Veritas et Sapientia-‘Murican Culture’s Swan Song: We’ve All Already Lost

Mandeville, LA – [Editor’s Note: This passage is pieced together from Will Rahn’s lengthy essay on the CBS News website. H/T Mihcael Brendan Dougherty. – Ed., M.C.] “One of the most arresting aspects of the start of the Trump era is that nearly everyone, regardless of their political persuasion, seems convinced that their side is losing.

It’s a remarkable, and perhaps unprecedented, moment in our history. No matter where we stand ideologically, everyone in the mainstream gets the sense that we’ve somehow already lost, that some past battle has already decided the long war’s outcome in our opponents’ favor.

The liberal looks at a decimated Democratic Party and GOP control not only of the federal government, but also of a majority of state legislatures. And bad as the typical Republican president is to them, Trump seems like something far worse: a racist, a sexist, a crook, perhaps even a traitor.

Yet the conservatives’ despair is perhaps even more acute than it was when Chambers came aboard and joined National Review in the 1950s. Back then, at least, they had a slowly rising movement, and an ideology they found serious and worth fighting for. They had a plan, too: the hostile takeover of the GOP, and then the levers of power in Washington.

They got all that. And for what? A government that grows bigger by the day? A charlatan like Trump?

It’s a remarkable, and perhaps unprecedented, moment in our history. No matter where we stand ideologically, everyone in the mainstream gets the sense that we’ve somehow already lost, that some past battle has already decided the long war’s outcome in our opponents’ favor.

If anyone has momentum in our politics today, it’s the forces on both the left and the right with an authoritarian bent – the commissars of the quads, the would-be stormtroopers organizing in their online tunnels. Call it a crisis of late capitalism or the inevitable eroding of our national character. Either way, when we feel that we’ve been defeated, we know in our hearts that the suspicion is at least somewhat correct.” – Will Rahn, CBS News

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