February 21, 2016 ‘Identity politics run amok’ Luke Ford No sacred cows.

‘Identity politics run amok’

Posted on February 21, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comment: If you think that the Redskins debacle is crazy, check out what’s happened at the University of North Dakota:

• The university’s 2007 settlement agreement with the NCAA requires the school to protect trademarks of the controversial logo. This is so the school can keep exclusive rights to license it. The NCAA required that so UND would have control over the logo, thereby blocking others from using it willy-nilly and allowing it to proliferate freely in a hockey jersey shop near you.

• To maintain the trademark, however, UND must produce and sell merchandise bearing the logo. Sort of a use-it-or-lose-it angle to trademark law. Failure to do so could cause the school to lose the trademark, allowing others to swoop in and cause the unfettered proliferation of Fighting Sioux hockey jerseys.

• So although UND is now known by its new Fighting Hawks nickname, the school must continue to produce and sell Fighting Sioux merchandise to satisfy the NCAA’s demand that it get rid of the nickname and logo.

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White Vs Hispanic Crime Rates

Posted on February 21, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comment: David Brooks is misusing statistics to attack Trump and downplay the fact that hispanic crime rates are higher than non-hispanic whites, whether you are talking about hispanics as a whole, or just the three big groups, Mexican-Americans, Central Americans, and Caribbean Hispanics.

He makes some of the same errors of Unz in this regard. Specifically, Unz argues that incarceration rates, with his own adjustments to the rates, are a good method to compare crime rates. The flaw of this is that (1) hispanic career criminals are often deported so do not stay in US prisons long compared to career white and black criminals (2) hispanics have shorter tenure in the USA even within each age group.

Unz next looks at the overall crime rate in cities compared to their hispanic population. He finds that quite often heavy hispanic cities have very low crime rates, such as majority hispanic Santa Ana and El Paso, and large minority hispanic San Diego.

This is an important finding since some on the alt right do overstate the hispanic/white crime gap, which is just a fraction of the black white crime gap.

However, the problem is that this method cannot, by definition, work if hispanics are more likely to move to areas with low-crime white populations versus high-crime white populations. And indeed, hispanics are much more likely to move to areas with highly educated and low-crime white populations, like California and Colorado’s, than to areas with poorer and more criminal white populations, like West Virginia.

The other problem is that, while certain hispanic cities have very low crime rates, other have very high rates, higher than any extremely white cities. And likewise, even these low crime hispanic cities have high crime rates compared to the most exceptional white and white/asian cities. Yes, El Paso and Santa Ana are pretty low crime, but they are much more criminal than Simi Valley, Laguna Beach, Del Mar, Marin County, or the many upper middle class exurban areas around most large American cities.

City-Data Crime Index / Hispanic%/White%/Asian%
Santa Ana 200.6 77.6/10.7/10.1
El Paso 211.1 80.0/14.4/1.1
Bell Gardens 194.5 95.7/2.7/0.5

And other majority hispanic cities do not look so hot.

Merced 362.9 53.2/27.8/13.5
South Gate 322.7 94.8/3.4/0.7

Some California cities with low hispanic populations:

Irvine 89.6 11.8/44.3/38.6
Simi Valley 104.9 25.8/63.0/8.6
Palo Alto 117.5 27.8/57.7/27.8
Sunnyvale 125 13.7/36.7/42.1

Going outside of CA, here are the cities with populations between 60K and 100K with the lowest violent crime rates, the their hispanic share:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_cities_by_crime_rate_%2860,000%E2%80%93100,000%29

Carmel, IN 2.5%
Fishers, IN 3.4%
Flower Mound, TX 8.4%
Greenwich, CT 13.8%
Palatine, IL 18%
Orem, UT 14.8%
Johns Creek, GA 5.2%
Arlington Heights, IL 4.5%

Now the lowest violent crime rates in the 100 to 250K city range:
Irvine, CA 11.8%
Murrieta, CA 25.9%
Amherst, NY 2.3%
Frisco, TX 12.4%
Colonie, NY 1.9%
Cary, NC 7.7%
Naperville, IL 4.2%
Temecula, CA 24.7%

On average, the safest cities are far less hispanic than the state or region they are in is.

Here’s Brooks in his latest column:

Trump plays up the alleged threat of crime committed by immigrants. But the overall evidence is clear. Immigrants make American streets safer.

This is not true, but even the fake open boarders statistics has to lump our chaotic, unregulated illegal illegal immigrant population and Third World chain migration immigrants in with our imperfect but functioning skill based and First World immigration to come up with “immigrants make America safer.” But restrictions like Trump don’t think we need to keep out highly skilled scientists and the like, and we know Trump personally favors immigration from Europe.

Among native-born men without a high school diploma, about 11 percent are incarcerated. Among similarly educated Mexican, Guatemalan and Salvadoran men here, only 2 or 3 percent get incarcerated.

The problem here is that not too many Mexican, Guatemalan, and Salvadorian immigrants have 12 years of primary education. Comparing the incarceration of the dumbest/most impulsive 10% of native born Americans (who themselves are heavily black) with roughly the average Salvadorian is not really Apples to Apples, is it?

Numerous studies have shown that a big share of the drop in crime rates in the 1990s is a result of the surge in immigration.

This is not true, and unlike a lot of the claims, no citation to support it.

Trump plays up the threat of terrorism. But the real threat is that our border agencies spend so much time tracking down people who want to be gardeners that they don’t have the resources to track down the people who want to be suicide bombers.

Trump’s “shut down Muslim immigration” would have stopped 100% of the mass terrorist attacks committed by immigrants in the USA. I agree it would be nice if we did not have to support a massive, liberty-destorying, very expensive and wasteful internal security state to protect us from ISIS. But that is the unavoidable price of having a Muslim immigrant population. I agree we should not have to pay that price.

The bulk of the evidence shows that immigrants have a hugely positive effect on total American G.D.P

Annexing Yemen, Bangladesh, Iraq, and Somalia would also increase “total GDP.” Hmm, maybe that is not such a good statistic to evaluate policy.

Second, by 2044, America will be a majority-minority country. This is a very different America than the one people who grew up in the 1960s were used to. It’s a historical transformation that is bound to raise very legitimate concerns.

Stopping what Brooks calls the “browning of America” is not one of the legitimate concerns. We are only allowed to make sure that the browning-bringers are “properly vetted.”

Donald Trump’s G.O.P. is a rear-window party pining for a white America that is never coming back.

So let’s enact policies that speed its demise!

The increase in low level and unreported crime with hispanic immigration is absolutely real.

1. Is Unz/Brooks going to say with a straight face that hispanic immigrant areas don’t have higher rates of graffiti and littering? How about DUI and driving without a license and insurance?

2. The people to justify sanctuary cities and amnesty always tell us that illegals are afraid to report crimes to the police. This is no doubt true to some extent.

So, isn’t it the case that the more illegals there are, the more crime will be under-reported? Even legal hispanic immigrants may have illegals in the household, or not speak enough English to want to call the police. So the underreporting goes beyond just illegals.

Your point about the MSM having to tell us our own eyes are lying is absolutely right, Here is just another boring, typical article from San Diego that did not get an ounce of national coverage: a 69 year old white woman cleaning graffiti off a wall was killed by a 23 year old hispanic with “road rage” doing some sort of drunk street racing in a residential neighborhood.

A community activist was painting over graffiti in a San Diego neighborhood when she was struck by a suspected drunk driver who police say was involved in a road rage altercation.
Police said 69-year-old Maruta Gardner died after being hit in the Mission Beach area Friday when the driver of a Toyota Corolla passed a Ford Mustang and went onto the shoulder. After striking Gardner, the driver sped away but was arrested a short distance away.
Police said the hit-and-run was the result of a road-rage altercation. The Toyota driver – 23-year-old Jonathan Domingo Garcia – was booked for investigation of vehicular manslaughter, DUI and hit and run.

More about one of Marco’s New and Improved Americans

Jonathan Domingo Garcia, 23, accused of killing a 68-year-old community activist removing graffiti in Mission Beach pleaded not guilty Thursday to eight charges, including gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and felony hit-and-run.
Deputy District Attorney Steve Schott told Judge Jay Bloom that at about 3 p.m. Friday — three hours before the crash — Garcia and a friend were seen slashing tires on cars.
About three hours later, the car Garcia was driving rear-ended a Ford Mustang, and he failed to stop, the prosecutor said.
The driver of the Mustang pulled in front of Garcia’s Toyota Corolla, authorities said. Garcia then made an illegal right turn in a 15-mph zone, and struck the victim, who was on the road’s shoulder, Schott said. Gardner died the next day.
“The defendant didn’t stop. He actually drove down and parked, exited his vehicle and checked for damage on his car. He spent 5 minutes doing that,” said Schott. “He then returned to the area and an officer tried to flag him down. Once again he did not stop. And instead continued to drive, actually struck another vehicle. Did not stop. Before the officer finally made contact with him.”
“Instead of asking about the person he just struck on the roadway, he asked when he could get his car back,” said Schott.
Three hours after the accident, Garcia’s blood-alcohol level was measured at .06 percent, Schott said. Alcohol, marijuana and depressants were found in the defendant’s system
“I think the defendant is an extreme danger to the community by his callousness by the act itself plus he’s a flight risk,” the judge said. “If he’s going to do hit and runs there’s no guarantees he’ll come back. So bail is set at $550,000 and waiving bail review.”
Garcia faces 15 years in prison if he’s convicted. His next court appearance will be March 10.
Gardner, a former principal at Mission Bay High School, was honored by the San Diego City Council last year, which declared Nov 3 “Maruta Gardner Day.” Gardner would have celebrated her birthday this Saturday.

Does David Brooks’s “immigrants are good for the economy” account for the violent death of Mrs. Gardner and others like her? For the $400,000 in taxes we will pay to house the man who killed her in prison? For the tires he slashed and the two vehicles he hit and ran that same day?

Economics can be complicated, but you don’t need to engage in complicated research to know that importing random poorly educated people from poor, violent countries will make America dumber, poorer, and a worse place to live for the natives.

* And the drugs. The drugs. Open borders; the industrial production of illicit drugs; and a large segment of the population susceptible to addiction. Good grief.

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Trump Vs The Pope

Posted on February 21, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* The words “Muslim” and “Islam” appear nowhere in that article. The New York Lies. That’s what that is, a lie. When the story has been for weeks that “Trump’s an Islamophobe who he wants to throw the Muslims out and ban them,” omitting the historical Muslim connection here is simply a lie.

The funny part is the common perception that MSM outlets sensationalize everything to increase revenue. On the contrary, the MSM frequently de-sensationalizes stories to make less money while shaping The Narrative.

Sort of like how there’s lots of dollars Hollywood doesn’t want, like the money from The Passion of the Christ, or from following the trail blazed by 300.

Trump has also been blessed with some useful enemies.

That’s the beauty of Trump’s candidacy; we get to show that we’ll gladly choose the Carney Barker with halfway decent political positions over the hostile Republican elite. This is kind of the point.

the pope was right.there is little evidence that Donald is a practising Christian.

The pope’s a heretic.

Like Sellar and Yeatman, sometimes Steve writes to console his readers. Getting in a front-page fight with the Pope is monumentally stupid. If Trump were a stock, even the dullest brokerage on Wall Street would be dumping it by now.

No, the pope clearly did Trump a favor. Even NPR agreed (NPR!). Yesterday they had several bites of how this will actually help Trump. One was from Carol Swain, which had me gobsmacked. She managed to properly encapsulate Trump’s appeal in about 30 seconds, in her usual astoundingly unbiased style.

I am surprised at how many people I know who didn’t realize the long occupations of Spain or Eastern Europe, or the millions of Europeans taken into slavery.

You’ve got to be uninterested in history to miss Al-Andalus and the Reconquista. We’re talking the better part of a millennium of European history here.

I’m waiting for “Rehmat” to charge in and tell us it was the Pope’s army who attacked the peaceful Muslims vacationing in Rome that year.

Rehmat doesn’t get many (any?) posts in Steve’s bailiwick.

So, are you [Corvinus] simple or disingenuous?

He’s a bit of both, I think, but heavy on the latter.

Yeah, ’cause he’ll turn off Hispanic voters, who, as every Republican knows, are the key to electoral victory…

If memory serves, Trump has gotten way more hispanic votes than Cruz or Rubio.

[Sound of “Family Feud” buzzer]. Wrong. Trump did make a guarantee. He himself said such an event would not have happened. It’s in the King’s English, Fiddler.
Trump–”I can promise you that the Pope would have only wished and prayed that Donald Trump would have been President because this would not have happened.”

You heard it here first: Trump’s going to lose the ‘sperg vote.

Do you understand the notion of political rhetoric, or are you too befuddled by your Aspie literalness to understand anything at all?

His neuro-atypicality seems genuine. Otherwise he’d know his ‘sperg style isn’t persuasive.

“How do you feel about being hated by the leader of the world’s largest religion?”

He should have taken her to school for saying the pope “hates.”

* It seems clear that it is in the best interest of American citizens to close the southern border, although many people disagree with that (I do not know if you are one of those who disagree). Likewise it seems to be in the best interests of a certain class of Hispanic/Latino people to come to America, legally or illegally. If you grant that these two interests are at loggerheads, why wouldn’t you say that it is appropriate for Americans (or whomever you think should fill the thought experiment) to prioritize their self-interest over that of another? Unless you are a troll, which I cannot tell, do you admit that there isn’t a Kantian-style solution for political problems, wherein everybody obeys an a priori, universal rule? Or do you think that everyone, everywhere, should act with perfect logical consistency, as if no natural groupings of people were possible? This crowd, myself included, take a principled stance against the idea that people are only distinct according to number: we believe that there are many natural groupings to be made within the larger group of humanity, and I think we have good arguments to prove that that is more than a belief. I am not trying to be patronizing, but the nature of the commenting system is that a person can only have the appearance of being reactive. What are your beliefs?

* Interesting how this Islamic Sack of Rome has been ignored by PC scholars and academics who fall over one another in their op stampede to blame modern Muslim aggression on the Crusades. Of course these proponents of Doublethink fail to mention that the first crusade was launched three centuries after the Saracens invaded and occupied southern Italy and Iberia. And it was from their base in Sicily that the warriors of Allah attacked Rome and began devastating towns and villages all over the Mediterranean murdering and enslaving the luckless inhabitants. Fortunately for Europe the Normans defeated the Moorish Sicilians in the 11th century.

* A couple of comments about setting expectations for “Casablanca:”

– The quality of dialog varies more than in just about any other movie. The best lines are maybe the best ever, but other lines are really corny.

– The emotional intensity is not high for about the first 45 minutes, until the song kicks in. “Casablanca” owes more to “As Time Goes By” than perhaps any other movie owes to any other theme song.

In general, “Casablanca” is a bit of a hodge-podge that happened to come together as a great movie at the last moment.

It was popular and respected on its first release (winning Best Picture for 1942), but its modern reputation derives in part from it becoming a cult film for Harvard students in the late 1950s when the Brattle Theater started playing Bogart films during finals week.

In general, everybody involved in “Casablanca” was kind of winging it.

* I’d never heard of the Islamic sack of Rome in 846 until 24 hours ago. I could give you the exact dates of two others: 410 AD and 1527, and approximate one other 390 BC. But the Arabs looting Rome, at least the parts outside the walls, in 846 AD was news to me, and I’m relatively well informed.

Granted, that was during the Dark Ages. But then Pirenne argued that the Dark Ages were dark in Europe because the Muslims transformed the Mediterranean from a highway into a danger zone for Europeans.

The Romans could travel by land because they had the organization to keep up the roads. When the Germans took over Europe, they didn’t have the societal competence to keep up the roads. Still, they could use the Mediterranean, which is amazingly useful. But then Muslim pirates took over the sea.

* Viktor Lazlo was apparently based on Count Coudenhove-Kalergi, a Eurasian aristocrat involved with various international agencies, who advocated for race-mixing to occur between White and dark gentiles. He wanted the goyish races to mix in order to produce a common mulatto race which could be ruled over by a pure-blood Jewish elite (Coudenhove-Kalergi was not himself Jewish).

* Japan has very strict immigration policies. As a result, Muslims are not admitted and the last major terrorist attack inside that country occurred about a fifth of a century ago in the Tokyo subway – committed by some crazy, and very rare, native cult. Japan has gotten perfect safety and cultural homogeneity all for the price of missing out on a little virtue signaling. Works for them. In the mean-time, the West has suffered riots, assassinations (Theo Van Gogh), numerous shootings and terrorist attacks using explosives and automatic/semiautomatic rifles, large numbers of rapes and sexual assaults, crime…

* The dark-haired woman in ABBA, had a Norwegian mother (non-Lebensborn, I think though) and a German-soldier father. After the war, her mother fled with her to Sweden where opinions were less polarized and there was less social rejection. At one point, ABBA was supposed to be second only to Volvo, in terms of Swedish export earnings. So this was at least one case where Sweden overwhelmingly benefited from its policy of open-mindedness and acceptance of immigrants.

* Since we’re observing the one hundred year anniversary of World War I, I’ve often asked myself similar questions. How would the United States have been adversely affected by a German victory in World War I. Without U.S. intervention, that seems quite likely. By the spring of 1918 Russia was out of the war, the French Army was in various stages of mutiny and almost incapable of offensive action. The British were still in it, but the losses at Third Ypres had been almost catastrophic. The Germans came very close to winning in the 1918 Kaiserschlacht.

But how would a Europe dominated by Germany have posed a threat to North America; hard now for me to see!

* Or would WWI have dragged on into 1919 without American intervention? The German offensive to take Paris in the spring of 1918 before the Americans really arrived in large numbers seems to have petered out about 70 miles outside of Paris. The defense had the upper hand at that point in history, so it’s not clear that anybody would have won if the U.S. stayed out.

Perhaps without U.S. intervention the war would have dragged on into 1919 or 1920 and ended with Communists overthrowing the governments in Berlin and Paris, and perhaps London?

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Jews Might Be A Great Fit For China, Russia

Posted on February 21, 2016 by Luke Ford

What if Israel were destroyed? What if the USA turned hostile to Jews? What if Western Europe turned hostile to Jews? Jews could move to Russia and China. I know it sounds strange but they might be a good fit. I often tell people that converting to Judaism is more like joining a tribe than just switching religions.

Russia and China don’t have western notions of human rights. They wouldn’t fear Jews. They would limit and channel Jewish energies in ways that are productive for their host countries.

Russians and Chinese have a strong sense of their own identity and will respect Jews for their strong sense of a Jewish identity. Also, Jews are more likely to have respect for hosts who have a strong sense of identity. I’ve found that tribal Jews have respect for fellow ethnics, particularly East Asians, who put their own people first. Universalist Jews identify with universalist non-Jews and universalist values.

Israelis tend to have contempt for American naivety and generosity. Israelis regard Americans are easy to manipulate. By contrast, Koreans, Japanese and Chinese won’t put up with that manipulation. They could give a dead rat about the Holocaust. They don’t care about Jewish suffering. They are interested in Jewish success to the extent that they think they could learn from Jews and profit from partnerships with Jews.

If the United States abandoned Israel, Russia might become Israel’s ally.

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Indians Fight Over Affirmative Action

Posted on February 21, 2016 by Luke Ford

Is there any country that has made peace with affirmative action?

From the BBC:
India’s constitution, adopted in 1950, inaugurated the world’s oldest and farthest-reaching affirmative action programme, guaranteeing scheduled castes and tribes – the most disadvantaged groups in Hinduism’s hierarchy – not only equality of opportunity but guaranteed outcomes, with reserved places in educational institutions, government jobs and even seats in parliament and the state assemblies.

The logic was simple: they were justified as a means of making up for millennia of discrimination based on birth.

In 1989, the government decided to extend their benefits to Other Backward Classes (OBCs) – those hailing from the lower and intermediate castes who were deemed backward because they lacked “upper caste” status.

As more and more people sought fewer available government and university positions, we witnessed the unedifying spectacle of castes fighting with each other to be declared backward.

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Blood doesn’t lie: Mark Melancon leads pro athletes in growing usage of blood analytics

Posted on February 21, 2016 by Luke Ford

REPORT:

“The Red Sox nutritionist at the time, Tara Mardigan, introduced Melancon to a company called InsideTracker, a blood analytics company based in Cambridge, Mass. which uses blood testing to screen for 30 different biomarkers — including vitamins, hormones and other metabolic markers — and determine optimal zones for each level based on a highly personalized questionnaire which looks at a person’s age, weight, activity level, ethnicity, personal goals and more.”

Comment: I found this on Baseball Think Factory and it seems to have triggered a few people. “Quackery”, “Pseudoscience”, and “Ignorance” are all used in the first 5 comments. Sabermetrics is always looking for the next set of data to analyze, PitchFx and FieldFx (I think defensive analysis is really the diminishing returns phase of baseball analytics) being the latest craze, but let’s not dig TOO deep.

Steve has talked in the past that there isn’t a one-size-fits-all diet, and what better one to find out what works for you than drilling down to your individual biology?

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David Goldman aka Spengler Frightened Of Donald Trump

Posted on February 21, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comment: Surprise!

“Conservative” “American” – don’t you love how he had the American flag flying in the background of his cover photo – compares Trump to … wait for it…. Hitler.

https://pjmedia.com/spengler/2016/01/25/the-resistible-rise-of-donald-trump/

This was a tribal conservatism, one that had very little to do with ideas, and everything to do with nationalism and a sense of us-versus-them.

To put it mildly, Goldman celebrates the nationalism and tribal conservatism of the people and country he actually cares about. Hint: it’s not Americans.

We’re a long way from Germany in the late 1920s, to be sure, but the parallels are disturbing. The Republican Establishment shouts from the rooftops that it prefers Hitl–, er, Trump to the horrible Ted Cruz. As Bob Dole put it, Trump could “probably work with Congress, because he’s, you know, he’s got the right personality and he’s kind of a deal-maker.” Robert Costa at the Washington Post, David French at National Review, Paul Mirengoff at Powerline, and other commentators too numerous to mention have weighed in on the same theme.

A real whos-who of American First Conservatives. I’ll definitely listen to them. Thanks for the “tip”, Dave.

Without a return to entrepreneurship, America’s economy will stagnate and America’s middle class will continue to lose ground. Donald Trump represents the triumph of resentment over hope. I don’t know what American voters will do. But I’m frightened.

Oh no, Heaven forbid, Dave is “frightened”! What about the actual Americans who’ve suffered 50 years of open borders and open anti-white animosity from their “leaders” and your fellow “experts”? Do they have the right to feel frightened, knowing there is nowhere to run – unlike you?

As with other “Respectable Conservatives” like Ben Shapiro, Fox New, National Review, etc. the mask has come off.

The comments section is the best part. Some pile on, openly celebrating the demise of gentiles. Others point out how stupid his article is and how slimy his motives are.

COMMENTS AT THE ARTICLE:

* This author lost his aura of “one of the smartest political commentators” by talking at the end of this piece as unhinged hack at the service of this or that wing of RINO political machine, calling itself Republican Party. Same thing happened of late with articles by editorial board of Commentary and “smartest” authors, who supposedly know better than us. All these smart people spent too much time in respected circles, got too much vested into their “smart” status, that it shows in any smart hit piece that they can write. Usually in the last couple of paragraphs.

His smartness is of the artificial kind that lacks integrity. This article is sum of its parts; it doesn’t compute.

This is the same kind of smartness that causes Likud establishment to promote Peace Racket that rules Israel since mid-1990s, no matter which party wins in elections. It must be made irrelevant together with destruction of organized political racket that it obediently serves.

What is happening now is Great Middle Class revolution. We should be grateful to Donald Trump and Ted Cruz for giving it a voice. And to people like Mark Levin. In spite of Mr. Goldman.

* Donald Trump VS the Davos Man

The pundit and activist class can’t seem to figure Donald Trump out, but as I have attempted to argue elsewhere, Trump’s politics are not really as inscrutable as all that. Trump is that guy at the barbershop who says “We need to run the US more like a business. What America needs is a CEO, not another President.” Trump just happens to have a lot of money and the credentials to be that CEO himself. The theme that the US is getting out negotiated on the international stage and we should start acting more in our own economic best interests have been there since Trump first became a public figure in the 1980’s. Trump, for example, opposed NAFTA before opposing trade deals was the cool thing to do on the right. The consistency of this message suggests that it is sincere, regardless of whatever one might think about the Trump phenomenon that has erupted since he announced his campaign. This economic nationalist message is the key to understanding Trump’s politics.

Trump’s opposition to “free trade” deals and open borders and unabashed advocacy of economic nationalism directly challenges the Establishment consensus in a way that no other candidate dose. All the major candidates in both parties with the possible exception of Bernie Sanders actually take Establishment neoliberal presumptions for granted.

I wince a little when I hear Trump says that America’s leaders are “stupid” and are being out negotiated by the more clever leaders of Mexico, Japan, China, etc. This is grating and potentially unhelpful. What is really the issue here is not smarts but priorities. The leaders of these other nations negotiate with the economic interests of their own countries in mind, while the US negotiates on the basis of fidelity to some imagined set of international rules of fair play, which just so happen to perpetuate the current system that enriches the global elite at the expense of national integrity. But regardless of Trump’s less than ideal formulation, who else is saying this?

Trump is ultimately a patriot who loves his country and wants to restore it to its former glory, as suggested by his campaign slogan “Make America Great Again.” Imagine that. But this chauvinistic attitude is contrary to the rootless cosmopolitanism of the global elite. If you’re still struggling with Trump’s place in relation to the Establishment, ask yourself this: “Would Trump fit in at the World Economic Forum?” Trump is not Davos Man described in the introductory quote. He is the antithesis of Davos Man. He is a red-blooded American patriot from Queens, New York who just happens to have a really big bank account. Criticize Trump’s policies and ways if you must, but let’s not have any more of this nonsense that he is just another member of the Establishment. If you don’t see the fallacy of this claim, you don’t get why Trump’s rise represents such a fundamental challenge to the ruling order.

* We’ve been through three election cycles now where constitutionalists have done their damnedest to get people to wake the h3ll up, only to have their candidates sabotaged or, with but a couple of exceptions – Cruz being one, co-opted by TPTB.
The wrecking ball known as Donald Trump will finally put paid to the constitutionalists this cycle, and helped by the very people angry at the system he helped to create and has no intention of reforming.
The very enemy Trump’s backers say they are rebelling against are laughing their a$$es off.
Thank-you, sirs! May we have another?

* I love the power of the media. It must be intoxicating and exhilarating to make baseless allegations about the rich and powerful especially when they happen to be men who have achieved more and lived more in one life than media hacks will in nine.

So, I’ll try my hand at it, though I am attacking a man who is obviously of perverse and unsatisfied sexual needs who is in the pay of a foreign power. I would also like to add that this very same person is responsible for material omissions regarding the eligibility of his favorite presidential candidate – candidate no doubt in the pay of the author’s foreign masters.

How does that feel? I thought Spengler was a dignified deep-thinker. Comparing Trump to Hitler is beyond infantile. First of all, Hitler was monomaniacally fixated on Jews – Trump shows no such obsession with Mexicans or any group or issue.

Could it be that Spengler – like his coreligionists – favors a dull and virtually impotent White, Western world with such aggression as is permitted to be devoted either to fighting Russians or Muslims in far away nations that cannot hurt us as long as we keep them there.

It is manifestly obvious that Spengler and his ilk fear the slightest awareness of racial and ethnic interests on the part of whites whereas his ilk form private and public policy based on the first test of ethane-centrism: “is it good for the Spenglers, Cohen, Goldberg, etc. of the world?”

Please take your football and go home. Not to America, but to the city where the bank your checks are written on is based.

I ask again – how does that feel? Cuz I gotta tell you, I love this! I haven’t done a thing but hack away and somehow I feel like I achieved something!

* Your comments are way out of bounds- I am no fan of Trump (I tell people I already lost this election). This country used to produce people of genuine substance as our leaders. Do you see George Washington running around, I don’t? The Dems have completely lost touch with the people and the Republicans have become equally out of touch. Every thinking Jew knows that the survival of the Jewish people requires a strong robust United States led by people of ability and character. Lastly, America is deeply divided politically but you better wake up to the idea that an effective sustainable modern society needs healthy debate and no one has a monopoly on wisdom.

* This is a bit shallow. The author tries to paint the white working class as a bunch of whining bigots. In point of fact, Sam Francis, Pat Buchanan, and others, tried to warn Americans 20 years ago that the American plutocracy was about to betray them. You might want to read this and learn something, instead of writing the usual Jewish tripe about all those Nazis waiting around in Middle America to throw you out…

* When Middle Class people are tired of being kicked around, that’s an “ugly mood.” Only to the elites who continue to benefit from how things are. When Trump speaks to these concerns, he’s Hitler. He’s not. He is not espousing a view of mystical racial superiority – only speaking some truths that media can’t handle, because they are the poodle of a system that is getting rich from these facts, and they don’t want anyone upsetting the gravy train.

* Where I do object to your essay is invoking Hitler in your unashamed attempt in deconstructing Donald Trump while enthusiastically waving your Ted Cruz inspired pom-poms. Your support for Cuz is your business but it becomes my business when the horrors of Nazism and Adolph Hitler are so cavalierly and dishonorably used to malign someone, anyone in fact. It goes to sensationalism, intellectual dishonesty, and a mitigating of the unspeakable crimes of that era. Mike Goodwin would be proud.

* It’s not clear whether you are trying to attack Trump or not but even without Ivanka’s marriage, one does not make it in the New York business world if he is anti-Semitic.

* I wonder if the author has any qualms with Israel’s immigration policy?

* And here we see illustrated yet again an age old observation: that no matter what superficial form or ideology they adopt (capitalist/socialist, liberal/conservative, atheist/religious, etc.), at the end of the day, JEWS ARE JEWS, and will always circle the wagons to propagandize against any leader who demonstrates an ability to unite the goyim and who doesn’t submit to the Judaic will. And this is precisely why Amerika so desperately needs a leader like Trump: to BREAK this REAL CONSPIRACY and FIGHT for OUR PEOPLE!

Study who is propagandizing against Trump (and Putin) most militantly — see any patterns? Trump has the potential to be an American Putin: strong, popular, Christian, and most importantly, SOVEREIGN. The last thing the West needs is more WEAK TRAITORS AND SHILLS like the ZOG/NWO tool MERKEL! European peoples everywhere are UNDER ASSAULT and need STRONG NEW LEADERSHIP, because our societies have been subverted by people who FEAR and DESPISE us!

* David P. Goldman: “Ivanka Trump converted to Judaism with her father’s blessing (my rabbi instructed her). It was a serious conversion; Ivanka knows Jewish law in great detail and is very observant. Trump–as I said in the first line–likes Jews. He is pro-Israel. As president he would be a strong supporter of Israel.”

* Trump is not Hitler. There is a large space between Hitler and what I said, believe it or not. It’s called normal nationalist/racial leadership, before the West was subverted by globalist shills and cultural marxists. My kind are in a dark mood because we haven’t had any strong leaders advocating for us in decades; just an endless parade of hostile shills, tools and non-useful idiots. White people literally have no homeland, and no strong leaders willing to defend us, under the post-1945 Pax Amerikana regime. Clearly, this situation is going to change one way or another, because there is something very big stirring throughout the West. My advice to hostiles: get the fuck out of the way!

* America was smarter in 1980 than it is now. In fact, it’s not even remotely close. That is what diversity and multi-culturalism have brought America – abject stupidity and the rise of Progressive politic. The Republican Party has followed suit.

I think what people are failing to recognize about the Trump mantra, is when it’s all said and done, little or nothing will really change unless we elect Trump as dictator. I don’t trust the man enough to do that.

When the election is over, Trump should he win, will swing the art of the deal.

That’s no more than a continuation of what’s been transpiring for 25 years. Trump is the continuation of Hope & Change with promises of a wall and harsh talk of Islam.

* David Goldman: The Weimar government printed money to buy foreign currency to pay reparations when it had no money to do so. The Versailles Treaty was at fault. Hitler “told the truth” about Versailles when a lot of German politicians temporized. In fact, he was a lot more accurate concerning the facts of Germany’s economic problems than Trump is about the US.

* Until recently, Spengler has displayed a Spengler-esque pessimism about the decline of the West in general, but he has tended to make an exception for the exceptional US, on the Bismarkian grounds that “God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.”

Readers of Spengler know that he links this “special providence,” and the American exceptionalism which it at once reflected and furthered–to the Protestant roots of America’s founding political theology. Those roots have now withered, and their fruit of a unique blend of individual initiative and a communal spirit quite distinct from tribalism (but classically evinced in the “civil society” that Tocqueville found so characteristically America) has consequently shriveled on the vine.

Americans are isolated, atomized, linked perhaps by Internet smarm and Kardashian gossip, but sharing neither the “mystic chords of memory” of a collective past nor the spiritual bonds enjoyed by those who regard themselves as part of a pilgrim body whose defining essence is found not in the blood and soil of the here and now, but in a transcendent eschatological destination. In short, constitutional patriotism is dead, and orthodox Protestantism has declined–perhaps fatally. Indeed, part of our “Weimar moment” is reflected in the cultural decadence and spiritual vacuum that have accompanied this decline. In Germany, the same vacuum that birthed cabaret culture also helped called forth You Know Who, who obligingly filled the spiritual emptiness with demonic brio.

What to do? We can seek provisional unity in a tribalism that pits in-groups against out-groups: This is the way of progressive multiculturalism and identity politics. Or we can seek unity in a Leader who seems to embody the now-absent spirit of the people, of the Volk, such that when they behold him on the stage, they seem to behold themselves–healed, united, restored–in a magic mirror. How can mere reason and the graphic presentation of employment statistics avail against such a “vision”?

We have, then, a party already committed to Balkanization, and another one heading down the path towards mystical authoritarianism. This won’t end happily.

Welcome to the Pessimists Club, Mr. Goldman.

* David Goldman: I’m worried. Our predicament reminds me of the conversation between the optimist and the pessimist. The pessimist says, “Things are so bad they can’t possibly get worse.” Says the optimist: “Don’t worry. They will.”

* Adolf was a one-off, a singular response to the unique situation and distinctive cultural history of Germany. My point was that nature abhors a spiritual vacuum just as much as a physical one, and thus such vacuums will be filled–generally, by a malevolent force.

There is a segment of the American public that is responding to that vacuum by hungering for a nationalistic strong man to respond to the mess created by the progressive, internationalistic messiah-figure that the left sold its soul to in 2008. This hunger is evident in the authoritarian character of their attacks on those who dare to disagree with them. Trump didn’t create this hunger, but his entry into the race brought it to the surface and gave it focus.

I believe that Trump is a mildly demagogic narcissist who bumptiousness in office could deeply harm American national interests . . . but I don’t think he has the right stuff–either in inclination or capacity–to be an American version of You Know Who (just as Obama lacked the right stuff to be an American Lenin or Stalin). What scares me more is After Trump: Obama the thesis, Trump the antithesis . . . and then something or someone very, very bad as the “synthesis” to clean up the mess. I think a similar pattern is afoot in Europe.

* Comparing Trump to Hitler or any other tinpot dictator is the last refuge of second rate, derivative intellectuals. Before taking over Germany Hitler, the bitter corporal, the failed artist, had no real accomplishments. He had no real family beyond a mistress. He was an angry, dysfunctional neurotic, a borderline psychopath who passed deep into the hinterland as he began loosing his war. Trump is a largely self made billionaire and media celebrity, neither feats are highly admirable, nor are they common or easy achievements. As for stability, Trump is by all accounts an excellent father of four exemplary children, apparently liked by all his successive wives and has few complaints from his many well paid employees. Such cannot be said of Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, Mussolini, Peron, Castro or even American wannabees like Huey Long or George Wallace. Spengler, awaken from your ideological slumbers! The key to Trump’s appeal is the courage to take a stand for the long ignored and always bypassed and snubbed desires of the majority on Americans on the crucial subject of immigration.

Americans rightly feel they have been tricked, lied to and disrespected on immigration. But to turn those angry feelings into reasons, here is why we are turning to Trump: 1) Our current immigration policies discriminate de facto in favor of those who can readily violate our southern border and against nearly everyone else across the planet. 2) Most Americans feel there are only two legitimate reasons for allowing new immigrants in: they should either provide skills and talents our economy can use or present a strong case for compassion, and our compassion should never favor one ethnicity over others. 3) Most people in the top 10% financially are seldom affected by immigrant crime, school and safety net strain, and neighborhood deterioration, many benefit by the access to cheap labor—all of this is even more true for the top 1%. 4) It is the bottom 90% who must bear the negative impact of uncontrolled illegal immigration. 5) In the last 45 years voters have been ignored on how many immigrants they want admitted and from where—you can bet that at no time would the majority favor immigration policies that allowed 60+% of all new immigrants to be underskilled and undereducated laborers from Mexico and the northern triangle countries. 6) Most suspect that US immigration policies and practices are crafted to benefit the wishes of special interests, especially those seeking cheap labor or bloc voters. 7) Few Americans want the USA to become a bilingual country like Canada or worse Belgium, yet they are increasingly confronted by Spanish everywhere, when it was almost nowhere 50 years ago. 8) Most Americans favor assimilation and the melting pot of which most are products. 9) Americans increasingly resent the intellectual arrogance and presumption of moral superiority displayed by those who try to dictate what we all should be allowed to say and and dare to think about immigration. A viable democracy requires that all citizens be entitled to respect as individuals, and neither the government nor self serving elites should be allowed to manipulate thought and suppress dissent. Americans see in Trump a leader who can bring us democratic, rather than elitist and oligarchic, immigration policies.

* David Goldman: I would vote for Trump against Hillary. Trump to my knowledge is not a criminal. The Clintons are a criminal enterprise.

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U.S. – China trade: National Review is the ‘Buffoon,’ not Trump

Posted on February 21, 2016 by Luke Ford

From American Thinker: In one of National Review’s hit pieces against Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump (“What Trump Doesn’t Understand – It’s a lot about our Trade with China”), correspondent Kevin D. Williamson called Trump a “dangerous buffoon” because he would threaten tariffs upon China’s products and thus risk a trade war with China. But it’s not Trump who is the buffoon on trade; it is National Review!

Trump plans to take on the huge U.S. trade deficit with the world, and especially with China. He threatens to place upon Chinese products a tariff like the 45% tariff that China recently placed upon some U.S. cars. Such a threat could lead to negotiations between the U.S. and China about balancing trade, and Trump wrote the book on negotiations.

When an article tears into a candidate for having his facts wrong, the magazine that prints it probably should check to make sure that the candidate is actually wrong. But; National Review failed to fact-check this piece. Its correspondent, Kevin D. Williamson, wrote:

“China did put a punitive retaliatory tariff on some cars made by GM and Chrysler…. That was a 12.9 percent tariff, incidentally, nothing like the 45 percent that Trump imagines, and it is being withdrawn. Chinese buyers in fact love American cars — a Buick is a much bigger status symbol in China than in New Jersey.”

More at American Thinker.

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WP: Trump has a stranglehold on the GOP nomination. So why isn’t he getting credit?

Posted on February 21, 2016 by Luke Ford

Chris Cillizza writes: Donald Trump cruised to a double-digit win over the Republican field on Saturday in South Carolina. It was his second straight easy win — coming 11 days after he swept the New Hampshire primary by nearly 17 points.

Those back-to-back victories coupled with Trump’s second-place finish in Iowa’s caucuses — in which he took the second-most votes of any Republican candidate ever — affirm a very simple yet still not fully grasped fact: Donald Trump is the heavy favorite to be the Republican presidential nominee this fall…

Why isn’t Trump getting the credit and coverage he deserves? Because, at root, there is still a belief within the party establishment and the ranks of the media that he will somehow implode or that voters will “wise up” or “get real” — or something. The problem with that theory is that Trump has done lots and lots of things that (a) can be described as “gaffes” and (b) would have ended or severely compromised other campaigns. Yet none of it has touched him.

In fact, his willingness to say anything, no matter the underlying facts, seems to affirm to his supporters just how “independent” of the political system he really is.

One example: Trump spent the week before the South Carolina primary savaging George W. Bush and insisting that the 43rd president didn’t keep the country safe because the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, happened on his watch. Not only is that sort of rhetoric verboten within the Republican Party, but it was widely considered especially noxious in a state where the Bush family remains very popular.Yet, of the 1 in 5 South Carolina Republican voters who were either veterans or had a military veteran in their house, Trump crushed the competition.

Ask yourself: What could Trump possibly do or say that would somehow be seen as a large enough mistake to cost him large amounts of support?

Given the steadiness of his numbers, the idea that Trump will either derail himself or be derailed seems like the most wishful of thinking by establishment Republicans. Ditto the idea, which I still hear nearly every day in Washington, that the establishment will “figure out” a way to stop Trump. Trust me: If they could have stopped Trump, they would have done it a long time ago.

Even after former Florida governor Jeb Bush bowed out of the race after his disappointing South Carolina finish, the establishment vote remains split between Rubio and Ohio Gov. John Kasich. And even if Kasich gets out sometime soon — my guess is he won’t — I remain unconvinced that the establishment vote, even when totally unified, is enough to beat Trump.

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Election Open Thread

Posted on February 20, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* Hillary Clinton, coughing, wheezing, barking like a dog, trafficking in national secrets, whose only qualification seems to be the possession of a little-used VaJayJay, narrowly defeats the bumbling, inept, economically incoherent Bernie Sanders in the state where people go to throw away the wages that can no longer buy them a decent standard of living.

I’m not sure what there is to say. It sure isn’t “God Bless America.”

* If these two – a communist open borders enthusiast and a liberal capitalist open borders enthusiast – are the so-called cream that has risen to vie for the presidency, it truly damns the system with faint praise.

The best thing to emerge from the Democratic nominations process has been Larry David’s Sanders impersonation.

* The best thing about this election is that the establishment candidates have felt a little whiff of grapeshot (or however that goes). About a year ago I assumed it was going to be Hillary/Jeb and that’s it, and the parties would go on in clueless momentum.

Might still be thus, more or less, but Bernie and Trump have pointed out the Emperor’s new clothes.

I’m rooting for the bloodiest election in decades. (And I hope Brooks, Friedman, et all die from pearl clutching. Thanks for nothing guys.)

* Hillary creaks across the finish line in Iowa, gets clobbered in New Hampshire, and wheezes across the finish in line in Nevada mere moments ahead of Karl Marx’s 187-year-old nephew. Why there’s no stopping this hero of the people! She’s inevitable! She’s indomitable! She’s indubitable! The GOP would never want to make the mistake of nominating anybody but the best, most time-tested, most certifiably HIV-free Latino buttboy of the GOP establishment we can possibly find.

* Deep down even the most doctrinnaire, feminazi dimocrat has a sinking feeling that only an utter collapse of the stoopid party can possibly assure Hilary Rodham Clinton of the presidency. Even if the witch squeaks through the next several state primaries, I suspect that there will be a growing realization within their party that the dimocrats need to come up with an alternative. I hope they don’t but if they do I suspect that it will be Biden/Warren.

The stoopid party establishment has the opposite problem. They cannot accept that the strongest candidate they can field is Donald Trump even though he is sweeping their primaries. I’d love to see a Trump vs Sanders or a Trump vs Clinton contest. The first because for the first time in a long time it will give the American people a genuine choice between authentic individuals. I fear a Trump vs Biden/ Warren contest because it will likely give the dimocrats sixteen years to wreak havoc on the country, starting with a stacked Supreme Court dictatorship. Anything else and I’ll stay home and stock up for Armegaddon.

* I follow Anne Applebaum’s Twitter feed just to enjoy her reactions to the worm turning.

* A Sanders-Trump contest would’ve been the most interesting thing to have happened in my short existence, but with some of the polls coming in from South Carolina and with this Nevada win towards Hillary, my hope that …actual patriots would contest each other in the Presidential elections is fading.

* According to the NY Times Bernie Sanders won 53% of Latino vote in Nevada but only 22% of the Black vote. So it looks like Sanders is winning the young, white liberals, and Latinos. Hillary Clinton will narrowly win the nomination by racking up a super-majority of the Black vote in every state. If Bernie gets even 30-35% of the Black vote Hillary is gone. BUT that’s a huge IF.

This points to Trump’s strategy in general; election. If Trump can get 15-20% of the Black vote with an increase in working class White turnout, the Democrats are toast. Democrats win swing states by getting 95+% of the black vote. Anything less is a disaster.

* Blacks aren’t big fans of the Jews. In fact, they don’t like them one bit. Why would anyone expect Sanders to take more than a small portion of the black vote from Hillary?

* I’m not even sure most people are aware Bernie is Jewish. He has a Brooklyn accent, but his name isn’t particularly Jewish sounding, and he never talks about being Jewish.

It’s not like Lieberman, whose calling card was constantly talking about being Jewish.

Hillary will win blacks because the entire black political establishment is behind her.

* You wanna really rile up a Jewish leftist? Casually mention that blacks-hate-Jews thing.

* Foxnews is reporting that 73% of the gop voters in exit polling supported a ban on muslims. Megyn Kelly seems shocked over those stats. Now the anchors are bringing up Trump saying 911 was Bush’s fault and he lied to get us into Iraq. They cannot believe a bunch of red staters just voted for trump!

* I started watching Fox (or listening) around 5 pm. The early indications they were giving was that the race was tight among Trump, Cruz and Rubio, based on exit polls. When the polls closed at 7 pm, Fox started the election night coverage by announcing it was too early to call, but the race was tight among the top three. A half hour later, at 7:30, Fox called it for Trump but stated that his winning margin was going to be less than the polls had indicated. In the meantime, early returns shown on the bottom of the screen (1%, 2%, now 21% of the vote counted) were showing consistently Trump in the 30% range (34-35%) while Rubio and Cruz were around 21%. So I got the distinct feeling that Fox was deliberately playing down Trump to increase TV ratings for as long as possible. It now looks that Trump is going to win every Congressional district which would give him every delegate in SC. The more the TV coverage goes on the more it looks like a big victory for Trump. I guess his condemnation of GWB and the Iraq War at the last debate (which took me aback) did not hurt him the way everybody (including me) thought it would. But, as another poster said on another site, Trump’s strong stance against GWB and the Iraq War might have slightly depressed his polling numbers in SC but caused them to rise across the country. So it looked like a well calculated gamble by Trump, which he appears to have won.

* Rubio isn’t the big winner. He lost and will continue to lose despite the Faux News propaganda. At this time, the pressure needs to build on the right for Cruz to get out of the race and endorse Trump. Cruz has no path to victory. Trump will do very well in the South on March 1st and be much more competitive than Cruz in the Northeast, on the West Coast, and in Rust Belt states. All Cruz can do now is serve as a spoiler and help Rubio. The base may not forgive him if he ensures Rubio gets the nomination. If he exits quickly enough, there is some possibility that his relationship with Trump can be repaired enough for him to get a VP spot. Even if he doesn’t, he may have another shot in 2020 if Trump does not prevail….but that depends on retaining the good favor of the grassroots by not helping the establishment.

* I was watching the SNL cold open of the “Democratic Presidential Debate.” Whoever played Anderson Cooper seriously gayed him up, Alec Baldwin was playing Jim Webb, and Larry David was the Bern. “Jim Webb” kept demanding Cooper actually include him in the debate, so “Anderson Cooper” would throw questions at him meant to embarrass him. One of the questions he asked was about Webb’s statement that affirmative action was racist against whites. It was meant to be a laugh line.

* Cruz needs to start focusing on becoming the attorney general in a Trump regime. I think he would be pretty good. And if Trump wins, he will need guys working in key positions like AG to ensure his agenda gets pushed through.

With that in mind Cruz should start to figure out how to graciously withdraw and get his supporters to move to Trump, the only other anti-establishment candidate. The main goal should be to ensure the establishment does not get the nomination.

* 57% of “anti-establishment” Rafael Cruz’s campaign funds come from Wall Street. You really think he has any scope to make strategic decisions about where to direct the support that money bought? I guarantee you those guys didn’t spend all that money for the sake of furthering the personal development goals of one Rafael Cruz, and they certainly didn’t spend it to help get Donald Trump into office.

* Trump already has the support of Dennis Rodman, Mike Tyson, Terrell Owens, and Herschel Walker.

* Ann Coulter has written about how pathetic the anti-amnesty lobby is.

Instead of putting a laser focus on immigration issues and just scoring the votes on those issues, they care about the full buffet of conservative issues. As a result, Democrats who actually vote the right way on immigration issues don’t get rewarded for doing so, and Republicans who vote the wrong way never get punished.

This is a totally different strategy from the NRA, which will endorse a black, transgender, atheist, lesbian union organizer as long as she votes the right way on gun control issues.

* Last week alone Trump took on Pope Francis, Apple, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, the Bush dynasty and the neocons and still won. This guy is Napoleonic in magnitude.

* I think he has Napoleon beat as well. After all, I think he is 6’4″ and would tower over that cheese-eating surrender monkey.

* Honestly I don’t think deep down they care if he goes third party. I think the GOP establishment would rather lose in November than allow Trump to be their nominee. If he is the nominee, some of those establishment guys have already stated they’d support the democrat.

Their main goal is to first not lose control over the party. Their second goal is to win the White House. But if losing the White House means they still have control over the party, they’d take that.

Trump threatens to create the long awaited (for me at least) white oriented party. This would be a party that appeals to white democrats (my neighbor is a supporter) and pretty much all whites that aren’t SJWs. It would be nationalist, protectionist and would reduce immigration levels. Needless to say the establishment of both parties fears this. And the donor class behind the GOP would rather lose to the democrats than allow this to happen.

But I think no matter what happens, the wheels are now turning towards this type of party.

* I have a hard time fathoming what would motivate anyone to vote for Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio, so it’s hard to imagine them switching to Trump.

To date, he hasn’t spent much on advertising. FOX was saying that he only spent $1.8 million on campaign ads in S.C. (and got about 33% of the vote) to Rubio’s $12 million (for only 22% of the vote). However, he should start advertising more on TV. He should pump out ads informing people about all the financial backing that Rubio has received from liberal billionaires like Paul Singer. Singer was a major backer of gay marriage legislation; perhaps Rubio’s evangelical supporters would find that interesting.

* People who actually serve in the military aren’t really crazy about being sent off to pointless, unpopular wars. Bacevich noted that when Congress approved W’s adventures, the fewest number (or percentage, can’t remember) of veterans was serving in Congress.

* Trump and Cruz are both running on a Pat Buchanan platform – enforce America’s immigration laws, not Syrian “no fly zones”.

Their combined totals:
Iowa 52%
New Hampshire 47%
South Carolina 54.9%

Rubio, Bush, Kasich, Christie and Fiorina, on the other hand, are/were running on a George F. Will platform – enforce Syrian “no fly zones”, not America’s immigration laws.

Their combined totals:
Iowa 27.5%
New Hampshire 48.9%
South Carolina 37.9%

The establishment candidates can’t break through the “neocon ceiling”, especially not in states with a large percentage of White evangelicals.

For the good of America, Cruz should drop out of the race and endorse Trump, citing his immigration platform and his opposition to the Syria “no fly zone”. This would put an end to the farcical hopes of the thoroughly discredited establishment, and earn Cruz a place in the history books as the man who saved America, Europe, and Middle Eastern Christianity.

Trump, for his part, should recruit a running mate who reassures and motivates the evangelical base, and balances the ticket by silencing the most common criticisms leveled against The Donald. He needs a running mate who is a well spoken, intelligent, polite, young, honest, churchgoing family man from the heartland with a long history of conservative activism, who is willing and able to defend Trump’s immigration platform in intense debate with Hillary’s likely running mate – Rhodes scholar Corey Booker – , and who is untainted by neocon foreign policy fiascoes.

Trump needs Kris Kobach.

* I think the optimism/triumphalism of many of the commenters here is completely misplaced. The results in SC seem profoundly depressing to me. Trump got 32.5%, far below what he polled. “Anti-establishment” candidates together got 54.8%, if you count Cruz as anti-establishment, which I would not. That means the establishment candidates got almost half of the votes in SC, which should have been one of the toughest states for them. Trump needed to poll near 40% in SC to keep the momentum going. I don’t see things getting better for him from here, especially with the Republican party and every mass media outlet pulling out all the stops to beat him. The odds are very high that Rubio will be the nominee, the doors will be thrown open for third-world foreigners to flood in and they will swamp the historic American nation, which will disappear forever.

* I have pointed out before that there are two aspects to the Trump personality: the carnival barker who appears at the debates and the crowd meetings and the serious, thoughtful, calm person who you see in interviews. On Friday evening at 7 pm, Greta Van Susteren had Trump on for a 20-minute interview during which she respectfully asked him tough questions and he responded in a calm, thoughtful and serious manner that, I am sure, must have impressed any viewer who happened to tune in. If you are able to track down a video of that interview, you really should. Every time I have seen him in the context of a person-to-person interview he has behaved in a very Presidential manner. I happen to believe that he wouldn’t be nearly as successful without both aspects of his personality. I believe Machiavelli talked about a successful Prince needing to have the qualities of a lion and a fox. Without the outrageous behavior of the carnival barker, I don’t think Trump would be nearly as successful as he has been.

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