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New and Exciting Ways to Blame Trump on Liberals

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Thanks, Weekly Standard, for beating this horse. Sure, it’s dead, but the vultures haven’t quite picked its bones clean yet. That’s where you come in I guess.

One of the weirder aspects of anti-Trump mania is its sniffy tone. And it’s especially weird coming from card-carrying liberal Democrats. For two generations our culture and its institutions have been living under a liberal ascendency. The country’s elites—the Bigs of the news media and Hollywood and the non-profit world and the arts and the academy—have signed on to a catechism of personal liberation, particularly sexual liberation, and a kind of radical individual autonomy that even lets you choose whether you’re a boy or a girl. We are taught to be “nonjudgmental” in matters of lifestyle and to accept a pristine relativism in metaphysics and morality.

In pursuit of perfect liberation we’ve had no-fault divorce, open access to abortion, the celebration of inverted sex, elimination of the blue laws, and wars against censorship that continue long after the censors have cried uncle. Say what you want about this regime, you’d never call it a triumph of puritanism.

I mean, there’s lots of bullshit to comb through here, but honestly I can’t past “inverted sex.” Which now I want to try, of course, because liberal.

Yet puritanical is precisely the tone of the Trump haters on the left.

No. It’s not.

But why? Consider Trump himself. Here’s a man who’s famous for his wide-ranging sex life, his disdain for conventional marriage, his eager embrace of divorce, his public use of profanity, his non-judgmental attitude toward unconventional sexual minorities—a man whose way of life seems unrestrained by religious impulses of any kind—a man who, in short, is a walking summation of our present-day cultural principles. Yet on each of these scores, from his many marriages to his cursing in public, he is vilified by journalists, politicos, TV starlets, right thinkers of every kind. After years of egging on potty-mouthed rappers and scolding religious believers, our cultural guardians suddenly sound like the General Conference of Methodist Bishops circa 1922.

No, they don’t. Also, please don’t confuse tolerating the private choices of people with emulating them or, indeed, approving of them. I like that divorce is an option for people in bad marriages; I don’t celebrate divorce. I understand that adultery is something that even good people partake of; it doesn’t mean that I celebrate it. Aww, but this tiresome shit knows this, he’s just depending on these strawmen to make his lazy, stupid argument. Nevermind that he’s equating sexual harassment and assault and adultery to consensual sex between adults that don’t involve any of those things.

ANYHOO…next Andy Ferguson goes on to tell some long boring story about a guy I’ve never heard of who apparently is some sort of snobby coastal elite who probably dips his arugula in Dijon mustard and washes it down with the sweat of hardworking Americans who live in flyover country and DOESN’T. LIKE. TRUMP. But in the bad, liberal way, not the good, principled way #NeverTrumpWellMaybeButComeOnHillaryIsTheDevilAmiriter s dislike him. Anyway he–HE–is at least partially to blame for the rise of Trump.

He calls the Trump ascendency the “final stage of a dumbed down America.” Who could disagree? Trump’s rise, boosted by the forty percent of our fellow citizens who see him as a plausible president, is indeed evidence of a serious, system-wide failure. Dumbing down is a good name for it.

The question is, Who did the dumbing down? Our public schools? Our universities? Our entertainment media—television, movies, popular music? The press? Glossy magazines like Vanity Fair?

Um, no? Perhaps it’s the Republican party and a conservative movement that demonized government, governing, science and fancy book-learnin’ for 30+  years.

Surely all of them share in the blame. And all of them, from the schools to movie studios, rest snugly (I almost wrote “smugly”) in the control of liberal Democrats, and have done so for fifty years or more. If we’re getting dumber, we know whom to thank. How odd is their sniffy contempt for Donald Trump, the purest flowering of the culture they’ve created.

And, with that, the poor dead horse evaporates into a mist of pure, undiluted stupidity.

 

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