What Donald Trump is
saying is both:
- true
and/or a real-world response to extreme conditions and at the same time
is;
- scandalous.
How can this be? What is
missing here?
Liberal pieties.
What Trump is traducing is not the truth, but liberal pieties. But that
means that liberal pieties, the “truths” of liberalism, are not literally true!
They are untruths.
Why is this? Because liberalism is not built on the world the way that it
is, but the way liberals think it should be. This is why all their programs
fail, and all their “facts” are wrong, and this is why liberals go around
looking as if they have just bitten down on a lemon. They are constantly being
insulted by, being surprised by, being taken aback by…reality. They build
papier-mâché worlds, but the truth keeps crashing through their walls.
In order to
maintain their inflated self-regard, something other than themselves must be to
blame. Who? The truth-tellers……
Since liberals control the vocabulary and the terms of debate in the public space, it takes both courage and skill to tell the truth in it. Donald Trump is the first one to do this since Reagan (and he is stronger than Reagan in this regard because we are much further gone as a society now than we were in 1980).
For the last 50 years, liberals have been the challengers. Now they are in
charge. And we see how civilization collapses when that happens -- in national
defense, in immigration, in the cities, in the universities, in public
education. This is the first election in which liberals are not challenging,
they are defending. They have made the long march through the institutions and
now that they are in charge, are leaving in ruins the country first of all, but
also themselves.
Trump is calling
them on it and they don’t like it. More to the point, they don’t understand it.
Donald Trump is challenging the liberal world. He is pointing out its failures.
Trump is in the position of Harry Truman: he isn’t giving the liberals hell, he
is telling the truth and they think it’s hell………
Liberalism can liquidate a society; it cannot build one. We are now at
the end of liberalism in America. Liberals have the commanding heights of most
of our major institutions and they are consequently in the early stages of
collapse.
Donald Trump is
running instinctively against the failures, the disasters of liberalism issue
by issue as they arise. That is the drama of this election.
Thrilling times.
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