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Title: Salon: Donald Trump’s ‘Call of the Wild’ Beyond Racism, Nativism — Plays to ‘Embattled Tribal Identity of White America
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URL Source: http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presi ... bal-identity-of-white-america/
Published: Sep 12, 2015
Author: Breitbart News
Post Date: 2015-09-13 18:56:37 by cranky
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From Andrew O’Hehir writing at Salon: At some point during the Iran hostage crisis of 1980 – an event that, lest we forget, decisively scuttled the presidency of Jimmy Carter and got Ronald Reagan elected – I remember seeing a hand-painted banner outside a working-class tavern in South Baltimore. Its centerpiece was a caricature of the Ayatollah Khomeini, done in political-cartoon style with an oversized head and undersized body. Iran’s Supreme Leader was bent over with his robe hitched up to his waist, wincing in pain or religious ecstasy as a large bomb with streamlined 1958 Cadillac fins, bearing the atomic symbol and the American flag, was thrust between his buttocks. Beneath this was written, “How long, Mr. President? How long?” This outsider-art masterwork made a huge impression on me, although I wasn’t sure why at the time and understand it only a little better today. I couldn’t tell you where I was in my adolescent political evolution at that moment: Did I think I was a Marxist or a libertarian or a Democrat? In any event, I couldn’t quite get my head around the multiple layers of hatred and cruelty and infantile viciousness in that image, the way it conjured up genocide and xenophobia and anti-Islamic bigotry and homosexual rape and a tribal revenge fantasy in a few simple brushstrokes. […] It’s all very well to talk about racism and nativism and the distinctive small-mindedness and paranoia of white America, and those things unmistakably nourished the soil from which the Trumpian flower bloomed. But he is tapping into something that runs much deeper than any of that. There’s a reason the Trump spectacle is mesmerizing the media and dominating public discourse, and why those who find him despicable and disturbing are just as addicted as those who are delighted that someone is speaking for them at last. Trump is like the answered prayer of those South Baltimore boozehounds, made incarnate and blown up to superhuman scale. How long?, those guys plaintively demanded, and even if they’ve all drunk themselves into the next world by now, their sons and grandsons have worse jobs and worse attitudes and at last the wait is over. Trump expresses the irrational and forbidden desires that more calculating politicians deliberately suppress, and as with my teenage response to that Khomeini cartoon, that feels exciting and dangerous. He channels primitive and incoherent tribal emotions that stretch way back into our species’ history, before America, before modern conceptions of race and nationality, before any of that stuff. He gazes upon us with his dreadful, melted countenance, looking like a Play-Doh replica of JFK blown up in the microwave by a malicious child, assuring us in half-bullying, half-benevolent tones that, sure, America is a great country founded on important values and stuff. But beneath that pablum lies a knowing wink, and beneath that wink lies the understanding that the most important American value is the one-in-a-million shot (putting it very generously) that we might wind up half as rich and half as vulgar as Donald Trump. Even if we never get to ride in that helicopter — since we are not quite dumb enough to believe that will really happen — we take solace in another layer of hidden, shamanic meaning beneath the Trumpian wink and the Trumpian bamboozle. We thrill at our secret shared understanding that the veneer of civilization, with its “political correctness” and its insistence on facts and reason and the logic of causes and consequences, is basically a scam and that the true nature of human existence is about jamming a nuke up somebody’s ass every so often. And we’ve gotten soft and out of practice! […] Trump represents something else. Call it the call of the wild, the allure of that long era of cruelty and brutality that preceded recorded history and human civilization, when the weak were ruled by the strong and little or no justification was required to inflict terror and violence on our perceived enemies. Anthropologists may dispute the proposition that this was universally true everywhere in the world, but however you slice it an awful lot of trauma and bloodshed was implicated in the nasty, brutish and short lives of our distant ancestors. More to the point, we all have moments when we wonder how much that has really changed after a few millennia of despotism and a few hundred years of high-minded Enlightenment thinking about human rights and democracy, applied with a notable lack of consistency. What Trump understands, and may genuinely identify with, is the sense of embattled tribal identity found among too many white Americans of the 21st century, the belief that they are “living in a state of war in a small community, the existence of which is continually threatened, and the morality of which is the strictest possible.” What is the highest form of enjoyment to be found in such a community, “for souls which are vigorous, vindictive, malicious, full of suspicion, ready to face the direst events, hardened by privation and morality?” It is “the enjoyment of cruelty,” as Friedrich Nietzsche put it in 1881. “Such a community would find its delight in performing cruel deeds, casting aside, for once, the gloom of constant anxiety and precaution.” That pretty much covers it, right? Nietzsche was actually writing about primitive human society before it had been afflicted or transformed by Christian morality. But he would be amused and not altogether surprised to learn that we have come out the other side of that process, and that the nation that pronounces itself the world’s arbiter of democracy and human rights has fallen to its knees before a third-rate imitation of King Ludwig II of Bavaria who promises to bring us back to the old gods and the old truths. “Nothing has been more dearly bought,” Nietzsche writes later in the same section of “Daybreak” (also translated as “Dawn”), “than the minute portion of human reason and feeling of liberty upon which we now pride ourselves.” […] As to whether my barroom buddies in South Baltimore were joking about nuking Iran: It’s not the right question. Is Trump “joking” when he claims that Mexico is deliberately shipping murderers and rapists across the border, or that once in the White House and endowed with mysterious special powers, he will round up and deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants? You should never sell short on the ignorance and self-delusion of the American public, but even in the Trump demographic many people must halfway grasp that the first of those things is not true and the second is not possible, at least not without transforming the entire country into a police state. Like the juvenile fantasy of buggering the Ayatollah with the Bomb, those are not facts or proposals or ideas but forbidden desires that can be spoken aloud at last by the Trumpian fireside, tribal invocations meant to connect us to the long and thrilling history of human cruelty and rally us for the great deeds ahead.
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#1. To: cranky (#0)
Yeah, it's only us "white Americans" who want to make our country great again. I guess the author is saying that everyone else wants to continue the liberal experiment of appeasement, surrender and another worldwide apology tour. It's working so well.
I'm guessing he is both Jewish and whiter than me.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Andrew O'haireh. Methinks the authors name should be Andhehas No'Haira, because he seriously has not grown a chest or testicle hair in his life. Does he not understand the grade school taunt before the fight? How about the High School threat "I am going to kick you in the ass so hard, you'll be shitting out your ears"? What works in the homo/metrosexual crowd he runs with? Excuse me, I am a bit perturbed, shall we adjourn to a nearby tea shop and negotiate our differences? There are times in a MAN's life where he must stand up and lose his cool, just before shoving a Cadillac fin covered A bomb up someones deuce hole.
Bingo!! потому что Бог хочет это тот путь
Ain't it though?
This guy writes for Breitbart? Wonder if he realizes under FDR the 'art work' to dehumanize Germans and Japanese was quite worse. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.---Revelation 1:5b-6
Is he referring to the photograph of people jumping from the World Trade Centers after Muslims flew loaded passenger planes into them?
Back in 1980? Probably. But you and your synagogue buddies aren't joking about nuking them today.
I guess the author is saying that everyone else wants to continue the liberal experiment of appeasement, surrender and another worldwide apology tour. It's working so well. The above is the former robertpaulsen trying to establish that he is ANTI- liberal... Below, (from FR) is his true liberal ideology: ----
I tried to find out by using the words "Andrew O’Hehir Jewish" in a google search. The closest I came was this posting on a website. I do not think that this would be strong enough evidence, but throwing open the gates to invaders seems to be a Jewish trait. You can see it in the so called conservative Jews like Jonah Goldberg. Another strong Jewish trait is hypocrisy, they will condemn western nations for protecting themselves, and then have a different outlook when the shoe is on the other foot and Israel is defending itself. Using "Andrew O’Hehir Israel" as search words I did find that he has reviewed a number of obscure movies dealing with Israel. I also found that he tweeted: If you are an Orthodox man at a pro Israel demo in Times Sq, do you have to wear a white oxford shirt? Is that a religious obligation? I looks to me like you can safely modify your statement to him being non- Orthodox Jewish. The only folks I see who feel strongly about Orthodox Jews are the Jews who are not.
Hypocrisy seems to be a strong trait among their tribe. Jonah Goldberg loves Israel's wall, and is determined to throw the gates of the west open to invaders.
He's quoting a guy who works for Salon.
Obama has played at being a president while enjoying the perks … golf, insanely expensive vacations at tax-payer expense. He has ignored the responsibilities of the job; no plans, no budgets, no alternatives … just finger pointing; making him a complete failure as a president
So society should not allow somebody who wants to hire illegal aliens if that interferes with the overall good of society? That does seem very pragmatic on the part of robertpaulsen. The anarchist OBL gang is able to externalize the costs of their illegal alien labor onto the rest of society. They seem to think their right to save a few shekels in labor costs is greater than the rights of other Americans who are the victims of illegal aliens.
No,he writes for Salon. He's a freaking film critic. Which also means he is a homosexual. I think the law requires it. Breitbart was writing about a column the cretin wrote. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
I tried to find out by using the words "Andrew O’Hehir Jewish" in a google search. I can't recall every doing a web search on any other public figure like a writer and coming up with ZERO biographical information. Every write I have ever heard of,as well as every other public figure that earns their living from being well-known has whole reams of personal information on the web,by not this guy. This tells me he is not only hiding things,he is hiding things that need to stay hidden to keep him employable and maybe even out of jail. I know of retired CIA agents that have more personal information on the web than this critter. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
That's because they use the United States as a source of income and safety,but their love is for Israel. We desperately need to reform our citizenship rules and forbid dual citizenships. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
I noticed the exact same thing, so I even tried "Andrew O’Hehir bio" as search terms and still came up empty. Andrew O’Hehir sounds Irish, but Jews will often change their names to blend in, like Sumner Murray Redstone (born Sumner Murray Rothstein). Reminds of the quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero: A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
VERY appropriate quote,and words for an independent nation to live by if they are interested in continuing. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
We desperately need to reform our citizenship rules and forbid dual citizenships. Agreed. They act like a parasite, but a parasite that eventually kills the host; and needs to find new victims.
The above is the former robertpaulsen trying to establish that he is ANTI- liberal... Below, (from FR) is his true liberal ideology: ---- (Misterwhite is now inferring that he has NOT posted as 'robertpaulsen'..) You really should try to get a reply from misterwhite/robertpaulsen... -- Good luck.. Thanks for your comment..
According to what I found he is "supposedly" married with kids... A rant from the Ace of Spades on Andrew O’Hehir... http://minx.cc:1080/?post=342202 Means nothing. Rosie O'Donnell was married with kids. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
"What Trump understands, and may genuinely identify with, is the sense of embattled tribal identity found among too many white Americans of the 21st century"
#2. To: cranky (#0)
#3. To: cranky (#0)
#4. To: sneakypete (#2)
I'm guessing he is both Jewish and whiter than me.
#5. To: misterwhite (#1)
It's working so well.
#6. To: cranky (#0)
In any event, I couldn’t quite get my head around the multiple layers of hatred and cruelty and infantile viciousness in that image, the way it conjured up genocide and xenophobia and anti-Islamic bigotry and homosexual rape and a tribal revenge fantasy in a few simple brushstrokes.
#7. To: redleghunter (#6)
"I couldn’t quite get my head around the multiple layers of hatred and cruelty and infantile viciousness in that image"
#8. To: cranky (#0)
"As to whether my barroom buddies in South Baltimore were joking about nuking Iran"
#9. To: misterwhite, --- I believe the rights of the individual need to be tempered with the overall good of society in mind. (#1)
You believe that the rights of the individual reign supreme (as long as they do not violate the rights of others). I believe the rights of the individual need to be tempered with the overall good of society in mind.--- Mine is a more pragmatic approach. Yours has the appearance of anarchy. --- 48 posted on 09/22/2003 7:30:14 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
#10. To: sneakypete (#2)
I'm guessing he is both Jewish and whiter than me.
#11. To: misterwhite (#8)
But you and your synagogue buddies aren't joking about nuking them today.
#12. To: redleghunter (#6)
#13. To: tpaine (#9)
You believe that the rights of the individual reign supreme (as long as they do not violate the rights of others). I believe the rights of the individual need to be tempered with the overall good of society in mind.--- Mine is a more pragmatic approach. Yours has the appearance of anarchy. --- 48 posted on 09/22/2003 7:30:14 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
#14. To: redleghunter (#6)
This guy writes for Breitbart?
#15. To: nativist nationalist (#10)
I'm guessing he is both Jewish and whiter than me.
#16. To: nativist nationalist (#11)
Hypocrisy seems to be a strong trait among their tribe. Jonah Goldberg loves Israel's wall, and is determined to throw the gates of the west open to invaders.
#17. To: sneakypete (#15)
I can't recall every doing a web search on any other public figure like a writer and coming up with ZERO biographical information.
#18. To: nativist nationalist (#17)
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
#19. To: sneakypete (#16)
That's because they use the United States as a source of income and safety,but their love is for Israel.
#20. To: nativist nationalist, misterwhite, robertpaulsen, y'all (#13)
misterwhite, --- I believe the rights of the individual need to be tempered with the overall good of society in mind. (#1)
I guess the author is saying that everyone else wants to continue the liberal experiment of appeasement, surrender and another worldwide apology tour. It's working so well.
"You believe that the rights of the individual reign supreme (as long as they do not violate the rights of others). I believe the rights of the individual need to be tempered with the overall good of society in mind.--- Mine is a more pragmatic approach. Yours has the appearance of anarchy. --- 48 posted on 09/22/2003 7:30:14 AM PDT by robertpaulsen----"
So society should not allow somebody who wants to hire illegal aliens if that interferes with the overall good of society? That does seem very pragmatic on the part of robertpaulsen.
The anarchist OBL gang is able to externalize the costs of their illegal alien labor onto the rest of society. They seem to think their right to save a few shekels in labor costs is greater than the rights of other Americans who are the victims of illegal aliens.
#21. To: sneakypete, redleghunter, nativist nationalist (#14)
No,he writes for Salon. He's a freaking film critic. Which also means he is a homosexual. I think the law requires it.
#22. To: CZ82 (#21)
According to what I found he is "supposedly" married with kids...
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