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2020 election, American Exceptionalism, Donald Trump

Daily Poke, 8 Oct: A Simple Quiz for Citizen-Voters

vassar / October 8, 2020

WHO AM I? The fact that he became President shows just how broke the political system was; The fact that he could even be considered for president shows how broken the Culture itself was; Who? Barack Obama? Bill Clinton, or…

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2020 election, Conservatism, Donald Trump, Uncategorized

The Daily Poke in the Eye: Notes on the Righteous “Screw You”

vassar / October 5, 2020

In the 1840s, in one of his lectures on “Heroes”, Thomas Carlyle, the Scottish philosopher, used the term “skeptical dilettantism” to describe how that army of ne’er-do-well, half-baked intellectuals will collectively move to destroy anyone of genius who enters their…

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2020 election, Donald Trump, Media, Race and Culture

Autopsy of a Post-Debate Panic by National Media

vassar / October 1, 2020

Yesterday I counted at least 8 post-debate stories in major media, CNN, NYT, WAPO, et al about Trump’s refusal to “denounce” white supremacy all because of the “Proud Boys.” Factually untrue, and known by the collective Media to be untrue,…

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