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Why Conservatives Still Attack Trump
by Dennis Prager
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PC Culture Reigns at Duke
The intolerance of free speech on America's college and university campuses has seemingly reached epidemic levels. And the heart of the problem lies not with those fervent social justice warrior (SJW) students, but within academia itself. A telling example comes out Duke Divinity School, where a professor was forced out for essentially daring to speak his mind.
The issue that sparked the professor's ouster began with a faculty-wide email sent by Anathea Portier-Young, a professor of Old Testament studies with expertise in "constructions of identity, gender, and ethnicity, and traditions of violence and nonviolence." Portier-Young's email invited the faculty to participate in the "Racial Equity Institute Phase I Training," which states: "Racism is a fierce, ever-present, challenging force, one which has structured the thinking, behavior and actions of individuals and institutions since the beginning of U.S. history." Clearly, there's a leftist SJW agenda behind this training.
Professor Paul Griffiths chose to respond to this public email by sending his own faculty-wide email in which he encouraged his colleagues not to go to the training. "There'll be bromides, clichés and amen-corner rah-rahs in plenty," he predicted, and the ideas taught would contain "illiberal roots and totalitarian tendencies." He concluded that the "definitively anti-intellectual ... (re)trainings of intellectuals by bureaucrats and apparatchiks have a long and ignoble history." He then dared to suggest that the school's faculty would benefit more by focusing their time and energy to rededicating themselves to their scholarly pursuits.
Griffith's email triggered a response from the dean, Elaine Heath, in which she said that she was looking forward to attending the training and issued a warning against "the use of mass emails to express racism, sexism and other forms of bigotry." Then, after these emails were exchanged, a disciplinary procedure was initiated against Griffith for "unprofessional conduct" due to a complaint filed by Professor Portier-Young accusing him of "harassment" owing to his email counteroffer.
It wasn't long before Griffith tendered his resignation. He sent the faculty one last letter in which he pointedly asserted, "Tolerance for intellectual pain is less than it was. So is tolerance for argument." Once heralded as the nation's greatest bastions of free speech and tolerance, America's campuses have become little more than oblasts of leftist indoctrination. ~The Patriot Post
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JW Sues “Deep State Dept” Covering
Up Their Collusion With Soros, Siphoning Aid
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ We might wonder why, if there is a President in the White House who is favorable to open government and honesty with the American people... the US State Department continues to be obstructionists in the release of information. This is not the first time we’ve asked this question since Secretary of State Tillerson has been leading the department under President Trump. It’s another indication that there have not been enough of the wrong people eliminated from State Department employee rosters or that Tillerson may see value in continuing the opaque, often dubious, policies of his predecessors. Protecting and covering up for the most notorious anti-freedom globalist on the planet and the liar-nObama regime’s corruption is not consistent with the agenda upon which we elected President Trump. Judicial Watch announced on Wednesday it had, on May 26th, filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the US State Department and the siphon hose for financial mischief, the US Agency for International Development... http://rickwells.us/jw-sues-deep-state-dept-covering-up-their-collusion-with-soros-siphoning-aid/.
NSA Won't Release liar-Clinton/Lynch
Tarmac Tape - Claims "National Security"
by Tim Brown
{freedomoutpost.com} ~ A citizen researcher from Florida is attempting to have the recording of the infamous Bill liar-Clinton/Loretta Lynch tarmac tape released to the public, but apparently, the National Security Agency claims they won't release it due to "national security."... The man researching and seeking to have the tape released is Florida orthodontist Larry Kawa. You may remember him because of Judicial Watch's filing of a lawsuit on his behalf to obtain a week's worth of liar-Hillary Clinton's emails regarding Benghazi. It's being reported now that the NSA has declared the recording of the conversation that took place between Bill liar-Clinton and Loretta Lynch in Phoenix, Arizona on June 27, 2016...That's baloney, it has nothing to do with National Security. http://freedomoutpost.com/nsa-wont-release-clintonlynch-tarmac-tape-claims-national-security/.
Dr. Gina Loudon Assists liar-Clinton
Political Suicide, Educates On Climate Deal
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Ed Schultz, the liberal blowhard fired last summer for being achieving the noteworthy distinction of being too extreme for MSNBC, has a presence on RT... Although he’s dialed back the anger to a more tolerable level, there still are moments when he’s bombastic, hard to listen to and rude to his guests. That comes in the second part of the video. In the first part he’s taking some well deserved shots at a former sacred cow, now more like an irritating water buffalo, that’s slipping in stature even as they speak. He plays a clip of liar-Clinton, who is becoming more dogmatic in her bitterness and determination to tell us every detail of how her being an unlikable traitorous criminal had nothing to do with her not getting elected President and that it was in large part the fault of those two mean men, Putin and Trump. But she had more blame to share on this day, directing some of her assignments of culpability towards the DNC and members of the Democrat Party, saying she inherited “nothing.”... http://rickwells.us/dr-gina-loudon-assists-clinton-political-suicide-educates-climate-deal/
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A message in Pittsburgh pine cones:
'Kill the Jews'
by Ariane Mandell
{jpost.com} ~ "Kill the Jews!" read a message spelled out in pine cones in Mt. Lebanon, a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania... The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported on Wednesday that, according to local police Lt. Duane Fisher, the antisemitic statement appeared on the curb alongside a swastika at the corner of Overlook Drive and Arden road on Tuesday morning. "We don't know when the message was put out, but it was removed by 6:30 this morning when we responded," Fisher said. The Post-Gazette reported that the woman who found the statement was so upset by it that she took a snapshot of the hate message before rearranging the pine cones to spell out "Love."...This hatred needs to stop now. http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/A-message-in-Pittsburgh-pine-cones-Kill-the-Jews-494395.
The Media Needs More Covfefe
by Andrew Kugle
{freebeacon.com} ~ President Trump tweeted the word "covfefe" just after midnight on Wednesday. It appears the president attempted to spell "coverage" while discussing the media. The tweet was later deleted with no further explanation... A few hours later, Trump asked via Twitter if anyone can figure out the true meaning of "covfefe." In this "golden age of journalism," reporters and news anchors dedicated entire segments of coverage trying to figure out what Trump meant by using the nefarious word. http://freebeacon.com/culture/media-needs-more-covfefe/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=87cd8be0c9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_31&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-87cd8be0c9-45611665
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by Dennis Prager
{townhall.com} ~ When people you know well, admire, and who share your values do something you strongly oppose, you have two options:
1) Cease admiring them or 2) try to understand them and change their minds.
In the case of my conservative friends who still snipe (or worse) at President Trump, I have rejected option one. The reason -- beside the fact that I simply like many of them -- is what I refer to as "moral bank accounts."
Every time we do good, we make a deposit into our moral bank account. And every time we do something bad, we make a withdrawal. These conservatives have made so many deposits into their moral bank accounts that, in my view, their accounts all remain firmly in the black.
That means my only choice is option two. But to try to change their minds, I must first try to understand their thinking.
I have concluded that there are a few reasons that explain conservatives who were Never-Trumpers during the election, and who remain anti-Trump today.
The first and, by far, the greatest reason is this: They do not believe that America is engaged in a civil war, with the survival of America as we know it at stake.
While they strongly differ with the left, they do not regard the left-right battle as an existential battle for preserving our nation. On the other hand, I, and other conservative Trump supporters, do.
That is why, after vigorously opposing Trump's candidacy during the Republican primaries, I vigorously supported him once he won the nomination. I believed then, as I do now, that America was doomed if a Democrat had been elected president. With the Supreme Court and hundreds of additional federal judgeships in the balance; with the Democrats' relentless push toward European-style socialism -- completely undoing the unique American value of limited government; the misuse of the government to suppress conservative speech; the continuing degradation of our universities and high schools; the weakening of the American military; and so much more, America, as envisioned by the Founders, would have been lost, perhaps irreversibly. The "fundamental transformation" that candidate Barack liar-nObama promised in 2008 would have been completed by liar-Hillary Clinton in 2016.
To my amazement, no anti-Trump conservative writer sees it that way. They all thought during the election, and still think, that while it would not have been a good thing if liar-Hillary Clinton had won, it wouldn't have been a catastrophe either.
That's it, in a nutshell. Many conservatives, including me, believe that it would have been close to over for America as America if the Republican candidate, who happened to be a flawed man named Donald Trump, had not won. Moreover, I am certain that only Donald Trump would have defeated liar-Hillary Clinton.
In other words, I believe that Donald Trump may have saved the country. And that, in my book, covers a lot of sins -- foolish tweets, included.
The Never-Trump conservative argument that Trump is not a conservative - one that I, too, made repeatedly during the Republican primaries - is not only no longer relevant, it is no longer true.
Had any Never-Trump conservative been told, say in the summer of 2015, that a Republican would win the 2016 election and, within his first few months in office, appoint a conservative to the Supreme Court; begin the process of replacing liar-nObamacare; bomb Russia's ally, Assad, after he again used chemical weapons; appoint the most conservative cabinet in modern American history; begin undoing hysteria-based, economy-choking EPA regulations; label the Iranian regime "evil" in front of 50 Muslim heads of state; wear a yarmulke at the Western Wall; appoint a U.N. ambassador who regularly condemns the U.N. for its moral hypocrisy; restore the military budget; and work on lowering corporate tax rates, among other conservative achievements -- that Never-Trump conservative would have been jumping for joy.
So, why aren't anti-Trump conservatives jumping for joy?
I have come to believe that many conservatives possess what I once thought was a left-wing monopoly -- a utopian streak. Trump is too far from their ideal leader to be able to support him.
There is also a cultural divide. Anti-Trump conservatives are a very refined group of people. Trump doesn't talk like them. Moreover, the cultural milieu in which the vast majority of anti-Trump conservatives live and/or work means that to support Trump is to render oneself contemptible at all elite dinner parties.
In addition, anti-Trump conservatives see themselves as highly moral people (which they often are) who are duty-bound not to compromise themselves by strongly supporting Trump, whom they largely view as morally defective.
Finally, these people are only human: After investing so much energy in opposing Trump's election, and after predicting his nomination would lead to electoral disaster, it's hard to for them to admit they were wrong. To see him fulfill many of his conservative election promises, again in defiance of predictions, is a bitter pill. But if they hang on to their Never-Trumpism and the president falls on his face, they can say they were right all along.
That means that only if he fails can their reputations be redeemed. And they, of course, know that.
But there is another way.
They can join the fight. They can accept an imperfect reality and acknowledge that we are in a civil war, and that Trump, with all his flaws, is our general. If this general is going to win, he needs the best fighters. But too many of them, some of the best minds of the conservative movement, are AWOL.
I beg them: Please report for duty.
Why Conservatives Still Attack Trump
{townhall.com} ~ When people you know well, admire, and who share your values do something you strongly oppose, you have two options:
1) Cease admiring them or 2) try to understand them and change their minds.
In the case of my conservative friends who still snipe (or worse) at President Trump, I have rejected option one. The reason -- beside the fact that I simply like many of them -- is what I refer to as "moral bank accounts."
Every time we do good, we make a deposit into our moral bank account. And every time we do something bad, we make a withdrawal. These conservatives have made so many deposits into their moral bank accounts that, in my view, their accounts all remain firmly in the black.
That means my only choice is option two. But to try to change their minds, I must first try to understand their thinking.
I have concluded that there are a few reasons that explain conservatives who were Never-Trumpers during the election, and who remain anti-Trump today.
The first and, by far, the greatest reason is this: They do not believe that America is engaged in a civil war, with the survival of America as we know it at stake.
While they strongly differ with the left, they do not regard the left-right battle as an existential battle for preserving our nation. On the other hand, I, and other conservative Trump supporters, do.
That is why, after vigorously opposing Trump's candidacy during the Republican primaries, I vigorously supported him once he won the nomination. I believed then, as I do now, that America was doomed if a Democrat had been elected president. With the Supreme Court and hundreds of additional federal judgeships in the balance; with the Democrats' relentless push toward European-style socialism -- completely undoing the unique American value of limited government; the misuse of the government to suppress conservative speech; the continuing degradation of our universities and high schools; the weakening of the American military; and so much more, America, as envisioned by the Founders, would have been lost, perhaps irreversibly. The "fundamental transformation" that candidate Barack liar-nObama promised in 2008 would have been completed by liar-Hillary Clinton in 2016.
To my amazement, no anti-Trump conservative writer sees it that way. They all thought during the election, and still think, that while it would not have been a good thing if liar-Hillary Clinton had won, it wouldn't have been a catastrophe either.
That's it, in a nutshell. Many conservatives, including me, believe that it would have been close to over for America as America if the Republican candidate, who happened to be a flawed man named Donald Trump, had not won. Moreover, I am certain that only Donald Trump would have defeated liar-Hillary Clinton.
In other words, I believe that Donald Trump may have saved the country. And that, in my book, covers a lot of sins -- foolish tweets, included.
The Never-Trump conservative argument that Trump is not a conservative - one that I, too, made repeatedly during the Republican primaries - is not only no longer relevant, it is no longer true.
Had any Never-Trump conservative been told, say in the summer of 2015, that a Republican would win the 2016 election and, within his first few months in office, appoint a conservative to the Supreme Court; begin the process of replacing liar-nObamacare; bomb Russia's ally, Assad, after he again used chemical weapons; appoint the most conservative cabinet in modern American history; begin undoing hysteria-based, economy-choking EPA regulations; label the Iranian regime "evil" in front of 50 Muslim heads of state; wear a yarmulke at the Western Wall; appoint a U.N. ambassador who regularly condemns the U.N. for its moral hypocrisy; restore the military budget; and work on lowering corporate tax rates, among other conservative achievements -- that Never-Trump conservative would have been jumping for joy.
So, why aren't anti-Trump conservatives jumping for joy?
I have come to believe that many conservatives possess what I once thought was a left-wing monopoly -- a utopian streak. Trump is too far from their ideal leader to be able to support him.
There is also a cultural divide. Anti-Trump conservatives are a very refined group of people. Trump doesn't talk like them. Moreover, the cultural milieu in which the vast majority of anti-Trump conservatives live and/or work means that to support Trump is to render oneself contemptible at all elite dinner parties.
In addition, anti-Trump conservatives see themselves as highly moral people (which they often are) who are duty-bound not to compromise themselves by strongly supporting Trump, whom they largely view as morally defective.
Finally, these people are only human: After investing so much energy in opposing Trump's election, and after predicting his nomination would lead to electoral disaster, it's hard to for them to admit they were wrong. To see him fulfill many of his conservative election promises, again in defiance of predictions, is a bitter pill. But if they hang on to their Never-Trumpism and the president falls on his face, they can say they were right all along.
That means that only if he fails can their reputations be redeemed. And they, of course, know that.
But there is another way.
They can join the fight. They can accept an imperfect reality and acknowledge that we are in a civil war, and that Trump, with all his flaws, is our general. If this general is going to win, he needs the best fighters. But too many of them, some of the best minds of the conservative movement, are AWOL.
I beg them: Please report for duty.
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