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From @drjaredwesley.substack.com "Some #Conservative leaders in the West are refusing to do the hard work of building bridges across provinces. Instead, they are undermining national #institutions, elevating regional #grievances, and offering what we might call #performative #disengagement. The tactic may win headlines and satisfy the base, but it weakens the broader Conservative project at a critical moment in our country’s history."

#canpoli #abpoli

open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw

open.substack.comWestern DefeatismA Real Threat to Conservative Fortunes and National Unity
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With his opening lines that “we will not allow ourselves to be taken advantage of any longer,” #Trump plunges into a list of #grievances, describing America as a nation willing to spend “in the defense of foreign borders” — read: #Ukraine — “but refuses to defend American borders.”

This is a redux of his 2017 “American Carnage” address: He describes America as a catastrophic mess of crime & chaos.

He speaks of “annihilation” & disparages the current government — w/ #Biden sitting nearby.

Trump’s closing rally at #Madison #Square #Garden on the second to last Sunday before the election was a release of #rage at a political and legal system that impeached, indicted and convicted him,
a vivid and at times #racist display of the dark energy animating the #MAGA movement.

A comic kicked off the rally by dismissing Puerto Rico as a “floating island of #garbage,” then mocked
Hispanics as failing to use birth control,
Jews as cheap and
Palestinians as rock-throwers,
and called out a Black man in the audience with a reference to #watermelon.

Another speaker likened Vice President Kamala Harris to a prostitute with “pimp handlers.”
A third called her “the Antichrist.”
And the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson mocked Ms. Harris
— the daughter of an Indian mother and a Jamaican father
— with a made-up ethnicity, saying she was vying to become “the first Samoan-Malaysian, low IQ former California prosecutor ever to be elected president.”

By the time the former president himself took the stage, an event billed as delivering the closing message of his campaign,
with nine days left in a tossup race, had instead become a carnival of #grievances, #misogyny and #racism.

nytimes.com/2024/10/27/us/trum

The New York Times · Trump at MSG: A Closing Carnival of Grievances and RacismBy Shane Goldmacher
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So here’s my second draft: What we’ve been seeing from Trump-Vance is not the behavior of a winning campaign.

The day before #JDVance tweeted at me, #Trump was livestreaming to promote a dubious new #cryptocurrency venture. That same day, he gave an interview to the #ConspiracyTheorist Wayne Allyn Root in which Trump reverted to old form to denounce mail-in voting because the US Postal Service could not be trusted to deliver pro-Trump votes fairly.

#petty #grievances #weird

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On Sept 14, he was mixing it up in the X comments w/a reporter for The Intercept & the host of an online talk show.

In other words, to have #JDVance as your own personal reply guy is not such an accomplishment.

But it raises the question of how a nominee for vice president has so much time on his hands. Can you imagine, say, #DickCheney, scrolling through his mentions, getting irritated, & firing off a retort? Neither can I.

#petty #grievances

Richard Luscombe says,

"Trump, in his speech on Tuesday, avoided mention of Project 2025 or his policy on abortion."

But he *did* talk about another supremely important subject — bacon — stating,

“We don’t eat bacon any more."

Note the levels of rhetorical manipulation going on here: Biden has made prices so high we can't afford bacon; and they're taking our meat away from us. Hits all the aggrieved-men bases.

#Trump #abortion #bacon #grievances #threats

theguardian.com/us-news/articl

The Guardian · Trump airs list of false grievances at Florida rally: ‘We don’t eat bacon any more’By Richard Luscombe
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Above and beyond that, they are deeply inconsistent with claims that one follows Jesus. To brand Christian faith in the US with those words – grievances, resentment, anger, hate — how shameful. How tragic. What a shocking betrayal of the Christian gospels.

And for Donald Trump?!

Perhaps Trump is showing us who white evangelicals have been for a very long time, and what they have been about for a very long time.

#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #grievances #resentment #anger #hate
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Their claims about owning the nation because "God" gave it to them are invalid on the face of it. Anyone, any group, pressing such a claim should be told, in a pluralistic, secular democracy that it's an invalid claim.

This is not disrespect. It's speaking truth.

So the grievances and resentment and anger and hate white evangelicals feel, which make them choose Trump, are unwarranted and unmerited responses.

#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #grievances #resentment #anger #hate
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Who has "dishonored and disrespected" white evangelicals? When have they been dishonored and disrepected?

When they have informed us that "God" gave this nation into their hands, that they are to control it and the rest of us, and they were told that they are inventing a mythology about the founding of the nation and no religion has the right to dictate laws in a pluralistic secular democracy, were they being disrespected?

#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #grievances #resentment #anger #hate
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