A Swarming of NRO Cucks on Twitter

I spent a couple of hours today fighting with "cuckservatives" on Twitter.  It seems there is an infestation there of NRO cucks, i.e. "conservatives" who are never-Trumpers and feel the need to constantly undermine the President.

The NRO types are rigidly ideological, that is, they will not amend their political strategy to meet current situations, opportunities and dangers.  They are still pissed off that Trump defeated their favorite candidates, be it Ted Cruz or someone else.  The fight started when some young woman called "Mo Mo" labeled Trump a "buffoon."  I objected to this appellation and the fight was on.

Most of it was just trading personal insults, and I am better at that than young punks, having had years of practice.  However, the crux of my real argument is this:  if you are undermining Trump you are helping the Democrats.  We do not have a choice, at this point in time, of an ideologically pure candidate vs an imperfect one; that boat has sailed.  We have only Trump, and the alternative is a Democrat like Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Wasrren or Tim Kaine.  Debating Trump's qualifications at this point accomplishes nothing -- he is the President.

What we have to do is to keep the Congress and the Senate, and hope Trump will be able to implement most of his agenda.  The NRO Cuckservatives are too adolescent to realize this and to act on it.  We must deal with reality and shape it, as much as possible, to accomplish our ends.

Has America Passed the Point of No Return? Have Progressives Finally Won the Future?

John Hinderaker at Powerline has a rather sobering post today:  Why Is This Election Close?

John believes that the country may have passed a point of no return.  He writes:

On paper, given Obama’s record, this election should be a cakewalk for the Republicans. Why isn’t it? I am afraid the answer may be that the country is closer to the point of no return than most of us believed. With over 100 million Americans receiving federal welfare benefits, millions more going on Social Security disability, and many millions on top of that living on entitlement programs–not to mention enormous numbers of public employees–we may have gotten to the point where the government economy is more important, in the short term, than the real economy. My father, the least cynical of men, used to quote a political philosopher to the effect that democracy will work until people figure out they can vote themselves money. I fear that time may have come.

Hinderaker quotes Andy McCarthy at National Review, who implicitly believes that the Gramsci vision has been realized, that the "long march through the institutions" has been accomplished, and that a large part of our country's culture and institutions, namely the media and academia, are in the firm control of the Left.  What's worse, is that the Republican establishment cannot fight them because it has accepted the Progressive framework, not arguing for its abolishment, but only that it be better executed.  McCarthy writes:

It has always been possible to run against elite opinion and win — if you make a compelling counter-case...Today’s Republicans do not. Indeed, they cannot, because they have accepted the progressive framework. Their argument is not that the welfare state, deficit spending, federalized education, sharia-democracy promotion, and the rest are bad policies. Their argument is not that Washington needs to be dramatically downsized. It is that progressive governance is fine but needs to be better executed.

My friend Lawrence Auster at View From the Right has long argued the same thing -- that the Republican establishment seeks a slightly different approach to liberalism, but not its defeat.  This is a very pessimistic view, but no doubt it contains a lot of truth.

If we do indeed lose the nation to another four years of progressive destruction, it may be time to consider some radical alternatives, e.g. a new political party, state nullification of unconstitutional laws, and even secession.

Read Hinderaker's article here.

Read McCarthy's article here.

Must-Read Article on NRO: "I Still Hate You, Sarah Palin"

David Kahane assumes the viewpoint of a leftist in his article, "We Still Hate You, Sarah Palin," posted at National Review Online.

He writes:

Not only were we offended at the sheer effrontery of McCain’s pick: How dare the Republicans proffer this déclassée piece of Wasilla trailer trash whose only claim to fame was that she didn’t exercise her right to choose?

And so the word went out, from that time and place: Eviscerate Sarah Palin like one of her field-dressed moose. Turn her life upside down. Attack her politics, her background, her educational history. Attack her family. Make fun of her husband, her children.

Read the whole thing.

Mark Belling, filling in for Rush Limbaugh today, read the whole thing on the air. Belling is a good man. He asserts that we as Republicans must stop being fatally nice and start fighting back.