Thank you for writing this and calling more attention to the left's vile treatment of blacks who dare to disagree. One of the arguments I recall Trump making in 2016 that was really great was simply asking blacks to ask themselves what loyally voting for Democrats had ever gotten them. Recent treatment of black Republicans like Walker really highlights that blacks and other minorities only matter to D's when they are supporting them. Dare to leave the plantation and you are just another deplorable.
Granted, I doubt any politician really gives a damn about any minority group for the most part, but voting for Democrats because they care about minorities unlike the racist republicans is clearly madness.
I also love that graphic that casually promises to pack the Supreme Court if Democrats win the Senate. I hadn't realized that was on the official D. party platform this fall. How horrific.
Democrats hijack any group and uses them to gain power and wealth. To look at how they are destroying women via trans after 'feminism' all these years is infuriating. The republican party was formed to abolish slavery and hasn't changed, the donkey's always change.
That observation, that the Democrats (or the left in general? socialists? I don't know) tends to hijack existing institutions is a really interesting one, Conquest's Second Law and all. Why is it the left that does that? Is it something inherent to the left, or to the right, that makes it so one sided?
I still think that the left is defined by its desire to use political power to control other people's behavior, and that explains its tendency to hijack existing institutions. Institutional power is created, and eventually those who desire it most wind up wielding it. The cast of characters changes, and the set of "problems" to be corrected by force changes, often faster than the characters, but the goal is the same: use power to force other people to comply with your wishes.
I think enough people have been redpilled about the left's lack of good faith that blue checkmark hysteria isn't going to carry them very far.
It isn't 2016 or even 2020 anymore. People cannot unsee the Russian Collusion hoax, the blatant double standard between 1/6 and the BLM violence, and the partisan way that fact checkers and media "mistakes" always tend in the same direction to benefit the same people.
IMO Trump made the left let the mask slip. And nobody outside of their tribe buys what they are selling.
I hope you are right, but I still see many people in my circle of friends and family who absolutely refuse to acknowledge the Russia collusion hoax, the double standard between January 6 and BLM riots, and the extreme bias and continual misinformation put out by the MSM, and the tragic mishandling of the Covid response and the ineffective vaccines - it is stunning to me how many friends and family still righteously condemn the unvaccinated. Willful ignorance and TDS remains with us in 2022.
Trump is a big threat to the globalists who control most of what we read and watch. Many people don't search outside of those sources. I'm still learning how to navigate difficult subjects when I'm in the dog park on a beautiful fall day. Saying the wrong thing can easily trigger TDS and the anger is all too often an explosive overreaction. It's better to stick to safe subjects like the surge in the squirrel population this year.
I gotta say. I've only read three of your writings and you are a very gifted writer. The way that you express yourself is nothing short of phenomenal. I read many substacks and in my opinion you are clearly one of if not the best. Thank You!
Two terms of Obama created Trump, one half term of Biden, Obama, Pelosi, and Schumer brought him back into the game. They are either too stupid and or egotistical to figure this simple equation out. They so richly deserve to lose. Tulsi leaving should have been a big clue. These bought and paid for politicians are loyal to their donors and or blackmailers to the bitter end.
Super work again Sasha. I can’t thank-you enough for your insights, articulation of complex dynamics and courage in addressing it in a way I see no one else doing. A companion read to this was in Newsweek today by Delano Squires; “The Democrats Are Losing Black Men. The Moynihan Report Explains Why | Opinion”.
They are losing women, too. I would like to see the internal polling numbers, because there are signs of a real blowout about to happen, then we get the poll results that say it's a close battle. An 18 point lead among independent women screams tidal wave, not 1-3% R advantage.
About Wehner and Walker, Wehner may think himself a "conservative Christian", but he's not, and his views don't cut a lot of ice with that group. Neither is "the South" what it used to be, such that his dog whistles do little more than at the very least irk the people he's thinking he's talking to. He thinks the people who might vote for Walker, without the benefit of his stupid and racist commentary, are themselves stupid and racist, but they're not. So good luck with that approach. And, as you point out further down, conservatives are not at all like liberals in their condescension towards others, and are in fact more often quite open to people not like themselves.
I appreciate your take on things - you are moving rapidly into my top ten favorite writers!
Yes, the Yale study is revealing. I have observed this my whole life living in the north east where progressives treat blacks and hispanics like children incapable of making decisions for themselves.
If anything saves us, it will be that the hypocrisy of the left is too much for actual liberals to ignore.
I love this style of article, a rundown. Jim Treacher has a good daily one and I look forward to both T.G.I.F. on Common Sense (though that's been kind of a hit and miss since Nellie Bowles as been on maternity leave, but she's back this week) and Matt Taibbi's Friday news stories. But I would love it if you would do this weekly. You all come from different places and so focus on different things and that means I (and anyone else) get a lot of information in a short space.
And I love those two actors. I can never remember the old, blond man's name, but he's great in everything I've seen and Colin Farrell can play anything.
McDonough's "Beauty Queen of Leenane" was produced at the Old Globe in San Diego some years ago, and it was brilliantly written. Utterly Irish, of course, but brilliant.
RE: John Cleese. I must confess there is no greater Schadenfreude than watching the Left eat itself. The very best free entertainment and worth every penny.
On the other hand you cannot help but have pity on someone like Cleese who was once the front man of one of the most beloved comedy troupes of all time, yet whose creative peak was reached sometime during the Carter administration. His career is a dead parrot. Pushing up the daises. Gone to meet its maker.
Cleese had an absolutely hilarious self-mocking small cameo in Paul Hogan's "The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee" in 2020 - check out the 1 min. mark in the trailer: https://youtu.be/qmzzxUMaMQw HIs timing remains impeccable; his delivery brilliant. I think his slaps at Walker are below the belt - but unlike the woke, I don't just write someone off completely because I disagree with one thing they do.
There are a couple of NYT articles that paint Ray Epps as an innocent bystander who has been endlessly harassed by Trump supporters for being a fed informant or agent. If he is indeed just an innocent bystander, then why didn't the FBI just say under oath that he is not working with them? Instead, when asked by Ted Cruz and others, the assistant director of the FBI gave the generic "we don't reveal sources and methods" and "I can't answer that question" responses. If he is not affiliated with the FBI (I am still not convinced that he isn't), then we can certainly blame the harassment that he has received squarely on the FBI.
Clear thinkers on the left, like Chris Heath, are waking from their slumber. And there's so much to write about!!
Thanks for the movie tip! I wish every American would watch the 2022 Swedish thriller "Black Crab," which isn't about war per say, but profoundly displays the results of a 21st century conflict. Since we're led by a president who casually mentions Armageddon at a fundraiser, this movie may wake people up. War is hell.
Finally, we need another Church Commission to deal with the FBI's scary obvious corruption.
Appreciate your insights, Sasha. Always a must read or listen or both!
Thank you for writing this and calling more attention to the left's vile treatment of blacks who dare to disagree. One of the arguments I recall Trump making in 2016 that was really great was simply asking blacks to ask themselves what loyally voting for Democrats had ever gotten them. Recent treatment of black Republicans like Walker really highlights that blacks and other minorities only matter to D's when they are supporting them. Dare to leave the plantation and you are just another deplorable.
Granted, I doubt any politician really gives a damn about any minority group for the most part, but voting for Democrats because they care about minorities unlike the racist republicans is clearly madness.
I also love that graphic that casually promises to pack the Supreme Court if Democrats win the Senate. I hadn't realized that was on the official D. party platform this fall. How horrific.
Democrats hijack any group and uses them to gain power and wealth. To look at how they are destroying women via trans after 'feminism' all these years is infuriating. The republican party was formed to abolish slavery and hasn't changed, the donkey's always change.
That observation, that the Democrats (or the left in general? socialists? I don't know) tends to hijack existing institutions is a really interesting one, Conquest's Second Law and all. Why is it the left that does that? Is it something inherent to the left, or to the right, that makes it so one sided?
I wrote about it a bit back last year : https://dochammer.substack.com/p/contra-hanania-and-alexander-on-partisanship
I still think that the left is defined by its desire to use political power to control other people's behavior, and that explains its tendency to hijack existing institutions. Institutional power is created, and eventually those who desire it most wind up wielding it. The cast of characters changes, and the set of "problems" to be corrected by force changes, often faster than the characters, but the goal is the same: use power to force other people to comply with your wishes.
Agreed, Doc.
Sasha,
Another brilliant column.
The Far Left’s breathless hysteria is exceeded only by their blazing hypocrisy.
And your writing is so matter-of-fact, describing the real world that so many reporters entirely avoid.
You Rock!
I think enough people have been redpilled about the left's lack of good faith that blue checkmark hysteria isn't going to carry them very far.
It isn't 2016 or even 2020 anymore. People cannot unsee the Russian Collusion hoax, the blatant double standard between 1/6 and the BLM violence, and the partisan way that fact checkers and media "mistakes" always tend in the same direction to benefit the same people.
IMO Trump made the left let the mask slip. And nobody outside of their tribe buys what they are selling.
I hope you are right, but I still see many people in my circle of friends and family who absolutely refuse to acknowledge the Russia collusion hoax, the double standard between January 6 and BLM riots, and the extreme bias and continual misinformation put out by the MSM, and the tragic mishandling of the Covid response and the ineffective vaccines - it is stunning to me how many friends and family still righteously condemn the unvaccinated. Willful ignorance and TDS remains with us in 2022.
I hear you. I live in Deep Blue Country where people put up "In This House We Believe" signs on their front lawn.
I do think it is contained to Deep Blue America, and it is more fear of not fitting in than anything else.
Trump is a big threat to the globalists who control most of what we read and watch. Many people don't search outside of those sources. I'm still learning how to navigate difficult subjects when I'm in the dog park on a beautiful fall day. Saying the wrong thing can easily trigger TDS and the anger is all too often an explosive overreaction. It's better to stick to safe subjects like the surge in the squirrel population this year.
I gotta say. I've only read three of your writings and you are a very gifted writer. The way that you express yourself is nothing short of phenomenal. I read many substacks and in my opinion you are clearly one of if not the best. Thank You!
Two terms of Obama created Trump, one half term of Biden, Obama, Pelosi, and Schumer brought him back into the game. They are either too stupid and or egotistical to figure this simple equation out. They so richly deserve to lose. Tulsi leaving should have been a big clue. These bought and paid for politicians are loyal to their donors and or blackmailers to the bitter end.
Well put. I’ll add that many Dems are married to the city, state and federal government.
I agree with that.
Super work again Sasha. I can’t thank-you enough for your insights, articulation of complex dynamics and courage in addressing it in a way I see no one else doing. A companion read to this was in Newsweek today by Delano Squires; “The Democrats Are Losing Black Men. The Moynihan Report Explains Why | Opinion”.
The democrats are losing men, period. and for good reason.
They are losing women, too. I would like to see the internal polling numbers, because there are signs of a real blowout about to happen, then we get the poll results that say it's a close battle. An 18 point lead among independent women screams tidal wave, not 1-3% R advantage.
https://news.yahoo.com/independent-women-swing-hard-toward-144439526.html
Pollsters are in the business of telling democrats what they want to hear.
In their defense, business seems to be booming.
Good data point. Thanks for sharing it.
About Wehner and Walker, Wehner may think himself a "conservative Christian", but he's not, and his views don't cut a lot of ice with that group. Neither is "the South" what it used to be, such that his dog whistles do little more than at the very least irk the people he's thinking he's talking to. He thinks the people who might vote for Walker, without the benefit of his stupid and racist commentary, are themselves stupid and racist, but they're not. So good luck with that approach. And, as you point out further down, conservatives are not at all like liberals in their condescension towards others, and are in fact more often quite open to people not like themselves.
I appreciate your take on things - you are moving rapidly into my top ten favorite writers!
Yes, the Yale study is revealing. I have observed this my whole life living in the north east where progressives treat blacks and hispanics like children incapable of making decisions for themselves.
If anything saves us, it will be that the hypocrisy of the left is too much for actual liberals to ignore.
I love this style of article, a rundown. Jim Treacher has a good daily one and I look forward to both T.G.I.F. on Common Sense (though that's been kind of a hit and miss since Nellie Bowles as been on maternity leave, but she's back this week) and Matt Taibbi's Friday news stories. But I would love it if you would do this weekly. You all come from different places and so focus on different things and that means I (and anyone else) get a lot of information in a short space.
And I love those two actors. I can never remember the old, blond man's name, but he's great in everything I've seen and Colin Farrell can play anything.
McDonough's "Beauty Queen of Leenane" was produced at the Old Globe in San Diego some years ago, and it was brilliantly written. Utterly Irish, of course, but brilliant.
RE: John Cleese. I must confess there is no greater Schadenfreude than watching the Left eat itself. The very best free entertainment and worth every penny.
On the other hand you cannot help but have pity on someone like Cleese who was once the front man of one of the most beloved comedy troupes of all time, yet whose creative peak was reached sometime during the Carter administration. His career is a dead parrot. Pushing up the daises. Gone to meet its maker.
Cleese had an absolutely hilarious self-mocking small cameo in Paul Hogan's "The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee" in 2020 - check out the 1 min. mark in the trailer: https://youtu.be/qmzzxUMaMQw HIs timing remains impeccable; his delivery brilliant. I think his slaps at Walker are below the belt - but unlike the woke, I don't just write someone off completely because I disagree with one thing they do.
There are a couple of NYT articles that paint Ray Epps as an innocent bystander who has been endlessly harassed by Trump supporters for being a fed informant or agent. If he is indeed just an innocent bystander, then why didn't the FBI just say under oath that he is not working with them? Instead, when asked by Ted Cruz and others, the assistant director of the FBI gave the generic "we don't reveal sources and methods" and "I can't answer that question" responses. If he is not affiliated with the FBI (I am still not convinced that he isn't), then we can certainly blame the harassment that he has received squarely on the FBI.
I like what you write and the way you write, Sasha.
Clear thinkers on the left, like Chris Heath, are waking from their slumber. And there's so much to write about!!
Thanks for the movie tip! I wish every American would watch the 2022 Swedish thriller "Black Crab," which isn't about war per say, but profoundly displays the results of a 21st century conflict. Since we're led by a president who casually mentions Armageddon at a fundraiser, this movie may wake people up. War is hell.
Finally, we need another Church Commission to deal with the FBI's scary obvious corruption.
Appreciate your insights, Sasha. Always a must read or listen or both!
As always, excellent