NRO's The Corner: Obamacare ‘like a house on fire’ with more flammable parts yet to come

fans of far right weirdness: that Wm.son article is the first appearance of "moldbug" in the pages of NRO.

What a ghoul Kevin Williamson is. Hopefully that article will go viral and show conservative whites how absurd it looks to blame individuals for being victimized by global economic forces. Apparently they didn't notice when minorities were the targets of this philosophy

They need real opportunity, which means that they need real change, which means that they need U-Haul.

i read an economist article the other day that glowed with pride in america for "repurposing" its "abandoned rust-belt cities" for "knowledge workers"

They need real opportunity, which means that they need real change, which means that they need U-Haul.

sorry I loled

The white American under-class is in thrall to a vicious, selfish culture whose main products are misery and used heroin needles.

are we not calling it "conservatism" anymore

it is ironic that those various Sodom and Gomorrah small towns represent, in tandem with the gerrymandering that sought to cleave them into cohesive districts, the base of the gop controlled Congress now and for the foreseeable future. the party platform doesn't resonate outside these enclaves of Real America nearly as significantly as it does within them. so, you know, i hope the author enjoys his bread heavily buttered

they've stopped buttering it for five minutes, is why he's in a snit.

the opiate dependency is just enough to other the small town from the big town gop voter

Xp

Can we get Kevin Williamson and Thomas Frank a job co-hosting a cable show, then lock the studio doors and walk away until the air runs out?

it is ironic that those various Sodom and Gomorrah small towns represent, in tandem with the gerrymandering that sought to cleave them into cohesive districts, the base of the gop controlled Congress now and for the foreseeable future.

The beating heart of the GOP isn't in dead mill towns in upstate New York, it's in the wealthy white suburbs of Phoenix, Houston, St. Louis, Milwaukee, and Atlanta. Big wide roads, big cheap houses, Panera Bread. That's what somebody like Kevin Williamson sees as the America people should aspire to live in.

this new republican establishment strategy of jettisoning their entire white working class base of support will surely pay dividends no doubt. i mean it's not like poor white ppl were the last constituency standing between them and the void.

So a colleague of Willamson's has double-down.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/432796/working-class-whites-have-moral-responsibilities-defense-kevin-williamson

omg the beating heart of nro at last:

Yet millions of Americans aren’t doing their best. Indeed, they’re barely trying.

dlh, my friend, to you I leave the honorable task of reading and quoting the comments

i made it three in

you're barely trying

that u-haul line (repeated!) really is gross honestly. all this scolding and then what's the one way they can become good, virtuous people? transform themselves into just a few more pieces of capital trash tumbling across borders to the grave. fascism is basically kevin williamson's fault.

xp lol

reminds me of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU_pDM1N7i0

Kevin D. Williamson ‏@KevinNR 3m3 minutes ago

Kevin D. Williamson Retweeted Andyroo

On the contrary. I'm not worried about them coming for my job; they're worried about me coming for theirs.

always knew he was a robot

Washington Monthly had several good posts about Williamson over the past couple days.

they're getting closer, but they never quite get there (because the free market is by definition perfect)

should we kill all the addicts and adulterers as economic and moral zeroes? should the franchise be limited by SAT score? spell it out, motherfucker

He came to my attention when he got the history of the two-party system's reckoning with civil rights wrong.

The heartlessness is just astounding.

It's the natural conclusion of conservatism - if there can't be social reasons for the results, the ground must be cursed!

He's got answers for you people:

Funny thing about my most recent magazine piece on the politics of white poverty, which has brought out a great deal of emotional incontinence from the usual bladders: It is, in fact, about half of the original piece, the other half being autobiographical material on my own experience with that world and its pathologies. We cut those parts, and I think that was probably the right thing to do: The least interesting thing about the piece is the author. I note that none of the critics have pointed to anything in the piece that is incorrect; the criticism has been almost exclusively variations on, “I don’t like you for having written that.”

The piece in question is part of an ongoing discussion between Michael Brendan Dougherty and me. (Many of the critics have failed to notice that the piece’s fictional unemployed disability-fraud artist from Garbutt, N.Y., is Dougherty’s literary invention, not mine.) And I may have made the same error as many of my critics: Dougherty says he agrees with much of the piece, but disputes my characterization of his attitude toward the conservative movement and its organs as “bitter.” That’s fair enough. He is, after all, the leading expert on the state of his own mind. I regret the mischaracterization.

Weird thing: When all those tedious po-mo literary-criticism professors I encountered in college insisted “the author is a fiction,” I generally rolled my eyes. Turns out they were partly right, though not in the way they had imagined.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/432828/what-critics-get-wrong-about-white-poverty

"When all those tedious po-mo literary-criticism professors I encountered in college insisted “the author is a fiction,” I generally rolled my eyes.

the courage he displays in the face of such adversity. he clearly has a finger on the struggles of the working class.

guess what finger

i just tried to close the NRO tab and a box popped up:

Wait! Don’t Go Yet! Do you support NR’s endorsement of Ted Cruz?

Wait! Don't Go Yet! We didn't mean all of you!

VDH getting into position:

Take Trump’s worst, most repugnant rhetoric, and there will always pop up a parallel worse — and often from the lips of the heroes of those who are blasting Trump as singularly foul. He crudely brags of his past infidelities and sexual conquests — reminding us that he has an affinity with JFK and Bill Clinton (is it worse to boast or to lie about such sins?). Whether he would attempt to match either man’s sexual gymnastics while in the Oval Office is, I think, doubtful.

Unfortunately, Trump was not the first politician to brag about the size of his genitalia. President Lyndon Johnson reportedly offered such jock talk often — as well as reportedly exposing himself to aides. Did LBJ’s sick obsessions turn liberals off the Great Society?

forgot to include an ellipsis between grafs there

wait -- I thought libs were obsessed with the Great Society

they are, even though lbj shit w the door open

with his dick

johnson didn't talk about his dick during a campaign event that was broadcast nationally

even if he did it wouldn't nullify my belief that there are things that can be done, on the federal level, to address poverty. kinda unrelated

gives new meaning to trickle down economics

jeet heer connects williamsonwhitetrashgate to the wfb legacy

https://newrepublic.com/article/131583/national-reviews-revolt-masses

a great deal of emotional incontinence from the usual bladders

what pisses, i mean passes for eloquence on the right these days is absolutely appalling *sniffs*

In a letter to a colonel, Buckley said that while “some” of the noncommissioned officers were fine men, others were “crude, course, vulgar, and highly objectionable.” Told by a platoon leader that condoms were available for soldiers on leave, Buckley priggishly insisted that he, for one, didn’t need them—the implication being that he was better than the fornicating riffraff that surrounded him.

bareback bill

shh quiet everyone – John Yoo has words.

by John Yoo March 16, 2016 11:48 AM President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court demonstrates a desire to compromise with the Senate, but it should not change the calculus of the Republican majority to keep Justice Scalia’s seat open. Garland is the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, commonly described as the second-most important court in the land after the Supreme Court (and the bench on which Justice Scalia served first, as well as Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Ginsburg, and Justice Thomas). He has a reputation as a left-of-center judge, likely more moderate that the liberal bloc on the Supreme Court.

Choosing Garland indicates that President Obama hopes a moderate choice can get through the Senate. He has put aside the opportunity to choose a nominee who had no chance, but could be a convenient point of attack in the presidential campaign.

Nevertheless, Senate Republicans should keep Justice Scalia’s seat open at least until the November elections. The Senate has rarely confirmed Supreme Court nominees during a presidential election year, especially when opposite parties have controlled the Senate and the White House. The Constitution does not require the Senate to confirm anyone; it only requires the Senate’s advice and consent before the president can appoint a justice to office. The Republicans can await the outcome of the elections

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner

wahh trump is actually a sjw

Trump and his horde of online social-justice followers aren’t conservative. They are neo-nationalist culture warriors who believe that conservatism is a weak or failed ideology. They write daily barrages on social media about how the GOP betrayed them. But a political party is simply a vessel for ideas. It’s a body. When that body develops cancer and dies, the ideas move to another host. This is the fundamental error that Trump makes. He is not the new host for these ideas. He is the cancer.

guys, look, the full Williamson piece: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/432876/donald-trump-white-working-class-dysfunction-real-opportunity-needed-not-trump

That's a...helluva article illustration.

http://c4.nrostatic.com/sites/default/files/styles/original_image_with_cropping/public/uploaded/donald-trump-white-working-class-dysfunction.jpg?itok=hZGXiaWY

On our homepage, we have George Will’s column, which says that Republicans are treating Merrick Garland’s nomination unfairly and stupidly.

The Right will flip out about this column. Maybe I should too. But I have a memory … Some years ago, there was an important court case pitting Microsoft against Netscape. Every conservative I knew and admired was on Microsoft’s side — except for Bob Bork. As the leading anti-trust expert in the country, he was sought out by both sides, who wanted his support.

After studying the issue, he sided with Netscape. So, it was like a thousand smart conservatives against Bork. Which I thought made a kind of even match.

As far as I could tell, the pro-Microsoft people had the better argument, but I was always prepared to listen to my hero Bork. Always. And I feel the same about George Will.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner

ah yes, the microsoft antitrust case, truly the case that led the movement to where it is today.

'robbie bork'