Trump’s historic function was to rip veils down and reveal to Americans the corruption and rot of many institutions and individuals. For conservatives the experience exposed how many of their leaders and writers had nothing but contempt for them and the causes they supposedly championed. There is no going back from such a dose of bitter truths.
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- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Wish I could get a refund of all the subscription money I gave to Conservative, Inc. for all those years until the masks came off in 2016.
…. on one hand, yes, “just because it worked doesn’t mean it wasn’t stupid” is true.
On the other, Mr. “hey I have a great idea, let’s steal water rights and redistribute them based on what I think is a good idea, while I demonstrate that I have no grasp of things like demand, storage, or seasonal variations” is rather unlikely to be applying it in a sensible manner.
Mr. Williamson wouldn’t be stewing over this at this juncture if his vanity were not more important to him than his book of business. Marvin Olasky has never been reconciled to Trump, but he has a magazine to run with an abiding editorial mission and shows no evidence of taking an interest in what Acela corridor journalists think of him.
In other news, George W Bush remains silent.
William F. Buckley is spinning in his grave.
I bet the morons think the 2020 elections were legitimate, too.
Art, That a$$hole Dubya [Medicare Part D; no child left behind; the unjust, unnecessary 2003 Iraq invasion, etc.] was the least conservative among the RINOs for whom we were gulled into voting.
I stopped subscribing to them [NR] arrogant a$$holes 30 years ago.
BTW. I’m not a lawyer or Constitutional scholar. However, looking at the 1973 Roe decision I can only conclude that it was not based on anything to be found in the US Constitution or US and state law or case precedent or anything nonfictional. But, it was fabricated on the basis of a huge, steaming pile of logical fallacies [read bu!!shit]. Sadly, many more such novel, judicial diktats, e.g., gay ‘marriage’ are similarly based in fabulous fictions.
I don’t waste my time. But if I am cornered, I only respond to the baby murderers with, “Abortion is murder.” And, to the double-gated, “Gay marriage is an oxymoron.”
The hardest parts of Election DAY 2020 were the 90 days before and 60 days after they needed to fabricate enough fraudulent votes to dump Trump, and destroy the evidence.
I mean he’s not totally wrong. Trump was an accidental ally of the pro life movement. He appointed good judges mainly because it was an issue he didn’t care about and so was happy to let the Federalist Society do the picking for him. I will give Trump credit for carrying out those picks, but Mitch McConnell is the true political hero of this outcome.
I will give Trump credit for carrying out those picks, but Mitch McConnell is the true political hero of this outcome.
He arranged for the Judiciary Committee to take a long lunch when BO nominated the odious Garland for Antonin Scalia’s seat. He also behaved out of character and did not undermine the Kavanaugh nomination when it got rough. What he did working the phones in re the troublemakers in the Republican caucus (Flake, Murkowski, Collins) we haven’t a clue. So, in one case, he does what anyone of sense would have done in his position and abstains. In another, we’re not quite sure what he did other than not get in the way. Prudent, perhaps. Heroic?
Kinda funny how Trump doesn’t care and yet something salutary occurs after nothing salutary had occurred in the previous 50 years. The court that gave you the Casey decision had just one Democratic appointee on it, and he was a dissenter in that case.
Throughout my entire life establishment Republicans have told me that I need to hold my nose and vote for whomever they chose for president. The reasoning being that overturning Roe v. Wade is more important than anything else, and hence having a Republican president who will appoint Supreme Court justices is more important than anything else.
When Trump ran the same line was used against him in the primaries: it’s too important to have a “proper” Republican in office because of justice appointments. But when he won the nomination suddenly keeping Trump out of the White House became more important than letting Hillary appoint those justices (though we were assured that Trump wouldn’t make good picks anyway.) Even after Trump made picks along the lines that any conservative president would, the now Nevertrumpers told us that it didn’t matter, since Roe v. Wade would never be overturned anyway. Now that it has been overturned they are all either pretending that Trump had nothing to do with it, minimizing the issue (it “only” sends the issue back to the states!) or in some cases even supporting Roe v. Wade outright (as McMullin, the National Review crowd’s darling, has done.)
The establishment republicans were Lucy with the football when it came to abortion. It suited their purposes to always have the key victory be juuuuuust after the next election. But to the surprise of everyone Trump had a legitimate change of heart, and actually wanted to see abortion outlawed. Not that he did it completely alone, but it’s rather striking to see what can be done when the republican in charge is actually sincere in his beliefs.
But to be fair, the decision has ripped the mask off the left even moreso than the cowards on the right. Suddenly there’s very little talk about “no one wants an abortion, but we should have them be safe, legal and rare for the few women who need them.” Lots of lefties openly talking about needing to kill babies. Similarly I’ve heard the n-word slur used against Thomas in the last few days more than I think I have heard against any figure in my entire life. Even the projection is more revealing than usual; it seems like everyone on the left is using some variation of “you Republicans haven’t yet considered that without abortion, lots more black people will be born!”
Psul Zummo you must know Donald Trump very well. Amazing insight.
George P. Bush, Jeb Bush, and Liz Cheney have all weighed in with congenial remarks.
Paul Zummo, Trump was the first sitting president to appear in person at the March for Life. We should never forget that he was willing to spend political capital on this issue.