====== WSJ 11/19/2016 By Peggy Noonan Eight points and two anecdotes as we continue to digest this astounding election. You don’t know a tree is hollow until you push hard against it and it falls. The establishments of both parties did not know, a year ago, that they were hollow trees. They thought themselves strong because they always had been, and people think... Read more
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What to Tell Your Children About Trump
November 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Noonan, TrumpSteve Bannon on Politics as War
November 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, The Right, TrumpThis article might be a misinformed as all the other stories about Mr. Bannon, or it might not be. ========== WSJ 11/19/2016 By Kimberley Strassel It’s hard to think of Steve Bannon as a low-profile guy. He has garnered about as many headlines over the past week as Donald Trump—no small feat. He is the executive chairman of the hard-right Breitbart News, among... Read more
What Comes After the Uprising
November 15 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Noonan, TrumpWhat, indeed… ============= WSJ 11/12/2016 Sometimes there comes a crack in Time itself. Sometimes the earth is torn by something blind. . . . Call it the mores, call it God or Fate . . . That force exists and moves. And when it moves It will employ a hard and actual stone To batter into bits an actual wall And change the... Read more
Trump Voters
November 15 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, TrumpAlec MacGillis writing on Trump voters Nov. 10 at ProPublica.org : What they shared were three things. They lived in places that were in decline, and had been for some time. They lacked strong attachment to either party at a time when, even within a single metro area like Dayton [Ohio], the parties had sorted themselves into ideological, geographically disparate... Read more
Trumping the Elites,
November 15 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Trump==== WSJ 11/10/2016 The map tells all. Clinton won by large margins in the Northeast and on the West Coast, and in states—Colorado, New Mexico, and Nevada— where Trump’s intemperate comments roused Latino voters. But outside of Illinois, a whole swath of the country, from the hills of Appalachia to the fringes of the Rockies, went solidly for Trump. Why would that... Read more
The Cheap Moralizing of Never Trump
October 18 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Hillary Clinton, Republican(s), TrumpSurely, you won’t…? ========= Three weeks out from Election Day, the Never Trump argument has been neatly summed up by Bill Maher. Not only is Donald Trump coarse and boorish, anyone who supports the man is as revolting as he is. On his show last month, Mr. Maher put it this way to Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway: “You are enabling pure evil.”... Read more
