A Tyranny Perpetual and Universal?
American Greatness,
by
Michael Anton
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
8/30/2020 10:26:12 AM
After “Is 2020 another ‘Flight 93 election?’” the question I most often hear is “What happens if Trump loses?”
The answer to the first question, unfortunately, is yes, but more so.
The tl;dr summary of the answer to the second is: much more of the same. More of all the trends, policies, and practices that revolutionized American life in the 1960s, that enrich the ruling class and its foot soldiers at middle America’s expense, erode our natural and constitutionally guaranteed rights and liberties, degrade our culture and its people, and dishonor our heritage and history. The war on those who self-identify as Americans, and only as Americans, who love their country
Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/30/2020 10:36:45 AM (No. 525757)
From Mark Wauck, who tells us that this essay is adapted from a portion of Anton’s new book:
Many readers will be familiar with Michael Anton's bombshell essay from 2016:
The Flight 93 Election
The election of 2016 will test whether virtù remains in the core of the American nation.
by Publius Decius Mus
And it really was a bombshell in conservative and, more generally, GOP circles.
Anton has a book that's due out on September 1, which in a sense updates that earlier essay in the context of the current election: The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return.
https://meaninginhistory.blogspot.com/2020/08/what-happens-if-trump-loses.html
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/30/2020 10:40:58 AM (No. 525763)
(hit submit too soon)
Wauck adds this important comment. I wonder how many of us have thought about this. The attacks on President Trump are more than attacks on him. They are attacks on the Executive. Referring to Anton’s essay:
One thing to be aware of as you read. I've emphasized repeatedly over the months since Bill Barr reappeared on the public stage that Barr's major commitment, the principle that explains all that he does and stands for, is the proper role of the Executive--meaning, the presidency. That commitment is what explains the unrestrained rage of the Neoliberal oligarchs who rule America against Barr--who is the most effective force standing between the oligarchs and the president who would make America great again.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
bamboozle 8/30/2020 11:23:15 AM (No. 525814)
Should be a must read.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
BillW. 8/30/2020 12:13:56 PM (No. 525897)
FTA: I worked in the federal bureaucracy ...[and]...saw how the “deep state” undermined a president...Yet I vastly underestimated how bad the “resistance” would be...That federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies would frame the president with a phony “crime,” launch a pointless two-year investigation over a fraud, then impeach him over the timing of foreign aid payments, all the while lying daily to the American public."
Given their treachery, their sedition...their treason -- and given the likelihood that Democrats will try stealing the election, should they succeed somehow, President Trump should discover exactly what they did, then after telling Bejing Biden, Heels-Up Harris and the rest to get lost, prosecute the thieving b'tards. --Veterans for Trump 2020
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna 8/30/2020 12:16:00 PM (No. 525901)
Some part of me longs for an armed confrontation.
How much longer must we endure the notion that all Black problems are caused by conservative White people ? The whole damn BLM / Antifa scam requires that White people change. Imagine how much more you could have accomplished in your life if you hadn't spent every day holding the Black man down ! Life is competitive. I'm sick of being the 'problem'.
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jjs 8/30/2020 12:35:24 PM (No. 525940)
Excellent article. I remember about 15 years ago, my sister and I were helping my niece (6 yr old) with homework. I marked her homework with red pen in areas that were wrong. My sister freaked and said Red pens are offensive. Because the left said so.
The left has gone from intimidating us into not suing red pens to not being able to say and do anything they don't agree with. We should have pushed back against the red pen PC and we didn't. Now look where we are.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
mc squared 8/30/2020 12:41:01 PM (No. 525950)
FTA: But I can say this: if anything changed from my time in the Bush Administration, it is that the deep state is vastly more powerful today than it was then, and vastly more willing to use its power—overtly—to flout, undermine, circumvent, and disobey presidential orders. Even, in many cases, to do the precise opposite of what they’ve been ordered.
And who was president during those 8 years? Anyone? Anyone?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
pearlyjo 8/30/2020 1:43:32 PM (No. 526020)
Regarding #2 post, it makes more sense now as to why the Democrats chose such an easily manipulated, bumbling fool as Joe Biden. They must not think much of Kamala Harris either. I am guessing they see her as a perfect goose-stepping Liberal who will do as she is told. But it's one thing to sell out yourself, it's another thing to sell out your country. The former usually just has you going down in flames, the other can be a bit more ugly.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
pros7767 8/30/2020 3:46:36 PM (No. 526146)
Very scary but very accurate!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 8/30/2020 3:58:53 PM (No. 526155)
FTA:
"Neoliberalism elevates as a matter of “principle” the international over the national; it rejects the latter as narrow, particular, cramped, even bigoted, and celebrates the former as cosmopolitan and enlightened. Neoliberalism is (for now) forced to tolerate nations and borders as unfortunate and unhelpful obstacles but it looks forward to a time when such nuisances finally are behind mankind forever."
This is the evil which is devouring our country.
At some point will we really begin to fight back in a meaningful way? Will "legal" means always be the only way we resist their tyranny? And note, when evil men write the laws "legal" and ethical, and right are not necessarily even related concepts.
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This lengthy piece, by the author who also wrote “The Flight 93 Election” in 2016 (under a nom de plume) is what we used to call a “weekend read” at Lucianne. Something longer, maybe to be printed off, for long and careful consideration. Not for drivebys. It is being cited and linked by many bloggers including Clarice Feldman and Mark Wauck.
There is an obvious typo, which should be ignored.