Guest Post by Patrick J.Buchanan
“Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.”
Donald Trump has internalized the maxim Benjamin Jowett gave to his students at Balliol who would soon be running the empire.
And in rejecting demands that he apologize for his remarks about the La Raza judge presiding over the class-action suit against Trump University, the Donald is instinctively correct
Assume, as we must, that Trump believes what he said.
Why, then, should he apologize for speaking the truth, as he sees it?
To do so would be to submit to extortion, to recant, to confess to a sin he does not believe he committed. It would be to capitulate to pressure, to tell a lie to stop the beating, to grovel before the Inquisition of Political Correctness.
Trump is cheered today because he defies the commands of political correctness, and, to the astonishment of enemies and admirers alike, he gets away with it.
To the establishment, Trump is thus a far greater menace than Bernie Sanders, who simply wants to push his soak-the-rich party a little further in the direction of Robin Hood and his Merry Men.
But Trump, with his defiant refusal to apologize for remarks about “rapists” among illegal immigrants from Mexico, and banning Muslims, is doing something far more significant.
He is hurling his “Non serviam!” in the face of the establishment. He is declaring: “I reject your moral authority. You have no right to sit in judgment of me. I will defy any moral sanction you impose, and get away with it. And my people will stand by me.”
Trump’s rebellion is not only against the Republican elite but against the establishment’s claim to define what is right and wrong, true and false, acceptable and unacceptable, in this republic.
Contrast Trump with Paul Ryan, who has buckled pathetically.
The speaker says Trump’s remark about Judge Gonzalo Curiel being hostile to him, probably because the judge is Mexican-American, is the “textbook definition of a racist comment.”
But Ryan’s remark raises fewer questions about Trump’s beliefs than it does about the depth of Ryan’s mind.
We have seen a former president of Mexico curse Trump. We have heard Mexican-American journalists and politicians savage him. We have watched Hispanic rioters burn the American flag and flaunt the Mexican flag outside Trump rallies.
We are told Trump “provoked” these folks, to such a degree they are not entirely to blame for their actions.
Yet the simple suggestion that a Mexican-American judge might also be affected is “the textbook definition of a racist comment”?
The most depressing aspect of this episode is to witness the Republican Party in full panic, trashing Trump to mollify the media who detest them.
To see how far the party has come, consider:
After he had locked up his nomination, Barry Goldwater rose on the floor of the Senate in June of 1964 and voted “No” on the Civil Rights Act. The senator believed that the federal government was usurping the power of the states. He could not countenance this, no matter how noble the cause.
Say what you will about him, Barry Goldwater would never be found among this cut-and-run crowd that is deserting Trump to appease an angry elite.
These Republicans seem to believe that, if or when Trump goes down, this whole unfortunate affair will be over, and they can go back to business as usual.
Sorry, but there is no going back.
The nationalist resistance to the invasion across our Southern border and the will to preserve the unique character of America are surging, and they have their counterparts all across Europe. People sense that the fate and future of the West are in the balance.
While Trump defies political correctness here, in Europe one can scarcely keep track of the anti-EU and anti-immigrant nationalist and separatist parties sprouting up from the Atlantic to the Urals.
Call it identity politics, call it tribalism, call it ethnonationalism; it and Islamism are the two most powerful forces on earth.
A decade ago, if one spoke other than derisively of parties like the National Front in France, the blacklisters would come around. Now, the establishments in the West are on the defensive — when they are not openly on the run.
The day of the Bilderberger is over.
Back to Jowett. When the British were serenely confident in the superiority of their tribe, faith, culture and civilization, they went out and conquered and ruled and remade the world, and for the better.
When they embraced the guilt-besotted liberalism that James Burnham called the “ideology of Western suicide,” it all came down.
The empire collapsed, the establishment burbled its endless apologies for how wicked it had been, and the great colonial powers of Europe threw open their borders to the peoples they had colonized, who are now coming to occupy and remake the mother countries.
But suddenly, to the shock of an establishment reconciled to its fate, populist resistance, call it Trumpism, seems everywhere to be rising.
“Back to Jowett. When the British were serenely confident in the superiority of their tribe, faith, culture and civilization, they went out and conquered and ruled and remade the world, and for the better.”
Bull Fuckin’ Shit. Pat just can’t restrain himself from saying something retarded in a column, no matter how much he gets it right up until the point he drags in his empire worship. He’s a typical republican.
Even with fairly good instincts in some areas, a republican will show that he worships power, sooner or later. It’s the main thing they have in common with the slimy democrats, who they pretend to despise.
Why should Trump apologize for being right?
The Left -those demanding an apology- never apologizes when they are demonstrably proven wrong.
Trump’s ability to stand up to those demanding apologies for what he believes and publicly states instead of kowtowing to them is what first attracted me to him, and I think that it true for many others. He doesn’t give in to the leftist bullies the way most Republicans do, especially when he is right.
People are getting tired of “conservative” leaders that do what the leftists wants instead of what their constituents want.
Just one related article from Breitbart today in support of his position: http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2016/06/09/whites-go-back-europe-california-hispanic-state-said-founder-judge-curiels-group/
Trump apologising: “I am sorry that spic judge is so corrupt”.
Llpoh,
“… and I am sorry all you fucking pussies are so easily offended by nothing.”
Even if you hate Ann Coulter, you might enjoy reading her June 8th column. She reminds us about the ongoing hysteria from the Left about the dreaded all-white juries and white judges who of course cannot be impartial.
Political Correctness in this country has exceeded critical mass and is now pissing off the masses.
Therefore, calling a spade a spade will, sooner than later, return to our culture to the betterment of all of us. I hope.
Trumps’ opinion of the judge is his own to issue and no apology is needed or desired.
MA
Anyone who doesn’t see British imperialism as an overall force for good in the world is an idiot. I can summon up a distain for the English as well as any other Irishman, but the fact remains that countries that were colonized by the Brits are largely better off than countries that hadn’t been colonized by the Brits. They bequeathed a rich common language, rule of law, English common law and a court system that is still the legal backbone of India, Nigeria, Kenya etc. Members of the Commonwealth are glad to be members. And with rare exceptions like the US, most of the countries demanding their independence were granted it without a struggle. Older citizens of former uk colonies remember British rule as the good old days.
Buchanan says the depth of Paul Ryan’s mind is in question. Not to me.
If 0bama was being sued, and the judge was a member of the KKK Lawyers Association (no connection to the KKK, really, trust us). would the media be calling 0bama a racist for asking the judge to recuse himself?
Or would the media be screaming for the judge to be lynched in the street by illegal aliens?