Brion McClanahan is a conservative author who has a quite interesting blog and podcast. Here he writes about how "olive branches" from the Left are anything but:
The left has always been the instigator in the culture war, and while they pretend they don’t know what’s stoking the flames of American angst, they fully know they are at the wheel.
They just project onto the other side.
This recent piece at Politico is a great example. Founding editor John Harris wonders aloud, “what exactly” are we fighting about?
On the surface, this would seem to be something like an olive branch. “You see, we are just trying to figure this out. Can’t we all get along?”
That sounds great until you learn that they don’t really want to get along. To Harris and his political theater friends on the left, the entire reason Americans are at odds is because of, you guessed it, the Deplorables.
I ran across him from an episode of the podcast History Unplugged where he spoke about his book 9 Presidents who screwed up America and 4 who tried to save Her. His choices for bad presidents is pretty darn close to mine. He had some intriguing thoughts there that likely will filter into my annual President's Day list of best and worst Presidents.
Recommended.
I just bought the book, thanks for the recommendation.
ReplyDeleteI always enjoy telling people that a friend of mine (that's you) thinks Abe Lincoln was the worst president we ever had. The look on their faces is priceless.
I regard Thomas Jefferson differently now after reading Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow. (I wouldn't walk across the street to see the play however)
Should be a good read.
Interesting... and a time sink I DID NOT NEED right now... :-)
ReplyDeleteOf course we are the problem. If only we'd stop resisting, the Left would have achieved their secular paradise by now!
ReplyDeleteI look forward to your Presidents' Day missive. I am probably one of the few people who agree with you that Lincoln was the worst President. Apparently, lots of people like rivers of blood and the destruction of the Republic of the Founders. Not to mention income tax, the draft, public higher education and corporate welfare. Lincoln's legacy is especially destructive today as we face another moment of dissolution. And the problem seems to be worse among conservatives than among leftists.
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