Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Disgraceful, but also guffaw-worthy

A handful of gnats propose to take down a lion: "Victor Davis Hanson Responds to The Bulwark's Attack on Him; A Day After Charlie Sykes' Attack Site Smears His Colleague Hanson as a Nazi, The Very Virtuous David French Appears on Sykes' Podcast".

The Bulwark is beneath my notice, I never did more than occasionally dip into the Weekly Standard when I had nothing better to do (and even that "dipping" ended years ago), and the National Review has become an unreliable mess, afflicted with a schizophrenic conflict between mostly light-weight NeverTrumpers whose completely ineffectual efforts in the service of conservatism do not seem to have instilled any humility, and one genuinely learned and wise intellectual who, for the most part, sees Trump as something more complex than a mere cartoonish egotist, understands how we got him, and acknowledges his victory over Clintonism as an inarguable blessing.

The Trojan horses within the walls of the Shining City on a Hill are really starting to pile up.

Update: This gave me a huge laugh. In a rambling, rollicking interview with Breitbart, President Trump referred to "almost deranged...poor bastard" George Will.

George Will, upon learning the news...

2 comments:

Gregoryno6 said...

Even as a non-citizen of your fine nation, I feel blessed to be living in the times of such men of intelligence as VDH and Thomas Sowell. Civilisation is never as far as we'd like to think from collapsing into chaos. Hanson's ability to speak with clarity on the issues we face keeps me hoping we'll hang on for a while yet.
He's commented himself on his odd-man-out status at NR, and it can only be a matter of time before he says Basta!

Paco said...

Civilisation is never as far as we'd like to think from collapsing into chaos.

Very true, but so many people have lived relatively charmed lives - thanks, in large part, to capitalism and a free society - that they just take prosperity and peace for granted, they can't imagine everything breaking down. But you're right, it could all vanish, either through slow cultural erosion (which has been the case, so far) or in the flash of an EMP device.