If you were to tie Bill Clinton to a polygraph (or some other lie detector the Clintons can’t beat) – I suspect he, too, might admit that he prefers Vladimir Putin to Barack Obama.
Mr. Clinton was appropriately scathing in 2008 about Obama’s mythic status in the media. “A fairy tale,” he called the current president.
But his wife and her supporters on The Hill and in the media have said that any remotely realistic claim about the Russian president — for example, that he is a mighty leader who is popular with his people and acts in their interests — puts you outside the camp of the saints.
Mrs. Clinton has become accustomed to telling Americans what to say and how to think if they want to be recognized as… Americans.
In particular, AltRight Hillary, best described on Twitter as the Control-Alt-Delete speech, focused on Mrs. Clinton’s crusade against deviants. Here is the gist of the endless smear campaign against Trump and his supporters, spread as “substantive” by the dimwitted media, shared by a Twitter user called “Hillary’s PR Team”:
Prejudice and paranoia, hate groups, harmful stereotypes, hateful supporters, systemic racism, murky conspiracy theories, murky conspiracy theories, racist lies, bigotry, racist, white supremacist bigot, white nationalist leader, Ku Klux Klan, racial rumors, Alex Jones. …
Yes, Hillary’s Control-Alt-Delete tirade began with the biggest pervert of them all, Donald J. Trump. Trump “disregards the values that make our country great,” she raged at the fiery Mrs. Clinton on that occasion.
To his great credit, Trump failed another test of “true American principles” set by Hillary after NBC’s “Commander in Chief” forum on September 7.
As the media reminds us, Trump disqualifies himself from the presidency every day. This time for telling the truth about Putin on a forum. The Russian people’s approval rating for their president is 82 percent. But correct American values, as decreed by our Northeastern elites, are to disregard Putin and his people. After all, Russians are stupid. They need Clinton and her radical Republican counterpart, Speaker Paul Ryan (or a revolution in color by both) to bring them into the American government’s mold.
Enforcer Hillary (and Speaker Ryan) had no objection to this. The preference for the Russian president over our American president was simply “unpatriotic and appalling,” to be stamped out and marginalized.
“Hillary Rodham Clinton,” says historian Clyde N. Wilson, whose specialty is American intellectual history, “is a museum piece of the Yankee — smug, ruthless, and self-aggrandizing.”
Wilson uses the term Yankee “historically to designate a particular group descended from New Englanders who are readily identifiable by their arrogance, hypocrisy, greed, lack of sympathy, and tendency to give orders to other people.”
By Yankee, Dr. Wilson does not mean “all those north of the Potomac and Ohio.” The firefighters who died in the World Trade Center on September 11 [commemorated this weekend] were Americans. The politicians and TV personalities who stood around telling us what to think are Yankees.”
In their journey from “the hyper-Calvinism of their early days” to “the atheism of today,” Yankees like Hillary long ago replaced religious fervor with progressive political fanaticism. And while they “abandoned everything that might have been good about their religion,” Wilson argues, domineering busybodies like Clinton have never abandoned the idea that “they are chosen saints whose mission is to make America and the world a perfect image of themselves.”
Again, in relentlessly enforcing the “standard of all that is American and good,” Hillary is not all that different from her Republican colleagues. They too exploit the values stick just as vigorously to get the base moving. Or to throw many of us out of the American family.
To compound his unorthodoxies, Trump has not availed himself of the American exception by judging the actions of American leaders—good by default—by comparison with those of other world leaders. At the “Commander in Chief” forum, Trump suggested that Mr. Putin’s transgressions were “no less troublesome than Mr. Obama’s.” Quite rightly so. Just ask the innocent victims of Obama’s ongoing, vigorous drone program: villagers in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Libya, and Yemen.
Effortlessly, Trump remains true to the mandate his Republican base has given him: cough up the snake pits in D.C. Trump brought along a pit bull in the form of retired Gen. Michael Flynn to his Aug. 17 intelligence briefing, and he elbowed the briefers… multiple times.
A meme has emerged in the media: How dare Donald and his generals confuse intelligence experts from the “Deep State,” a state within a state that is one of the least scrutinized groups of government agencies.
Soon, intelligence sources began flocking to media studios to badmouth Donald and his arrogant general.
The content of retired Gen. Flynn’s briefing breaks are irrelevant. What matters is that Trump continues to make the immense political apparatus writhe like a fire-breathing mythical monster in agony.
Then the controlling Mrs. Clinton demanded that the Republican presidential candidate keep still about the Federal Reserve Bank. Clinton knows little about the Fed. But she instinctively knows that it is in her best interest not to discuss its inflationary policies and interest rate pricing.
Trump understands that the Fed is “keeping interest rates low so everything else doesn’t fall” and has said that “we have a very fake economy.” He’s not lying about that. He understands that “the stock market is bloated”; that the stock market is a joke and that rising stock prices are a consequence of centrally planned monetary stimulus.
Naturally, Clinton would prefer that the tool that lubricates government operations and allows her kind to monetize debt “be out of the hands of U.S. presidents and presidential candidates. You shouldn’t be commenting on the actions of the Federal Reserve when you’re running for president or you’re president,” Mrs. Clinton railed at Mr. Trump.
Just as Hillary’s collectivist credo, “It Takes A Village,” complements Barack’s motto, “You didn’t build it,” so too are their economic policies consistent. Mrs. Clinton likely expects the Fed to keep interest rates low to support her justify continuing the Obama economy.
Back to Bill. Being a bit of a good senior boy, Bill Clinton looked like he was in purgatory at the Democratic National Convention in tardy June. Surrounded by shrill, power-mad women and their domesticated men, and with a cushioned gynecological pop blaring from the speakers, Mr. Clinton looked like he would rather spend time with… Donald Trump.
