April 16, 2018
MY CORNER by Boyd
Cathey
TWO MOST RECENT
PUBLISHED COLUMNS NOW AVAILABLE
ABBEVILLE INSTITUTE
(“Victor Davis Hanson Hates the Confederacy…and the South”) and THE UNZ REVIEW
(Is this the Beginning of the End for the Trump Presidency?”)
Friends,
Today
I pass on links to my most recent columns that have been published by national
web journals: First, “Victor Davis Hanson Hates the Confederacy…and the South,”
which appeared on The Abbeville
Institute site on April 12, and, then, “Is This the Beginning of the End for the
Trump Presidency?” which was published by The Unz Review,
Sunday, April 15. Both are versions of items I placed on my blog, “MY CORNER by
Boyd Cathey.”
On
March 30:
And
April 14:
As
I tuned into Fox News’ much-ballyhooed program, “Legends & Lies: The Civil
War,” last night—I literally forced myself to watch it—the sad truth of what I
call “the great brain robbery of the ‘conservative movement’,” became once
again readily apparent, even offensively so.
There
was Fox’s co-host of its popular morning show aimed at professed “conservatives,”
“Fox & Friends,” Brian Kilmeade, far over his head intellectually and sounding like Archie
Bunker attempting to address a meeting of distinguished astrophysicists about
nuclear fission. But that didn’t stop him from pounding hard—and with palpable
ignorance—the narrative that he and the Neoconservative talking heads, writers
and pundits share with those on the even farther Left: that the South—and the
Southern Confederacy—were all about “defending slavery,” that Abraham Lincoln
was inspired by the zealous Abolitionist and Communist-sympathizer Frederick
Douglass (yes, Douglass was profoundly influenced by Karl Marx, through his
mistress German Marxist and feminist Ottilie Assing—never mind that he
was married), that the War was all about “defeating racism” and “recovering the
real idea of America” which was “that all men are created equal,” and that “equality
must be imposed” (okay, Kilmeade’s script didn’t use those exact words, but the
meaning and context of everything he read—badly—from his prepared text said as
much).
Kilmeade
exemplifies the ideologically-tendentious Neoconservative view of American
history, specifically of the War Between the States and its relationship to the
American Founding. In his case and in the case of Fox’s “Legends & Lies,”
it is both woefully pedestrian and offensively uninformed. But worst of all it
adopts and assumes a blatantly Marxist view of American history and the war—America
is all about “ending racism” and “establishing equality.” Indeed, it is a
vision and interpretation that not only could but did come from the febrile
minds of Marxist historians such as Eric Foner (remember, he is the “favorite
historian” of vaunted GOP consultant Karl Rove) and which dominate the
historical profession today. [Notice how many Marxist historians were invited
to make comments during the Fox program. Where were Clyde Wilson, or Thomas di
Lorenzo, or Philip Leigh, or William Marvel? ].
And
like other thematic templates that undergird the philosophical and historical
principles of the dominant Neocons who control both the so-called “conservative
media,” but also the Republican Party, their American Founding and War Between
the States narrative is essentially the same as that of their supposed enemies on the
farther Left. Such “opposition,” then, cannot and will not succeed, as it
cannot actually “oppose” those principles which it actually shares.
And
what we have is essentially a Kabuki dance, shadow boxing…with enough posturing
and mouthing of phrases to inveigle and mislead many well-meaning
conservatives, but in the end resulting in continual defeat and retreat for those views and
beliefs that we hold dear.
Here are the web links for the two columns:
“Victor
Davis Hanson Hates the Confederacy…and the South,” April 12, 2018 [https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/victor-davis-hanson-hates-the-confederacy-and-the-south/?mc_cid=156c9e10a4&mc_eid=8639a6a6ea]
“Is This the Beginning of the End for the Trump Presidency?” April 15, 2018 [https://www.unz.com/article/is-this-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-the-trump-presidency/]
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