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What Does Watching the Film “Shadowlands” Bring Up for You?

December 8, 2022/11 Comments/in General/by Robert S. Griffin, Ph.D.

This was posted a week ago for a day with comments put off until this re-posting—the writing gets into what that’s about.   If you missed this post the first time around and want to participate in the comments section, you have time.   This will be on the site a week or so before being archived. 

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Much of getting clear about something and figuring out what to do about it involves reactivity.   You stay vigilant to what’s going on in the world and what people are saying and writing about it and what is going on inside you—physical sensations and thoughts and memories and images in your head—and put words to what you make of all of that, and give it articulate meaning, get specific about its significance, what it implies for you, your goals and actions with regard to it and what you think it implies for people collectively.

This contrasts with uncritically taking in what others put in front of you—the media (movies and TV, etc.) and what politicians, journalists, professors, advocates, podcasters, and such insert into the public discourse—and go, “Yes, that sounds good” or “Nah” and leave it at that or offer an off-the-top remark to people around you or on social media or in comments sections in webzines like this one.

Especially if the second paragraph above characterizes you more than the first, I’d like to push up against that a little in this writing.  This post is an invitation to respond in depth to something.

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I streamed a movie the other day that prompted responses in me that made a difference in how I see things, including myself, and that have stayed with me, and I think it might do the same for you.  It’s “Shadowlands,” a 1993 British based-on-a-true-story drama about the mid-life relationship between the British Oxford and Cambridge academic and popular Christian theologian and writer C.S. Lewis—he’s best known for his children’s Narnia stories—and the Jewish-American poet Joy Davidson.  The story takes place in Britain in the 1950s.    It’s directed by the Brit David Attenborough and stars Anthony Hopkins as Lewis and Debra Winger as Davidson.

I found “Shadowlands” a superb film.  Hopkins’ and Winger’s performances, wow.   If nothing else comes out of the activity I’m going to suggest, you might see a good movie. But the big thing in this context, I think “Shadowlands’ is nutritious food for thought, so to speak, including about mortality, though I don’t want to go into themes or possible perspectives more than that because I don’t want to channel your engagement with the film.  I’ll leave it that it seems to me that if you’re of the sort drawn to reading a publication like this one, there’s a lot for you to work with here.

You can stream “Shadowlands” on Google Play, Vudu, Amazon Prime, iTunes, Apple TV, and I’m sure other places, and you can buy it inexpensively—you know where to go for that.  You can watch it free as a YouTube, though the resolution isn’t very sharp on that print and I’m concerned that that will keep you distant from the reality of what is being depicted, including the breathtaking landscapes that dot the film; better to pay the $3.95, or whatever it is, rental and get the full measure of the “Shadowland” experience.

Here’s what I’m thinking:  This post is only up for the day and no comments allowed.  This same post will be up a week from now with the comments section open then.  The time between now and next week will give you the chance to pay the dues required to comment—namely, to see the film and work with it so that your comment can go into some depth, offer more than the opinion spurt so prevalent in this text-and-social-media-conditioned age.

I realize you may not be up for either watching the film or giving over time to discerning what it prompted in you and sharing that, and that’s perfectly fine, you may well have better things to do with your time, but that’s the invitation.  What’s behind making it is my hope that, in a small way, for some people, this exercise will move them toward becoming more of a participant in the meaning-making and public-dialogue-and-debate process rather than remaining essentially a recipient and yea-or-nay reactor to the pronouncements of others.

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So, if you’re up for it, watch “Shadowlands” over the next week and share the best of your thinking as a comment when it’s back on this site.  Let’s say that what you give the rest of us is within the focus of this webzine, that you believe it will contribute positively to us, that you write at least one crafted paragraph, and that your response(s) to other commenters are of this same sort.  I’ll respond to every comment that meets those criteria.

I hope this turns out to be an enjoyable and productive time for you.  All I know for sure is that I was engaged by “Shadowlands” and respected it as a film and that it prompted thoughts and feelings that matter to me—I’ll get into some of them in the comments section next week—and that the idea of week-delayed, in-depth comments had enough weight for me to put energy today into writing up this post.  But that’s me, you do you.

Perhaps you and I and some others will meet up here next week.  In any case, have the best week you can in the one chance you’ll get to live it.

 

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Trump IS Nick Fuentes

December 5, 2022/30 Comments/in General/by Ann Coulter
Trump IS Nick Fuentes

Who’s the happiest guy in America this week?

Nick Fuentes. In a matter of days, he’s gone from total obscurity to the most famous person in the country. Everybody’s talking about him!

Until he had dinner with Trump, literally, no one had ever heard of him (except various “hate watch” groups scamming money out of the perpetually alarmed). That’s not for lack of trying on Fuentes’ part. He was doing anything he could think of to get people to notice him.

You say praising Hitler will get me in the news? Watch this!

[Twenty researchers at People for the American Way earnestly type up reports titled, “The Dangerous Rise of Far-Right Extremism,” then blast them to the Upper West Side.]

Serendipitously, Donald Trump is also desperate for attention. As president of the United States, he used to brag to anyone who would listen about the important people who called him. (You know, the way a lot of serious adults do.) Rupert Murdoch calls me every day!

     He proudly produced the letters he’d exchanged with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to journalist Bob Woodward, telling him the letters were “soooo top secret,” and asking Woodward (again, a JOURNALIST) (for The Washington Post!), “Don’t say I gave them to you. OK?”

This is a man who faked a Time magazine featuring him on the cover with the headline, “TRUMP IS HITTING ON ALL FRONTS … EVEN TV!” — and hung them on the walls of his golf clubs.

It’s like an episode of “Dynasty.”

So you can well imagine Trump’s state of mind right now. He blew the midterms, everyone knows he blew the midterms, and then held a funereal presidential announcement at Mar-a-Lago, attended by only losers and grifters.

After the grim event, those of us unlucky enough to be on his email list were bombarded with messages announcing the MAJOR ENDORSEMENTS he’d received! (Nearly 10!)

Endorsement of President Donald J. Trump by Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller

Endorsement of President Donald J. Trump by the New York Young Republican Club

Each of the no-name and/or crazy people endorsing him was proclaimed in a separate email for maximum impact. I don’t know whose endorsement carries any weight these days — definitely not Trump’s — but it’s sure not these guys.

The point is: When you’re the former president and you’re bragging about the Young Republican Club of New York City endorsing you for president, Nick Fuentes is a HUGE “get.”

Trump was dying to have anyone famous come to Mar-a-Lago. Kanye West (Ye) is a big name, right? A strongly strong name. Plus, he’s probably not getting a lot of dinner invitations these days anyway. So Trump invited Ye, and Ye brought Fuentes.

MAJOR SCORE!

For days, Trump’s “Springtime for Hitler” dinner led on every program on MSNBC. Also CNN. Probably ESPN and the Cartoon Network, too.

Fuentes is the biggest news since a white guy shot up a Chesapeake Walmart. Scratch that — he was Black. Since a White guy shot up a Colorado Springs gay nightclub! Oops, let’s move on — he’s nonbinary.

Oh well, never mind. Fuentes is big, big news! Extensive clips of his sad little podcast (six viewers) have been playing around the clock on TV. He’s been featured in 20 separate articles in The New York Times alone, getting billboarded, front-page coverage.

Even with the Times’ flood-the-zone approach toward any vaguely White man who says something stupid, Fuentes never made the paper until Dec. 16, 2020 — in the 26th paragraph of a Thomas Edsall column: “At the pro-Trump rally in Washington on Dec. 12, the day after the Supreme Court decision, the crowd chanted ‘Destroy the G.O.P.’ at the urging of Nick Fuentes, a far-right opponent of immigration.”

Since then, despite his leaping in front of any microphone within 50 miles, Fuentes has appeared only in buried asides in a few dozen articles (about Jan. 6, natch).

But now — now, Fuentes is a star! Just like Trump. Fuentes and Trump: Narcissistic baby morons whose sole driving force in life is being FAMOUS!

Most people are unfamiliar with this emotion. A normal person likes everything about fame — except the fame part. (I tried to turn down the Time magazine cover, as the reporter John Cloud could confirm.)

Another similarity of the narcissistic baby morons: Both briefly gained respectability when, amid their babbling idiocies, they happened to hit upon immigration, and were rewarded by a nation crying out for anyone to give a damn about our country.

We didn’t want the incendiary stuff, but if that’s what it took to get immigration on the table, fine, we’ll take it. At least they weren’t calling illegal immigration an “act of love.” (Jeb!™)

Sadly, it turned out they were just monkeys typing for an infinite amount of time and producing Shakespeare. Recall that Trump first tried running for president in 2012 by pushing birtherism. Crash and burn.

Then by complete chance — the happy accident of Trump seeing me discuss my book Adios, America! and requesting a copy — in 2015, he started talking about immigration. He was pointlessly nasty, utterly ignorant, but at least he was talking about it. No one else would, so he became president.

But now, it’s perfectly clear that Trump’s bluster about a wall and deporting illegals was just random words that he assembled. He didn’t intend to do it, didn’t understand it and didn’t care.

Now, he’s back to his loony-tunes, get this! mode, still perseverating about his “sacred landslide election victory” being “viciously” stolen from him — in an election year when there was a red wave for every Republican but him.

From what I’ve read, Fuentes has roughly the same B.S.-to-sanity ratio, winning fans on those occasions when he talked about immigration, then deciding to spend 99% of his time trying to say things so repellent that he’d make news.

He’s made it now! You can’t turn on the TV without seeing Fuentes talking about imposing a Catholic dictatorship, Hitler is great, women should be forced to marry young and have children, and Trump must be made dictator for life.

Is he humiliated? No! He’s on TEE-VEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

The irony is: All the cable news hosts making Fuentes a star are driven by the same weird compulsion. No one paid by a television network is any less craven than Trump and Fuentes. Liberals are suddenly reborn as right-wingers at Fox, and the reverse happens at MSNBC and CNN. What do I have to believe? Please. I’m willing to say anything.

Of all the addictions — gambling, drinking, drugs — none leads to more embarrassing behavior than the quest for fame.

Unfortunately for the country, we are now locked in a situation where Trump, Fuentes and the media have identical interests: Keep Trump and Fuentes in the news.

     COPYRIGHT 2022 ANN COULTER

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Book Review of Culture of Critique with Mark Collett

December 2, 2022/9 Comments/in General/by Kevin MacDonald

 

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On the Khazar theory, again

November 30, 2022/48 Comments/in General/by Kevin MacDonald

Given the interest in the Khazar theory of Ashkenazi origins, an article in today’s New York Times is of interest. The population genetic and cultural evidence has never supported this theory, but the new research adds to the verdict.

The study, published on Wednesday in the journal Cell, compared DNA extracted from the teeth of 33 men, women and children buried in the cemetery with DNA taken from hundreds of modern Jews from around the world. Previous studies have shown that modern communities are a genetic mélange, with Ashkenazim the world over carrying essentially the same collection of DNA sequences.

But the medieval remains tell a different story. They show that European Jews at the time came from two divergent gene pools.

Each group shared the same genetic ancestry, dating back to a small founder population that most likely emigrated from Southern Europe and reached the German Rhineland at the turn of the first millennium. But the DNA analysis also revealed a genetic divide among the skeletons, which could have several explanations. In one scenario, both groups originated from the Rhineland. One branch then stuck around the region, while the other headed east to modern-day Poland, Czech Republic, Austria and eastern Germany.

Alternatively, Eastern Europe might have been settled by a different population of Jews who then mixed to a limited extent with their Jewish neighbors to the west.

Either way, the two groups remained fairly isolated from each other for generations, as evidenced by their discrete genetic lineages.

Thus population genetic studies on Ashkenazim show genetic commonality “the world over,” and this study finds that the two different lineages nevertheless “shared the same genetic ancestry” prior to splitting off and then reuniting. Note that the second alternative mentioned essentially states that the two populations that later reunited started out as a single ancestral group of Jews.

The article also highlights a reality of medieval life — that  towns and other jurisdictions often invited Jews in the hopes of getting some of the money they generated, essentially a way to exploit their own people.

The existence of an east-meets-west community in Erfurt is also supported by the historical record, which includes detailed accounts of a violent pogrom on March 21, 1349 — a Saturday. Angry mobs entered the local synagogue and attacked Jews in the midst of prayer. Few, if any, survived.

After the massacre, Erfurt’s leaders took possession of property and belongings. They even collected on debts owed to the murdered Jews. But just five years later, the need for lost tax revenue prompted the city to invite Jews back.

They came from far and wide. Tax records show names denoting origins from all over Europe — including some from distant cities that had experienced their own antisemitic upheavals. “In the middle of the German-speaking lands, this was the place to be at the time,” said Maria Stürzebecher, a medievalist who is the curator of the Old Synagogue Museum in Erfurt. At least, that is, until 1453, when Jews were forced out again.

And, although the new arrivals became one group, they preferentially went into business with Jews from the same area they came from, showing that genetic distance is important even in within-Jewish contexts, likely because it promotes trust, as discussed in Ch. 6 of A People That Shall Dwell Alone.

Preserved documents on money-lending practices show that the Jews from each subgroup largely formed business alliances with members of their own kind, according to Maike Lämmerhirt, a historian at the University of Erfurt and a co-author of the study. But both groups prayed in the same synagogue. They all cleansed in the same ritual bath. And, ultimately, they all lay side by side in the same cemetery.

And over the centuries, they intermarried.

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Exposing Fifth-Column Extremism

November 26, 2022/23 Comments/in General/by Esther Watcher

Israel’s dangerous extremism is not predicated on any kingmaker per se as put forth by a New York Times op-ed by Joshua Leifer, Israel’s New Kingmaker Is a Dangerous Extremist, and He’s Here to Stay (11/7/22). Rather, the dangerous extremism is from Jewish supremacism itself with its toxic insinuation into the body politic of virtually every country in the West in the form of what might as well be called, to use a well-known phrase, a Zionist Occupied Government (ZOG).

The ZOG media endlessly propagandizes that the US is populated with extreme right-wing domestic terrorists. Yet, there is little evidence to support such assertions; to wit, the bankrupt show trials of the January 6 House Select Committee. The NYT piece clearly suggests it is in fact Israel that is brimming with extreme right-wing domestic terrorists, racists, and ethnonationalists.

As much as the liberal-left apoplectically fear-mongered that Trump was Hitler incarnate, the record in hindsight shows he never came close to being a führer.  Trump is devoid of strongman DNA. He is simply a vulgarian narcissist playing his ZOG-assigned role of demagogue. The real authoritarianism is coming straight from the Jewish-controlled Democrats hellbent on destroying society with fascist plandemic policies and totalitarian cultural Marxism.  All to build us back better with their transhumanist wet dreams.

The NYT op-ed reports widespread agreement among Jewish Israelis that “Arabs should be expelled or transferred from Israel.”  How different is that from the 1930s collaboration of Nazis and Zionists for the Haavara Transfer Agreement?  With zero evidence to date, holocaust gaslighters (no pun intended) insist we believe that this major effort to expel Jews from Germany was (they contend) a policy to exterminate Jews. Ha! With ever more self-projection, the true expel-cum-exterminate agenda is that which Israel is irrevocably escalating with the Palestinians.

In the quest for a unipolar, king-of-the-hill, New World Order, the West has been neo-conned by Zionist Occupied Governments to take on Russia and China, the world’s other two superpowers. On our backs, USA is the village Israeli Firsters are destroying as they inveigle us to believe defeating Russia will save us.  The American people and our democratic traditions are being Palestined First-World-style.

While Vladimir Putin is no angel, many supporters see him as the hero in this epic superpower struggle. Russia is leading the charge for a sovereignty-based, Eurasian approach to global affairs — a kinder, gentler New World Order, if you will — as exemplified by three impressive Russian thought leaders:

  • The late Lev Gumilev is a highly respected academic whose unique theory of ethnogenesis explains why Talmudic Jews incite destruction wherever they go.
  • Alexander Dugin is a brilliant, much-admired philosopher who promotes a traditionalist society in opposition to the tyrannical Great Reset — ideas so dangerous his daughter got assassinated as the result of a plot intended to kill Dugin.
  • Sergey Glazyev is a world-renowned economist and creator of a new monetary system based on a multipolar “well-being” for all — a critical challenge to the BlackRock/WEF globalist banksters’ hegemonic unipolar plans.

In this Manichean set-up, it is imperative we support the multipolar alignments taking place among Russia, China, and the Global South in opposition to the globalist Jewish-dominated, totalitarian, unipolar agenda.  Alarmingly, just as throughout history Jews have always funded both sides, their neo-liberal financier branch is worming its way into the various multipolar alliances, in part through inroads they made over the years in China.  (Noting China is merely a junior partner to Jewish Power, one pundit quips, “Blaming China without Naming the Jew is like seeing Robin but not Batman.”)

In accord with Kissinger’s opening of the Chinese market, the country at this stage is awash with banksters rubbing their hands at China’s potential for vast wealth and world domination.  Will China’s leadership be tricked into becoming the avenue through which BlackRock-led elite Jews hijack the Yellow BRICS Road?  Or will China summon Taoist discernment and recognize Talmudic infiltrators disguised as Tikkun Olam saviors?

Many outside the West give credence to Gumilev’s theory of ethnogenesis that Jews are bad news for humanity. Rank-and-file Jews — whose elite brethren would readily dismiss any common cause by throwing them under the bus if need be — should expand their partnership with non-Jews in this eschatological clash. For example, Jews of conscience need to denounce the ADL for its persecution of Kanye West and other brave advocates exposing the breadth and depth of Jewish Power.

As their technocratic Covid coup d’état helps put the Chosen People within reach of global control, it’s more critical than ever that citizens of the world — with non-partisan Jews front and center — see through these Bankman-con-man deceits so we don’t all get Fried.  It is imperative we understand that civilization, if not nature itself, is at extreme risk right now from this global Fifth Column with their ancient aspirations to rule the world.

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Putin’s ‘Winter War’ on Ukraine

November 22, 2022/17 Comments/in General/by Pat Buchanan

In the final days of this lame-duck Congress, before control of the House passes to Republicans in January, Democrats are expected to approve Joe Biden’s request for another $38 billion for the Kyiv regime, its army and its war. Passage of this legislation would virtually guarantee that the U.S. continues to finance this war and extend the fighting until spring.

Winter has often proven an indispensable ally of Mother Russia.

The impending winter of 1812-13 forced Napoleon’s withdrawal from Moscow, a retreat from which his Grande Armee never recovered.

The winter of 1941-42 sealed the ultimate fate of the invading armies of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich.

Vladimir Putin’s new strategy in the war he launched on Ukraine in February is to conscript the coming winter of 2022-23 as an ally of his failing army.

For weeks, there have been reports of Russian air, missile and drone strikes on power plants in every major Ukrainian city.

The false report that a Russian-fired rocket had landed in Poland, killing two civilians, came on a day when 100 Russian bombs, rockets, missiles and drones hit “infrastructure” targets across Ukraine.

It was the heaviest Russian barrage to date in the nine-month war.

Putin’s goal: As the Ukrainian army battles the Russian army in the Donbas and Kherson, the power grid upon which the Ukrainian nation and people depend is to be systematically attacked, shut down, destroyed.

Without electric power, there will be no light or heat in Ukrainian homes, hospitals, offices or schools. Without electricity, food cannot be preserved, stoves do not work, water cannot be pumped.

Without power, light and heat, Putin’s expectation is that the Ukrainian people, who have patriotically supported their army, will, in the tens of thousands this winter, be at risk of freezing to death in the dark.

Winter, from mid-December to mid-March, is the coldest and darkest of the seasons, and it begins in four weeks.

On Friday, CNN reported that, after the latest wave of Russian strikes, 10 million Ukrainians, a fourth of the nation, were without power.

“Russia is turning winter into a weapon, even as its soldiers flail on the battlefield,” wrote The New York Times on Sunday. “In a relentless and intensifying barrage of missiles fired from ships at sea, batteries on land and planes in the sky, Moscow is destroying Ukraine’s critical infrastructure, depriving millions of heat, light and clean water.”

Ukraine’s state energy company adds: “Due to a dramatic drop in temperature, electricity consumption is increasing daily in those regions of Ukraine where power supply has already been restored after massive missile strikes on November 15 on the energy infrastructure.”

The U.S. stance in this war is that the fighting stops and peace talks begin only when Kyiv says the fighting stops and the negotiations begin.

But Americans, whose support for Ukraine has been indispensable in this war, also need to have a voice in when the war ends.

For us, the greatest stake in this Russia-Ukraine war is not who ends up in control of Luhansk, Donetsk or Kherson, but that we not be drawn into a military conflict that would put us on the escalator to a war with Russia, a world war and perhaps a nuclear war.

Nothing in Eastern or Central Europe is worth a major U.S. war with Russia that could go nuclear and cost millions of American lives.

The Donbas and Crimea may be of great importance to Kyiv and Moscow, but nothing in these lands would justify a U.S. war with a nuclear-armed Russia, the kind of war we managed to avoid through the Cold War from 1949-1989.

The recent incident of the S-300 surface-to-air missile misfired by Ukrainian forces, which landed several kilometers inside Poland, killing two Polish citizens, is a case in point.

Hawkish cries for NATO retaliation against Russia, under Article 5 of the NATO treaty, revealed that America’s War Party is still very much with us and eager for the next confrontation with Putin’s Russia.

In the final days of this lame-duck Congress, before control of the House passes to Republicans in January, Democrats are expected to approve Joe Biden’s request for another $38 billion for the Kyiv regime, its army and its war. Passage of this legislation would virtually guarantee that the U.S. continues to finance this war and extend the fighting until spring.

Why would we do this?

The U.S. ought not dictate to Kyiv when it should move to the negotiating track to end this war. But we Americans do have, given our indispensable contributions to the Ukrainian war effort, the right to tell Kyiv when we believe that the risks of further fighting exceed any potential gain for us; and, if Kyiv is determined to fight on, to give notice that Ukraine will be doing so without any more U.S. munitions.

Great powers should never cede to lesser powers, unconnected to their vital interests, the capacity to drag them into unwanted wars.

The Polish missile incident, and the noisy clamor that arose for retaliation against Russia for hitting a NATO country, exposed the risks inherent in our many treaty commitments, where we are obliged to go to war for scores of nations, most of which are not remotely related to the security or vital interests of the United States.

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The Leech Dismount

November 21, 2022/11 Comments/in General/by Ann Coulter
The Leech Dismount
Trump’s been called a lot of things in recent years, but I’m going to call him something new.

First, a refresher. In 2015, the Republican Party was on life support, with a “Do Not Resuscitate” order pinned to its chest and a priest called to administer last rites. Voters kept telling the party they wanted less immigration, less tax-cutting and less warmongering, but the GOP kept giving us more immigration, more tax-cutting and more warmongering. (For a detailed account of this state of affairs, see my columns and books — they make great Christmas gifts — free shipping for Amazon Prime members!)

Only when all other treatments had failed did we turn to an ancient medical treatment: the leech.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Donald J. Trump. There was no greater leech in all the land!

No insult intended. Leeching is a time-honored medical tradition, dating back to the Stone Age, for every conceivable ailment — an overabundance of peccant humors, convulsions, flatulence, scarlet fever, pleurisy, inflamed eyes and diseases of the throat, to name a few. Even today, leeches are the best treatment, as I understand it, for certain anticoagulant purposes. But because they are worms and bloodsuckers, not all patients find the treatment especially tasteful.

Trump was our parasitic worm.

Though any doctor will tell you leeching rarely works, the next time you hear someone say we didn’t get anything from Trump, I respectfully suggest you reply: “I’ve got five words for you: Gorsuch. Kavanaugh. Coney F—ing Barrett.”

True, the only reason we got them is that neither Jared Kushner nor Kim Kardashian had any interest in the judiciary, so the Federalist Society picked Trump’s judges without interference. Albeit completely by accident, the leech still gave us a generation of solid Supreme Court justices. If that sounds like cold comfort, please recall that we just lost the Senate, and barely won the House by the skin of our teeth.

Moreover, without our leech, we would currently either be in Year Six of the Hillary administration, or Year Six of Jeb!’s presidency (who would have given us justices equal in stature to Harriet Miers and David Souter).

But you don’t leave the leech on the body forever. In leechery, once the parasite has served its purpose, it must be carefully removed and submerged in a solution of 70% alcohol to ensure that it is dead. (A common but incorrect method of performing the dismount is to set the leech on fire.)

Naturally, I am not suggesting we burn Trump or submerge him in a 70% alcohol solution.

If we’re coming up with a master list of possibilities after a few drinks, we might consider a traditional game of our dear Afghan allies, who play polo using a severed human head as the ball.

I submit it would bad for the office for Trump’s head to be used in a polo match.

Another idea to come from our perpetual wars is to model the dismount on the de-Ba’athification after Saddam. This workable, but harsh, method would require sending troops to rout Trump from whatever underground bunker he’s hiding in.

I have to reject that, too, for reasons of dignity.

But the one method that I am absolutely, positively, 100% sure will not work is to attack Trump supporters as deplorable, white supremacist insurrectionists.

You will notice that this is the precise method settled on by Biden, the Democrats and the media, for utterly cynical reasons. At this stage, Trump is poisonous to the conservative agenda, so he and the media have exactly the same agenda: Promote Trump. 

Liberals want Trump more than we ever did.

Leeching as a medical treatment is not based on the leech’s inherent nobility. Trump was a desperation move.

Our idea was that Trump, for narcissistic reasons, would occasionally do things that we wanted. That was more than we were getting from the Republican Party. I defy anyone to name any of the other 16 GOP presidential candidates who could have beaten Hillary.

We hadn’t planned to get to that point, but there’s no use arguing with the GPS. That’s where we were.

The people who gave Trump more primary votes than any Republican in history weren’t idiots, haters or racists. To the contrary, anyone who withstood the slings and arrows to make Trump president in 2016 is not deplorable, but honorable. Not duped, but clear-eyed. They didn’t screw up; they did the right thing.

It may take some of them a little longer to figure out that we’ve gotten everything out of the leech that we’re ever going to get. But they are good and decent people and will realize soon enough: It’s over. We got our parasitic worm, and it’s time to move on. Sometimes the worm turns; sometimes we turn on the worm.

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