The Right Is Apoplectic Over This Piece About A Post-Trump "Reckoning"Which Means It's Good.

[applegrove]

By Dartagnan at the Daily Kos

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/20/1708377/-The-Right-Is-Apoplectic-Over-This-Piece-About-A-Post-Trump-Reckoning-Which-Means-It-s-Good

"SNIP...........

James Wolcott is never going to be America’s favorite columnist. I suspect that’s just fine with James Wolcott.

As a contributor to the New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire and numerous other publications over the last four decades, Wolcott is best known for his critiques of modern culture and in particular, media culture. His breezy, often acerbic style, (think of a jaded aristocrat channeling Matt Taibbi), is notably averse to pulling punches. Writing for Vanity Fair (his most visible platform) since 1983, Wolcott has managed to irk both the left and right, proving himself an equal opportunity provocateur (which I say with a certain warmth as his past blog notes have links to Daily Kos dating back to the George W. Bush Administration). All in all, he has cemented a solid reputation as an unusually perceptive observer of our times.

But his most recent essay appears to have twisted the girdles of the right moreso than others, because in it he contemplates what this country will need to do once Donald Trump has been, how you say, “put out to pasture” by whatever means that may occur. Indeed, the piece, appearing in this month’s Vanity Fair, is apparently hitting so close to the bone that it’s incurred the wrath of some conservative Women’s Organization (translated as a group of women who live to hate on other women) calling itself the “Independent Women's Forum," some Matt-Drudge wannabe site called the “Rightly Report," FreeRepublic (yep, hold your nose!) and Newsbusters, to name a few.

Oh, yeah. They’re pissed. Maybe it was this that got them all hot and bothered:

In the sorriest days of the Watergate scandal, the iconoclastic journalist and 60 Minutes commentator Nicholas von Hoffman compared the Nixon presidency to “a dead mouse on the American family kitchen floor. The question is: who is going to pick it up by the tail and drop it in the trash?” It would be premature to write off the Trump presidency as a deceased rodent lying on the linoleum. In its nasty defensiveness, it is closer to a cornered rat. It still has plenty of ugly fight left. But we are at the beginning of the endgame and it is not premature to start imagining how to pick through the damage the Trump presidency will leave behind and future-proof the republic so that It Can’t Happen Here never happens again

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[sweetroxie]

1. Can we get FEMA to help?

Just kidding.

[madamesilverspurs]

2. Apoplexy suits them.

They're mad because he wrote it.

On the other hand, we're sickened because it had to be written.

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[ThoughtCriminal]

7. How can we tell?

I have not seen what they are like when not apoplectic about something or for that matter, everything.

[kag]

13. Good point.

Just like their "dear leader" they cannot be mildly annoyed about anything; any affront to them must be the "worst attack ever endured by anyone ever."

[bagelsforbreakfast]

3. I used to enjoy Wolcott but somehow missed him for 30 years!

I'll have to search him out more.

[ProudLib72]

4. All three of his supporters are angry, huh?

Evidently one of them was literate enough to read the article to the other two.

[Mr.Bill]

5. One thing that is good

is that so far what the Trump administration had done is just about all in the form of executive orders rather than legislated law. That means it can be undone very easily by a new president. We can't wait until 2020, though.

Politics and political control of the country has been described as a pendulum that swings back and forth, which is an apt description, but what is often missed about the pendulum analogy is that the farther it swings in one direction, the farther it swings back in the other. The next Democratic president will have huge political coat tails and will be swept into office with huge majorities in both houses of congress and will be a liberal regime that will be like nothing we have ever seen.

[Merlot]

17. The pendulum swing won't survive gerrymandering, voter suppression

and hacking.

If it weren't for those things, you'd be right on.

[Mr.Bill]

21. You are correct.

Much needs to be done in those areas. Right now every Democratic elected official should be screaming about ending all electronic voting in their states.

[not fooled]

6. Aaaaaannnnnnnnnnddddddd

Which political party is responsible for inflicting this rodent on America?

Hint: It's not the Democrats, folks.


When the carnage is over the revisionism will be massive. Look for the right to swing into full-out propaganda mode to try to rewrite history in order to hide evidence that they are responsible for this massive clusterf*ck.

[SergeStorms]

11. Oh yes....

everything will be the "obstructionist Democrats' " fault, and of course, the Liberal Media. The media never gave poor Donnie a chance. He was so busy defending himself against the vicious, malcontent journalists that he never had a chance to govern properly. Or something to that effect, because nothing is ever Donnie Trump's fault. NEVER!

[Initech]

14. And you know those assholes will too.

They have no buttons to push. They're buttonless. They push our buttons 24/7 and have for 40 years, and all we have to show for it is a new generation of tiki torch carrying neo Nazis. You know that the GOP is already going to rewrite history when Orange Douche is impeached. We can't let that happen!

[Mme. Defarge]

8. Other than unfairly maligning doily knitters

the original article was spot on. And, yes, the 911 Commission Report was «analytical, rhetorical mush ».

[pangaia]

9. Independent Women's Forum

ANNUAL AWARDS GALA
Honoring 'Woman of Valor---..DRUM ROOOOLL

KELLYANNE CONWAY !!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.iwf.org/


PAUL RYAN, Presenter.. at a WOMEN"S FORUM ? HUH???

snort...

[SergeStorms]

12. What the hell has she done....

beside stay hidden for the past 5 months? The Trump Drum Majorette ran her big, stupid mouth non-stop for the first four months, but when she got caught lying so many times, it's like "Where's Waldo"? More plastic surgery? We know how much that turns her boss off, unless he explicitly orders it for his wives or girlfriends.

Where IS Kellyane Conway ?

[not fooled]

15. Is the award

a miniature catapult? You know, for catapulting the propaganda. After all, it's "newly-rehabilitated" great statesman (not) chimpy week, apparently.

[Vogon_Glory]

10. There ought to be a reckoning

For the good of the Republic, these people OUGHT to be held accountable.

[The Polack MSgt]

16. This is my prayer

future-proof the republic so that It Can’t Happen Here never happens again

[Merlot]

18. Gerrymandering, voter suppression and hacking will need to be addressed

Since all those things benefit repubs, I don't see them taking it on. I wondered why Obama didn't make those issues a bigger priority.

[Madam45for2923]

20. Yep it seems the don't want POC voting.

[Alice11111]

24. He & Eric Holder put together a group of lawyers to work

on it after the election. Maybe, they are.

[Madam45for2923]

19. the image of Trumps presidency as a dead rat waiting to be scooped up & summarily dumped in d trash

Actually, the image of Trump’s presidency as a dead rat waiting to be scooped up and summarily dumped in the trash bin has a certain poetic resonance.

As Wolcott notes, the reality is that this Orange Abomination is going to be history one day, hopefully sooner rather than later. And then—to borrow further from this metaphor—we’ll all be tasked with cleaning up the stinking residue on the floor.

That’s what Wolcott’s essay is really about—what kind of country will we be forced to contend with after Trump and his minions are gone, and what ought we do about it?

[LudwigPastorius]

22. Wolcott is a damned fine writer.

Now if the generals can just keep Trump in check until this whole sorry mess reaches its denouement.

[NastyRiffraff]

23. Wolcott is one of my favorite political writers

I subscribe to Vanity Fair and I always seek out his column first. This month's was particularly good, and not good for Donald Trump & Co.