...the last refuge of the worst people.
Mona Charen has always been terrible. She's wired to loathe Liberals: her entire career was built on carping and sneering at Democrats. Exhibit A: The three books she wrote before finally getting around to writing one in 2023 about the state of the GOP.
"Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First." From the infamous Regnery publishing, who publish swine like Ann Coulter, Ted Cruz, Newt Gingrich, Josh Hawley, David Horowitz and Michelle Malkin.
"Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help (and the Rest of Us)." From Sentinel, the dedicated conservative imprint within the Penguin Group. They publish the likes of Amy Coney Barrett, Peggy Noonan, Mike Lee, Mitch McConnell, Ann Coulter, and Rod Dreher
"Sex Matters: How Modern Feminism Lost Touch With Science, Love and Common Sense." Crown publishing, which publishes a cross section of different writers.
The Challenge for RepublicansNov. 9, 2016My feelings this morning are so radically mixed that my brain resembles a Cuisinart. I cannot help but be glad that Hillary Clinton was defeated. I am shaking my head in amazement about the Senate, and accordingly about the Supreme Court...
President Barack Obama seeded his own speech with patriotic grace notes, and though he recoils from Donald Trump, his horror at Trump's style seemingly blinds him to their similarities. On substance, they are more alike than not...
-- but taken together the columns tell the tale of a cold war relic who should have been decommissioned decades ago slowing coming to the realization that something had gone drastically wrong with her party, and her scrambling to find someone to blame other than people like her.
Charen is the sort of unbendingly commie-hatin', Reagan-revering Conservative who would have rather gone to Republican Valhalla with Bill Clinton's blood on her teeth than live to see (but of course never, ever admit) that the dirty, hippy Left had been right about the Right all along.
And so as Trump and his cadre of Republican ghouls and grifters finally and irrevocably bury every trace of her Party of Personal Responsibly, the best Charen can manage is to watch it all from the clammy, petty safety of the Both Sides Do It bunker.
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Sheezus h Keerist. I want to like the Bulwark. Well, like is a strong word but I want to feel like they're allies but it's obvious that once a conservative, always a conservative. And Mona Charen makes me throw up in my mouth.
"29. The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less."
-- Weimar, Link. The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries, 300th anniversary edition. Celeschul: Hypernode Press, 3001 [Mars: privately published, 2701].
In my head, I hear the word, "Swine" as spoken by Peter Sellers as Inspector Jacques Clouseau, in the Pink Panther film series. And this gives me a little something to smile about. Thank you, Drifty Glass. Needed that.
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