June 22, 2026
A Bitter Pill of Indeterminant Color
This is all over the place but it's about 20 minutes and it is worth a watch.
Heiens' argument is not that novel, or at least would not have been 20 years ago, certainly not in Conservative circles, but a combination of populism, and students taught by todays teachers has blinded a whole generation to these realities.
One of the reason's for Trump being elected twice, is the quite well founded sense of betrayal that his followers have regarding the ruling class: i.e.: the managerial credentialled cadre that has run the U.S. and much of the world since the second world war and has become rather decadent at best and case studies in oikophobia at worst (see current events in the U.K.)
This is also the reason for the frothing levels of hysterical hatred directed at him by many on the right. Those of us who count ourselves as conservatives tend to deeply value the institutions and their trappings. and a great many in the comfortable class have no contact with or empathy for the suffering and in many cases sadistic humiliation that has been visited upon those that do not share their experiences.
Trump's own flaws have certainly not helped in this regard, but much of the complaining has as much to do with irrelevancies like fashion as any of his actual manifest shortcomings. Like it or not, Trump is a sort of Tribune of the Plebs, and the Plebians are what his loudest detractors hate more than anything.
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