In the face of the conservatives’ failures in the Senate, principally the initial rejection of the Honor Out PACT Act, the transformation of the conservatives’ wine of the Dobbs decision into the fly-ridden sand of the overwhelming rejection of a proposed anti-abortion Kansas Constitutional Amendment, the legions of right-wing extremists who are fourth-rate politicians who think their failures at the ballot box are due to cheating rather than their manifestly inferior views on a variety of subjects, and – to put a premature stop to this litany of extremist failures, and this is my prediction only – not only the failure of a Republican wave to materialize at the ballot box this fall, but victory for many Democrats expected to fail, well, take a deep breah, Erick Erickson has to do something to keep the conservative faithful, errrrr, faithful, as it were.
Per usual, he’s determined to show that the liberal elites are just as guilty of perfidy and excess as the conservatives.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney says Donald Trump is the greatest threat to our republic. I respectfully disagree with a man whose whole family I adore.
I actually think bipartisan establishment lassitude toward China is a bigger threat to our republic than Trump. The whole reason we got Trump is that a large segment of the population can accurately perceive the American cultural/political elite decided our time is up and want to cash in while managing a decline in China’s favor. Our socio/economic and political elite have given up on America.
The American people believe we are in a recession, so we are in a recession. Our national cultural and political leaders believe our best days are over, so they are — it’s preventable and reversible, but not with a leadership that has quietly embraced the idea of China’s inevitability.
Does he mention the visit of House Speaker Rep Pelosi (D-CA) to Taiwan just this week? Incredibly, he does manage it – a few paragraphs beyond the quote, and carefully stripped of her undeniable membership in the liberal elite crew, because acknowledging that would invalidate his entire thesis. He doesn’t mention the fact that we finally left Afghanistan, as arranged by his President Trump and fulfilled by President Biden, in order to concentrate on China, nor Trump’s well-known affinity for China’s Xi, not to mention Russia’s Putin and North Korea’s Kim – autocrats all.
But as a spreader of fear of “the other,” which in this case is fellow Americans, it’ll certainly work on the unserious reader. By “demonstrating” the liberal elites’ supposed lack of nationalistic oooomph, he can excuse the conservative failures. He can even argue that extremists and incoherent odd-balls should receive conservatives’ votes, because, well, surely conservatives are better than them thar baby-killing liberals.
Ahem.
The rest of his little multi-topic post is equally ludicrous, in particular his attempted condemnation of the public health system. It seems he really wants to equate monkeypox with Covid. Does monkeypox even have a measurable death rate? Is the hospitalization rate of monkeypox comparable?
No. So his frantic condemnations are all ridiculous.
I don’t know if Erickson realizes just how much trouble his “movement” is in. Over the last few weeks he’s been incoherent with joy at the failures of the Democrats, at least what he perceived as their failures. Faced with the conservative failures above, plus those unmentioned, such as the January 6th Insurrection, he’s not been silent, but notably restrained.
But I read a post like this as a frenzied attempt to keep the conservatives from fragmenting, or even defecting into the moderate conservative camp. It’s hard to feel sympathetic. I see this as a symptom of the hard-line anti-abortion movement, much like the temperance movement, melting away as they begin to recognize that, fallacious or not, anti-abortion as a single issue vote is a disaster for the nation. It has been carefully cultivated for fifty years, its followers protected from the intellectual ripostes by hiding the faithful in the skirts of the Divine, but the biggest Divinity of all, Reality, is reaching up and whacking them in the head.
And the anti-abortion movement, along with a few other single-issue voter fabrications, are beginning to fall apart as the electorate really sees the end-result.
