Here are my observations and opinions on selected news of the day.
THE LEFTIST PROTEST-OF-THE-DAY Saturday was supposed to oppose the separation of illegal families, even though some of the youths did not arrive with a family member. When President Trump eased the law on separation, Democrats opted for a joint protest to abolish ICE.
DON’T GET EXCITED over the protesters you see in various cities on the news. Most of them don’t even know what they’re protesting; they’re just there to oppose President Trump. An organizer hands them a sign and they head for the nearest camera. If the Democrats choose to extend their protests to the midterm elections, they will be making a huge mistake.
AMERICAN VOTERS, Democrats and Republicans, are sympathetic to immigrant families who were being separated at the border and support the Trump administration’s late policy reversal allowing families to stay together (71 percent), according to the Harvard CASPs/Harris Poll.
A majority of voters want immigration reform (73 percent) and secure borders (76 percent). Despite the ridiculous call for the end of ICE, voters want stricter enforcement of immigration laws (70 percent). Voters support prosecuting immigrants who cross the border illegally (53 percent) and sending those immigrants home (64 percent). A majority (55 percent) also stand against so-called “catch and release.”
THE NEVER-TRUMPERS’ demise was predicted in an excellent piece by Emerald Robinson in The American Spectator, “The Collapse of the Never-Trump Conservatives.
With the installation of two conservatives to the Supreme Court – Neil Gorsuch and his selection to replace Anthony Kennedy – “Donald Trump will have confirmed himself as the most consequential conservative president of the modern era,” writes Robinson, “This will be complete vindication for Trump supporters, which means it’s really the end of the so-called Never-Trumper conservatives.”
Robinson seems to take pleasure in the series of humiliating defeats experienced by the Never-Trumper crowd represented by Trump’s record of accomplishments.
The Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol, “the most vocal and unhinged,” was deservingly hardest hit by Robinson, followed by George Will, Jennifer Rubin, Michael Gerson, Bret Stephens, David Brooks, Jonah Goldberg and others.
“There is a low-testosterone, dilettantish strain of conservatism that has overdeveloped in the ‘mainstream’ media to create such sterile hybrids as Michael Gerson, George Will and David Brooks,” says Robinson.
“Nothing sunk these so-called wise men lower in the estimation of their fellow conservatives than they blithe indifference to the Clintons’ gangsterism. While Trump threw wild verbal haymakers at Hillary at campaign rallies, these intellectuals were basically on TV announcing they would be accommodationists for the Clinton machine’s inevitable victory. Trump’s base was fighting a war; these guys were sipping tea. The contrast in styles of conservatism was stark: It was the pugnacious billionaire against the stuffy wimps.
“Looking back, it now seems self-evident that conservative pundits were preposterously out of touch,” Robinson added.
MICHAEL GERSON, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, now a columnist with the Washington Post, couldn’t resist taking a slap at President Trump writing an opinion piece in which he cited “luck – pure, dumb luck … and Donald Trump is one lucky man.” He was referring to the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy.
“In his tariff policy, Trump is an economic illiterate. In his foreign policy, he is an easily manipulated tyro. In his immigration policy, he is condemning Republicans to future defeat,” Gerson writes, proving that he is still out of touch.
FROM CANADA’S NATIONAL POST, columnist Rex Murphy wrote an opinion piece, too, but not another gratuitous slap at our president. “Isn’t it ironic? Trump-haters have become even nastier than him.” “Donald Trump or any news that alludes to him, unhinges the minds of those who oppose him,” he writes.
“Hatred of The Donald is the ultimate pass to be as vicious and crude as anyone could wish … Hatred of Trump frees the mind from all obligation to moderation, custom, or articulate argument,” Murphy states.
Murphy cleverly compared to global warming news. “Trump, in this respect, is like global warming. He is the universal key to every phenomenon. Any statement about Trump, so long as it is in any way condemnatory, dismissive, insulting or condescending, requires neither proof, consistency, logic or (and especially) decency.”
An interesting view of our president.
May God bless the United States of America.
