{"id":910,"date":"2016-07-19T04:52:23","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T19:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=910"},"modified":"2017-07-06T17:46:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T08:46:34","slug":"news-on-pomocon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/news-on-pomocon\/","title":{"rendered":"News on pomocon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mr. Lawler writes about redefining conservatism<\/a>\u00a0in light of the Trump phenomenon:<\/p>\n

What too many Republicans have missed, in fact, is that lots of Americans have experienced this \u201cprogress\u201d as loss of the secure safety nets that have cushioned them from being merely part of a meritocracy based on productivity. \u00a0On the Republican side, the name given to these Americans is \u201cReagan Democrats.\u201d That means those who vote Republican but aren\u2019t particularly libertarian or all that defined by \u201creligious identity politics.\u201d For them, being conservative means conserving what they now have and maybe regaining what they\u2019ve lost. That means being for unions, the existing entitlements, the bonds of citizenship (that have been eroded by \u201cthe coming apart\u201d of middle-class America into two classes isolated in every way from each other), and the dignity of worthwhile work well done. There\u2019s no doubt that there\u2019s more than a touch of race-based resentment and nativism among Reagan Democrats these days, and it sure is troubling to see our country characterized by more racial hostility than anyone would have expected. \u00a0But let\u2019s face it: Republicans are terrible in acknowledging, much less addressing effectively, the one form of identity politics that was for so long sanctioned by our law.<\/p>\n

Mr. Spialikos writes about everything wrong with the establishment<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you could get the Republican senators, governors, and former cabinet members into a room without cameras, my strong suspicion is that 90 percent of them would agree on a federal agenda of entitlement cuts, high-earner tax cuts, and a comprehensive reform that includes such incredibly unpopular elements as increasing future low-skill immigration.\u00a0 The Republican Party leadership is cursed with a consensus among themselves that is not shared by either Republican voters or the general public.<\/p>\n

That’s it, folks, & about the best stuff I’ve read lately. Let me throw in my own comments on Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah<\/em><\/a>, nothing to do with politics…<\/p>\n

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Mr. Lawler writes about redefining conservatism<\/a>\u00a0in light of the Trump phenomenon:<\/p>\n

What too many Republicans have missed, in fact, is that lots of Americans have experienced this \u201cprogress\u201d as loss of the secure safety nets that have cushioned them from being merely part of a meritocracy based on productivity. \u00a0On the Republican side, the name given to these Americans is \u201cReagan Democrats.\u201d That means those who vote Republican but aren\u2019t particularly libertarian or all that defined by \u201creligious identity politics.\u201d For them, being conservative means conserving what they now have and maybe regaining what they\u2019ve lost. That means being for unions, the existing entitlements, the bonds of citizenship (that have been eroded by \u201cthe coming apart\u201d of middle-class America into two classes isolated in every way from … Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":911,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions\/911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}