{"id":326913,"date":"2019-10-29T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=326913"},"modified":"2019-10-30T16:15:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T20:15:14","slug":"an-absolutely-wonderful-column-by-victor-davis-hanson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/10\/29\/an-absolutely-wonderful-column-by-victor-davis-hanson\/","title":{"rendered":"An Absolutely Wonderful Column by Victor Davis Hanson"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: An absolutely wonderful column today from Victor Davis Hanson. It runs at the American Greatness website. And the headline of this column is “Our Bankrupt Nomenklatura.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s the subhead: \u201cTake all the signature brand names that the Baby Boomers inherited from prior generations — Harvard, Yale, the New York Times, NPR, CNN, the Oscars, the NFL, the NBA, the FBI, the CIA, the Rockefeller and Ford foundations, and a host of others. And then ask whether they enhanced or diminished such inheritances?\u201d<\/p>\n

He has an overall point here. That the left\u2019s self-appointed and self-anointed best and brightest are actually an endless parade of incompetence. Now, let me share with you some pull quotes. And this is going to set up the brief biographical sketches<\/a> of these so-called wonderful, patriotic, committed American citizens from the military and from the intelligence community who are so upset over Donald Trump\u2019s phone call to the president of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Why aren\u2019t they upset about Trump-Russia collusion? Oh! That\u2019s right. There wasn\u2019t any. Where were all of these brilliant patriots with all of the evidence that Trump was a rotten guy during all that? This is so obviously a setup. But let me give you some pull quotes from Victor Davis Hanson\u2019s piece today.<\/p>\n

We are being led by credentialed mediocrities at every level of government. As I\u2019ve said, we\u2019re being government by a minority, folks, a numerical minority that thinks that it is intellectually superior to everybody. Think of it this way. Imagine the lazy, unmotivated, pampered, not-very-bright kids of those Hollywood stars who wanted to get into Harvard, Yale, Stanford, USC, imagine them graduating and becoming judges, becoming congressmen, senators, high-level government department heads.<\/p>\n

Well, that\u2019s exactly what we\u2019ve got. A bunch of people who didn\u2019t earn anything, a bunch of people who had life made for them by virtue of establishment connections. Here\u2019s another great pull quote. And, folks, this is really so right on. It\u2019s one of those things I wish I would have written. If I were a dishonest person, I would steal it and say that it\u2019s my thought. But I\u2019m not a dishonest person. Are you ready?<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe amount of elite energy spent replaying the embarrassing progressive 2016 loss and trying to abort the Trump presidency before the 2020 election, remember, was the product of our best and brightest, the top echelon of our law enforcement and intelligence communities, and our most esteemed political and media elite.\u201d<\/p>\n

And they have all failed, and they know they have failed, and it\u2019s eating them alive that they can\u2019t get rid of Donald Trump. They\u2019re so much better, they\u2019re so much smarter, they\u2019re so much more qualified, they are so much more capable, they are so much more entitled, they are so perfect. And yet the best and brightest of them, including in the media, cannot outsmart Donald Trump, who they think is the biggest glittering jewel of ignorance they\u2019ve ever seen.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cThese people should not be considered by any stretch of the imagination our \u2018establishment\u2019 at least if there any positive sense left in the world. Yet they are typical, not aberrant of a habit of equating appearances, credentials, and demeanor of not necessarily talented people as proof of excellence and deserved authority.\u201d<\/p>\n

We call them the establishment, meaning they\u2019re the best and brightest, they are the elites, they are the privileged few, but they are typical of equating appearances and labels and manner of behavior as qualifications for their superiority, not what they know, not what their experiences is, not their talent, not their capabilities.<\/p>\n

Instead, they are typical of the quality of people who equate the way they look, their credentials, the labels and titles that they have and their polite manner, their sophisticated behavior. This is such a classically correct description of who these people are. And the reason it\u2019s so right on the money is because that\u2019s the primary reason these people claim to hate Trump.<\/p>\n

He embarrasses them with his lack of sophistication. He embarrasses them with the way he speaks. He embarrasses them with the way he walks. He embarrasses them with his stuttering and his praise of himself.<\/p>\n

(impression) “He\u2019s just so uncouth! He\u2019s so unlike us! He doesn\u2019t have the proper sophistication, doesn\u2019t have the proper breeding. He doesn\u2019t have the proper connections or mannerisms.”\u00a0 He can outrun them all in a contest of qualifications, of competence, get it done.\u00a0 He gets done things they have been saying they want to get done for generations and have not gotten done.\u00a0 They\u2019re getting worse.\u00a0 America\u2019s getting worse under the leadership of these people.\u00a0 Trump comes in and in 2-1\/2 years, straightened out things they said couldn\u2019t be fixed.<\/p>\n

The economy is the greatest example. Obama and all these other elites said, “There\u2019s a new day, America. Our best days are behind us.\u00a0 Your kids may not do better than you for the first time in history.\u00a0 But that\u2019s okay, because we really were not entitled to those greatness days in the past. We had cheated, we had lied, we had stolen.\u00a0 So there\u2019s a new era.\u00a0 America is now in a period of decline.\u00a0 It\u2019s unavoidable, and we are the ones to manage it for you.” That was the Obama mantra.\u00a0 That was the administration.<\/p>\n

Economic growth? “It\u2019ll be 1% max. Don\u2019t even expect anything more.”\u00a0 Trump comes along and says, “This is crazy.\u00a0 We can have economic growth of 5% or 6% again.”\u00a0 They howled!\u00a0 They laughed.\u00a0 They thought he was the biggest walking idiot on earth.\u00a0 These people aspire to one thing: Maintaining their current position.\u00a0 They don\u2019t do it by doing good jobs.\u00a0 They do it by sucking up.\u00a0 They do it by maintaining credentials and labels and titles.\u00a0 They do it by providing connections for others.\u00a0 “Where you live, what school branded you…”<\/p>\n

Was it Harvard?\u00a0 Was it Yale?\u00a0 Was it Harvard Law?\u00a0 Was it Yale Law?<\/p>\n

“[W]hat title, past and present, you can parlay, whom you know, and whom you married somehow have ended up far more important than what you actually have done. They remind one of played out ‘senators\u2019 from the last generations of the Roman Empire. … The strange thing about James Comey was not his serial leaking to the press, his deception of a FISA court, his effort to subvert the Trump candidacy by peddling a false dossier and using informants, or even warping the Clinton email investigation.<\/p>\n

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“Rather, the rub was that Comey was not aberrant, but rather the apt expression of the Washington, D.C. culture of the FBI, at least as epitomized by his conniving and often deceitful associates such as James Baker, Andrew McCabe, Lisa Page, and Peter Strzok, who did not worry much about ruining the lives of other” people.\u00a0 Let me share something with you: I remember all the way back to early 2000 when James Comey was the assistant AG to John Ashcroft, and I remember hearing James Comey was the epitome of morality.<\/p>\n

James Comey was straight law and order.\u00a0 You couldn\u2019t corrupt him.\u00a0 James Comey was the model for an American lawman.\u00a0 That was his reputation.\u00a0 That was his image.\u00a0 It was not backed up by any accomplishment.\u00a0 It was not backed up by any achievement.\u00a0 Then the Comey that we all see isn\u2019t the best and brightest of anything.\u00a0 He\u2019s corrupt!\u00a0 He\u2019s violating Justice Department rules by not charging Hillary Clinton when it\u2019s not his job to do that.\u00a0 It\u2019s not his job to exonerate her, either, but he did that.<\/p>\n

We all know why.<\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s this:\u00a0 “We are learning that sports and film” movies, Hollywood “are industries of outspoken, moralistic scolds who as opportunists rail at supposed unwoke Americans as they do the bidding of fascistic Chinese authoritarians.” Can you say LeBron James?\u00a0 Can you say the NBA?\u00a0 Can you say that whole organization of Nike and Adidas? “Harvey Weinstein thrived in Hollywood for so long because he did on the sexual level what the Chinese did on a financial one — bet that almost every star, producer, and director would abdicate moral responsibility in return for power or money or” acceptance.<\/p>\n

“Adam Schiff is a Harvard Law School graduate and, as he reminds us, for a time a federal attorney. But once he powered his way onto the national stage, it is hard to find any statement of his that has proved to be true. Were he not in Congress, but again a regional federal attorney he long ago would have been fired for unprofessionalism and perhaps illegal behavior as well. …\u00a0 Graduating from today\u2019s Yale or Harvard law school is not necessarily a sign of achievement, much less legal expertise.”<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a sign of connections.\u00a0 It\u2019s a sign of the road having been paved for you.\u00a0 Anyway, it\u2019s a great piece, and it adequately describes all these people we call the establishment, these people who think they are our superiors and betters. And yet they have so much power and they are so talented and they are so smart, and they can\u2019t find a way in now almost three years to outsmart the biggest idiot who\u2019s ever lived in Washington, Donald Trump, in their view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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