Comments on Esther Goldberg's article.

George Will referred to Trump as "vulgar."

Esther Goldberg says, "What exactly does Will mean by 'vulgar'? Is it an epithet that Washington arbiters of taste use to describe the regular vernacular and humor of everyday Americans? If you eschew complex ambiguity in favor of language that everyone can understand, does that make you vulgar?" I mean, this is a huge hit on George Will by Ms. Goldberg here.  Vulgar?  What is vulgar?  "If you eschew complex ambiguity in favor of language that everyone can understand, does that make you vulgar?" In other words, if you speak plainly are you vulgar?

"In a nod to personal liberty, Will grants that Trump’s 'squalid performance and its coarsening of civic life are costs of freedom that an open society must be prepared to pay.' Yes, democracy is like that. It is exuberant, and accommodates a glorious diversity of taste and expression. 'Life, like a dome of many-colored glass,/Stains the white radiance of Eternity,' wrote Percy Bysshe Shelley in Adonias. I, for one, adore the stunning display of colors and shapes with which God endowed this world. There’s room here for the Trumps as well as the Wills."

And here's the pull quote, the money quote.  "The problem for ruling class conservatives like Will --" and she quotes also a National Review writer Charles Cooke. "The problem for ruling class conservatives like Will and Cooke, is that the left has emasculated them. They tremble lest they let slip a faux pas that the left can jump upon. They must at all times show that their conservatism is 'intellectually respectable and politically palatable,' and worry that Trump will make them look bad to the liberals and their media. They are unable to grasp the fact that, notwithstanding all their efforts, the left will never regard them as respectable and palatable. To achieve that goal, they must first become liberals themselves."

Well, this is just a reworking of an often-stated belief held by me on this program, and that is that many inside the so-called conservative media, Republican Party, you name it, are very much concerned, when they go after talk radio, the reason they do it is they don't want to be thought of as being vulgar like talk radio, or extreme or whatever. They want to be thought of as brilliant, smartest people in the room, acceptable by people on the left. In other words, the left are still the powerful people. The left are still the people you must please.

The left are still the people whose approval you must gain, even if it means you must relentlessly attack and smear people on your own side, and that's essentially what she is saying is happening here. Ruling class conservatives have been emasculated by the left because their primary motive is to be accepted by the left.  And that's the town, by the way, when I say that the left runs everything about Washington, they run the political culture, they run the social culture, they run it all.

And if you want to be a big guy inside that universe, those are the people that you have to be on good terms with.  And the way you do that is by doing and saying things palatable to them.  That's the point she's making. And then she says Trump doesn't care.  He makes clear he doesn't give a damn what liberals think.  And everyday people of all political persuasions applaud when he stands up to the self-important, elitist media just as they did with Newt Gingrich in 2012 at one of the debates, and just as they did with Newt Gingrich back in 1994.


from Rush's website.