Cucks are gonna Cuck:
It is urgent for Americans to think and speak clearly about President Trump’s inability to do either. This seems to be not a mere disinclination but a disability. It is not merely the result of intellectual sloth but of an untrained mind bereft of information and married to stratospheric self-confidence…
What I think of when I see this is Einstein saying that the study of Physics is like a series of wars. During the Newtonian war, the generals of physics needed a solid grasp of mathematics and an ability to observe. When relativistic physics emerged, the old Generals were designed for the last war, and poorly suited to the new battles, where vivid imagination was as important as mathematics. When Quantum Mechanics hit the scene, it defied imagination, meaning the Relativistic Generals were again ill suited to the new battle, which required a sort of blind faith in ideas and new math that couldn’t be easily imagined or converted to an easily understandable model.
George Will is a General in the last GOP war. He was designed for a specific world that no longer exists. When he started out a newspaper pundit had to have specific skills. He needed to have a large vocabulary. He needed to know a lot of arcane minutia. He needed to be able to write pithy statements that would appeal to elitists. He needed all of those traits, because his path to success arose from appealing to some elitist ivy-league educated newspaper editor. In his old world, the editor was the gatekeeper. If he could appeal to that editor, he could get a job writing a weekly column. If he could do it good enough to appeal to numerous editors he could get syndicated and his articles would be disseminated to a lot of people. He might even get a Pulitzer from all those peers doing the same things he was. Then he would have power, and become a gatekeeper granting public acceptance to the politicians of his choice through his articles.
Back then, politicians needed different skills too. In order to gain national prominence, they needed to suck up to columnists like George Will. They needed to appeal to Will in his language. They needed to expand their vocabulary. They needed to memorize arcane minutia. They needed to make pithy statements that would appeal to ivy league geeks, while holding a pinky in the air. As we can see by the trajectory of the country under that scheme, the politician’s ability to actually lead or manage was of secondary importance.
That is what George Will is used to. It is what is familiar. But now things are different, and he can’t process what has changed.
Today, success does not depend on appealing to the ivy league elitists, because they are no longer the gatekeepers. Today politicians talk directly to the people. President Trump issues a tweet in a certain way, and if he knows how to do it right, everyone hears it. If he does it in the right language, aimed at the average man, and designed to be understood by the maximum number of people, a maximum number of people understand it. If he weighs the statement properly, he can open the Overton window, and change the nature of the debate over the issue, perhaps allowing him to then normalize a more moderate position he intended to stake out all along. If he further crafts it to affect cognition, he can focus the mind on certain ideas beneath the subject he talks about, elicit certain emotions that help his cause, or cause the listener to assume some precept that is beneath the overt subject of the tweet. He can avert the mind’s opposition to an idea by phrasing it without clear certainty to not appear decisive and trigger the amygdala. He can actually implant ideas and forestall any opposition to them without the tweetee even knowing.
Compared to that, a too clever statement about some arcana nobody heard of, using words nobody knows, designed to appeal to geeky eggheads, decisively stating something nobody is certain of, and without greater interest, is destined to fail. But Will can’t grasp that. He is convinced President Trump is mentally inferior, despite his nearly perfect political record of seemingly neverending successes.
To George Will, President Trump’s success is all imaginary voodoo. Will is a Newtonian physicist being told some particle is in two places at the same time, as part of a smeared-out wave form that neither exists or doesn’t exist, and even if you pin it down, you can’t know its position and its vector precisely at the same moment. It is unlike anything he has ever seen. But Will not only doesn’t understand it. He not only denies it even exists. He doesn’t know there even is an explanation to deny. He has no idea there is even a method to President Trump’s success to try and rebut.
The funny thing is that Will then writes this:
As this column has said before, the problem isn’t that he does not know this or that, or that he does not know that he does not know this or that. Rather, the dangerous thing is that he does not know what it is to know something.
How ironic is that? He is describing his own exact situation with respect to understanding Trump’s ability to communicate and succeed. He does not know that President Trump is using techniques which Will could try to argue over. He has no idea why President Trump has succeeded where every other Cuckservative the elitists have foisted upon us has failed. He has no intellectual curiosity to understand the Trump phenomenon better, or examine the techniques that have propelled him to the most powerful and desired position on the face of the planet. He does not know what it would be to know how to do what President Trump does.
George Will is the last General from the last war, unable to even comprehend the war has changed and everything he is, is now obsolete.
Thankfully we have a new General, and this one isn’t obsolete and won’t lose.
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