To paraphrase the answer of Conan the Barbarian—the original MAGA voter—to the question, what is best in life? “To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women on The View.”
Or you can also wallow in a warm schadenfreudey bath with The Nation magazine. Over at The Nation, Jeet Heer—who sounds like a stock character name for a Fleet Street lefty right out of P.G. Wodehouse—is jeering the Democratic Party establishment for their manifold failure to run Kamala as an openly hard-left progressive. Do please listen to Jeet’s jeering, Democrats!
But toward the end of Heer’s article is this remarkable paragraph:
The key to understanding the Trump era is that the real divide in America is not between left and right but between pro-system and anti-system politics. Pro-system politics is the bipartisan consensus of establishment Democrats and Republicans: It’s the politics of NATO and other military alliances, of trade agreements, and of deference to economists (as when they say that price gouging isn’t the cause of inflation). Trump stands for no fixed ideology but rather a general thumbing of the nose at this consensus.
I can hardly think of a better and more succinct statement of why Trump became necessary, and why he won. I’m starting to wonder if Jeet Heer is a secret double-agent inside The Nation, given this ringing endorsement of Trump.
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