* So I am watching the GOP convention for the first time, and Peter Thiel gets up there and gives a good common sense speech, and afterwards, all the CNN people can talk about — literally — is that he said he was gay. Just utterly clueless.
* Surely you don’t expect the CNN agitpropbots to discuss the issues Thiel raised? To borrow Thiel’s wording, are they going to talk about how the bubble economy is good for Wall Street but lousy for everybody else? Are they going to talk about Hillary’s endless and useless wars? About how fake culture wars distract from these issues? Of course not, they are going to talk about their obsession, identity politics. From the identity politics point of view — and today’s media progs don’t accept the existence of any other point of view — Thiel is a traitor to his tribe. That’s all they’re going to talk about. What else have they got?
* I know it was a good speech because the liberals are in a tizzy over it.
For the last ten months, people (myself included) worried that he’d back down on immigration when the general election came around. He did not. That we would be listening to a nominee hammer on the costs of illegals and the necessity of managing immigration in the national interest was the stuff of delusional fantasy a year ago. Trump has come through. Now he has to win.
* Trump’s speech KICKED ASS. This guy means to restore some sanity for real. Quite the opposite of his evil opposition.
At one point he even mimed a deliberate hand-to-chin smug Pepe.
* I too am disappointed in Charles Murray, especially since I am from his hometown, Newton, Iowa. He’s now 73 and maybe the fight has just gone out of him–he wants to be intellectually “respectable” there at AEI and he’s smart enough to see where racial consciousness could take him. He also has some half-Asian children, so the temptation to just close his eyes and pretend it’ll all be okay in the end is enormous. Never forget that that “blue pill” can be awfully tempting, especially if you live in rural Maryland and don’t see the consequences of racial diversity in your face everyday.
* Agreed, I haven’t been this disappointed in an intellectual since George Borjas threw Jason Richwine under the bus during a PC shakedown ginned up by Vox’s Dylan Matthews, during which Murray condemned Heritage for doing so.
* No one has been more formative in Donald Trump’s thinking on social and political matters than Michael Savage. Trump has been a big fan and listener of Savage for years and identified with his fellow Queens native. And they are a lot alike. Savage was promoting the “border, language, and culture” theme decades ago.
* It was a tremendous speech. After the Obama debacle, it is refreshing to see someone defend America so unapologetically and so forcefully. The President is, above all, a cheerleader for the country. Trump gets it.
* Miller is living the dream right now. My first real corporate job I remember the thrill I got when the big bosses started reading and considering the ambitious memos I was penning in the equivalent of the mail room. I can’t even imagine the rush I’d get from having my earnest manifestos suddenly getting plucked up and plugged verbatim by one of the most powerful people on Earth.
* Several weeks ago someone posted a link to a Steve Miller speech introducing Trump. It was one of the most inspiring speeches I have ever heard. Miller is an incredible public speaker. In our sad age when someone with the limited rhetorical skills of MLK is held up as an example of oratorical excellence, it’s inspiring to have heard someone like Steve Miller, who may not match the oratory of earlier US politics but can still give a speech that is lucid, logical and emotionally inspiring.
I hope Trump has this man preaching to the hustings up through and beyond November.
