Article Suggests Trumps Followers are Worthless
Williamson is arrogant and judgemental. He fears populism, no doubt because he is “much smarter” than the rabble. To make his point he paints all Trump followers with a very broad brush. They are white working-class folks who are sexually depraved, drug users, welfare-dependent, and a drag on society. If his attack weren’t so vicious and mean it would be humorous in its misrepresentation and misperception. Williamson lives in the heady atmosphere of being the “right kind” of conservative found at the National Review, and he resents the fact that a sizeable portion of the U.S. population does not pay rapt attention to the decrees made by the magazine from on high. He needs to get out and spend more time in Realityland. Some of his comments follow:
National Review’s Kevin Williamson believes Donald Trump’s appeals to the white working class are “immoral” because that demographic’s way of life deserves to die out.
In a featured article for the prestigious conservative journal entitled “The Father-Fuhrer,” Williamson seeks to rebut criticism that he and other conservatives don’t articulate any policies that would appeal to Trump’s blue collar supporters.
Williamson, a long-time critic of The Donald, essentially agrees that he doesn’t support any policies or rhetoric directly tailored to the working-class — particularly about jobs being taken by outsourcing and immigration — because it would be wrong to do so.
“It is immoral because it perpetuates a lie: that the white working class that finds itself attracted to Trump has been victimized by outside forces,” the NR roving correspondent writes. “[N]obody did this to them. They failed themselves.”
“If you spend time in hardscrabble, white upstate New York, or eastern Kentucky, or my own native West Texas, and you take an honest look at the welfare dependency, the drug and alcohol addiction, the family anarchy—which is to say, the whelping of human children with all the respect and wisdom of a stray dog—you will come to an awful realization. It wasn’t Beijing. It wasn’t even Washington, as bad as Washington can be. It wasn’t immigrants from Mexico, excessive and problematic as our current immigration levels are. It wasn’t any of that,” Williamson state.
“The truth about these dysfunctional, downscale communities is that they deserve to die. Economically, they are negative assets. Morally, they are indefensible,” the conservative writer says. “The white American under-class is in thrall to a vicious, selfish culture whose main products are misery and used heroin needles. Donald Trump’s speeches make them feel good. So does OxyContin. What they need isn’t analgesics, literal or political. They need real opportunity, which means that they need real change, which means that they need U-Haul. If you want to live, get out of Garbutt [a blue-collar town in New York].”
If nothing else, it is interesting to watch the various political groups get their knickers tied in a knot as Donald Trump continues to gather followers of all stripes. And the Democrats insist that Trump is evil incarnate because he objects to criminals being deported from Mexico to the U.S., and potential Islamic terrorists being imported from the Middle East.
The political class needs to get off their high horse and recognize that common, ordinary citizens are sick and tired of the mess the politicians have made of our country and our society. They are willing to give a non-politician a chance to try a new approach and to bring a fresh perspective from outside the halls of Congress to solve problems and to represent the people. That desire does not make these people depraved, selfish, vicious, or drug-addled. It makes them rational.
Source: dailycaller.com
This man (Williamson) must not believe in the American Values and the Constitution, in which we are granted the following: All men are created equal and that we are entitled to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness! For a professed conservative he lacks the fundamentals of of what a conservative is and what we stand for. Our founding Fathers established the constitution to preserve the rights of all classes in society from being devalued by other classes of society based on their biases and perceptions of superiority. That preservation comes in the form of allowing all members of that society to pursue life in whatever way based on their god given talents and acquired knowledge. The character assignation of the working middle class perpetrated by Williamson proves he lacks all understanding of the people who support Trump or any other person that wants to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. This man needs to educate himself. I believe Sun Tzu said this: ““If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” Williamson has already lost every battle because he doesn’t know himself. A conservative his is not.