This is why I keep saying we don’t need the Return of Trump we need an American Viktor Orban: a cunning politician who understands the nature of the fight in front of us, and who knows how to use power to advance the interests of his voters, against institutions captured by the Left.
I get the point: that the situation is becoming desperate for the kind of people Trump claimed to speak for, and they can’t tolerate another leader who says what they want to hear, but who does not, or who cannot (because of his own personal limitations), do anything substantive to help them. Interesting, the comment about Trump and the GOP donor establishment, linking them both as drags on the Right. Last night I got this text stream from a sophisticated conservative friend back in the US (I changed it slightly to hide his identifying details]: I won’t link to the New Yorker profile of, which only rarely rises above a typical media hit piece, but this quote explains so much of why the GOP establishment is so hated by GOP voters. Jeremy Carl is right about the GOP establishment, though I think the NYer piece, though clearly hostile to DeSantis, is worth reading: What was thirty-five per cent of the Republican Party is now eighty-five per cent. And all the nasty stuff that was in the underbelly of American politics got a voice. “Trump opened Pandora’s box and let them out. “So what happened?” Stipanovich continued. They could grumble, but their choices were limited. And we did what every other Republican candidate did: we exploited them. “They had lots of different names-they were John Birchers, they were ‘movement conservatives,’ they were the religious right.
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“There was always an element of the Republican Party that was batshit crazy,” Mac Stipanovich, the chief of staff to Governor Bob Martinez, a moderate Republican, told me. leaders appeared only too happy to follow them.
The Republican Party’s rank and file became increasingly radical, and G.O.P. But the state was changing, as Trump’s election helped energize a shift in political affinities. Ron DeSantis is saying the quiet part out loud:įor decades, the Democratic Party had commanded a majority of Florida’s registered voters. This part of the New Yorker‘s profile of Florida Gov. Make sure to have a bottle of cold, dry white wine. Readers, it’s worth it - but also a delight to take the oysters to go, and walk over to the Seine. Unless they have a new policy, you can’t make reservations you just have to show up and wait. Régis retired, and passed on the shop to new owners, but the quality is undiminished. I know my work here on this planet must be done, because I died and went to heaven, and am posting this from the great beyond. The reader, a Californian, sent me a short iPhone video of the meal, taken on the banks of the Seine, with lilting jazz music. Thank you Rod for leading me down the path! Deliciously briny up front with mind bogglingly sweet flesh.
But these were indeed the best oysters I’ve ever tasted. We carried our precious cargo to the banks of the Seine and voila! I must admit after a long walk I had begun to doubt if it would prove worth the effort. But thankfully we could still order a few dozen to go. Be advised, dear Reader, that reservations are in fact required these days. One fateful day on the Gulf Coast I tasted and saw that they were good!Įight years later I finally had the chance to visit Rod’s mecca: Huitrerie Régis. Meanwhile my favorite author (our working boy) wouldn’t shut up about them. Even so there were some foods I eschewed… such as oysters. I haven’t done one of these in ages, but this one - well, it’s one for the ages! The reader writes:įor years I had considered myself a foodie (I no longer prefer the moniker not because I don’t love good food and drink but because I don’t wish to make idols of such things).