Guest Post by Ann Coulter
Today we’ll talk about how to write the classic New York Times column, using Thomas Edsall’s recent “Trumpism Without Borders” as our example. It must have taken him about 40 minutes to write it.
Edsall blames the populist movements sweeping the globe on the same ills that “led to a right-wing takeover of the federal government by Donald Trump.” To wit: “anti-immigrant fervor, political tribalism, racism, ethnic tension, authoritarianism and inequality.” Fascism awaits us unless we keep importing low-skilled immigrants and shipping jobs abroad!
For someone worried about the erosion of “democratic norms,” maybe Edsall shouldn’t be referring to the outcome of a free and fair U.S. presidential election as a “right-wing takeover of the federal government.” We had an election, pal.
But ever since the 2016 election, there’s been a frisson of viciousness to the elites’ usual contempt for ordinary Americans. Never mind that Trump ended up betraying his voters. The establishment is appalled that the issues he ran on were popular. Five years later, they still sputter in rage, unable to comprehend why Jeb or Hillary didn’t end up in the White House.
To explain this calamity, Edsall rolls out all the Timesian cliches about losers being upset about losing. He calls this the “ubiquity of loss,” as if we’re talking about a natural phenomenon, like beach erosion.
Trump voters, he says, are people who are angry about:
— their inability to achieve “a standard of living as high as that of their parents,”
— “the decline of the gender pay gap … and other types of loss relative to women,” and
— losing “employment and earnings to China and other countries.”
Edsall acts as if these things are immutable laws of physics. Actually, they result from the deliberate policy choices of our ruling class to benefit some Americans to the detriment of others.
Specific policy decisions were made to import an endless stream of low-skilled workers. Employers got boatloads of cheap labor, while ordinary Americans saw their wages plummet.
Oh, and if we’re pretending to care about “democratic norms,” Americans have voted for less immigration over and over and over again. If anyone in the establishment gives a crap about “democratic norms,” then why do they keep foisting more immigration on us?
Specific policy decisions were made to explicitly discriminate against white men in order to give jobs to women, simply because they were women.
I give you Kamala Harris (Biden’s one job requirement for his VP: must be a woman of color); every police chief in the nation (save a couple of black men); and Kara Hultgreen (who died when she crashed a $38 million F-14 after being continuously promoted despite repeated training failures, because the Navy wanted a female fighter pilot).
What crybabies! These guys resent losing jobs because of abject discrimination against them. Koo-koo! Koo-koo!
Specific policy decisions were made to gut our country’s manufacturing base. Globalist bankers got rich, and the working class got the shaft.
The destruction of American manufacturing wasn’t, as Edsall claims, a consequence of “trade.” (Who’s buying our stuff?) International agreements forcing Americans to compete with dollar-an-hour third worlders were a gift to Big Business and Wall Street. They get a larger share of a much smaller pie. Sure, our country overall will make $30, instead of $100. But the 1 percent will get $29 instead of $20!
We don’t need Thomas Edsall to psychoanalyze Trump voters in order to understand what happened in 2016. We were at DEFCON 1 as a nation. (And thanks to Trump’s betrayal, we still are.)
After 20 years, people began to notice: The elites really do hate us. They really are going to ship our jobs abroad. They really are going to replace us with cheap foreign labor. They really are going to let in hordes of illegals. They really are going to bail out Wall Street and preserve their sleazy tax loopholes.
Faced with a choice between the toxic left and country club Republicans, when a complete psychotic came down the escalator, people thought, He might just mean it! (That was a miscalculation.)
The elites screw over ordinary Americans, then to salve their consciences, they call the poor saps “racists.” They get to maintain a system that benefits only them — and at the same time feel morally superior to the people whose lives they’ve ruined. It’s win-win all around!
Americans don’t care about “the gender pay gap,” climate change or international institutions. They deserve what’s coming to them!
Love,
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People like Edsall are totally lacking imagination. Don’t these fools realize that across this vast country there are hundreds, probably tens of thousands, who are carefully noting their names and crimes against the American people? Do they think they are safe in New York? Do they imagine they will fly off to Paris in private jet when the crunch comes? It will take a while to get around to rounding up the bottom feeders like Edsall. After all, we have so many big names to corral. But get to them we will. And they won’t be calling up their lawyers, either. Any shyster stupid enough to respond will join them, hog-tied and gagged.
Folks, this is not going to be pretty and once the ball gets rolling pity, mercy an d “The Law” will go out the window. The self-proclaimed “elite” hates us? They will soon learn what real hate is.
SS – you are optimistic, and it is generally a good trait. But get to them I expect you/ we will not. That opportunity has passed. The momentum is against it. The demographics are against it.
Yes, the current system will fail. But I seriously there will be patriots riding in over the hill to save the Constitution. My guess is that there will be a long period, perhaps even a dark age, where there is no cohesive plan, and what remains of the US flounders along. Without a plan, without a Washington, a Jefferson, a Franklin that can pull the people together toward a common goal, it will be just an uprising. The Arab Spring is an example of how that goes. There will be rage, but if there is no plan, what comes after the rage is most uncertain.
It would require more forethought than most are willing to employ (or even to comprehend). You couldn’t search their whereabouts from your own internet devices. You would have to move without your tracking device (phone). You would have to stymie facial recognition technology. You would have to travel in an older vehicle not decked out with an internal computer, by bicycle or public transportation while avoiding all electronic purchases (credit cards, debit cards, cash apps), using only cash without leaving your DNA behind. You would have to plan all of this without conferring with any confederate(s). Some – but not all – of these extreme measures might be skipped if you were willing to consider it a suicide mission, but your family would be subject to retribution. No one bumps into Mark Zuckerberg or Jack Dorsey at the gas station.
Yesterday your name was Tangle today it’s Charles but your still a Fed troll trying to incite violence or lure us into participating.
Walk up to them? Yeah, ok. You will never have access to these people. There are those on the top rung that you will never know the name much less what they look like. Not like walking up to your local mayor to “double!e.tap” them. You would be dead before your finger hits the trigger.
A lot of Tyrants thought they were safe too.
Bill Gates, Soros … no one can get close to those guys. Eliminate one of their politicians and they’ll just buy another one.
This coming from a proud retired career CIA employee. The worlds largest drug Cartel, Murder Inc., and Regime Change Corp. conglomerate with branches in every “Five Eyes” Embassy on the planet.
Well alrighty then.
Nice try, pal. But there’s no such thing as a “retired” career CIA employee.
If you mean once a spook always a spook then that’s correct.
And that is how it is done. Every single rabbit hole ends like this, and yet still “reasonable and temperate people” shake their heads at us “crazy jew haters” and this is a reasonable explanation to them.
Q.E.D., indeed.
I am having trouble remembering when I had to. You can even identify them by their rhetoric, often. That is how insular they really are.
Your NYT is owned by a Lebanese Christian Arab/Mexican billionaire. Carlos (Salim) Slim.
The richest man in Latin America and a full fledged member of the NWO his parents were allegedly from Lebanon but came with a fully equipped printing press in the late eighteen hundreds.
2. His parents launched one of the first Arabic-language magazines for the Lebanese-Mexican Community.
Slim’s maternal grandparents immigrated to Mexico from Lebanon in the late 19th century. They didn’t pack light. In fact, they brought their own printing press to launch the magazine. Entrepreneurialism is certainly in his blood.
3. He began investing at a rather young age.
Carlos Slim and his siblings began learning about business as children from their enterprising father. When he was only 12 years old, Slim bought shares in a Mexican bank. Clearly, the phrase “it’s never too early” was an important family philosophy.
4. Privatization and monopolization — plus some help from the government — are driving forces behind Slim’s success.
In 1990, Slim worked with France Télécom and Southwestern Bell to buy and privatize the telephone company Telmex (NYSE: TMX), which was owned by the Mexican government. The company operates the majority of Mexican landlines. One of his other companies, America Movil (NYSE: AMX), is Latin America’s largest mobile phone
company, serving more than 150 million customers in 11 countries.
A Crypto by another name is a Crypto still the same.
Non Jews do not get to buy the NYT. You can put a pretty dress on it if you want but us truth tellers are pissed off and we aren’t putting up with the whitewashing Kyke water carriers anymore.
I’m convinced every political and corporate strategy is geared toward 1 world government.
A one plantation world for the Satanic elite.
So I was right then.
Diversity is our, er, forget it.
I expected better from you Jimmy. The burning platform is burned…
Say it ain’t so