THE REAL REASON THEY HATE TRUMP # 2 OF 2

THE REAL REASON THEY HATE TRUMP # 2 OF 2 
IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW/CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOT.COM - THURS. OCT. 25/18

 

CONCLUSION:

    Mr. David Gelernter's classic article, "The Real Reason They Hate Trump." in the "Wall Street Journal," Mon. Oct. 22, 2018.

 

    "Mr. Trump reminds us who the average American really is. Not the average male American, or the average white American. We know for sure that, come 2020, intellectuals will be dumbfounded at the number of women, and blacks that will vote for Mr. Trump. He might be realigning the political map: plain average Americans of every type vs. fancy ones.

 

    "Many intellectuals are counting on technology to do away with the jobs that sustain all those truck-driver-type people, but they are laughably wide of the mark. It is impossible to transport food and clothing, or hug your wife or child, or sit silently with your best friend, over the internet.

 

    "Perhaps, that's obvious, but to be an intellectual means nothing is obvious. Mr. Trump is no genius, but if you have mastered the obvious and add common  sense, you are nine-tenths of the way home. (Scholarship is fine, but the typical modern intellectual cheapens his learning with politics and is proud to vary his teaching with broken-down left-wing junk.)

 

    "This all leads to an important question - one that will be dismissed indignantly today, but not by historians in the long run. Is it possible to hate Donald Trump but not the average American?

 

    "True, Mr. Trump is the unconstrained average citizen. Obviously you can hate some of his major characteristics - the infantile lack of self-control in his Twitter babble, his hitting back like a spiteful child bully - without hating the average American, who has no such tendencies. (Mr. Trump is improving in these two categories.)

 

    "You might dislike the whole package. I wouldn't choose him as a friend, nor would he choose me. But what I see on the part of the left is often plain, unconditional hatred of which the hater - God forgive him - is proud. It's discouraging. even disgusting.

 

    "And it doesn't mean that I believe, that the Trump hater truly does hate the average American - male or female, black or white. OFTEN HE HATE AMERICA, TOO.

 

    "Granted, Mr. Trump is a parody of the average American, not the thing itself.To turn away is fair. But to hate him from you heart is revealing. Many Americans were ashamed when Ronald Reagan was elected. A movie actor? But the new direction he chose for America was a big success on balance, and Reagan turned into a great president. Evidently, this country was intended to be run by amateurs after all - by plain citizens, not only lawyers and bureaucrats.

 

    "Those who voted for Mr. Trump, and will vote for his candidates this November, worry about the nation, not its image. The president deserves out respect because Americans deserve it - not such fancy-pants extras as network commentators, socialist high-school teachers and eminent professors, but the basic human stuff that has mad America great, and is making us greater all the time."

 

Mr. Gelernter is computer science professor at Yale and chief scientist at Dittach LLC. His most recent book is "Tides of Mind."

 

George H. Kubeck