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Tweet Round Up (Mid-May-June): ‘1237,’ Illiberal Schools, Islam, Debt & Donald, Immigration, MegaloMegyn

Britain, Debt, Donald Trump, Education, Foreign Policy, History, IMMIGRATION, Individual Rights, libertarianism, Media, Neoconservatism, Private Property, Race, Republicans

TRUMP in Sacramento:


1237:


John Brown & neocons:


Hijabs in military academy:


Kunta Kerwick on Roots:


Cupcakes:


Brexit:


Libertarians for Hiroshima:


TRUMP rally reality:


Not Bon Jovi but Roger Daltrey:


Megyn’s getting scarier:


Slow media still guessing:


Media & street Thugs blame Trump:


Pinko Republicans go for Trump:


Refugees:


Pocahontas:


Libertarian Party:


They women burn Bernie


DEBT


Geert Wilders:


Invade Then Invite (as Steve Sailer put it)


Forced Integration:

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If Honest Abe Stole Elections, Then It Must Be OK, Right?

Conservatism, Elections, History, Republicans

Heroic Lincoln heretic Thomas DiLorenzo reminds us that stealing elections is a venerated GOP tradition:

Scott Walker has reminded his fellow neocons that Abe Lincoln was nominated in a “brokered convention.” (Scroll to the last paragraph of the linked article). This follows the 150-year tradition of the Grand Old Party of Thieves and Murderers: If Abe illegally suspended Habeas Corpus and imprisoned tens of thousands of Northern-state political dissenters, it must be OK for us to do it. If Abe ran an empire of gulags for political dissenters imprisoned without due process, it must be OK for us to do it. If Abe shut down hundreds of opposition newspapers, it must be OK for us to do it. If Abe orchestrated the mass murder of hundreds of thousands of his own citizens in order to destroy the principles of a voluntary union and the notion that a government’s just powers rest upon the consent of the governed then, why, of course it is OK for us to just ignore the consent of the governed in the Republican primaries. Abe would be looking up at us from where he is now and smiling. (Thanks to Chris Rossini).

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Week’s Tweets, 22 To 28: MegaloMegyn, Markets, Cleavland

America, Free Markets, History, Media, Republicans

One of the best president was Democrats Grover Cleveland:


FREE MARKETS

National Review Stands Athwart Historic Conservatism Of Burke, Kirk

Classical Liberalism, Conservatism, Donald Trump, History, Neoconservatism

Most of the National Review recruits who’ve enlisted Against Trump are conservatives in name only, as Jack Kerwick’s learned allusion to conservatism’s founding philosophers concludes. NRO’s promotion of “‘American Exceptionalism,’ the radically ahistorical doctrine that America is not a historically and culturally-specific country but an ‘idea,’ an abstract ‘proposition,'” makes this lot unconservative.

One might say National Review stands athwart historic conservatism (to borrow from founder William F. Buckley’s famous mission statement to stand athwart history).

“National Review vs. Trump?” by Jack Kerwick (published, surprisingly, by TownHall.com):

… NR’s contributors are indeed correct that Trump is not any sort of conservative in the classical or traditional sense of the word. But neither are Trump’s “conservative” critics conservative in the classical or traditional sense of the word.

Undoubtedly, Trump has never read, if he’s even heard of, Edmund Burke, “the patron saint” of conservatism. I would be surprised if he’s even heard of, let alone read, the work of the 20th century’s American reincarnation of Burke, Russell Kirk. Chances are even slimmer yet that he’s familiar with Michael Oakeshott’s classic essay, “On Being Conservative,” or George Nash’s and Paul Gottfried’s seminal studies of the conservative movement in America.

The one contemporary nationally-renown figure who is more philosophically approximate to Burke and Kirk than anyone else—Pat Buchanan—Trump at one time ridiculed. Nor has Trump been any more generous to either Ron or Rand Paul, both of whom, though widely regarded as “libertarian,” are nevertheless conservative just insofar as they are (or at least seem to be) committed to federalism, our Constitution.

Yet here’s the rub: What’s true of Trump in all of these respects is at least as true of many of his critics in the NR symposium.

Granted, I’m sure that there are many among the latter who have heard of Burke. Since Kirk’s name was at one time on NR’s masthead, some of them have probably heard of him as well. However, Kirk’s name is scarcely ever, if at all, mentioned by any contemporary “conservatives.” And on those rare occasions when Burke’s name is dropped, it is almost always in connection with a single line of his: “The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”

For Buchanan and the Pauls (especially the Elder), many of the Trump critics at NR have reserved nothing but contempt. …

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