“Now Is The Time For Deplorables To Unite Against Ruling Class Tyranny”
By: Josh Hammer
He certainly got that right. It is time to again reject our bicoastal secular progressive elitists who are trying even now to rule over us. It’s time the flyover heartland middle and working class to throw off their sheer condescending arrogance toward us and unite around President Trump and the basket of deplorables. These globalist elites have been draining and trying to destroy the heartland and the nation as we know it in favor of the new world order. They waged unending war upon us during the Trump years as he restored American greatness and rehabilitated the working and middle class and put America first. They used the China virus as an excuse and as a tool to seize power back and to take our freedom and liberty away. It’s time to rally around Trump and like minded Americans running for other offices to retake political power and to remind that power belongs to the people not to government bureaucracy and that government is our public servants we are not and will not be their subjects.
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
In a 2010 essay for The American Spectator, the late, great intellectual Angelo Codevilla wrote a rare essay that was, in retrospect, so prescient as to be outright eerie. Titled “America’s Ruling Class” and deploying “class”-based phraseology historically more at home in some corners of the political left than on the postwar political right, Codevilla set his sights squarely on his eponymous target.
“Today’s ruling class, from Boston to San Diego, was formed by an educational system that exposed them to the same ideas and gave them remarkably uniform guidance, as well as tastes and habits,” he wrote. “Whether formally in government, out of it, or halfway, America’s ruling class speaks the language and has the tastes, habits, and tools of bureaucrats.”
Even more eerily prescient was Codevilla’s description of what motivates the ruling class. “Our ruling class’s agenda is power for itself,” he wrote. “While it stakes its claim through intellectual-moral pretense, it holds power by one of the oldest and most prosaic of means: patronage and promises thereof.”
Is there a single sober-minded observer of our decrepit politics, in 2021, who does not read these words and immediately recognize that this is what is happening — indeed, what has been happening — in these United States?
Beginning with the 2008 bailouts, a parochial uniparty establishment — geographically and (nominally) politically diverse, but all sculpted by elite K-12 and higher education institutions to hold uniformly “correct” beliefs — deemed it necessary to toss moral hazard into the wind and lavish taxpayer money upon the failing Wall Street titans. As for elites’ message to the myriad struggling homeowners whose dreams were shattered by Fannie and Freddie, Clinton-era tropes about the relentless pursuit of “affordable housing” and simple lucre-seeking depravity: “Drop dead.”
The ruling class only tightened its grip in the ensuing years after the 2008 bailouts and the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s 2009 nadir. Corporate profits soon skyrocketed, and the stock market began a prolonged, historically record-breaking ascent. But economic inequality worsened. Elites of both parties further doubled down on “free trade” and extensive economic entangling with a Chinese Communist Party regime hellbent on hollowing out the American industrial heartland and ultimately dedicated to America’s national implosion.
Republicans, who by dint of decades-long dripping academia/media disdain for their party and their voter base should have already realized they were now the party of blue-collar America, responded by nominating for the presidency a well-coiffed private equity plutocrat in Mitt Romney. The 2012 GOP presidential nominee was well-intentioned in most respects and admirably hawkish on immigration and national sovereignty matters, but that did not prevent the utterance of Romney’s infamous “47% gaffe” — a proverbial middle finger to the already ailing American heartland if there ever were one. President Barack Obama, ruling class talisman, cruised to reelection.
The American people, and especially the aggrieved and subjugated “deplorables,” responded in 2016 by electing to the presidency a man, in Donald Trump, who spoke their language and vowed to fight for them against the uniparty ruling class regime. The ruling class responded by launching an unprecedented, four-year-long campaign against the president, from deep state malfeasance to galling and gratuitous media coverage to coordinated Big Tech censorship (most egregiously, the quashed New York Post Hunter Biden laptop story) to ubiquitous suppression of conservative and pro-Trump viewpoints in the American academy under the risible guise of “microaggressions” and “safe spaces.” Elites to the half of America that voted for a duly elected president of the United States: “Drop dead.”
The era of COVID-19, a virus with a more than 99% recovery rate, has only accentuated and exacerbated this divide. Elites have latched onto Rahm Emanuel’s famous line about never letting a “serious crisis go to waste” and used it to seize previously unimagined power at all levels of governance. The purpose of this power, from elected officials such as President Joe Biden to career bureaucrats such as Dr. Anthony Fauci to lowly foot soldiers such as pro-critical race theory teachers’ unions, is exactly what Codevilla said it was 11 years ago: “power for itself” — power tout court.
In the era of COVID, the “biomedical security state,” to borrow the term recently popularized anew by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, is the most convenient means of scratching the ruling class’ totalitarian itch and dividing the citizenry into de facto warring tribes.
The silver lining is that on every major issue, from COVID hysteria to critical race theory indoctrination to the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle, the rottenness of the American ruling class has been exposed. The ruling class senses this, and it will respond in the short term by doubling down yet again. But such a tactic is not sustainable. The inflection point, and the time for the deplorables to unite against ruling class tyranny, is right now.
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"The silver lining is that on every major issue, from COVID hysteria to critical race theory indoctrination to the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle, the rottenness of the American ruling class has been exposed."
I have a little story you might appreciate. I have a relative, who works for a research firm here in MA. They are always travelling out your way. He was telling me this morning about the trip back. They left from a small airport in Santa Rosa CA. The pilot of their private jet announced that shortly after liftoff the engines would be shut off and they would be gliding/coasting over the city of Santa Rosa. Btw that airport closes at 9 PM, thus one would have to use another airport thereafter. That's how it is for the coastal elite.
Yes, Sonoma with Santa Rosa and Napa of French Laundry fame counties, The northern most of the Bay Area counties region. 9 pm closing? Interesting. Coasting over the city? That’s funny.
Orange County (John Wayne) airport closes to flights at 10PM weekdays and 8pm on Saturday and also have to go into a steep climb on take-off so to help avoid spending too much time over homes.
Number airports throughout the country have hours of operation that limit the hours that flights can take off and land.
You do realize that numerous airports throughout the country have limited takeoff and landings hours for aircraft, right? This is done to mitigate the nighttime noise over residential areas. Many of those airports are right in the center of cities/towns.
Orange County (John Wayne) has limited hours. No flights after 10pm and 8pm on Satureday. They also require a very steep climb on takeoff to limit the time over residential areas.
Love Field in Dallas has a different tack with the same result.
It’s a good thing my home town put our municipal airport five miles out of town when it was built. The city limits have reached it but mostly scattered business and industrial parks, some commercial, and storage units that close to it. There is a small airport on the west outskirts but it’s only for small personal and family owned/sized propeller engine aircraft.
This article translated into English - "White Power !"
Considering the rapid growth of the numbers of African Americans and Hispanic Americans in the GOP because of Trump and this message, your slur post against us is noted and debunked. The English of the article is actually quite clear in its points against the bi coastal ultra wealthy and powerful.
Trumpism is not based on opposition to the ultra wealthy and powerful, that is ridiculous. Trumpism is based on hatred of social justice and racial and cultural diversity, hence the MAGA claim "we are taking "our" country back".
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When Trump gave the "largest tax cut in history" to the one percent, who did you think he was giving it to, you? You got the peanuts.
Your belief that a pathological liar whose only interest is the lifestyle of the rich and famous , and his diseased ego, cares about the "little guy" is delusional.
How weird. That description is trump to a T. Bannon, DeVos, etc.. all super wealthy. To top it off, after a few years we can 100% say with confidence that trumps tax cuts overwhelmingly favored the rich 1%er's. Trump and his cadre have never EVER been part of the working class.
If anyone thinks trump cares about the middle class, they are delusional. His actions while in office prove otherwise.
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Next time I want to torture someone I will force them to listen to that garbage.
I got a lot more than peanuts and the rich had a lot of their tax cuts recaptured by the cap on the deductibility of excess sized mortgages and on the more limited deductibility of state and local taxes on their federal taxes. Did you really forget that this provision cut the “cost” of the tax cuts from 1.5 t to 1.1 t and that the too 5% of earners paid almost all of it?
Many of them have been very well off. That they on key economic and social issues broke with their own and sided with middle America and our issues will forever be remembered well. Believe it or not, there are some wealthy in the heartland whose wealth is not connected to off shoring and globalism. I’m sure Trump is more connected to them than the bi coastal ones he used to hang out with.
It is exactly that. It’s proof positive of the sheer arrogance of those bi coastal elites.
Now you know what we think and feel when we have to listen to Biden/Schumer/Pelosi at all.
Those who defend systems that decide for each human being are those who see him as an enemy
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No, the hate filled rhetoric contained in your comment is the subject of this seed!
How many articles would you like me to post that reference studies of Trump supporters, referencing the connection between racism , white grievance, and support for Trump? It has been the topic of study for years now.
Trump actually literally began his career in politics (mainstream) by appealing directly to racism through his efforts in 2011 to falsely discredit the first black president. Trump hoped at the time to turn that crap into a bid for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
The mere fact that someone has decided to study Trump supporters tells us all we need to know. You already told us about Kendi.
Trump actually literally began his career in politics (mainstream) by appealing directly to racism through his efforts in 2011 to falsely discredit the first black president.
As long as 4 white candidates where also questioned on the same matter, it can't really be racism, but believe what you want.
It's not really like somebody "studying" a radical fringe like the Woke faction. I'd have to compare it to studying the independents that voted for Biden IE ...the minute one sets their mind to it they have in reality targeted a group of people.
That’s how it’s been since Trump rode down that escalator in 2015.
Your bla bla bla does not impress me. If I tell you that I can post numerous articles about the connection between white racism and support for Trump, you best believe it.
Do I want to take the time to post information for people who are not interested in the truth, ? that is a separate question.
Go troll someone else.
Good point! The effort to tie the few outlier racist extremists out there to mainstream conservative Trump supporters in an attempt to denigrate all of us by said association has gotten so old and uselessly repetitive.
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If there is one thing that unites deplorables, it is being deplorable.
Why thank you! We accept the badge of honor coming from the progressive left.
That 'honor' came from my Libertarian and Conservative sides. You're welcome.
You have such sides? Where?
In my studio I am a libertarian.
In my finances I am a conservative.
In my respect for my fellow humans I am a Liberal.
And if there is anything that unites the rotten left, it is the desire to effectively overthrow the system - governmental, economic, social and cultural.
They are doing a fairly good job thus far.
When trapped by allegations of racism, shout "communist" as loud as one can.
And how exactly is the left trying to overthrow the system...
I'm not impressed by comments that use racism.
You noticed!
Let's start with last year's riots. Any thoughts?
You actually think the protests were some Democrat faction in order to take over the country?
Laughable.
And you thought antifa & BLM were out there to peacefully protest the death of George Floyd?
Laughable.
Utter nonsense and you know it.
And they have people under arrest that started fires and shot into a police station and guess what, they admitted and were part of the proud boys...
Your narrow view of what the protests were about is well known.
Oh course it is. Seems to be all he has.
Here's what I know (by the most recent estimates) :
Riots sparked by the police killing of George Floyd could cost insurance companies $1 billion to $2 billion — possibly making them the most expensive in US history, an industry group says.
The potentially record-setting insured losses piled up as the demonstrations sometimes descended into looting, arson and vandalism in more than 20 states across the country from May 26 to June 8, according to the Insurance Information Institute.
“It’s not just happening in one city or state — it’s all over the country,” Loretta L. Worters, a spokeswoman for the group, told Axios , which first reported on the estimates Wednesday. “And this is still happening, so the losses could be significantly more.”
-The summer 2020 riots resulted in some 15 times more injured police officers, 30 times as many arrests, and estimated damages in dollar terms up to 1,300 times more costly than those of the Capitol riot. George Floyd rioters were found to have used more sophisticated and dangerous tactics than did the Capitol rioters, and in some cases weapons of greater lethality.
-Authorities have pursued the largely Trump-supporting Capitol rioters with substantially more vigor than suspected wrongdoers in the earlier two cases. Many accused Capitol rioters, unlike accused participants in the other riots, have been held in pretrial detention for months – with one defendant serving more time than the maximum sentence for the charge to which he pleaded guilty. Some allegedly endured solitary confinement and other mistreatment.
-With authorities applying lenient prosecutorial standards in many major cities torn by the summer riots, the vast majority of charges last year were dismissed, as were charges in the Inauguration 2017 unrest. Charges have to date been dropped in only a single Capitol riot case.
WASHINGTON: Contrary to corporate media narratives, up to 95 percent of this summer’s riots are linked to Black Lives Matter activism, according to data collected by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED). The data also show that nearly 6 percent — or more than 1 in 20 — of U.S. protests between May 26 and Sept. 5 involved rioting, looting, and similar violence, including 47 fatalities.
That's Steve Bannon's stated goal.
You are way out of touch, arent you?
I LOVE this sentence from your link
That would then mean that 94% of US protests in the wake of George Floyd DID NOT involve rioting , looting , or similar violence.
Waddya know .
By all means hold your breath, the resulting explosion should be a sight to see.
If Newstalkers were easier to search I would accommodate you, but its not.
That 6% caused a lot of death destruction and injury didn't it?
It must be nice to reassure oneself that it wasn't all violence!
So now you are going to use a paper from Pakistan.
ACLED...
Evidently he's not talking about this thread, he talking about anytime any place on NT!
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Vic, all you do is whine about the Black Lives Matter protests. You posted an article that indicates that 94% of the protests were peaceful. Thats not my problem, thats your problem.
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We had two BLM protests in my red city one on June 1,2020 while DC and several other cities were exploding. The black church leaders and police worked together to keep them peaceful. There was another that got canceled that the African American church leaders and police were going to march together in. I went to it before it was cancelled at the last minute by both sides as federal LE discreetly had arrived earlier in the day to protect property on a tip Antifa was planning a road trip from Portland to smaller cities along the shared freeway. I was sad and glad it was canceled as I thought what happened to Floyd was wrong and wanted to support that and our local LEO’s and I didn’t want to get caught up in something that wouldn’t stay peaceful. Antifa never showed that day or any since here though the rumors seemed hot a couple of times. I think the fact we have a well known local militia in the outlying unincorporated area of the county was a great deterrent.
No, the problem is how incredibly violent and destructive the 6% were and where they occurred.
Really? Did I post nothing nothing but stories on one subject for 5 years? No that wasn't me John.
You posted an article that indicates that 94% of the protests were peaceful.
It says a lot more than that John.
Thats not my problem
As a defender of CRT, I think it is.
I dont think they should teach CRT in schools , nor do I agree with it outside of legal studies contexts. CRT is divisive. Sometimes a more extreme statement is needed, but I think it should be confined to academic settings or legal settings. What ignorant people on the right have done is take things that are not CRT and label them as such to fire up closeted racists in the conservative base. Christopher Rufo started the right wing fire storm over CRT to give himself a brand and make money. He specifically said they would brand non CRT items in schools CRT in order to discredit the concept of teaching about race in US schools.
The US has been a racist country for most of its existence. That is just reality. What we should be doing is recognizing that and going about making things better. Instead many whites are offended and appalled that schools will try and teach kids the truth. They want a Pollyanna approach where the real fault is in the Africans that sold their people into slavery or in the American Indians that made slaves out of other tribes. They want to completely ignore the 100 years of open racism through Jim Crow and segregation where blacks were prevented from creating generational wealth.
The only way to fix racial troubles in the US is to acknowledge the past.
I have posted more stories on varied topics than anyone in the history of Newstalkers.
I decided a long time ago not to normalize Donald Trump. Keeping a spotlight on that piece of shit is always going to be the right thing to do.
We've done that. You are looking for a lot more than that and you have already told us what it was.
Christopher Rufo was the truth teller that the race lady and MSNBC & CNN hates.
Before I forget, Happy Columbus Day!
Christopher Rufo created his own truth. And has as much as admitted it. He wanted to make "critical race theory" a catch all for anything conservative whites dont like about race being brought up in school.
"Moderator Chris Wallace asked President Trump during Tuesday’s debate why he “directed federal agencies to end racial sensitivity training that addresses white privilege or critical race theory.” Mr. Trump answered: “I ended it because it’s racist.” Participants “were asked to do things that were absolutely insane,” he explained. “They were teaching people to hate our country.”
“Nobody’s doing that,” Joe Biden replied. He’s wrong.
My reporting on critical race theory in the federal government was the impetus for the president’s executive order, so I can say with confidence that these training sessions had nothing to do with developing “racial sensitivity.” As I documented in detailed reports for City Journal and the New York Post , critical race theory training sessions in public agencies have pushed a deeply ideological agenda that includes reducing people to a racial essence, segregating them, and judging them by their group identity rather than their individual merit.
The examples are instructive. At a series of events at the Treasury Department and federal financial agencies, diversity trainer Howard Ross taught employees that America was “built on the backs of people who were enslaved” and that all white Americans are complicit in the system of white supremacy “by automatic response to the ways [they’re] taught.” In accompanying documents, Ross argues that white employees can be reduced to the quality of “whiteness,” which is a form of inborn oppression, and must “struggle to own their racism.” He instructs “white managers” to conduct “listening sessions” in which black employees can explain “what it means to be Black” and be “seen in their pain,” with white employees instructed to “sit in their discomfort” and not “fill the silence” with their “own thoughts and feelings.” Black employees, Mr. Ross says, are not “obligated to like you, thank you, feel sorry for you, or forgive you.” For trainings like this, Mr. Ross and his firm have been paid $5 million over 15 years, according to federal disclosures ."
That is what the truth looks like, John.
Happy Columbus Day!
I think I'll unite against deplorables.
I agree that Biden and the Democrats have to be removed from power. They have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt they are unfit to lead at any level of government. They have done more to wreck the country in 9 months than Trump did in 4 years.
However, can we find someone else besides Trump to rally around? There has to be a young, charismatic, anti-Establishment conservative out there eager for the challenge of being PotUS, and fixing the US. While having the left froth at the mouth for 4 more years would be fun to watch; it won't be beneficial to getting anything done. Not that I expect the left to treat any conservative with courtesy, respect, or decorum.
Till midterms when we get the opportunity to send Democrats in the House and Senate packing, "Let's go Brandon!!!!!!"
Let’s go Bran-don!