The descent into trivia accelerated with the arrival of Donald Trump, who infuriated the left with his uncanny understanding of the new mediaverse and its potential for bypassing the legacy media and speaking directly to the masses of disgruntled voters scorned as "Bitter clingers" and "Deplorables." His critics became obsessed with his straight-talking, vulgar, braggadocios style that daily scorned their politically correct and elite-sanctioned decorum.
Having no program to pit against Trump's substantive achievements, progressives have resorted to smears about trivia.
The unending trivial pursuits give cover to progressives for seeking what the left always wants-the power to achieve its agenda of technocratic centralized power at the expense of freedom.
Democrats have done well at cultivating clients-recipients of redistributive largesse from entitlements and corporate pork, to government agencies and public unions-whose interests Dems exchange for votes and campaign funds.
That's why right now in Florida, serial gross violations of election law are reducing Rick Scott's total votes, in order to whittle down the Republican margin of votes in the Senate and create opportunities for blocking the next judicial nominee.
For 230 years our government has survived such swings in power between parties, and between bouts of irrational passion and more sober calculations, including a civil war that threatened the very existence of the Union.
Then we will see if our indulgence of political triviality will bring us to the point where our long tradition of balanced and divided powers that has protected our freedom will survive, or whether it dies in the garish light of our own feckless passions and interests.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/271918/democracy-dies-trivia-bruce-thornton
Having no program to pit against Trump's substantive achievements, progressives have resorted to smears about trivia.
The unending trivial pursuits give cover to progressives for seeking what the left always wants-the power to achieve its agenda of technocratic centralized power at the expense of freedom.
Democrats have done well at cultivating clients-recipients of redistributive largesse from entitlements and corporate pork, to government agencies and public unions-whose interests Dems exchange for votes and campaign funds.
That's why right now in Florida, serial gross violations of election law are reducing Rick Scott's total votes, in order to whittle down the Republican margin of votes in the Senate and create opportunities for blocking the next judicial nominee.
For 230 years our government has survived such swings in power between parties, and between bouts of irrational passion and more sober calculations, including a civil war that threatened the very existence of the Union.
Then we will see if our indulgence of political triviality will bring us to the point where our long tradition of balanced and divided powers that has protected our freedom will survive, or whether it dies in the garish light of our own feckless passions and interests.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/271918/democracy-dies-trivia-bruce-thornton
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