Saturday, July 30, 2016
Frum continues to get it.
Frum has understood the realignment from the start. Latest piece tells why Trump resonates. Every word is ON THE DOT. Every word is something I've written too many times. The only departure from my peculiar vocabulary is the "Acela people" meme. I'm not an Easterner so that distinction isn't a familiar metaphor.
Some of the language sounds like Sailer. Frum wouldn't condescend to talk with Sailer, so I presume he's picking up Sailer concepts indirectly through someone like Derbyshire.
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Later, after a closer reading, Frum is still missing one major point. In the preface he says "But I’ve also been talking to his supporters and advisors, trying to understand how they see and hear the same things that I do, and draw such very different conclusions. "
No, Frum. We do not SEE AND HEAR the same things you do, because you do not live in America. You live in NYC and Malibu and Palm Beach. Places with penthouses and beaches. We live in America. We live in places with abandoned factories and unrepaired storm damage and breakins and gang battles and desperate young people jumping off bridges and GOOD cops who WANT to enforce laws but are required by their shit-eating REPUBLICAN political bosses to hold back because their shit-eating REPUBLICAN bosses love to eat Al Sharpton's shit. Mmmmm. Yummy. More, Massa Al. So good.
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