Tuesday, November 7, 2017

More Trump hyperventilation on the Left

It is so entertaining to read the editorial pages of the New York Times these days. Even one year later, the mental anguish over the election of Donald Trump has not abated. Here are some excerpts from the latest fit of hyperventilation by the twit Michelle Goldberg:

    In the terror-struck and vertiginous days after Donald Trump’s election a year ago, as I tried to make sense of America’s new reality, I called people who lived, or had lived, under authoritarianism to ask what to expect. ... [T]he texture of life changes when an autocratic demagogue is in charge. ... What now passes for ordinary would have once been inconceivable. The government is under the control of an erratic racist ... You can’t protest it all; you’d never do anything else. ... But this nightmare year has upended assumptions about the durability of the rules, formal and informal [once again a liberal appeals to "informal rules," which, presumably, she gets to define], governing our politics. ... It was staggering when blah blah blah and even more staggering when blah blah blah ... Lately, the pace of shocks has picked up, even if our capacity to process them has not. ... How can America ever return from this level of systematic derangement and corruption? ... In moments of optimism I think that this is just a hideous interregnum, ... But in my head I hear the song that closed out Trump rallies like a satanic taunt or an epitaph for democracy: “You can’t always get what you want.”

Maybe just a bit overwrought, Michelle?

Speaking of systematic corruption, no mention of the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One?

Speaking of shock after shock, no mention of the fact that Hillary paid for the Steele dossier to be assembled from Russian sources, or the fact that even Donna Brazile now admits that the DNC was in the tank for Hillary and undermining Bernie all along?

Speaking of erratic racists, no mention of the fact that the Data Services Manager of the DNC sent out an email in which she explicitly instructed her employees not to forward to her the resumes of "cisgender straight white males" for consideration?

Your characterization of the Trump administration as a "hideous interregnum" just means that you still have not grokked the fact that you live in a pluralistic society where many of the people who live outside New York in flyover country and whom you probably categorize as mere "deplorables" are going to keep on voting for politicians like The Donald because they find the pompous moralizing of people like you insufferable.

My advice to you: get a good shrink to help you cope with your terror sweats and vertigo because the election of The Donald is not an interregnum, but the expression of a permanent bloc of American voters inimical to everything you stand for.

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