Remember Michael Dukakis? "Competence, not ideology." There's too much ideology. "Whether it was arrogance, ignorance or self-righteousness, the Democratic Party failed to understand what President Trump sees as clear as day: the American people despise politics." There's too little competence. "If you wanted safe streets and public order would your first impulse be to turn to…a Democrat? Or if you wanted a secure, actually-enforced border? How about efficient, effective delivery of public services? Or rapid completion of public projects and infrastructure? Or nonideological public administration?"
The only rational response is populism as self-defense. "We keep hearing about threats to democracy, but the transnational elite is determined to destroy it. For some reason, they genuinely believe that savage cultures are more worthy of celebration and protection than their own."
The weekly round-up of mostly pithy elaborations on traditional Cold Springs Shops themes follows.
2. Mixing metaphors? "Trump’s second Inauguration Day was a laundry list of Christmas Trees."
3. Buckle in. "Anyone in D.C. who wants to fret over 'process' can get in line or get out of the way." Brace for more. "The job of a subordinate is to find a way, not to find an excuse."
4. A worthy heir to the Red Tails. “They took one look at me and assumed I believed these things. I learned to listen and had to bite my tongue a lot.”
5. Overtaken by events. "In a largely successful society, unrocked by revolution, institutions come to be in need of repair, revamping and reconstitution. Just as tools rust, barnacles adhere and roofs leak, institutions and professions, government agencies and private industries need to be reformed or even abolished."
6. Evergreen. "Climate change fanatics want to bankrupt the entire world for little to no reward."
7. When logic fails, fall back on the ad misericordiam fallacy. "Progressives seem to need to paint a picture of some deserving unfortunate to allow simple economic advancement."
8. The March of Dimes, only less purposeful. "While nuclear weapons were the initial existential threat focus of the Doomsday Clock, risk multipliers are now included."
10. Continue the Grim Strategy. "They created this medicine, give them massive doses of it until they overdose or beg for mercy, and then only consider letting up." What are they so afraid of?
11. Politics divides. "To nearly half of the country, the news Trump was victorious was greeted with fear, anxiety, and frustration. In contrast, to the other half of the country, the return of Trump to the White House is a welcome response to four years of President Joe Biden’s incompetent and bankrupt progressivism." Illinois remains a sanctuary state for the fearful.
12. Regime media still have to eat. "Trump's victory in the election dramatically lowered the stakes for journalists to tell the truth about Kamala Harris and Joe Biden."
13. Progress depends on the disagreeable contrarians. "Disagreeable contrarians who resisted gender fever are the real oddballs. Some combination of personality quirk and conviction that occasionally makes us obnoxious employees and intolerable cocktail-party guests also inoculated us against gender madness. There is no reforming us."
14. Hippies, at least, could cut their hair and take a bath. "I expect that we’ll also look back on the current transgender explosion, especially 'trans-women,' in much the same way we look back on the hippies of the late 1960s, with their ridiculous hair, wardrobe, communal ethic that always crashed and burned, lack of hygiene, and above all cocksureness that they had all the answers to everything, and demanded to stand up the The Man."
16. Are all demands derived demands? "The profit, and ultimate benefit, of railroads was not so much in the railroad itself, but in the wheat fields of Kansas."
17. How to alienate Woodlawn. "What I find odd is that Pritzker, Johnson and the Democrats on their payroll keep ignoring black voters on this key demographic political issue."
18. We recognize her. "Budde speaks in the condescending tones of NPR and she thinks that we don’t get it. The Bishop is a culture of contempt in and of herself. We, of the Right, hear people like Budde every darn day." Expose. Mock. Repeat.
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