The Taliban Wing of American Politics.

Disgusting and alarming.

Apparently, something as innocuous, decent and humane as a plaque paying tribute to the valor of Confederate prisoner of war dead in Madison, Wisconsin needs to be stripped from sites where it has been for 150 years.

This is disgusting and alarming moral panic that insults the memory of Abraham Lincoln and impoverishes future Americans.

This is a cemetery to Confederate soldiers who died in Madison Wisconsin as prisoners of war during the Civil War.

Up until this month, that little cement marker had a plaque that commemorated the dead soldiers who had fought "valiantly."

Now, America is engaged in "Confederate-shaming" and is repudiating the human decency that our ancestors were able to demonstrate after a bloody Civil War.

Worse, America is in a moral panic at the behest of a small minority of Communists, fellow travelers and useful idiots.

Our ancestors may have made mistakes, but they were better people than we are.

Hey, middle-class America!

If you had any doubt, the elites really hate you.

Any nation that accepts this as its worldview is already finished:

//Which made me wonder: If Rushmore ever did get "blown up," what should those dudes be replaced with? Fact is, I'm not sure there is any American president worthy of being etched into the side of a 60-foot mountain with explosives and jackhammers. I mean, every single one has at least been partially complicit in horrific atrocities.//

History is awful because our ancestors were not the plaster saints that our elites think they have evolved into.

We live in a fallen world. We are fighting barbarians and despots. Any civilization fighting such enemies is going to be forced to make inhuman choices if it wants to do more than surrender.  We mark victory by our effort to make the least bad choice.

What is wrong with these people?

Lots of people say nasty, stupid, soul-crushing things.

Lots of people are not writers for the New York Times, Rolling Stones or other media sites that serve as propaganda sites for a nasty hardcore America-hating leftism.

Not saying that this guy should be fired/starved to death/railed at by an angry mob, but this does show what's going on behind the scenes in the media.

Want more Trump?

Democrats have thought long and hard about why they lost in 2016 and have decided that the answer is that the people who voted against them are...

...Sociopaths.

I'm not an Evangelical, but I think that name-calling is not the way to grow the coalition.

And here is more of that smart strategy. 

//“Maybe instead of trying to convince hateful white people, Dems should convince our base—ppl of color, women to turn out. Cater to them,” Tweeted noted far-left feminist and author Jill Filipovic. Filipovic went on to rail against bigoted voters in proceeding tweets. “At what point is this not a failure of Democrats but toxic, vindictive voters willing to elected hateful bigots.”

Herein lies the Democrats’ problem, just as it was a problem when Hillary Clinton bellowed about a basket full of deplorables during the 2016 campaign. The Democrats and their base (Hollywood) think the key to winning elections is to insult voters. “They don’t vote for us because they are bigots” is not a strategy I would employ as a campaign manager but they are welcome to keep trying this, and they are welcome to keep losing.

Another problem with Filipovic’s theory: Trump won educated white women over the first major party female nominee in history. ”

The otherization and dehumanization of large swaths of the voting public is a primary reason operatives like Filipovic have been reduced to tweeting from the havens of their Upper West and East Coast cities. These urban islands are where the party is forced to mine for talent to send into strange flyover districts. As Heat Street reported, Ossoff had nine times as many donors in California, as his home state of Georgia.

The key to winning, according to Filipovic, is to act contemptibly toward voters and put up candidates in districts where they don’t live, while simultaneously marching through their streets and blocking highways. Bold strategy.//

Must feel good, though.

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This Slate writer provides almost a caricature of the reason that Hillary lost.

//Let’s switch to race. If we have a country where 46 percent of people are willing to vote for a racist—again, I get the political strategy of not wanting to say to everyone, “you’re a racist,” but how are we supposed to talk about that? How are we supposed to think about that?

I think that, actually one of the things that a number of sociologists have pointed out is that often elite whites displace blame for racism onto less elite whites. And I think for privileged whites to be refusing to listen to the legitimate economic woes—and they are legitimate—of working-class whites on the grounds that those other whites are racist is truly off. Now I’m not saying that we should accept racism, sexism, or homophobia from working-class whites or anyone else. I’m not saying that. I think that using the charge of racism to turn your ears off to legitimate economic concerns from less privileged people, is kind of not where we want to be as progressives.

These folks, what they care about is jobs. Jobs that yield their version of a middle-class standard of living. Which, by the way is what the professional managerial elites already have. I care really deeply about trans bathrooms. Partly because I’m incredibly alarmed and upset at the high suicide rate among trans youth. But I have a good job, and my kids have good jobs, and if they didn’t, and if I didn’t, I don’t think that would be my first priority.//

The interview is with Joan Williams, author of a book on how elitists progressives alienated white working class Americans.

My review of her book is here.

Want more Trump?

Want worse than Trump?

This is how you do it.

Practicing Catholics banned from City facilities because of adherence to Catholic beliefs.

//Michigan farmer Steve Tennes and his family have been told that they can't sell their crops at a local farmers market due to their views on same-sex marriage, and now they're suing the city of East Lansing.

Last year, someone posted a message on Country Mill Farm’s Facebook page inquiring about whether they hosted same-sex weddings at the farm.

Tennes, a devout Catholic, told the individual that they did not because of their religious beliefs.

City officials later discovered the Facebook post and began immediate action to remove Country Mill from the farmers market, alleging a violation of the city’s discrimination ordinance.

On "The Story" tonight, Tennes, accompanied by his lawyer Kristen Waggoner, explained that the city changed the wording of the ordinance specifically to bar his farm.//

What is wrong with these people?

Democrats joke about the death of white men.

Because they know who the enemies are.

They need to pay a price for their racism.

Stay classy, Leftists.

You know the Left is committed when they boo and jeer at Trump employees who are trying to save the life of one of their own.

//Hotel staffers who crossed protest barricades to treat a heart-attack victim outside the Trump International Hotel in Washington this weekend were treated to jeers and anti-Trump slogans by protesters.

Around 4 p.m. Saturday, a woman protester suffered a heart attack on the street outside the Trump hotel. The medical emergency sent a hotel staffer sprinting outside with an automated external defibrillator.

Protesters held back by crowd control barricades loudly booed the staffer before the man passed the defibrillator to law enforcement.//

Watch the video.

You want more Trump?

This is how you get more Trump.

DNC CHAIR CANDIDATES BASH WHITE PEOPLE IN RACIALLY-CHARGED FORUM

Candidates aspiring to take over as chairman of the Democratic National Committee met Monday night to discuss what went wrong in 2016 and how to get the party back on track.

Early into the event the candidates gravitated toward a particular scapegoat for the party’s poor showing in November: Political consultancies owned by white people.

“We have to stop, particularly with the consultants,” said the chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party, Jaime Harrison. “You cannot come to the DNC and get a contract and the only minority face you have is the person answering the phone.” 

Minority consultants “need to get the same resources that the white consultants have gotten,” said a Fox News analyst and candidate for the chairmanship, Jehmu Greene. "The DNC did a piss poor, pathetic job" attracting minorities, she said.

Democrats must provide “training” that focuses in part on teaching Americans “how to be sensitive and how to shut their mouths if they are white,” urged the executive director of Idaho’s Democratic Party, Sally Boynton Brown, who is white. 

The event’s moderator, MSNBC’s Joy Ann Reid, asked the candidates how the party should handle the Black Lives Now movement. 

The candidates uniformly emphasized that the party must embrace the activists unreservedly. 

“It makes me sad that we’re even having that conversation and that tells me that white leaders in our party have failed,” Brown said. “I’m a white woman, I don’t get it. … My job is to listen and be a voice and shut other white people down when they want to interrupt.”

“This is life and death” she emphasized. “I am a human being trying to do good work and I can’t do it without y’all. So please, please, please, get ahold of me. Sally at we-the-dnc.org. I need schooling so I can go school the other white people.”

Another candidate said black Americans are now living with “justified fear” of being killed after Donald Trump was elected president. 

Raymond Buckley, the chairman for the New Hampshire Democratic Party, told a story about how, in the midst of “grieving” on Election Day, he received a call from his black niece, who feared for her life after Trump’s victory. 

“It’s not just certain parts of the country,” he said. “That fear is all across the country. It’s even in rural new Hampshire. So when people say black lives matter, you are damn right they matter.” 

Asked whether they would agree to work with President Trump, the candidates agreed they would never do so, which drew some applause from the otherwise quiet crowd at George Washington University.