right scumbags, the Primrose League looks damn good right now.
