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John Hinderaker at Power Line, yesterday evening, with some heat, joined the Advise Trump Brigade.  I commented:

Thanks to Matthew Stanley for the Breitbart essay on which, apparently, the Democratic-Republican Uniparty and their media organs wish to hang an ambush of Donald Trump.  I had not known of the essay.  I think it is excellently-researched and well-written.  Good journalism.  The essay comprises a taxonomy of the so-called Alt-Right Movement.  The taxonomy feels observable and believable.

Dueffert and friends have slammed into high gear on this post.  My, oh, my!  Good job, Paul, commandeering the conversation, or wanting to.

I think the Breitbart essay is not a hook for ambushing Trump or his voters.  And from what I understand of Bannon’s claim, to have given alt-right a platform, I guess referring to this essay, I don’t see how that is a hook for hanging Bannon, either.  The essay is research and exposition, not advocacy.  It is what a news media does: report.

If the essay’s research is accurate, as it appears to be, Hinderaker’s claim the alt-right movement is inconsequential is counter-factual.  That he and fellow conservatives have not heard of the movement until the other half of their party threw it at them says nothing about the importance of the movement.  To whom in Silicon Valley and San Antonio did Jared Kushner turn to invent the Trump campaign’s electronic success?

The essay’s exposition agrees in most part with my own as to underlying phenomenology of USA’s cultural, moral and spiritual conditions currently.  I can feel what the alt-right boys and girls are doing and why, even though, like Hinderaker, I just heard of them as with a name.  Bannon, clearly, was more in touch with that phenomenology than I have been in this particular.

Surely, with their talk with Trump yesterday, the Uniparty and their media organs intended to ambush their subject.  He did them a day earlier.  Turn around is fair play, surely.  Nor would he have not known what was afoot.  I think it is a question of who ambushed whom.

Finally, the essay, this post and the chatter below it remind me of Tillich’s specific descriptions of German political developments post-1918 and his general description of the inexorable development of tyranny upon a culture’s failure to balance its divergent and convergent vectors (aka autonomy and heteronomy, or, centrifugal and centripetal forces).  (Heraclitus: War [struggle, conflict] is the father of all things.)

Donald Trump has a life-time of experience successfully working with some very nasty people.  And he sets forces against each other, which is the recipe for stability, whereas power monoliths are the recipe for instability, as we see from the D-R Uniparty.  He is a chance Americans have given themselves to rebalance their forces, to avoid the otherwise certain intervention of a tyrannical demagogue more final than the one currently in occupation.

A characteristic of times of internal struggle is the interlacing of elements that share some commonalities and not others.  At such times, calm is desirable, to give time and energy for intelligence to sort out which elements fully belong together and which but partially do or do not at all.  From that effort, salutary courses of action suggest themselves which otherwise are hidden by interior turbulence.

The phenomenology described in the Breitbart research and exposition is important for informing US domestic intel analysis.

Update 1: Glenn, your paper on military coups is fine as far as it goes.  I have read it through.  But, and I think you know this: a coup against the sovereignty and government of the USA is coming from monied, protected American and non-American oligarchs, to include politicians, not USA Armed Forces.  Domestic and foreign oligarchs who think their money entitles them to demand of everyone else whatever dance they want everyone else to step to.  It is called slavery.  That coup is underway, compliments of the worst political class in [our] nation’s history.  USA Armed Forces are not part of that coup and in fact almost uniformly reprobate it, and without contemplating a counter-coup coup.  ….  Not nits.  Communists believe in democracy.  They yell it from the roof-tops.  Democracy killed Socrates, and Jesus of Nazareth and God.  We do not have a democratic government, thank God.  The mob is evil.  We have elected representative government, thank God.  This way, we can self-correct.  Democracy is mob rule, just what Communists want.  Once.

Update 2: If you truly believe that American democracy is a hoax and that there is no real difference between Democrats and Republicans, you are either the ultimate cynic or the captive of an extreme anti-American ideology.

OK, counselor, I accept.  See:

1- America is not a democracy, was designed to be not one.  You know that.

2- There are real differences between Democrats and Republicans, but between logrolling ones there are no real differences.  And it is the RINO/GOPe logrollers who are the issue today, because of their numbers, their cowardice and their destructive cravenness.  You know that.

3- Any either-or is nullified by Maimonides’ via negativa (in Sanskrit, its original: neti), the effect of which is, yes-but-also.  You know that.

Update 3: Sarah Hoyt: Fools To The Left Of Me, Clowns To The Right

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