- Anything Political provides a bare bones account of my President’s “alleged” remarks about immigrants and US actions concerning North Korea, yet does a better job than most news organizations at covering the administration’s ineptitude toward both. Animals? Really?
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit explains how Kim Jung Un is selling Trump a used car. Well… not so much used as unusable.
- Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post looks at the deal to block Iran’s development of nuclear weapons, President Trump’s attempted torpedoing of that agreement, and what looks to become a successful effort by other allies to save the agreement and prevent another war which would involve the United States.
- At The Moderate Voice, Robert Percival of the University of Maryland suggests that the scandals connected to EPA Secretary Scott Pruitt are drowning out the most serious scandal: what Pruitt plans for the health of those Americans who breathe.
- Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara at Principled Perspectives argues that unregulated industry, working only for itself, is the key to common prosperity.
I have an unfortunate familiarity with some aspects of libertarianism. For years, my dreams have been haunted by one result among many. A while back, I wrote about the young mother killed by the libertarian ideal.
- @bjork55 at Bjork Report presents a snide, tasteless, completely accurate comment about the most recent Texas shooting tragedy.
- Green Eagle pays attention to the confirmation of Gina Haspel for CIA director and discovers 6 Democrats we can do without.
- James Wigderson defines the establishment in a two-parter. The social establishment is composed of the too-cool-for-words coastal elites who look down on the less hip, more rural, non-sophisticates of Middle America. The political establishment is made up of a “self-appointed elite who have a scorn for their own culture and supporters but nonetheless demand fealty from them.” Well, okay. James and I undoubtedly travel in different circles. I haven’t met many folks fitting his first definition, that of coastal hipsters.
- At MadMikesAmerica, Neil Bamforth has harsh words for anti-Trump Americans. Like … well … me.
- driftglass is impatient with the latest both-sides narrative from Andrew Sullivan: President Trump is driving liberals crazy and, in their provoked insanity, they are becoming evil. Well, it’s a theory.
- Satirical site The Borowitz Report explains why Donald Trump is thinking about pulling the U.S. out of the Constitution. “I’ve seen a lot of bad deals in my life, but this Constitution is a total mess.”
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil considers comments from the reportedly oldest woman in the world and develops a completely pessimistic outlook.
- This week’s note in Trumpian ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from President Trump’s former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in a warning about a “growing crisis in ethics and integrity.” He calls for “a fierce defense of the truth and a common set of facts.”
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Again, I question this one-sided view of elitism. The “sophisticated” often resent the “unsophisticated,” but the reverse is also true — and not just because they’re fed up with being resented. It’s the same for the establishment and the anti-establishment, the educated and the uneducated, the urban and the rural, etc. People who call for just the “elites” to change come across as disingenuous to me, perhaps unable or unwilling to see their own elitism.