“I had asked him whether we were going to make it, basically. Whether the constitutional “guardrails” in our country would hold. Whether our democracy would soldier on. “That’s in our hands,” he said. It’s up to us.”
Welcome Jay, and thank you for your thoughtful analysis. That said, I have a question. While “nothing is written,” my fear is people are being misinformed through disinformation campaigns running rampant on social media and the use of nefarious algorithms.
Therefore, my question is, given the consolidation of the entire media sector which will be controlled by four or five corporations and billionaires by year’s end, including the sale of TikTok, how are we to fight this with any chance of success?
Additionally, If people are being denied the proper knowledge in order to make informed decisions, what are our chances of prevailing, when all of these billionaires and corporations who control the flow of information have pledged fealty to Dear Leader, and are using their platforms to promote Trump, and denigrate his rivals?
Yup, and watched my father indoctrinated when he was old and unable to walk. It took about a month before he believed the sky is falling, and it’s all the democrats fault….:)
My father, Norman Ture, was President Reagan's undersecretary of Treasury. His work was on tax reform and fiscal policy. He co-wrote the Reagan tax cuts. Twenty years earlier, he had written the President Kennedy tax cuts. There is zero intellectual honesty in either of these tax cut policies. There is no credibility to them. My father might have known that, but whenever I raised the questions, he behaved as most Republicans do - he shouted, berated, and belittled the querent. 10 years later, he apologized for the tax policy failures on his death bed. What is this vaunted conservatism of which you speak?
But in the movie, after he says "nothing is written," Lawrence is forced to execute the man whose life he saved. So...it was kinda written after all...
Trump…and his former editor forgetting his own magazines founding ethos to stand athwart history, I mean remaining stalwarts “AGAINST TRUMP”
God help U.S. At least we can still count on Jay and Gary to aim there pens at the clear and present danger that is the cult of Trumps personality ✌️be with you
American conservatism has been left to rot for fifty years.
I believe that classical American conservatism has three pillars: limitation on Governmental authority over the individual; the political realism of Lord Acton; and a stubborn affinity towards American traditionalism, suggesting innovation and progress is all too often the rehashing of forgotten failure.
I can imagine the return to prominence of such sturdy paths of thought, of Buckley over Welch and the Birchers. But Buckley is long dead, and Kirk has replaced John Birch in the new Conservative pantheon.
Supporting Thatcher and Reagan for their anti communism is fine but it should be remembered that both of them despised the working class and hammered them as best they could.
Comedian John Fugelsang was on Comedy Central interviewed by Jordan Klepper (https://bit.ly/42LNWsg) talking about his best selling book Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds It’s a great short interview about the book that displays the consistent hypocrisy that the far right and the current Nazi regime exhibits every day and twice on Sunday
It's fun but also lays out the selfish hypocritical interpretation of the fascist Christian Nationalist Movement(CMN) that their interpretation is for political purposes not a spiritual one Orban rode this pony to power in Hungary and Hitler in Germany As Der Fuhrer said “We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity. Our movement is Christian.” Adolph Hitler 1928
“I had asked him whether we were going to make it, basically. Whether the constitutional “guardrails” in our country would hold. Whether our democracy would soldier on. “That’s in our hands,” he said. It’s up to us.”
Welcome Jay, and thank you for your thoughtful analysis. That said, I have a question. While “nothing is written,” my fear is people are being misinformed through disinformation campaigns running rampant on social media and the use of nefarious algorithms.
Therefore, my question is, given the consolidation of the entire media sector which will be controlled by four or five corporations and billionaires by year’s end, including the sale of TikTok, how are we to fight this with any chance of success?
Additionally, If people are being denied the proper knowledge in order to make informed decisions, what are our chances of prevailing, when all of these billionaires and corporations who control the flow of information have pledged fealty to Dear Leader, and are using their platforms to promote Trump, and denigrate his rivals?
Just asking for a friend?….:)
When I first saw fox news back in 97 or 98 I realized how powerful it would be with a large segment of the population.
Yup, and watched my father indoctrinated when he was old and unable to walk. It took about a month before he believed the sky is falling, and it’s all the democrats fault….:)
The power of repetition.
My father, Norman Ture, was President Reagan's undersecretary of Treasury. His work was on tax reform and fiscal policy. He co-wrote the Reagan tax cuts. Twenty years earlier, he had written the President Kennedy tax cuts. There is zero intellectual honesty in either of these tax cut policies. There is no credibility to them. My father might have known that, but whenever I raised the questions, he behaved as most Republicans do - he shouted, berated, and belittled the querent. 10 years later, he apologized for the tax policy failures on his death bed. What is this vaunted conservatism of which you speak?
The agenda was clear making sure workers got as little as possible while our overlords build multiple mansions and control all of society.
But in the movie, after he says "nothing is written," Lawrence is forced to execute the man whose life he saved. So...it was kinda written after all...
Anyway, delighted you're back.
You ever gonna tell us why you left NR?
Trump…and his former editor forgetting his own magazines founding ethos to stand athwart history, I mean remaining stalwarts “AGAINST TRUMP”
God help U.S. At least we can still count on Jay and Gary to aim there pens at the clear and present danger that is the cult of Trumps personality ✌️be with you
Congratulations on getting Jay Nordlinger on board. I am happy to see him leaving NRO.
American conservatism has been left to rot for fifty years.
I believe that classical American conservatism has three pillars: limitation on Governmental authority over the individual; the political realism of Lord Acton; and a stubborn affinity towards American traditionalism, suggesting innovation and progress is all too often the rehashing of forgotten failure.
I can imagine the return to prominence of such sturdy paths of thought, of Buckley over Welch and the Birchers. But Buckley is long dead, and Kirk has replaced John Birch in the new Conservative pantheon.
Thank you. Those under 35 would be well advised to read this. Looking forward to Mr Kara Murza’s book.
Supporting Thatcher and Reagan for their anti communism is fine but it should be remembered that both of them despised the working class and hammered them as best they could.
I've been reading Jay for thirty years. Thirty years!
I'm a libnut and I've been reading George Will since about 1972 .
Comedian Takes On Hypocrisy
Comedian John Fugelsang was on Comedy Central interviewed by Jordan Klepper (https://bit.ly/42LNWsg) talking about his best selling book Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds It’s a great short interview about the book that displays the consistent hypocrisy that the far right and the current Nazi regime exhibits every day and twice on Sunday
It's fun but also lays out the selfish hypocritical interpretation of the fascist Christian Nationalist Movement(CMN) that their interpretation is for political purposes not a spiritual one Orban rode this pony to power in Hungary and Hitler in Germany As Der Fuhrer said “We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity. Our movement is Christian.” Adolph Hitler 1928
https://substack.com/@strongfixion/note/p-174668464?r=26v1w7&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web
> Ideally, the United States should run on a kind of autopilot—a constitutional autopilot.
This is the federal bureaucracy, which MAGA refers to as the Deep State.
Beautiful piece. That story about jerk Karpov is good. Although I do not like him, but he seems to me not that bad as Kramnik 😁