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John Podhoretz
Based on years of listening to him, and on everything I’ve heard about him, John Podhoretz is a gentle, humane, and thoroughly decent man. I envy him his ability to pluck precisely the right word from his obviously vast vocabulary, and to speak, when he chooses, with extraordinary nuance and precision.
Sure, he’s prone to outrageous hyperbole (a quality hardly unique to him in this, the Age of Trump), is unduly proud of his Judaic morosity, and has a sense of humor that resonates with 12-year-old boys and Jonah Goldberg (but I repeat myself). But still, I enjoy listening to him.
But he often lands a clinker, as he did in the June 6 podcast (here) when he averred, at about 1:10:00, that, should the Democrats win in 2020, the right is “certainly going to turn anti-patriotic in the event of his defeat. … So you’re going to have the right hating America and the left hating America.”
I’ve mentioned this before about our own Rob Long, and I’ll say it now about John: I think too many conservative intellectuals have a poor idea of what actual conservatives are like, and of who makes up “the right” out in that vast unexplored and boring portion of America that people who don’t live in New York, Washington, or Los Angeles call home.
Thank G-d we still have VDH.
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You do understand that if you and the rest of the Dems give us Biden, you will likely be a pariah.
Because the likes of Ellison are the people who are behind Biden.
Honestly, I can hardly believe how deep you have dug your heels in against a reasonable pushback against this horrendous leftist horde at the doors.
I’m going to pray for Reagan to visit you a la Dickens’ ghost of elections past.
This is why I can’t comprehend the NeverTrump mindset. They may not be eaten first, but most assuredly will be eaten alive.
Two quotations from Ronald Reagan:
Actually, it is voters like Gary we need to pray for.
Trump is the brash rude boorish lifeguard attempting to pull this nation into the lifeboat, all the while kicking the devil’s media in the nuts.
And there is the likes of Gary, smacking down the lifeguard because he “says things.”