{"id":58498,"date":"2016-05-14T07:40:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T13:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=58498"},"modified":"2019-03-23T18:37:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T00:37:12","slug":"of-cabbages-and-kings-my-response-to-a-trumper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=58498","title":{"rendered":"Of cabbages and kings: my response to a Trumper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, in the comments to my month-old post<\/a> on the Trump phenomenon and those long-time site readers of pw<\/strong> who’ve somehow lemming-bounced their way onto the #TrumpTrain! — which is, if we’re being honest, just a convoy of shabby, overstuffed short buses pretending to be mighty locomotives piercing a virgin white landscape of latent American engreatenment — serr8d, a freshly-minted mouthpiece for Orange Julius, took me to task for what he considers my intellectual sins against Trump supporters. Seems my smugly smug elitism is showing. Or at the very least, I’m not properly and with hushed deference hiding my contempt for the brazen and entitled mass stupidity of moron clusters playing working-class hero on their iphones, dull-eyed and full-throated cultists laying claim to being The People while many of us who have worked tirelessly to return the country to its propositional moorings are dismissed as “establishment dupes” or “failed conservatives,” relics whose flaccid Constitution is an impediment to the aim of Making America Great Again. Which of course, only Donald Trump can do. Somehow. Through, like, rambling rallies and the intellectual uprising of “nationalists” who have determined themselves fit to supplant Constitutional “fetishists” with the good<\/em> kind of progressive essentialist tribalism.<\/p>\n

I’ll lay out the indictment against me in full, then post my response (elevated from the thread to my earlier post by popular demand!).<\/p>\n

Writes<\/a> the Trumper and decade-long pw reader — whose honor I’ve besmirched with my outward disgust at an old, Orange-dyed, racoon-eyed con man currently FOXNewsing his way to the head of a party ticket that he in no recognizable way represents:<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Problems with @proteinwisdom\u2019s (and his like-minded associates\u2019) approach to tackling the real and growing dangers we face as a culture are their failures to acknowledge any solutions not perfectly \u2018pure\u2019 by their definition of \u2018conservatism\u2019 (marked tunnel vision), but also their embrace of the tactics of SJW leftists to attack those they deem impure. And there\u2019s fewer and fewer who can pass his purity tests.<\/p>\n

Look at @proteinwisdom\u2019s vitriolic time line. There\u2019s not a string of Tweets 10 deep where one can find substance without wading through attacks on others he considers too dimwitted to cheer his overzealous visions. It\u2019s a shame I can\u2019t help but recall Vox\u2019s column on the smugness of the Liberal mind\u2026
\nhttp:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/4\/21\/11451378\/smug-american-liberalism<\/p>\n

Jeff continues to embrace leftist\u2019s tactics of unsubstantiated name-calling, derisive guilt-by-association put-downs, and holier-than-thou smugness that sours his and his lock-step followers ever-narrowing vision.<\/p>\n

Sure, it\u2019s dark theater, but there comes a time when one must wise up.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was young, I used to admire intelligent people;
\nas I grow older, I admire kind people.\u201d
\n\u2013 Abraham Joshua Heschel<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To which I’ve now replied:<\/p>\n

Here, let me unpack this nonsense, since Serr8d tried to slip it into what he hoped was a dead thread. We’ll do it the old-fashioned way — with a fisking – which I likely invented anyway. So from an identitarian standpoint I’m the UR man, the singularity of blogging.<\/p>\n

Problems with @proteinwisdom\u2019s (and his like-minded associates\u2019) approach to tackling the real and growing dangers we face as a culture are their failures to acknowledge any solutions not perfectly \u2018pure\u2019 by their definition of \u2018conservatism\u2019 (marked tunnel vision), but also their embrace of the tactics of SJW leftists to attack those they deem impure. And there\u2019s fewer and fewer who can pass his purity tests.<\/tt><\/p>\n

First, let’s point the obvious: “the real and growing dangers we face as a culture” aren’t identified by serr8d but rather assumed to be homogeneous to all who believe we’re moving in a bad direction. He gets this newfound appreciation for meaningless generic puffery from his new friends, I take it, which just illustrates the danger of moving from a forum of thinking people to a farm of drones with ready-made memes and superficial arguments.<\/p>\n

For me, the “real and growing dangers” we face right now in this election cycle<\/i> are the eagerness and alacrity with which certain people who long identified as conservatives and Constitutionalists are willing to dismiss their own supposed principles for a man who has spent his life backing the very establishment politicians who we’re all in agreement are a large part of the problem. In his pre-Trumper life, Serr8d was fond of quoting or RT me — including this post,<\/a> which laid out what I believed were the real and growing dangers we faced as a political<\/i> system. All of that is to be dismissed now that the Orange Mondale has deigned to lead us out of the wilderness of globalist Jew rule and reaffirm our whiteness and greatness.<\/p>\n

Second, I find it curious that serr8d would accuse me of adopting SJW tactics when the entirety of the Trump movement and its nationalism base is itself one poorly disguised SJW beg. Trump is always a victim of something: Colorado’s caucus system, the media, Lyin’ Ted, local governments, the Justice Department looking into his “university” racket, et al. And people like serr8d reflexively spring to his defense.<\/p>\n

In a string of Tweets this morning I laid it out how this SJW charade works — you can go find them if you wish to review the argument in its entirety, but the gist of it was that the charge of SJW has become, to Trumpers, akin to shouting “RACIST!” “SEXIST!” “HOMOPHOBIC!” — with the supposed affront of being targeted by “SJWs” designed (they hope) as an inoculation against the tribalism they themselves police and enforce with lists and threats.<\/p>\n

It is not being a SJW to notice real patterns of behavior and the actual members of a coalition: that charge is meant to shame those of us addressing empirical facts that don’t show particularly well on sellouts like serr8d in order that he and they won’t have to answer for them.<\/p>\n

Well, fuck that and fuck him. He’s backing a prog populist \/ anti-American (in the propositional sense) nationalist who has already announced he’s for a fed minimum wage increase, price controls on pharmaceutical companies, socialized medicine, feelz bathroom policies, race-based affirmative action, protectionism and capricious tariffs, a wealth tax, and continuing federal control over public lands. He’s spent his life backing career pols and funding leftist causes. That he was allowed to smear and try to destroy the reputation of a man like Cruz who has demonstrably defended my liberties is revolting to me. To succor such behavior is to reveal yourself as the very kind of “pragmatist” I’ve spent years here exposing as mere political opportunists.<\/p>\n

How serr8d squares what and who he backs with his years online screaming about the ESTABLISHMENT is, to put it mildly, an unresolvable dilemma.<\/p>\n

In short, is isn’t being a SJW to notice what is obvious; whereas it IS being a SJW to try to keep me from pointing out that the camouflage these pro tribalists rely on isn’t working — at least not on me.<\/p>\n

But back to my original point: Other dangers we face — and which I’ve laid out for 15 years — include surrendering to leftist notions of language and playing on their field under their rules. So when Serr8d writes,<\/p>\n

Look at @proteinwisdom\u2019s vitriolic time line. There\u2019s not a string of Tweets 10 deep where one can find substance without wading through attacks on others he considers too dimwitted to cheer his overzealous visions. It\u2019s a shame I can\u2019t help but recall Vox\u2019s column on the smugness of the Liberal mind\u2026
\nhttp:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/4\/21\/11451378\/smug-american-liberalism<\/tt><\/p>\n

…the gist of his indictment is that I continue to call out those who are too moronic to recognize how they are in fact helping leftists and the leftist project — only this time, because he falls on the dumb side of things, the attacks are “vitriolic”, “overzealous,” and smug. That is, right away, the complaint is how his honor has been victimized!<\/p>\n

That sounds…familiar<\/i>, somehow.<\/p>\n

But let’s continue:<\/tt><\/p>\n


\n<\/tt>Jeff continues to embrace leftist\u2019s tactics of unsubstantiated name-calling, derisive guilt-by-association put-downs, and holier-than-thou smugness that sours his and his lock-step followers ever-narrowing vision.<\/tt><\/p>\n

Firstly, for me to “continue to embrace leftist’s tactics” I’d have to have embraced them in the first place rather than having spent years shining a light on them so that we can readily locate them and combat them. Secondly, what serr8d does here — unexpectedly! And with all the agility of a Trump policy speech — is conflate substantial<\/em> attacks on what are very real morons with very real associations to the most unsavory of anti-Jew progressives and racial “realists” and “identitarians”, with “unsubstantiated” attacks.<\/p>\n

That of course begs the question, because if I didn’t believe the attacks were substantiated by the dangers they pose to a Constitutional representative republic and the liberty of me and mine, I wouldn’t waste time leveling them. And of course, serr8d provides no evidence any of the rhetoric he decries is unsubstantiated, incidental, or motivated by sanctimony.<\/p>\n

More, “lock-step followers” is, I take it, code for readers who agree with me — which is an odd charge to level, given my demonstrative willingness over the years here to take on all comers (recall the Letterman threads?), and my reputation for being quite willing and able to engage with views not my own in order to argue the righteousness of the beliefs and principles I hold.<\/p>\n

So, uh, sorry<\/em>…? Though in my defense, I’d argue not wanting to hang out and listen to your cultish excuses for backing a con man is not the same as demanding lock-step followers. It’s merely me not wanting to become stupider for having to constantly read your programmatic apologias.<\/p>\n

And as for the “ever-narrowing vision”– I’ve been a constitutionalist and a classical liberal as long as this site has been active. My vision hasn’t narrowed: it has stayed focused on what I believe is necessary to reclaim this country from scheming pols divorced from the Founders and Framers — and if anything, I’ve even expanded<\/i> my vision to take on those who claim to be on “our side” but who back candidates and ideas that are anathema to liberty, classical liberalism, and representative republicanism.<\/p>\n

Sure, it\u2019s dark theater, but there comes a time when one must wise up.<\/tt><\/p>\n


\n<\/tt>\u201cWhen I was young, I used to admire intelligent people;
\nas I grow older, I admire kind people.\u201d
\n\u2013 Abraham Joshua Heschel<\/tt><\/p>\n

Ted Cruz’s presidential assassin father could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n

Spit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There. Now you too can have your say if you so desire. Personally, I’m so fucking done with these whining frauds that I feel like having the Mexican government build a wall around me<\/em>. Just throw in a few dozen cases of cerveza and some guac and chips and wake me up when this latest “populist agrarian nationalist” nightmare — which looks for all the world like a Nixonian reprise drop-stitched to Mondale’s trade policies and McGovern’s foreign policy — is over. At which time I’ll happily celebrate with a dozen or so fish tacos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, in the comments to my month-old post on the Trump phenomenon and those long-time site readers of pw who’ve somehow lemming-bounced their way onto the #TrumpTrain! — which is, if we’re being honest, just a convoy of shabby, overstuffed short buses pretending to be mighty locomotives piercing a virgin white landscape of latent American engreatenment — serr8d, a freshly-minted mouthpiece for Orange Julius, took me to task for what<\/p>\n

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