dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

Stabbing Hector’s Corpse

By Victor Davis Hanson

January 20, 2021
In Homer’s epic Iliad, the Greek hero Achilles finally k**ls his h**ed archenemy, the often trash-talking Trojan warrior, Hector.

After Hector dies, once frightened but now gloating Greek soldiers encircle and cowardly stab his limp corpse.

Achilles even ties the ankles of the dead Hector to his char**t and in fits of mindless rage d**gs him around the walls of Troy.

Homer then brilliantly shows how Achilles’ vindictive excess ensures sympathy even for the once-braggart Hector. Eventually, the adolescent Achilles relents, grows up, allows Hector to be buried, and accepts the tragic nature of a common humanity.

If Democrats and the Left had wished to reinvigorate the Trump legacy, they could have done no better than unleashing their unhinged and often repulsive hatred of the last two weeks.

The Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson recently boasted, “There are millions of Americans, almost all white, almost all Republicans, who somehow need to be deprogrammed.”

What method does Robinson advocate for the required mind-rinsing of these millions? The Chinese, Soviet, or North-Korean model?

CNN’s Don Lemon claims that those who v**ed for Trump—nearly half the e*****rate—are synonymous with the Ku Klux Klan and the N**is. Would Lemon include one in three Hispanics or one in five black males?

The Lincoln Project, in good McCarthyite fashion, wants to create lists of former Trump officials to destroy their reputations. Is that the spirit of their namesake, Abe Lincoln, who urged Americans to heal the nation’s wounds “with malice toward none, with charity for all”?

Was it not enough to rush through a slipshod, one-day second impeachment of Trump, the first in our nation’s history?

Or after he leaves office, will Trump also become the first private citizen in history to be the target of a Senate impeachment trial—an act as unnecessary as it is likely unconstitutional.

So far the Left has produced no consistent standard by which the public can judge Trump’s excesses. Indeed, for months, blue-state mayors and governors contextualized nonstop summer r**ting, arson, and l**ting.

Politicians like Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Vice President Kamala Harris, and Representative Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), have themselves either revved up angry protestors, urged mass street demonstrators to continue indefinitely, or directed followers to hound and harass government officials.

Trump, unlike Iran’s strongman Ayatollah Khamenei who advocates the destruction of Israel, is banned for life from Twitter. So are many of his followers—unlike those of radical A****a and B*M who used social media to coordinate their often violent protests, l**ting, and arson.

The small conservative alternative to Silicon Valley’s left-wing social media monopoly, Parler, was crushed by Big Tech in one fell swoop.

Does Joe Biden really believe he can unite the country by smearing two U.S. senators as no different from the genocidal N**i propagandist Joseph Goebbels?

Already Biden’s premature promises of mass amnesties and lax border enforcement have sparked caravans of undocumented immigrants to head for the border. Are they going again to crash through without background checks—right in the middle of a spiking C****-** p******c, with already crammed ICUs and long lines for v******tions?

Joe Biden has promised to cancel pipeline contracts and curtail f****l f**l production.

How popular will that be?

Fracking made the United States a net energy exporter and crashed gas prices. America is no longer dependent on Middle East oil and gas. It has no need to intervene in endless wars out of worry for secure energy supplies.

The t***sition to clean-burning natural gas allowed the United States to reduce carbon emissions more rapidly than almost any other major industrial nation. And high-paying gas and oil jobs sparked economic booms from Texas to North Dakota.

Lots of departed Republican Trump officials are now loudly trashing their former boss. Few admit that their once-stalled careers were revived only after they successfully lobbied to work for the Trump White House.

Efforts of Republican House members to join House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s push to impeach Trump were widely praised as “bipartisan” in the media and by the Left. But impeachment won the support of less than five percent of Republican House members.

No wonder, since some national polls put Trump’s national popularity unchanged or even above where it was on E******n Day. About 85 percent of Republicans still support him.

The irony is that all these frenzied efforts to mutilate the political corpse of Trump are reviving him.

Banning Trump from his often self-destructive Twitter addiction, smearing his supporters as r****ts, and bulldozing through a far-Left agenda will only ensure Trump a ninth life.

Americans h**e one thing more than a sore loser, and that is an arrogant, vindictive—and bullying—winner.

If Trump for now can finally exit office silently, and if his enemies continue to be loud, petty, vengeful, and extremist, then the public will very soon make the necessary adjustments.

PeterS

Ummm, I think you are practicing a bit of projection here. You guys just attempted an i**********n all because you couldn't handle losing an e******n. That didn't come from a "repulsive hatred" on our part but yours.

And don't worry. We aren't going to try to "unify" with you. You are a pathetic lot and too delusional to be bothered with. Now go away...there's work to be done and you are just in the way...

factnotfiction

You are right, that is why we h**ed trump and his ignorance, arrogance and narcissism, and we got rid of the slug.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

Nor are we with you. It's Biden who is calling for unity. What a loser. No one is going away, just as you didn't for four years of Trump because of your "repulsive hatred."

What makes your response so despicable is that you try to portray every person who v**ed for Trump or attended the rally on J*** 6th as insurgents and i**********nists.

woodguru

Your title describes trump to a T

Larai Loc: Fallon, NV

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

Yep and that's why trump lost.

saltwind 78 Loc: Murrells Inlet, South Carolina

PeterS, I agree. I think we should prosecute all those that had any part in the s*******s invasion of the Capitol Building to the maximum extent of the law, and that includes Trump, and all those Republican lackeys that enabled this terrible POTUS. Try to get things done that this country needs desperately, like getting out the v******tions, restoring the relationships with our allies and get the economy going again, while supporting this desperate Americans that are facing hard times through no fault of their own.

kemmer

👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

PeterS

And why do you think Trump called you to Washington on the 6th? You really have no clue why he wanted you in that city on that day?

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

It is impossible to discuss anything with irrational people.

Rose42

Try being honest Pete. I see every bit as much dishonesty from the left. You in particular.

You say “you guys” when in fact it was a small group of nuts. You claim the right h**es when the likes of you, woody, kevin, rumitoid and all his personalities constantly spew bile. Constantly.

So no Pete. “You guys” are just the other side of the same rotten coin. Yeah there’s work to be done but people like you who are part of the problem won’t be doing it.

Larai Loc: Fallon, NV

Larai Loc: Fallon, NV

Trying to discuss anything with irrational people is like pissin in the wind.. someone is gonna get cold and wet..