The Left has succeeded in so many ways, but perhaps in none more profoundly disappointing and disheartening to those of us who love Liberty than in reducing its adversaries into warring tribes, dividing and conquering the Western civilization that they abhor, in the service of the Mother of All Social Revolutions.
Can we conservatives, in our present fractious state not understand that they would love to see someone like Donald Trump be nominated, the better to lead Republicans into the final abyss?
He has no beliefs, save his own personal aggrandizement. He has no principles. He has no sense of honor, or duty, or decency. He does not value our Constitution or what it proclaims about the inalienable rights, not just of Americans, but of all human beings.
Why would you ever think that he does? He never speaks of such things. Ever.
And all of those things - the timeless values that define the human spirit, the things that inform and enlighten, those that represent the triumph not of will but of intellect, the recognition of objective reality and of the inalienable rights of man - all of those values are what now and have always separated man from beasts and also those who act like beasts. And they are under assault by the enemies of freedom, here, there, and everywhere.
Suddenly, individual liberty is held inferior to communal need. Property is theft. Personal responsibility is an outmoded social construct. There are no men or women, but only polymorphous sexual beings. Human life has no special value, nor in some quarters, any value at all.
Let us stop fighting each other and turn toward the true enemies of the things we all hold dear. We need not agree on means or even the persons we seek as appropriate leaders to pursue them. Be we had damned well better agree on the ends. Else, they will evaporate.
But I'll still say this: if anyone here can adduce compelling evidence purporting to show that Donald Trump gives a good goddam about anything other than his own self-promotion, then I'm more than willing to listen. But so far, all I hear is a big mouth telling people what they want to hear, instead of what they need to hear.
If history teaches us anything about politics, it is that appeals to the baser instincts, particularly those of fear and loathing, often win the day... and then invite the night.