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发帖数: 258 | 1 Trump and the Emasculated Voter
There’s only one way to protect the nation from Hillary Clinton,
and that is to vote for Donald Trump.
By DAVID GELERNTER
Oct. 14, 2016 6:41 p.m. ET
Some conservatives have watched their evaluations of Donald Trump’s
character drop so low in recent days that on this vital question they no
longer see a choice between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Accordingly,
they are forced back onto politics and policy; and naturally Mr. Trump wins
in a walk. If conservatives who argue that Mr. Trump is worse than Mrs.
Clinton had a case, it would be a relief to vote for Mrs. Clinton or for no
one. But they don’t, and one is therefore forced for the good of the nation
to vote for Mr. Trump.
In his Mr. Nauseating video of last weekend, Mr. Trump showed us that he had
all the class and cool of a misbegotten 12-year-old boy. Yet the video
taught us nothing; no one had ever mistaken him for anything but an
infantile vulgarian. This week’s allegations of actual abuse are different.
If these stories are true (and I don’t know why they shouldn’t be), there
is nothing to be said for Mr. Trump. Unfortunately, there is nothing to be
said for Mrs. Clinton either. If we don’t take both facts into account, we
are not morally serious.
Mrs. Clinton has nothing on Mr. Trump when it comes to character. She lies (
“Wipe? Like with a cloth?”—cute and charming Mrs. C.) the way basketball
stars shoot baskets—constantly, nonstop, because it’s the one thing she is
best at and (naturally) it gives her pleasure to hear herself lie—swish!—
right onto the evening news. And her specialist talent of all is the verbal
kick in the groin of a Secret Service man or state trooper who has the nerve
to talk to her as if she were merely human. She is no mere rock star; she
is Hillary the Queen. She is so big, and you are so small, she can barely
even see you from up there. What are you? A macromolecule?
I’ll vote for Mr. Trump—grimly. But there is no alternative, no shadow of
a responsible alternative.
Mr. Trump’s candidacy is a message from the voters. He is the empty gin
bottle they have chosen to toss through the window. The message begins with
the fact that voters hear what the leaders and pundits don’t: the profound
contempt for America and Americans that Mrs. Clinton and President Obama
share and their frightening lack of emotional connection to this nation and
its people.
Mr. Obama is arch, patronizing, so magnificently weary of having to explain
it all, again and again, to the dummies surrounding him. Mrs. Clinton has
told us proudly how thoroughly she prepared for the first debate and has
prepared to be president. For her, it is all a matter of learning your lines
. Her whole life has been memorized in advance. Mr. Obama is at least
sincere. Mrs. Clinton is as phony as a three-dollar bill, as a Clinton
Global Initiative.
Mr. Obama has governed like a third-rate tyrant. He’s been a stern baby
sitter to an American public that is increasingly getting on his nerves.
ObamaCare and the Iran treaty are his big achievements. That the public has
always disliked them, and hates them worse as it knows them better, strikes
him as so unspeakably irrelevant; he doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Do you ask 6-year-olds if they like going to school? Luckily, a few grown-
ups have been set over the public to keep it in line.
Mrs. Clinton couldn’t agree more. Policy is for smart people, who are
people of the left by definition—leftists having scored all those big
successes over the years in foreign policy, race relations, policing,
restarting wounded economies, making unsecured loans, running school systems
and so on. On topics from Keystone to Guantanamo, Mr. Obama has made it
clear that he doesn’t give a damn what people think—he no longer even
tries to explain to the citizenry. Do your homework! Understand?
Yes, leadership sometimes requires that you take an unpopular position and
make it popular. We are told that Mr. Obama is working on his “legacy”
instead, as if that makes him farsighted instead of irresponsible and
insanely vain. Presidents are supposed to run the country, not worry about
their reputation in coming centuries.
Trump voters have noticed that, not just over Mr. Obama’s term but in
recent decades, their own opinions have grown increasingly irrelevant. It’s
something you feel, like encroaching numbness. Since when has the American
public endorsed affirmative action? Yet it’s a major factor in the lives of
every student and many workers. Since when did we decide that men and women
are interchangeable in hand-to-hand combat on the front lines? Why do we
insist on women in combat but not in the NFL? Because we take football
seriously. That’s no joke; it’s the sad truth.
Did we invite the federal bureaucracy to take charge of school bathrooms? I
guess I missed that meeting. The schools are corrupt and the universities
rotten to the core, and everyone has known it since the 1980s. But the
Democrats are owned by the teachers unions, and Republicans have made only
small-scale corrections to a system that needs to be ripped out and
carefully disposed of, like poison ivy.
The Emasculated Voter to whom no one pays any attention is the story of
modern democracy. Instead of putting voters in charge, we tell them they’re
in charge, and it’s just as good. That’s the Establishment’s great
discovery in the Lois Lerner Age.
Enter Mr. Trump. People say he became a star because he just happened to
mention an issue that just happened to catch on. But immigration is the
central issue of our time. Trump voters zeroed in because they saw what most
intellectuals didn’t. What is our nation and what will it be? Will America
go on being America or turn into something else? That depends on who lives
here—especially given our schools, which no longer condescend to teach
Americanism.
The liberal theory is that, other things being equal, all human beings have
an equal right to settle in America. For liberals this is too obvious to
spell out. But it is also too ludicrous to defend. Does all mankind have a
right to camp in your backyard, eat in your kitchen, work at your office and
borrow your best jogging outfit? We fail in our duty if we don’t think
carefully whom we want in this country, who would be best for America.
Furthermore, we know that “Congress shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” But
that’s got nothing to do with immigration; freedom of religion means
freedom for American citizens—what else could it possibly mean? We must not
tamper with Americans’ religious life. We must not admit, as possible
future citizens, anyone we don’t choose to; anyone we don’t think will be
good for America. Not to admit Muslims is bad policy but it does not violate
freedom of religion and the American people have a perfect right to discuss
and debate it.
Hold on, some of my fellow conservatives say. Never mind Hillary. Trump
would be
dangerous. He would further endanger our national security and world
position. He might start unnecessary wars. He might even push the nuclear
button. These are important objections, but after thinking them through I’m
unable to take them seriously, either in political terms or psychological
ones.
Mrs. Clinton is right at home in the Oval Office and thinks she owns it. She
holds herself entitled to supreme power, as her friends are entitled to
fancy positions with enormous salaries and her followers to secure
government jobs or ample government funds, as the case may be.
But forget psychology. Ordinary politics says that Mr. Trump will not do
crazy things or go off half-cocked, because Republicans in Congress will be
eager to impeach him and put Mike Pence in charge. That was the subtext of
the vice-presidential debate, though Mr. Pence himself (probably) didn’t
intend it. When it’s my turn, you can all relax. Democrats, obviously, will
be eager to help when the task is removing a Republican.
Impeachment is Trump-voters’ ace in the hole. It’s an abnormal measure,
but this is an abnormal year. Impeachment has temporarily dropped out of
sight because of special circumstances. Republicans impeached Bill Clinton
but got burned in the process; Mr. Obama, as the first black president, was
impeachment-proof. Any other president would have encountered serious
impeachment talk on several occasions, especially when he ignored Congress
and the Constitution and made his own personal treaty-in-all-but-name with
Iran.
But Mr. Trump will not have Mr. Obama’s advantages—to say the least. Mr.
Trump will be impeachment bait. So will Mrs. Clinton. Even some Democrats
have had enough.
Nothing can stop Mr. Trump from shooting off his mouth, but that’s all
right. I want America’s enemies off-balance and guessing. For eight years
it’s been Humiliate America season—buzz our ships, capture and embarrass
our men, murder an American ambassador—a resoundingly successful attempt to
spit in our faces and tell each one of us to drop dead. Thanks, Mr.
President. Enough is enough. You know that Hillary is Obama Part III. We can
’t let that happen. Parts I and II have brought us close enough to
catastrophe.
That is the problem for those whose integrity or nobility won’t allow them
to vote for Mr. Trump despite their dislike of Mrs. Clinton. There is only
one way to take part in protecting this nation from Hillary Clinton, and
that is to vote for Donald Trump. A vote for anyone else or for no one might
be an honest, admirable gesture in principle, but we don’t need
conscientious objectors in this war for the country’s international
standing and hence for the safety of the world and the American way of life.
It’s too bad one has to vote for Mr. Trump. It will be an unhappy moment
at best. Some people will feel dirty, or
pained, or outright disgraced.
But when all is said and done, it’s no big deal of a sacrifice for your
country. I can think of bigger ones.
—Mr. Gelernter is a professor of computer science at Yale. | c****n
发帖数: 1108 | 2 这是问题看的透的
希望trump能多拿这样的选票
也希望川普能证明他不是个empty glass
wins
【在 i*******e 的大作中提到】
: Trump and the Emasculated Voter
: There’s only one way to protect the nation from Hillary Clinton,
: and that is to vote for Donald Trump.
: By DAVID GELERNTER
: Oct. 14, 2016 6:41 p.m. ET
: Some conservatives have watched their evaluations of Donald Trump’s
: character drop so low in recent days that on this vital question they no
: longer see a choice between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Accordingly,
: they are forced back onto politics and policy; and naturally Mr. Trump wins
: in a walk. If conservatives who argue that Mr. Trump is worse than Mrs.
| h*******u
发帖数: 15326 | 3 赞美
wins
【在 i*******e 的大作中提到】
: Trump and the Emasculated Voter
: There’s only one way to protect the nation from Hillary Clinton,
: and that is to vote for Donald Trump.
: By DAVID GELERNTER
: Oct. 14, 2016 6:41 p.m. ET
: Some conservatives have watched their evaluations of Donald Trump’s
: character drop so low in recent days that on this vital question they no
: longer see a choice between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Accordingly,
: they are forced back onto politics and policy; and naturally Mr. Trump wins
: in a walk. If conservatives who argue that Mr. Trump is worse than Mrs.
| z***e
发帖数: 5600 | 4 这位老兄当年是UNABOMBER炸弹的受害者之一
【在 i*******e 的大作中提到】
: Trump and the Emasculated Voter
: There’s only one way to protect the nation from Hillary Clinton,
: and that is to vote for Donald Trump.
: By DAVID GELERNTER
: Oct. 14, 2016 6:41 p.m. ET
: Some conservatives have watched their evaluations of Donald Trump’s
: character drop so low in recent days that on this vital question they no
: longer see a choice between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Accordingly,
: they are forced back onto politics and policy; and naturally Mr. Trump wins
: in a walk. If conservatives who argue that Mr. Trump is worse than Mrs.
| p*****n
发帖数: 3678 | 5 叫 david 很多犹太人，这个如此明事理。 nice. | b******n
发帖数: 3103 | 6 太长了，谁给总结一下？
【在 c****n 的大作中提到】
: 这是问题看的透的
: 希望trump能多拿这样的选票
: 也希望川普能证明他不是个empty glass
:
: wins
| V*****i
发帖数: 9883 | 7 contempt for Americans
这个说得不错
[在 icecoffee (暂无) 的大作中提到：]
:Trump and the Emasculated Voter
:There’s only one way to protect the nation from Hillary Clinton,
:and that is to vote for Donald Trump.
:By DAVID GELERNTER
:Oct. 14, 2016 6:41 p.m. ET
:Some conservatives have watched their evaluations of Donald Trump’s
:character drop so low in recent days that on this vital question they no
:longer see a choice between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Accordingly,
:they are forced back onto politics and policy; and naturally Mr. Trump wins
in a walk. If conservatives who argue that Mr. Trump is worse than Mrs.
:Clinton had a case, it would be a relief to vote for Mrs. Clinton or for no
one. But they don’t, and one is therefore forced for the good of the
nation to vote for Mr. Trump.
:.......... |
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