Oh no, you have nailed it. We've been hearing pleas for understanding and compromise from Republicans for decades, from their good cops as opposed to all their bad cops we know so well. The reasonable faces in the Times vs the spittle flecked rage of well, everywhere else.
The Vance shout out to the War of Northern Agression serves as both a dog whistle to the cognesciente and a plank in the larger platform of redefining citizenship, a mechanism to build a true apartheid state. As always, Republicans are being as clear as they possibly can about their goals. It's a message to Trump's base (and others, like his sponsor techbro gods) that he will build the Real America Trump only promises. Take him at his word. You think ICE is beyond the pale? Just you wait.
Way back when, after I read JD’s book, I considered him weak minded and told my nearest and dearest that he read like a big baby whining. Ever since then, he seems to be intent upon proving me right.
Thanks for inspiring me to read the Second Inaugural in its entirety, an amazing rhetorical defense of the principles of this nation.
OTOH I also had to read up a little on J D V. But it's not clear whether he is of the original Scotch-Irish strain that gave Appalachia its bad name in the first place, or a descendant of some 19th century immigrant. But does that matter? Should someone whose ancestors were illiterate outrank a documented descendant of a man who did fight in the Revolution, from the first day at Lexington to the end? Hand me my laurel wreath, upstart peasant Vance, and bow before me!
Oh no, you have nailed it. We've been hearing pleas for understanding and compromise from Republicans for decades, from their good cops as opposed to all their bad cops we know so well. The reasonable faces in the Times vs the spittle flecked rage of well, everywhere else.
The Vance shout out to the War of Northern Agression serves as both a dog whistle to the cognesciente and a plank in the larger platform of redefining citizenship, a mechanism to build a true apartheid state. As always, Republicans are being as clear as they possibly can about their goals. It's a message to Trump's base (and others, like his sponsor techbro gods) that he will build the Real America Trump only promises. Take him at his word. You think ICE is beyond the pale? Just you wait.
Way back when, after I read JD’s book, I considered him weak minded and told my nearest and dearest that he read like a big baby whining. Ever since then, he seems to be intent upon proving me right.
Thanks for inspiring me to read the Second Inaugural in its entirety, an amazing rhetorical defense of the principles of this nation.
OTOH I also had to read up a little on J D V. But it's not clear whether he is of the original Scotch-Irish strain that gave Appalachia its bad name in the first place, or a descendant of some 19th century immigrant. But does that matter? Should someone whose ancestors were illiterate outrank a documented descendant of a man who did fight in the Revolution, from the first day at Lexington to the end? Hand me my laurel wreath, upstart peasant Vance, and bow before me!