Ithought love trumps hate.
That’s what I’ve been led to believe by an effusion of t-shirts, bumper
stickers, and social media postings from the self-styled anti-Trump
Resistance™. As my friend Roger
Kimball likes to say, there really is nothing like the
intoxication of moral superiority.
The syrupy
slogans promulgated by the ruling class, ruling class wannabes, and fellow
travelers on the Left aren’t fooling anyone, not even, I would guess, the
people who say, wear, and post them. Truth is, they really don’t like the rest
of us. No problem, we have our own lives and families. But it’s only not a
problem until such disdain is combined with a sense of political entitlement
and the coercive power of government.
Which
brings us to the political and cultural union of the Democratic Party and the
permanent political class called the deep state, that forms the unelected,
unaccountable fourth branch of government that wields so much power up to and
including the police power of the FBI.
In private
texts recently made public, FBI “super-agent” Peter Strzok and his mistress,
FBI lawyer Lisa Page, were quite candid. Their open disdain for a wide variety
for groups including Italians, Russians, Romanians, gypsies, Virginians,
Texans, and pro-lifers should surprise no one. The leaders of their party have
been saying the same thing in public for years.
Here is one
telling exchange between the star-crossed lovers:
“Guccifer. Sleazy
Romanian…,” Strzok wrote.
“They ALL
are,” Page responded.
“Funny to
watch and think of [redacted]. No wonder he’s a brusque as he is…and those
Romanians aren’t even the gypsies…” Strzok shot back.
“Seriously,
I kind of hate them. (I’m sure [redacted] fine). But they have the
crookedness of the Russianswith the entitledness of the Italians.
Yuck,” Page answered.
In a
separate exchange, Page goes after Russians—all of them—again: “…hate them.
l think they’re probably the worst. Very little I find redeeming about this.
Even in history. Couple of good writers and artists I guess.”
“Probably
the worst?” Even worse than those entitled Italians and sleazy Romanians? I
guess that means no Tchaikovsky or Rimsky-Korsakov on her playlist.
But it’s
not just foreigners. It turns out, they’re not terribly fond of Americans
either. Virginians and Texans come in for particular scorn because, well, you
know, it’s always open season on rural America and the South. Virginia and
Texas must seem like a twofer.
When Jill
McCabe (D-Va.), wife of former Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe, lost a
race for the Virginia state senate after taking nearly $700,000 from the
Clintons and their allies, Strzok let loose on his neighbors and
countrymen.“Disappointing, but look at the district map,” he texted.“Loudoun is
being gentrified, but it’s still largely ignorant hillbillys (sic). Good for
her for running, but curious if she’s energized or never again.”
I’d guess
that the “ignorant” voters of Loudoun County probably realize that the slur he
was reaching for is spelled “hillbillies” and not “hillbillys.” Strzok can
remember it in the future because it’s the same construction used in other
words, like “adulteries” and “felonies.”
He had a
few words for the Lone Star State too. “And while i (sic) hate Trump, part of
me thought (redacted) would not/may not get into (redacted) because they’re
white and not from buttf*ck Texas…”
How about
the hundreds of thousands of people from all parts of the country and all walks
of life attending the annual March for Life? Page isn’t a fan of them either:
“I truly hate these people. No support for the woman who actually has to spend
the rest of her life rearing this child, but we are about ‘life.’ Assholes.”
In Page’s
world, “life” comes with scare quotes and consists of adultery with a
co-worker, leaking classified information to the press, using federal police
power to rig presidential elections, and spewing venom at virtually everyone
outside of her social and professional circle. What a life.
Maybe Page
and Strzok are outliers. Maybe they were just venting private frustrations with
a lover. Maybe. But the public statements of the leaders of their own party,
the people they admire, who Page called the “very impressive” (the Obamas) and
the woman who deserves to win “100,000,000-0” (Clinton) are even worse.
The Strzoks
and Pages, the Clintons and Obamas have all made it abundantly clear that they
don’t like the America they see around them. They don’t like where it came from
or the people who live here. The ruling class makes no secret of it: they hate
you.
In 2008,
Barack Obama derided people from rural America: “You go into some of these
small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the
jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell
through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each
successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna
regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter,
they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or
anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their
frustrations.”
Hillary
Clinton’s campaign chief, John Podesta was part of a thread of anti-Catholic
emails with activist Sanford Newman: “There needs to be a Catholic Spring,
in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and
the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the
Catholic church.”
And, of
course, there was Hillary’s open contempt for the Deplorables.
“You know,
to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into
what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?” Clinton said. “The racist,
sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic—you name it. And unfortunately,
there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.”
If that’s
not enough, compare the slogans of the Left to their candid public and private
statements.
The
Rhetoric
Love trumps
hate.
Hope and change.
“Hate is not a family value.”
Tolerance.
Diversity
Coexist
Hope and change.
“Hate is not a family value.”
Tolerance.
Diversity
Coexist
The Reality
Sleazy
Entitled
“Buttf*** Texas”
Hillbillies
Bitter clingers
Deplorables
Irredeemable
Entitled
“Buttf*** Texas”
Hillbillies
Bitter clingers
Deplorables
Irredeemable
The sense
of entitlement and open disdain of this country’s counterfeit elites is dangerous. Early in
the Obama Administration, it led to weaponizing the IRS against political
rivals. That manifest wrong was never punished and it emboldened ruling class
Democrats in the FBI to lie to the FISA court so they could spy on the Trump
campaign for the benefit of Hillary Clinton.
The
unfolding political corruption is just the public manifestation of a deeper
social and political crisis that strikes at the heart of our ability to
maintain a system of constitutional self-government. George Washington
addressed his countrymen as “friends and citizens” in his Farewell Address. The
ruling class doesn’t want that. They don’t want citizens, much less friends.
They want subjects.
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