“Faint hope?”
Wrong: it’s a vain hope, and all the pseudo-conversatives lining up to kiss the ring, poised as they are to drag the useless GOP even further leftward, really ought to wake up and realize that Obama was still the same thing when he got up Wednesday morning that he was when he went to bed Monday night:
So the answer to my question turned out to be yes, America really was going to do this. A historic moment indeed. The hyperbole for once is not exaggerated: this is a watershed election which changes the fate of the world. The fear however is that the world now becomes very much less safe for all of us as a result. Those of us who have looked on appalled during this most frightening of presidential elections – at the suspension of reason and its replacement by thuggery — can only hope that the way this man governs will be very different from the profile provided by his influences, associations and record to date. It’s a faint hope – the enemies of America, freedom and the west will certainly be rejoicing today.
Yes, they surely are. And it ought to be noted that they haven’t exactly changed their stripes either. Far be it from me to nitpick the always-astute Phillips, though; she’s right as rain about the rest of it:
What this election tells us is that America voted for change because America is in the process of changing – not just demographically by becoming less white and more diverse, but as the result of a culture war in which western civilisation is losing out to a far-left agenda which has become mainstream, teaching American children to despise the founding values of their country and hijacking discourse by the minority power-grab of victim-culture.
As I said yesterday: you can certainly try to argue against that essential fact. But I don’t see how, or why you’d bother. The way forward, if there is one, doesn’t lie in denial of the self-evident.
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