Nov
14
2022

Quibble: It Was a Pre-existing Condition.

The HTML title tag on this Luther Ray Abel NR Corner post says that Republican Losers Making Asses of Themselves. True! But the actual article headline is ‘Fools and Failures’.

This prolongment of asininity is too frequent a reaction from defeated candidates and their benefactors. It’s embarrassing to watch grown men and women approximate a middle-school shooting guard’s tantrum in the aftermath of his team losing to the local Catholic institution 57–19.

After quoting a tweet from the execrable Josh Hawley:

Luther (I call him Luther) continues:

Trump and his cohort have lost what could have been won, repeatedly. By rejecting the reality and root of their failure, they continue as a fool and his court of lickspittle facsimiles — angry at all the wrong things.

A self-appointed Purgatory of pride and delusion. Sad.

Damn, that young man can write.

Briefly noted:

  • For further diagnosis, Eric Boehm wonders: Maybe Republicans Need a Policy Agenda After All?

    Brief excerpt:

    Without a hateable foil to run against, Trumpism doesn't work as a campaign strategy. It's time for Republicans to rediscover the value of actually having ideas.

    I'm not holding my breath waiting for the current GOP "base" to stop being a personality cult.

  • This may not seem related to the previous items, but: Richard Gunderman muses on the Pathologies of Victimhood.

    As I keep pointing out: this is something George F. Will observed eight years ago: "[W]hen they make victimhood a coveted status that confers privileges, victims proliferate."

    And he got vilified for that too.

  • And finally, our tweet du jour.

    Why are we still there?


Last Modified 2022-11-15 7:15 AM EDT