{"id":124100,"date":"2018-10-23T12:43:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T20:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=124100"},"modified":"2018-10-23T12:52:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T20:52:51","slug":"the-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=124100","title":{"rendered":"The Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the thread on Steve Sailer’s blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n

* The Democrats really want to shoot themselves in the foot by making this an election about migrant rights and transgender locker rooms, but the Republicans keep trying to hand the Democrats the bread and butter issue of health care.<\/p>\n

* Trump has managed to get the Left to come out against the flag, the national anthem, defending America\u2019s borders, due process of law, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, Kanye West, and now being a nationalist.<\/p>\n

Is there anything this man cannot do?<\/p>\n

Give him a few more months and I legitimately think he could get them to come out against Mom, baseball, and apple pie.<\/p>\n

* Actually stop migrants at the border without letting them apply for asylum?
\nPull our boys out of Middle Eastern wars?
\nSink the fledgling Chinese navy and destroy the bases they\u2019ve built on neutral\/contested lands?
\nConvince US businesses and our political allies to stop treating the Chinese as anything other than an oppressive dictatorship?
\nDeclare Taiwan an independent nation and US ally?
\nRepair our relationship with Russia?
\nPush Merkel out of power in Europe?
\nReverse the power dynamic with Saudi Arabia?
\nBalance the budget?
\nStart decreasing the national debt?<\/p>\n

* He kept us from entering the Syrian debacle and has made a peace deal with North Korea, and has slowly drawn down our involvement everywhere.<\/p>\n

* Sam Francis used to claim that the Dems were the evil party and the GOP the stupid party. I am beginning to think he had it backwards.<\/p>\n

If the GOP holds the House, they will owe it to the visuals of this \u201ccaravan.\u201d How can the Left be so stupid as not to know that these visuals would play badly in middle America?<\/p>\n

* I\u2019m really hoping for a Trumpian Triumph in November.<\/p>\n

However, I\u2019m going to call the election against both sides.<\/p>\n

Democrats will be devastated when they don\u2019t take control of the Senate. The smart money says that the Dems have a good chance of flipping the House, but I\u2019m going with my belief in Trump mojo to say that they won\u2019t. They will howl, sulk, double down on dismissing deplorables, wear pussy hats while eating pints of Rocky Road, etc.<\/p>\n

People who voted for President Trump will be sorely disappointed that their political position will not have improved one whit. President Trump will still not have partners who will pass funding for the Wall through Congress, and there will be no movement toward solving immigration with legislation.<\/p>\n

>>>Not one liberal or Leftist or Democrat will be convinced by anything in Steve Sailer\u2019s columns to change sides. Not one. We\u2019re not winning any hearts or minds.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re actually using the failed \u201cwinning the hearts and minds\u201d trope, you\u2019re far gone, baby. That phrase went out when Iraq and Afghanistan turned into nightmares.<\/p>\n

Steve\u2019s columns are for the intellectual\/moral bolstering of our own side. Much like how all those left wing academic are for them. Do you really think that one person is swayed by Mother Jones ?<\/p>\n

Morale is important. And intellectual arguments are important. But only for people on your own side. No one is convinced by witty arguments, baby.<\/p>\n

As Vox Day has pointed out, they started hedging their bets a few weeks ago and have gradually wound down their \u201cmass blue wave\u201d predictions to \u201cits close\u201d. They know their polls are bogus, and this time they know that far fewer people are buying them, so they are drawing down to save some of their credibility with those dumb enough to think they have some.<\/p>\n

Still, that\u2019s better than 2016, when their \u201cHillary will win in a landslide\u201d lies kept up to the last minute caused literal mental breakdowns on the Left when Trump won. The freakout will be more subdued this time. I can\u2019t help but think that Kavanaugh\u2019s confirmation caused much of the corporate media to realize the power they thought they had to destroy a man\u2019s career is far less than before, and they are a bit depressed.<\/p>\n

* Whats flummoxing the left is that its jewish leadership is (on paper) sympathetic to trump\u2019s ideas, since most of his rhetoric and philosophy is lifted from zionist concepts that have been reinterpreted along american cultural lines.<\/p>\n

This is why trump \u201cgets away with\u201d so much stuff. His goals are orthagonal to jewish ones, and his methods, actions, and behaviors don\u2019t rustle hebrew jimmies. In many ways, this \u201cthreading the needle\u201d is one of the most astonishing political balancing acts accomplished in the post ww2 era.<\/p>\n

Thats also what\u2019s so interesting about the \u201calt right\u201d\u2026although it is (nominally) anti jewish, it is fundamentally a jewish inspired\/modeled movement, publicly lead by a guy (trump) who is sympathetic to jewish political and cultural thought.<\/p>\n

Jews have, post ww2, been the intellectual, political, and financial leaders of the democrats.<\/p>\n

For about the past year, though, american jews have been moving towards trumps side. They are doing this because, in many ways, Trump is\u201done of them\u201d. Or at least, the closest thing there ever will be to a jewish president.<\/p>\n

Without jews providing direction to the left, the left is flailing and floundering\u2026Black lives matter is defunct. Metoo burned out, and mostly went after democrats. The Kavanaugh protests? Lasted 10 days, ended 15 minutes after the vote, and were self defeating. Heard anything from Robert Mueller lately? Heard anything ABOUT Mueller lately? Or Russia? Or trumps \u201cnazi\u201d \u201cfoot soldiers?\u201d<\/p>\n

Most of the stuff Sailer has railed about over the past 12 months has been expendable, \u201ctrue believer\u201d suicide bomber type bullshit\u2026Low level leftists acting without funding, organization, coordination, or sanction. voices in the wilderness. Futile, angry, ineffective gestures of defiance. Nothing coordinated. Nothing planned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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