Archive for 2019

GREAT MOMENTS IN GASLIGHTING: Peter Beinart wonders why conservatives are so eager to ‘conjure up’ liberal support of Antifa.

As one tweet collated in this Twitchy post goes on to note, “It’s not hard. Here’s a piece by a gentleman named P—- B—- in The Atlantic. ‘Such tactics have elicited substantial support from the mainstream left.'”

Including Obama’s favorite stenographer, Jeffrey Goldberg, Beinart’s editor in the Atlantic, who in 2017 compared them to the men storming the Normandy beach in Saving Private Ryan. And Keith Ellison, then the Democratic National Committee deputy chairman, now Minnesota’s attorney general:

OPEN THREAD: It’s Saturday Night.

FASTER, PLEASE: Joe Biden: If Trump Wins 2020 NATO Will Cease to Exist in 4-5 Years.

That’s not the scare tactic Biden thinks it is. NATO allows Europe to exist as a sort of giant college campus with endless welfare benefits, thanks to the largesse of America.

But as Glenn has noted, “Trump is a symptom of a new kind of class warfare raging at home and abroad:” “But the New Class isn’t limited to communist countries, really. Around the world in the postwar era, power was taken up by unelected professional and managerial elites. To understand what’s going on with President Donald Trump and his opposition, and in other countries as diverse as France, Hungary, Italy and Brazil, it’s important to realize that the post-World War II institutional arrangements of the Western democracies are being renegotiated, and that those democracies’ professional and managerial elites don’t like that very much, because they have done very well under those arrangements. And, like all elites who are doing very well, they don’t want that to change.”