op ed review 11/20
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Trump ‘landing parties’ descend on Justice, State, Defense Departments this week.
Republicans
added to their historic 2014 gains in the nation’s state legislatures with the
addition of five state House chambers and two state Senate chambers in
last week’s election, while Democratic control was reduced to levels not seen
since the Civil War.
Rumors of Hillary Clinton Screaming
Obscenities and Throwing Objects in Election Night Meltdown
America great again:
dollar hits 14 year high
New Attorney General Jeff Sessions is Democrats' worst nightmare.
Liberals try to paint Sessions as a racist, but in Alabama,
he desegregated schools and destroyed the KKK.
Rule Change Pushed By Harry Reid Could Allow Trump To Get All
Of His Appointments Confirmed
Alan Dershowitz Defends Steve Bannon: ‘Not Legitimate To
Call Somebody An Anti-Semite Because You Disagree With Their Policies’
Donald Trump expected to slash Nasa´s climate change budget
in favor of sending humans back to the moon—and beyond.
Queen Elizabeth will invite U.S. President-elect Donald Trump
for a state visit to Britain next year to try to cement close ties between the
two countries,
A majority of Americans say they are now more confident in
President-elect Donald Trump after last Tuesday’s election, with respondents
largely divided based on whether they supported Mr. Trump or Democratic nominee
Hillary Clinton. Fifty-one percent said they are “more confident” in Mr. Trump,
compared to 40 percent who said less confident and 9 percent who said there was
no difference or they didn’t have an opinion.
DONALD Trump has already drafted plans on how he can build a
wall along the border with Mexico and bring about tougher immigration controls
for Muslims.
The latest controversy to go down with Starbucks might just
cause a spike in sales across the country. Protesters are ordering their coffee
using the name ´Trump´ so baristas will have to shout the last name of the
president-elect when their drink is ready. The protest is allegedly against
people ´discriminating against Republicans´ and was started by Trump supporter
and actor Scott Baio, according to Yahoo News.
Racing against the clock, Obama
sets new record for regulations, 527 pages in just one day...
Twitter suspended a number of accounts associated with the “alt-right”
movement, the same day the social media service said it would crack down on
hate speech.
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Victor Davis Hansen 11/15
Carpe Diem Mr. Trump
While
we speak, a jealous age will have fled. Seize the day! Trust as little as you
can in tomorrow. The Latin poet Horace’s advice of carpe diem— to seize the day
and not worry about tomorrow — should be Trump’s transitional guide. The
attacks on Trump won’t even wait until he takes office; they begin now, well
apart from rioting in the streets. And they will continue to be of several
types. Of the personal sort, expect more “investigative” reporting and
“speaking truth to power” op-eds about his tax returns, his supposed theft of
the election, his purported instigation of turbulence and mayhem, his
locker-room talks about women, his business conflicts of interests in office,
Trump University, and so on….
The
nexus of attack will not be a dramatic scandalous revelation — it will be
intended to induce bleeding from a thousand tiny nicks and cuts, all designed
to reduce his moral authority and thus his ability to ratchet back the
progressive decade. Another trope, as we are now witnessing, will be of the
hysterical policy brand: Trump will cook the planet, put y’all back in chains,
conduct war on women, traumatize students, destroy dreamers — all the
boilerplate extremism designed to put Trump on the defensive so that he will
settle for half an agenda and “reach out” to cement his respectability as a
“listener” before the court of D.C. fixtures, the campuses, the foundations,
the think tanks, the media, the social circles of Silicon Valley and Wall
Street.
The
Siren strategy of the Left will also be to point out that his future is already
destabilizing America — Trump must therefore reach out right now to the
“disaffected” in the streets who are “hurting.” Thereby, he will “heal” the
nation, if only he backs off from “right-wing” and “extremist” ideas of selling
coal overseas or building a wall and taxing billions of dollars in remittance
from illegal aliens to pay for it. In extremis, the Left will call on its Never
Trump counterparts of like class to convince Trump to play by the accustomed
Washington rules of decorum and judicious discourse. In carrot-and-stick
fashion, they might even begin to talk of Trump’s “surprising flexibility” or
his “unexpected reasonableness” in hopes of watering down his agenda and
leaving him addicted to more backhanded praises from the cultural elite. Also
expect to hear in the next 90 days that the idea of executive orders (of the
Obama type) are in retrospect dangerous to the republic and destabilizing.
Filibusters will again become essential, and as hallowed a Senate tradition as
Harry Reid’s nuclear option will now be denounced as disruptive and nihilistic.
We
will hear that the Supreme Court, after some rethinking, actually works just
fine with eight justices for a while. Court nominations will be smeared as
extremists and nuts. Frequent Trump press conferences with plenty of back and
forth will be demanded as essential to the republic, as will be interviews with
opposition networks such as MSNBC or CNN…... If need be, Trump will be trashed
as a golf-course junkie, decked out in bright-colored leisure clothes befitting
his plutocratic and detached status.
Adamant
Never Trumpers on the right will suddenly offer all sorts of unsolicited advice
to go slowly and bring into the administration failed candidates who opposed
Trump, hoping that Trump in time can become their John McCain or Mitt Romney.
The “correct” and culturally respectable conservative position is now to have
been actively opposed to the monstrous Trump, then to become pleasantly
surprised at the win that was supposedly impossible and certainly unwelcomed,
then to expand on the rare and unheard-of possibilities of the unexpected
conservative moment, and finally (and reluctantly) to offer a list of
appointments and agendas that demonstrate a willingness to descend to advise
the uncouth and the inexperienced and thereby to save them from themselves.
So
amid this strange jubilation, the shelf life of the Trump populist moment is
really quite limited. There are even now, suddenly, calls for magnanimity of
the sort quite foreign to Obama in 2009 (“elections have consequences,” “I
won”) that should be summarily dismissed.
Churchillian
magnanimity is impossible without victory first. Putting thousands of coal
miners back to work is a good first priority; expressing some sympathy for the
concerns of the defeated Left that does not believe in “clean coal” is an
understandable but post facto gesture. Building a wall and immediately
deporting aliens convicted of crimes are necessities; suggesting that in some
cases this could be temporarily hurtful to some is magnanimity. If in the first
100 days Trump can push through tax reform, deregulation, Keystone, clean coal,
new leases for fracking and horizontal drilling on federal lands, an end to the
crony-capitalist Solyndra-like subsidies, a cut-off of federal aid to sanctuary
cities, support for school vouchers, the wall, deportations of those illegal
aliens who committed crimes or have no work history, plans to rebuild the
military, a freeze on federal hiring, trade renegotiations — then surprising
things will follow.
Success
in getting these initiatives passed will be proof of strong-horse leadership.
And even Trump’s critics will for a while defer to his power, both in private
admiration that he did what they could not, and in public out of fear that he
might do even more — and, again oddly enough, also in mordant curiosity about
whether the Trump agenda might in fact jump-start America…
In
any natural disaster, Trump should arrive in mediis rebus and wade into the
mud, with suit and tie; anything less will be a Katrina crime against the
other. Visit the inner city as often as possible; the African-American
community is ready for political change predicated on authentic economic
concern and action. If Trump can craft policies that see economic growth exceed
3–4 percent and bring back jobs, he will win over 40 percent of blacks and 50
percent of Hispanics, redefining the electoral map, and replacing Obama’s
divisive racial pandering with commonalities of class that trump racial
differences.
The
Democratic establishment hates him because he won over their fleeing working
classes and took too high a number of minorities; the Republican elite hates
him, too, because by becoming heterodox, he could make them somewhat irrelevant
— even as he helps them electorally. So Trump should phrase all policy agendas
in terms of helping the working classes of all backgrounds, and he should
oppose leftist pushback on grounds that progressive elites are the selfish ones
who want to extend their own WikiLeaks values, privilege, and boutique green
agendas that have proved so destructive to ordinary people.
Trump
should forgive the Never Trumpers but not quite forget their distaste for him.
If he is successful and popular, some will bring their formidable powers of
support to his shared agenda, as we are already witnessing. But when his
popularity dips below 40 percent (and it will at times), and he tweets out
politically incorrect exasperations, many will revert to form, reminding us why
they opposed his apostate candidacy in the first place. But for now, all
conservative-minded are giddy at the very idea of a conservative court,
Congress, presidency, state legislatures and governorships, and federal
appointees. They are even offering advice about their preferences for cabinet
appointments, without much worry that had Trump’s conservative critics been
successful, we would now be witnessing a Democratic Senate, a liberal Supreme
Court for the next 30 years, and eight years of Obamism squared.
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“When voters practice their faith, it hurts the liberal
cause. Now, imagine an unmarried 22-year-old, who lives in a city, works
part-time making $20,000 per year, and has not gone to a religious service in
four years. How would that person be likely to vote? Suppose, then, this same
person gets married, starts working full-time and overtime, earns more than
$50,000 per year, buys a home in the suburbs, and regularly attends religious
services with the spouse and children. How would this person be likely to vote
then? But what if this person followed another path? They married and then
divorced, decided it was not worth it working full-time, went on food stamps
and never went to church. The ultimate question is not how a person will vote,
but what will give them a fulfilling life. It is not what persons will hold
political office in United States of America, but what values will keep us free
and prosperous. The same values that made this nation great can unite this
nation again. They are family, faith, hard work and the desire to live a long
and good life without government standing in your way.”
-Terrence
Jeffrey
“Appropriately enough, the new virtue signals of
tantrum-throwing young leftists stirring up trouble are safety pins — to show
‘solidarity’ with groups supposedly endangered by Donald Trump. Safety pins are
also handy — for holding up the government-manufactured diapers in which too
many overgrown dependents are swaddled.”
-Michelle
Malkin
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LEFTIST WATCH
New York’s Most Liberal Congressman Lays Out Roadmap for
‘How We Resist Trump’
Millions are petitioning the Electoral College to make
Hillary Clinton president here´s why that probably won´t happen.
Democrats Call for Boycott on Black-Owned Business After
Chef Caters Trump Event
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ARTICLES
´The Data Doesn´t Lie´: Trump´s Digital Guru Explains How
They Won the Election
Democrats Are Losing the Culture Wars
The
myth of Hillary Clinton’s competence
The Obama Coalition Falls Apart
The mainstream media (MSM) are right. There is a political
party today that has racism as a core value and is working incessantly to keep
blacks down. It´s the Democratic Party.
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NOTEWORTHY WEBSITES
New York Times grudgingly made this
map: “Two Americas”, Clinton 15%, Trump
85%
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WISE WORDS
“The same prudence which in private life would forbid our
paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation
of the public moneys.”
-Thomas
Jefferson
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