Over at Reason, Matt Welch is keeping watch over the continuing Republican kerfuffle/steel cage death match being waged by the Trumpians and the Republican Establishment. Matt found a particularly piquant angle, noting the rage with which the National Review has been treating Trump in recent days, after, well, after saying what great ideas he has regarding immigration. Apparently, Donald was supposed to fire up the troops and then let the grown-ups take over, but, clearly, that isn’t going to happen.
Most piquant of all perhaps was the plight and protest of Jonah Goldberg, who I suspect made the mistake of gazing into the the abyss of the NR “comments” section and found it reeking of the abbatoir.
“Well, if this is the conservative movement now, I guess you’re going to have to count me out.
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"But if it’s true that politicians can disappoint, I think one has to say that the people can, too.
"And when I say “the people” I don’t mean “those people.” I mean my people. I mean many of you, Dear Readers. Normally, when conservatives talk about how the public can be wrong, we mean that public. You know the one. The “low-information voters” Rush Limbaugh is always talking about. The folks we laughed at when Jay Leno interviewed them on the street. But we don’t just mean the unwashed and the ill-informed. We sometimes mean Jews, blacks, college kids, Lena Dunham fans, and countless other partisan slices of the electorate who reflexively vote on strict party lines for emotional or irrational reasons. We laugh at liberals who let know-nothing celebrities do their thinking for them.
"Well, many of the same people we laughed at are now laughing at us because we are going ga-ga over our own celebrity.”
Well, I’m only guessing here, but I think the word Jonah is groping for regarding “you people” is “goyim.”. All that stuff about rounding millions of people up and deporting them, doesn’t that have a bit of a familiar ring?
Right-leaning Jews like Jonah can’t be happy these days, with the Republican base going zany for a xenophobe and the Jewish community split right in half over Obama’s nuclear agreement with Iran. You can’t imagine that Obama planned all of this, can you?
