The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

All I Can Say Is, ‘You’re Welcome’

Posted on | November 10, 2024 | No Comments

Little did my great-grandfather suspect, as he sat for two years as a prisoner of war at Fort Delaware, that the cause for which he fought would be vindicated some 160 years later when a New York real estate tycoon — the grandson of a German immigrant — defeated the descendant of a Jamaican slave owner in the presidential election. Certainly great-grandpa would be mystified that a Republican victory, which included winning the states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, would be denounced as a triumph of the Confederacy. And I shudder to think what my Confederate ancestor would say about Professor Carol Anderson:

President Donald Trump’s victory is the “last stand of white supremacy,” according to an Emory University African American studies professor.
Professor Carol Anderson, author of “White Rage,” also said “the Confederacy won,” during an interview on Democracy Now!
Trump “advocated” for “racism,” “xenophobia” and “hatred, all wrapped in a sense of honor and gallantry,” Anderson said. This was in “backlash to what they fear was the great replacement.”
“Misogyny” also played a role in Kamala Harris’ loss, according to Anderson.
She said:

I think part of what we’re looking at, because she was explicit about policies, and so the language that she just needs to explain her policies is hokum. It’s that it is — we’re looking at the misogyny and the racism and the fear of what it meant to have a Black Asian woman who’s married to a Jewish man sitting in the White House, that this was not the kind of vision of America that that large swath that voted for Trump believe is America. It is the fear of what a multicultural, multiracial, multilingual, diverse America could mean. It means — and so, you’re seeing the backlash to her very being.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.) The important thing, when confronted by such preposterous accusations, is never to deny them. If such fools have convinced themselves that “white supremacy,” etc., have triumphed at the ballot box — and as of this morning, Donald Trump was leading by a margin of 3.7 million votes — why should we argue with them?

Victory requires no excuse. Winners do not need scapegoats.

Leave the fools in their ignorance. Don’t bother them with facts or logic.

Deo vindice.



 

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