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General Category => Editorial/Opinion/Blogs => Topic started by: RoosGirl on October 12, 2017, 02:31:53 pm
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In “The Vulgar Manliness of Donald Trump,” Harvard Professor of Government Harvey Mansfield depicts the President as a demagogue -- precisely the sort of crass figure whose rise to power the Founders wished to forestall. The theoretical underpinning of the article, the concept of “manliness” itself, receives its full expostulation in Professor Mansfield’s book, Manliness (Yale University Press, 2006). We are unable to go into that rich and learned work here. Suffice it to quote from the book’s preface, “Manliness seeks and welcomes drama and prefers times of war, conflict, and risk.” But it is “about fifty-fifty good and bad.” The good manliness, that of the first responders on 9/11 (and, we might add, of the Seals who killed Osama bin Laden), is necessary to resist the wicked manliness of the 9/11 attackers and their ilk.
According to Professor Mansfield, Trump’s is a vulgar manliness, and therefore to be disdained. Vulgarity was understood in ancient political philosophy as the characteristic of the common people. Classical authors, and others through the centuries, viewed democracy as problematic and likely to collapse into tyranny, because the people, in Mansfield’s reprise, were “hasty, angry, impulsive, brash, and punitive.” We need only think of the Roman mob in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. The people inevitably will choose a man with those same qualities, one as vulgar as they are, but with the ambition, guile, and rhetorical talent to raise them against “men of quality, nobles, aristocrats, or gentlemen.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/10/on_the_vulgar_manliness_of_donald_trump.html
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The ever-growing number of articles where the general premise is 'he's not as bad as the other guy' is well beyond boring.
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The ever-growing number of articles where the general premise is 'he's not as bad as the other guy' is well beyond boring.
@RoosGirl
Oh cmon we know you have the hots for him
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The One Rump and his followers ain't men.
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@RoosGirl
Oh cmon we know you have the hots for him
I guess I'm not hiding it very well.
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Give Michelle Obama a Break
Conservative critics of her commencement address at Tuskegee University are missing its many merits.
By Harvey Mansfield
May 19, 2015 6:59 p.m. ET
https://www.wsj.com/articles/give-michelle-obama-a-break-1432076369
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Give Michelle Obama a Break
Conservative critics of her commencement address at Tuskegee University are missing its many merits.
By Harvey Mansfield
May 19, 2015 6:59 p.m. ET
https://www.wsj.com/articles/give-michelle-obama-a-break-1432076369
You're going to have to give us the bullet points. I haven't figured out how to hack in to WSJ yet.
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You're going to have to give us the bullet points. I haven't figured out how to hack in to WSJ yet.
Mooch gave a race baiting bullshit commencement speech and Mansfield defended it.
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Mooch gave a race baiting bullshit commencement speech and Mansfield defended it.
What does that have to do with the price of coffee? Besides, Harvey's off to Europe for sex therapy. ^-^
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What does that have to do with the price of coffee? Besides, Harvey's off to Europe for sex therapy. ^-^
I like to know what type of other gems an "expert" came up with when I read their current work.
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I like to know what type of other gems an "expert" came up with when I read their current work.
Nah, it's a good catch, I'm just giving you a hard time.
I actually wish I had the 5 minutes of my life back that it took to read this article. I think there have been 528 similar articles in the last year or so.
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In “The Vulgar Manliness of Donald Trump,” Harvard Professor of Government Harvey Mansfield depicts the President as a demagogue -- precisely the sort of crass figure whose rise to power the Founders wished to forestall. The theoretical underpinning of the article, the concept of “manliness” itself, receives its full expostulation in Professor Mansfield’s book, Manliness (Yale University Press, 2006). We are unable to go into that rich and learned work here. Suffice it to quote from the book’s preface, “Manliness seeks and welcomes drama and prefers times of war, conflict, and risk.” But it is “about fifty-fifty good and bad.” The good manliness, that of the first responders on 9/11 (and, we might add, of the Seals who killed Osama bin Laden), is necessary to resist the wicked manliness of the 9/11 attackers and their ilk.
According to Professor Mansfield, Trump’s is a vulgar manliness, and therefore to be disdained. Vulgarity was understood in ancient political philosophy as the characteristic of the common people. Classical authors, and others through the centuries, viewed democracy as problematic and likely to collapse into tyranny, because the people, in Mansfield’s reprise, were “hasty, angry, impulsive, brash, and punitive.” We need only think of the Roman mob in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. The people inevitably will choose a man with those same qualities, one as vulgar as they are, but with the ambition, guile, and rhetorical talent to raise them against “men of quality, nobles, aristocrats, or gentlemen.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/10/on_the_vulgar_manliness_of_donald_trump.html
Isn't "all manliness" to be disdained and shunned in this political environment? Just look to how Weinstein is being offered up by the idiot left as their (current) sacrificial lamb for the sake of going after Trump over similar accusations.
Check 1:50 of the video for that hint/clue from the Queen of Hypocrisy herself. Of course, if you already know the idiot left well, you had to figure that was the "why" behind it.... since the idiot left usually never goes against one of their own.... unless they have an agenda to do so.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/clinton-sick-shocked-and-appalled-by-weinstein-allegations/ar-AAtjAin?li=BBnb7Kz
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Mooch gave a race baiting bullshit commencement speech and Mansfield defended it.
That's a little like being John Dillinger on trial for bank robbery and Willie Sutton leading the defense team.