I have nothing to add to
this except for a hallelujah and a couple amens:
ADMIT IT. YOU JUST WANT YOUR OWN DICTATOR:
Many of the same people anxious about the authoritarian
overtones of Trump’s appeal were unconcerned about the intense adulation
that adoring crowds showered on Obama in 2008, though the spectacle
featured similarly troubling signs—the iconography,
the messianic messaging, and the implausible promises of
government-produced comfort and safety. Just as President Trump fans
will judge every person on how nice or mean they are to Trump, so too,
those rooting against Obama were immediately branded unpatriotic or
racist.
Obama’s inevitable failure to live up to the hype has had many repercussions, and none of them healthy.
One: the hypocrisy of liberalism, which only a few years before was
lamenting how W.’s abuses had destroyed the republic, now justify
Obama’s numerous executive overreaches because they correspond with
liberal political aims. Obama’s argument—and thus, the contention of his
fans—seems to pivot on the notion that the president has a moral
imperative to “act” on his favored policies because the law-making branch of government refuses to do so. That is weird. This reasoning will almost certainly be modus operandi
for presidents unable to push through their own agendas—which,
considering where the country is headed, will be every president.
As Victor Davis Hanson noted
on Sunday, “What if the reckless Donald Trump were president? Thank
Obama for Trump, because long ago the president ended altogether the
idea of extreme language in politics. Obama has said anything and
everything with implicit media sanction. And we are already harvesting
with Trump what Obama and the media have sown.”
Posted at 8:11 am by Ed Driscoll
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