Reality vs Feelings
Today’s Briefing will be a bit lighter than usual, due to some growing pains-related technical issues I will discuss in a bit.
BUT FIRST…
the Great Republican Splintering of 2016 quickly evolved into three camps once President Trump got into office.
One was filled with those who were on the Trump train from the beginning. These were people who were probably on their third MAGA hat by the time the election rolled around.
Then there were the Never Trumpers. The harbingers of doom who linked arms with the Democrats to assure us that Donald Trump posed an existential threat to the United States of America.
The third group may be the largest of the three: These are people who were initially Trump skeptics but have been willing to praise the good and shake their heads at the bad. I’m in this group. One of the things we have in common is that we are surprised at how much there has been to praise.
Trump’s greatest legacy will be his reshaping of the judiciary, which Tyler wrote about yesterday. POTUS himself is rightfully proud of his accomplishments with the judiciary:
Liberal judges are activist judges. They seek to accomplish via judicial fiat what Democrats can’t achieve legislatively. They’ve been a plague for years, just like the late Robert Bork warned us they would be in his book “Slouching Towards Gomorrah.”
Trump’s infusion of constitutionalist judges into the federal judiciary is a wall of sorts, a barrier keeping activists judges from reshaping American society according to the whims of fringe progressives. It may end up providing more security for America than the border wall, at least for a generation.
This issue has been what is causing the ever-worsening divide between people like me and Republicans — or former Republicans — who are still avowed Never Trumpers. They blather on about their principles, continually disparaging Trump because he doesn’t fit their constipated Capitol Hill Club image of a president.
The reality is that, in overhauling the federal judiciary, Trump has done more in three years for conservatives and Republicans than Bush 41 and Bush 43 did in twelve.
But hey, they were nice guys.
A quality I’ve never cared about in a president.
Welcome to VIP
You may have noticed the “Join VIP” graphic that appeared at the top of all of the PJ Media pages on Wednesday. We are in the middle of a soft launch of a new premium offering. There will be more details in the days to come as the technical issues are resolved. Here is some basic information, and some of the premium VIP content will begin showing up on the site today.
My contribution to the effort will be a weekly media and culture critique column titled “Worst Week Ever,” and a twice-weekly podcast I’ve imaginatively titled, “The Kruiser Kabana.” The podcast won’t be all politics. There will probably be whiskey involved.
I will also be interacting with VIP Gold, but probably not in my living room.
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The Kruiser Kabana
My cousin Kevin turned me onto this guy recently. I was listening to him all day Wednesday during the tech fun and I thought I’d share.
I rarely dream of farm animals.
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PJ Media Associate Editor Stephen Kruiser is the author of “Don’t Let the Hippies Shower” and “Straight Outta Feelings: Political Zen in the Age of Outrage,” both of which address serious subjects in a humorous way. Monday through Friday he edits PJ Media’s “Morning Briefing.”