Burn of the Day
- 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.
I do wonder what’s going on in the mind of William Kristol, who is, as we speak, 70 years old. Was it all a hustle for him for 30 years?
Nothing says ‘securing our financial system’ like March 2021 printing $2 trillion MORE [already printed about $4 trillion from March 2020] dollars and flooding the economy with it; and the politicized Fed buying a lot of the debt and keeping rates supernaturally low for at least a year too long and so generating devastating inflation forcing the selfame Fed to outrageously raise rates from 0% to 4.5% crashing/driving down longer-term debt securities market values. [When market rates rise bond prices drop]. I could go on all morning . . .
Of course, yesterday Biden’s radical, commie handlers bailed some of out their billionaire/multi-millionaire donors and election riggers who are not affected by $6 a gallon home heating oil and $6 a dozen eggs,
Kristol is what is wrong with the right wing. He is a warmongering neocon and scam artist. Follow the money. Who are his paymasters?
Someone should remind Kristol that we are a republic, not a democracy. And there isn’t much securing of the financial system when Biden and his family are taking foreign government bribes.
He’s a reminder that some men cannot live up to the example of their fathers. He is not the intellectual equivalent of his father, is painfully clear in his autumn years.
Was it always a hustle? Probably not, but it is clear principle was tertiary to ego and visibility for him. He has his reward.
Kristol is a twit.
His father was very adept at securing grant money to keep his publications in print and getting ideas into circulation. He was also a man of integrity who could learn by observing the world around him. I don’t know that the son lacks his father’s intellect (though he does not have his mother’s scholarly accomplishment). The father was a man who midwived discussions of policy and social conditions. He had party preferences (Democratic up to 1972 or thereabouts, Republican thereafter), but I suspect you’d have to scrounge his oeuvre to find much discussion of particular politicians and particular dogfights. The blogger Neo-Neocon, who is acquainted with Kristol personally and contributed pieces to The Weekly Standard on occasion is baffled by his perigrinations over the last seven or eight years. He and his deputies managed to destroy his publication, whose patrons had no interest in financing its deficits while its circulation collapsed.
The idea that we have a justice department that serves law or a voting system that serves democracy is a polite fiction. No one on either side believes it, though it is often rhetorically convenient to pretend as though they believe it.