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Tom Lifson Visits the Harvard Lunch Club
The Harvard Lunch Club Political Podcast was honored to have the Founder, Publisher and Editor of American Thinker, Thomas Lifson, for an exclusive interview on this week’s episode: “Hillary Wins? Trump Loses?” Here are a few excerpts from our discussion.
Regarding the election overall, Lifson avowed that he was “taking a lot more pleasure watching the Democrat race” these days. I quoted Lifson’s recent American Thinker piece, Hillary’s dubious ‘victory’ in Iowa alienating Sanders supporters, wherein he says:
…the ultra-left wing of the left-wing Democratic Party is waking up to the fact that Hillary Clinton is a vicious, crooked phony, who will do anything to win – fair or foul. Welcome to the club, lefties.
(which awakening, of course, would bring sunshine to anyone’s day), upon which Lifson commented:
A lot of the enthusiasm that’s there for Sanders is not simply that for a 74 year old guy with bad hair and rumpled clothes who’s promising a lot of free stuff…
Beyond that it’s this revulsion for what they all know is a fixed game. To me the remarkable thing about politics right now is how much emotion is in common on both sides of the political spectrum – which is revulsion against a crooked establishment that fixes the game in many, many ways.
In the context of Clinton’s hair-challenged competitor who captured some 84 percent of the under-30 vote in Iowa Monday night:
The secular trend in American society and culture over at least the last two or three decades is the belief that reality is optional.
Tom went on to sketch out his “dream scenario” (which was the theme of the aforementioned American Thinker piece) for the Democrat race, namely that “a bitter Sanders faction stay[s] home.”
A few other choice comments…
Regarding the American voter: “If we could elect and re-elect Barack Obama you’ve gotta question the premise of the wisdom of the American people.”
On Donald Trump: “I’m not going to go National Review on him.” (Wherewith “to go National Review” acquires the status of a verb, much like “to Bork,” except that the correct analogy I guess would be “to Teddy”… I doubt that NR is particularly happy with this company.)
Finally, things got really interesting when, in contrast to the dream scenario that leaves a damaged Hillary Clinton entering the general election in the fall with her left wing refusing to even move for her, we got into the territory of a nightmare scenario – by which I mean a series of events on the Democratic side that would prove in the general election to be a nightmare for the Republican side. What on Earth could that be?
I’m going to have to leave it for you to go to the podcast to learn what that scenario is. But I’ll tell you this much: In the nightmare scenario, someone dies. And you’ll never guess who it is.
Find out here.
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Or “going postal.” That’s pretty funny.
Reality is optional–yup–repealed when the Dems passed Obamacare and it’s been downhill from there.
One of the big reasons that Obama was re-elected was that our main opposition was totally, illegally defanged by the administration’s use of the IRS to stop their fund-raising, and thus, their ability to get the word out to the people. The next Republican president needs to clean house totally at the IRS and make sure this sort of thing never happens again.