Dear Reader (including Sean Hannity, who doesn’t think this “news”letter is a safe space), As Bill Clinton likes to say to the summer interns, I won’t keep you long.
“The Flight 93 Election.” That’s the title of a pseudonymous essay in The Claremont Review of Books that’s gotten a lot of attention of late. Rush Limbaugh apparently loved it. A great many others thought it was unlovable (See: Here, here, here, here, here, and here.)
I’m with them. Except in one regard: I like the title. Oh, I hate the way the writer uses the idea. Indeed, while I kind of like the writing style, and I’ve found the man I believe to be the actual author decent enough, I find the whole pose of it fairly offensive. The author adopts the pen name Publius Decius Mus, after a Roman nobleman who sacrificed his life for the Republic by charging into the thick of battle. But the author isn’t even willing to risk harm to his own name to launch his often baseless attacks. Rather, from the bespoke comforts of the private sector, he accuses conservative opponents of Trump of selling out, without any evidence beyond a mist-producing frenzy of logic chopping.
Yes, there’s a nice parallelism between the pen name and the title. The passengers who rushed the cockpit were indeed modern day Publii. The writer, however, is not.
Read more at:
http://www.nationalreview.com/g-file/439906/flight-93-election-hillary-clinton-threat-america
Enjoyable G-File this week. As a librarian, I'm glad he abandoned the "Hilary is the librarian who tells you, 'there's no eating in the library,'" in favor of "She was the kid who reminded the teacher that there was supposed to be a quiz." :)
