{"id":89765,"date":"2016-03-13T07:33:43","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T15:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=89765"},"modified":"2016-03-13T07:33:43","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T15:33:43","slug":"national-review-white-working-class-communities-morally-indefensible-they-deserve-to-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=89765","title":{"rendered":"National Review: White Working Class Communities \u2018Morally Indefensible\u2026 They Deserve to Die\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

LINK<\/a>: This article first appeared in The Daily Caller:<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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National Review\u2019s Kevin Williamson believes Donald Trump\u2019s appeals to the white working class are \u201cimmoral\u201d because that demographic\u2019s way of life deserves to die out.<\/p>\n

In a featured article for the prestigious conservative journal entitled \u201cThe FatherFuhrer,\u201d Williamson seeks to rebut criticism that he and other conservatives don\u2019t articulate any policies that would appeal to Trump\u2019s blue collar supporters.<\/p>\n

Williamson, a long-time critic of The Donald, essentially agrees that he doesn\u2019t support any policies or rhetoric directly tailored to the working-class \u2014 particularly about jobs being taken by outsourcing and immigration \u2014 because it would be wrong to do so.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is immoral because it perpetuates a lie: that the white working class that finds itself attracted to Trump has been victimized by outside forces,\u201d the NR roving correspondent writes. \u201c[N]obody did this to them. They failed themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

He then goes on to make the conclusion that it\u2019s great these communities are dying out because they have a warped morality and are a dead weight on the economy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe truth about these dysfunctional, downscale communities is that they deserve to die. Economically, they are negative assets. Morally, they are indefensible,\u201d the conservative writer says. \u201cThe white American under-class is in thrall to a vicious, selfish culture whose main products are misery and used heroin needles. Donald Trump\u2019s speeches make them feel good. So does OxyContin. What they need isn\u2019t analgesics, literal or political. They need real opportunity, which means that they need real change, which means that they need U-Haul. If you want to live, get out of Garbutt [a blue-collar town in New York.]”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

You can read the rest of the story here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LINK: This article first appeared in The Daily Caller: National Review\u2019s Kevin Williamson believes Donald Trump\u2019s appeals to the white working class are \u201cimmoral\u201d because that demographic\u2019s way of life deserves to die out. In a featured article for the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89766,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89765\/revisions\/89766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}