In your recent article you are off base, friend. Every day that passes proves Trump to be unfit in so many ways.
\nI figure a Trump believer to be either embarrassingly uninformed or purely hypocritical, willing to push a conservative agenda regardless of flag bearer. No doubt you are the latter…
\nIf conservatism was more about fairness instead of protecting the wealth of the very rich, I might even go for that. Minus the current “leader”, of course.<\/p>\n
Stop defending him; you clearly are too intelligent to believe he is worthy.<\/p>\n
Bill Sellars<\/p>\n
Dear Angry Reader Bill Sellars,<\/p>\n
Is \u201cfriend\u201d sarcastic? I don\u2019t recall ever meeting a Bill Sellars. Congratulations, you met one of the angry reader criteria: ad hominem (\u201cyou are the latter\u2026.\u201d) but are to be commended for omitting the usual exclamation marks, capital letters, and profanity.<\/p>\n
In the fashion of Barack Obama\u2019s \u201cclingers\u201d and Hillary Clinton\u2019s \u201cdeplorables\u201d and \u201cirredeemables,\u201d in your contempt, you are writing off half the country who voted for Trump. I have a number of friends and family members who voted for Hillary, and never resorted to the sort of ad hominem that you and the Left routinely embrace.<\/p>\n
No candidate runs solo, but always against someone else. Hillary on every issue\u2014higher taxes, more regulation, restrictions on gas and oil development, open borders, identity politics\u2014was, to paraphrase Obama, on the wrong side of history. She was enmeshed in scandals, shamelessly breaking the law with a private server, destroying documents, trafficking in classified documents. The Wikileaks trove revealed the depths of corruption between her campaign and the sycophantic media. She and her husband had created a net worth of over $200 million, largely by leveraging her political career and offices to earn huge speaking fees, and donations to the foundation, which they manipulated as a source of free travel for themselves and sinecures for their hangers-on. Hillary is \u201cvery rich\u201d, and her trajectory started at the beginning of Bill\u2019s Arkansas career, when she leveraged her husband\u2019s governorship to manipulate the cattle futures\u2019 market, earning $100,000 on a $1,000 investment, at odds of over a billion to one.<\/p>\n
The \u201cvery rich\u201d are mostly liberals. Try looking at counties by per capita income and then look how they voted in the last three elections: your \u201cvery rich\u201d are very liberal, largely because they have the capital and income to exempt themselves from the logical consequences of their own ideology. A case in point is socialist Bernie Sanders\u2014with a million-dollar-income, three tony homes, and a wife under investigation for improperly arranging a sweet-heart loan (and she was instrumental in evicting the disabled from the new campus she purchased on her road to bankrupting her college). Why are Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and Wall Street predominately progressives?<\/p>\n
Conservatism is about three things: 1) respect for past traditions and customs and emphases on family, religion, and communities, 2) a growing market economy in which free market capitalism creates wealth that enriches everyone\u2014in which one tolerates some inequality because the vast majority is not poor, rather than one being impoverished like everyone else (cf. Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela,\u00a0 3) a deterrent foreign policy that believes peace is a dividend of bad people being afraid of the consequences of their natural desire to try something stupid against stronger better people.<\/p>\n
The Republican Party is mostly a middle class and upper-middle class party; the Democratic Party is now the domain of the subsidized lower middle classes and poor, and the hyper-rich. It despises the middle class for lacking the romance of the distant poor and the middle classes for their supposedly crass and tasteless culture.<\/p>\n
Stop stereotyping: you may be too smart to mouth such ossified liberal talking points.<\/p>\n
Vic Hanson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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But the tipping point came when Trump was nominated for president. I cannot belong to a political party that would nominate\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11765,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-04-04-2019\/","url_meta":{"origin":10358,"position":1},"title":"Angry Reader 04-04-2019","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 4, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader: Sir: I thought you were supposed to be an intellectual. Hoover Institution and all that. Then you go off on an illegal immigrant killing an American. That's Rush Limbaugh turf. (the 2 semester and out fellow) I guess you're just another partisan propagandist after all. Sorry.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Angry Reader"","block_context":{"text":"Angry Reader","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/angry-reader\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11242,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/06-25-18-angry-reader\/","url_meta":{"origin":10358,"position":2},"title":"06-25-18 Angry Reader","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 25, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader: What is wrong with you? You see what Trump is doing over 3000 lies and yet you still can condemn Hillary! \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Dear Angry Reader Rhonda Welsch, First, congratulations. You get only a 1 out of 10 on the Angry Reader Scale (for silly exaggeration [e.g.\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12220,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-02-28-20\/","url_meta":{"origin":10358,"position":3},"title":"Angry Reader 02-28-20","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 28, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader: Subject: Gray Matter Your articles are so offensively lacking in context, thoughtfulness, and reflection on history--basically simpleminded attack ads-- that I am going to erase the National Review\u2019s bookmark from my browser. And there is no case for Trump any more than there was a case\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9517,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-9\/","url_meta":{"origin":10358,"position":4},"title":"Angry Reader","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 17, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Comment from a Reader: \"But even before the latest revelations from an eleven-year-old Access Hollywood tape, in which Trump crudely talked about women\u201d TRUMP DID NOT TALK CRUDELY ABOUT WOMEN ON THIS TAPE- HE TALKED ABOUT HIS RIGHT AS A CELEBRITY TO SEXUALLY ASSAULT WOMEN!!! YOUR CONFLATING THE TWO IS\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10974,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/02-14-2018-angry-reader\/","url_meta":{"origin":10358,"position":5},"title":"02\/14\/2018 Angry Reader","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 14, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader From SM: Your article sucks. What if CNN didn\u2019t hate FDR? You can\u2019t debate a hypothetical situation. Trump is probably going to prison. 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