The NeverTrumpers’ fundamental error.
FPM: Three years after outsider Donald Trump blew up the political world with his implausible victory over the consummate insider, Hillary Clinton, many establishment Republicans still don’t get it. From their elite cocoon, they continue to indulge the hauteur that put off ordinary voters who had grown tired of a fossilized political class that serially ignored their interests, and seemed more concerned with their own insider perks and privilege, rather than in repairing the damage that decades of bipartisan progressive technocracy had inflicted on the Constitutional order.
The grande dame of the disgruntled NeverTrump Republicans has been the Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan, whose columns on Trump usually sound like a mash-up of the prescriptions of Emily Post and a snobbery redolent of Lady Violet Crawley from Downton Abbey.
Noonan’s latest is an attack on the Republicans’ behavior during the House impeachment hearings, coupled with a scolding of the anonymous author of the anti-Trump book A Warning. We should credit her takedown of “anonymous” as “self-valorous and creepy.” But her comments about the Republicans reveal the underlying grounds for NeverTrump hatred: the resentment against those who don’t accept the progressive assumptions that politics is the business of a self-proclaimed guild possessing knowledge, techniques, and professional manners and decorum that the voting masses don’t have.
As typical of a Noonan column, she starts with some sly preening of her insider-status as a wise political guru: “A young foreign-affairs professional asked last week if the coming impeachment didn’t feel like Watergate.” Unlike hoi polloi, Noonan knows “foreign-affairs professionals,” and they seek her out for her wisdom. She then proceeds to contrast the “dignity and professionalism of the career diplomats” whom the Democrats––“disciplined in their questioning and not bullying and theatrical”––called on to testify, with the Republicans’ “interruptions and chaos-strewing” that she compares to “some of what the Democrats did during the Kavanaugh hearings.”
We see here the NeverTrumper’s fundamental error: prizing sizzle over steak, words over deeds, appearance over reality. And, as usual with NeverTrumpers, she indulges an egregiously false comparison. The Kavanaugh hearings were a contrived political stunt constructed from preposterous charges from long ago, with no direct corroborating evidence to support them, but an abundance of evidence casting them in doubt. The current House hearings are yet another Democrat political stunt, made up of witnesses who are recycling office gossip with varying degrees of separation from the originals, the contents of which are mainly subjective opinions or feelings that have no relevance for establishing facts. read more
I loathe this biotch. Ever since she threw Sarah Palin under the bus. ESAD, Peggy.
this woman has serious mental and hormonal issues
i wish her well, sort of
“brick by brick they gave their testimony and painted a picture that supports the charge that yes, Donald Trump muscled Ukraine.” ~ Peggy Noonan
“I want nothing, I want nothing, I want no quid pro quo, just tell Zelensky to do the right thing.” ~ Ambassador Sondland, quoting President Donald J. Trump
Game. Set. Match.
Big time Globalist. A freaken traitor.
She’s probably making a killing in Trump’s economy. The least she could do is shut the fnck up while she rakes in her chips.
Peggy Noonan’s “Well I never!” RINO bug is so far up her smug ass she needs a colostomy bag to drain her meals.
Trump Jr. 2024
I remember when she had “wet for Obama panties” but after he tanked the economy and he was flailing so bad at everything, her panties dried up and chafed back to reality. Looks like her traitorious panties are moistened again with the constant Never Trump munching and licking from the likes of Napolitano and Romney. Imagine how raw her inner thighes will be after Trump wins 2020?
You know what, Peggy? No one but McConnell gives a crap what you say anymore. You are behind the curve, and generally useless these days.
You can defend hate speech without being racist.
You can defend guns without being a hunter.
You can defend Christians without being a Christian.
You can defend tattoos without having a tattoo.
You can defend homosexuals without being homosexual.
You can defend smoking without being a smoker.
You can defend drugs without being a junkie.
You can defend drones without owning a drone.
You can defend photography without owning a camera.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
The revolution will not be televised.
George “ on our terms” Will is slightly more insufferable than Peggy Noonan, only because he advocated throwing the election to Hillary as penance for the Republicans nominating Trump: I haven’t read anything from Noonan in years, but I wouldn’t be surprised if she voted for Hillary.
Political News Forum Still waiting for you to actually do something.