“I Particularly Like the Line Where You Said Trumpism Is Seeking ‘To Amputate the Higher Elements of the Human Spirit — Learning, Compassion, Science, and the Pursuit of Justice, and Supplant Those Virtues With Greed, Retribution, Ego and Appetite.'”
—-Ancient and execrable Washington Post pundit E.J. Dionne (EA dossier here)) in the course of a metaphorical mutual masturbation session with NYT Stockholm Syndrome conservative David Brooks (EA dossier here), plus former host of NPR’s “All Things Considered” Robert Siegel, “Trump Has a Religion. What Do Democrats Have? Mamdani might be working in Democrats’ favor. But what about ‘No Kings’?”
Althouse flagged this, and I just couldn’t stomach reading it. Siegel’s bias is presumed from his long tenure at NPR, where, some readers will recall, I was blackballed for daring to defend Donald Trump on the air.
Ugh. The President pressuring universities to teach rather than indoctrinate and gutting the wasteful Cabinet department that had presided over catastrophic decline in pubic schools is “amputating” education. Enforcing the laws is “amputating” compassion. Refusing to waste trillions in response to politically-inspired climate change hype is “amputating” science. The arrogance and smug certitude of these close-minded assholes…double ugh. I’ll listen to and read my Trump Deranged friends when they say these things because at least they aren’t paid for it and are just bloviating emotion-based opinions. But these guys…
Who can keep reading their junk and its ubiquitous equivalents? (OK, I skimmed a bit and learned that they all think the stupid “No Kings” protests were wonderful.) More to the point, how dim and confused do you have to be to take this discussion as anything but sour grapes from a sad, elite sector of our culture that wildly overplayed its hand, got its bluff called, and was exposed as the sinister charlatans they always were?
Althouse just threw this raw meat to her readers without making any statement herself: I’m sure she knew what would follow. You should check out the red-pilled comments, which almost entirely drip with contempt.
You can read the exchange here (gift link) if you like. Me. I’ve got a sock drawer to organize.
Ethics Alarms 
“[S]our grapes from a sad, elite sector of our culture that wildly overplayed its hand, got its bluff called, and was exposed as the sinister charlatans they always were?”
The most concise and elegant summary of the left since they woke up to Hillary’s having been clobbered by the Donald that fateful Wednesday and began sobbing as if someone had just told them they weren’t going to be getting that pony after all. Cue Nelson.
I had no idea the insufferable E.J. Dionne was still drawing a paycheck anywhere.
As a denizen of the 77 Square Miles Surrounded By A Sea Of Reality, reading the talented Ms. Althouse’s informed musings, more so the comments which result, provides a much-needed measure of comfort!
PWS
You know, some people should try to understand the simple principle that just because we can say anything we want (for the most part), that doesn’t mean we should discard all reason and embarrass ourselves just because the dim-witted might give us a high-five.
Deliberate, vapid stupidity in the service of partisan ends is not ethical.