Flowers For Socrates

Mike Pence is about the Race Bannon resemblance, but he’s really in the wrong Sarah Huckabee Sanders multiverse if he thinks he’s going to be 46* because Mighty Mango will probably not be impeached. They’ll cut ribbons at many a supermarket until 2020 unless Congress goes Blue in 2018.

For the Democrats to run for the purpose of impeaching Trump would rile up conservatives who have (to borrow President Donald Trump’s famous promise) gotten tired of all the winning.

Republicans, though, face their own risks in trying to push Democrats to call for impeachment. For one, a Democratic response could talk about the importance of letting the investigative process run its course while listing the burgeoning list of issues which require inquiry…

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There’s removing managers and baristas because of imagined micro-aggression or false consciousness, and then there’s boycotting things because their coffee might suck or be overpriced. Unfortunately like the supermarket checkout or the eatery, we can be bombarded with racism. Or like Pence’s Indiana wedding cakes, bigotry of all kinds can occur in the agora of ideas.

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Two Chinese-American women eating at a Manhattan diner early Sunday morning said a man called them bitches and whores and told them to “go back to Tokyo” after one of the women asked him to lower his voice while he complained about Vice President-elect Mike Pence’s cold reception at a weekend performance of Hamilton: An American Musical. The 56-year-old man was later arrested for pepper-spraying another diner patron in the eyes—according to one witness, because that patron had spoken up in defense of the women. (2016) gothamist.com/…

Enter the Supermarket, exit the check-out line. The reign of error that is the Trump regime will be narrated by The National Enquirer.

So when one looks at the bios of Steve Bannon, the white victimization hypothesis remains essential to some folk theories of American history. Bannonism’s nativist shibboleth, similar to Steve King’s American apartheid, is all about the “let them call you racist” victim’s discourse.

It was baffling how so many RWNJs came to convert as adults to Catholicism: Laura Ingraham, Newt Gingrich, Mike Pence, but I was reminded of a colleague who shared with me that many Moonies had left the Catholic faith because “it just wasn’t conservative enough”. Slippery slope from St Ignatius to the One True Family, maybe, but without worrying about Pius XII or the Latin Mass, there are paths to Traditionalism.

Because it’s about the race, Bannon, not the Race Bannon. Continue reading →