Thread by @bansisharma

1. Why President Trump is 'Inexplicably' Popular with Minorities

A superb explanation for that, and much more, by the inimitable Victor Davis Hanson follows.

2. Politicians ignore felonies in their midst, preferring to hector the misdemeanors of the universe.

3. One of the weirdest characteristics of our global politicians and moral censors is their preference to voice cosmic justice rather than to address less abstract sin within their own purview or authority.

4. American progressive virtue mongers see themselves as citizens of the world rather than of the United States and thus can impotently theorize about problems elsewhere when they cannot solve those in their own midst.

5. Big-city Democratic mayors are especially culpable when it comes to ignoring felonies in their midst, preferring to hector the misdemeanors of the universe.

6. Notice how New York Mayor Bill De Blasio lords over the insidious deterioration of his city while he lectures on cosmic white supremacy.

7. Mayor Bloomberg used to sermonize to the nation about gun-control, global warming, the perils of super-sized soft drinks, smoking, and fatty-foods, even as his New York City was paralyzed by the 2010 blizzard due to inept and incompetent city efforts to remove snow.

8. Or is the “Bloomberg syndrome” worse than that—in the sense that sounding saintly in theory psychologically compensates for being powerless in fact? Or is it a fashion tic of the privileged to show abstract empathy?

9. In the last years of Schwarzenegger’s governorship, Arnold gave up on the existential crises of illegal immigration, sanctuary cities, water shortages, decrepit roads & bridges, homelessness, plummeting public school performance, and a huge exodus of middle-class Californians.

10. Instead he began to lecture the state, the nation, and indeed the world on the need for massive wind and solar projects and assorted green fantasies. His old enemies began to praise him both for his green irrelevancies and for his neutered conservatism.

11. More recently, we often see how local sheriffs become media-created philosophers eager to blame supposed national bogeymen for mass shootings in their jurisdictions— killings that sometimes are at least exacerbated by the utter incompetence of local law enforcement chiefs.

12. Even the Pope gets into the same act. Pope Francis recently lambasted a number of European countries and leaders for their apparent efforts to secure their national borders against massive illegal immigration from North Africa and the Middle East.

13. However, before Pope Francis chastised the European continent for its moral failings, he might have explained to Italians or Greeks worried over their open borders why the Vatican enjoys massive walls to keep the uninvited out.

14. Better yet, the pope might have taken a more forceful stance against the decades-long and ongoing legal dilemmas of hundreds of global Catholic Clergy, who have proven to be pedophiles and yet were not turned over to law enforcement.

15. The cosmic idea of a United Europe is easy to preach about, but reining in what is likely an epidemic of child-molesting clergy is messy. Francis’s frequent abstract moralizing is quite at odds with either his inability or unwillingness to reform pathways to the priesthood.

16. Closer home, what was lacking in the recent Democratic debates were concrete answers to real problems—as opposed to candidates’ nonstop cosmic virtue signaling.

17. It is easy to blast “white supremacy” and “the gun culture” from a rostrum. But no one on the Democratic debate stage seemed to care about the great challenge of our age, the inner-city carnage that takes thousands of young African-American lives each year.

18. The inner-city murdering is tragically almost exclusively a black-on-black phenomenon that occurs in progressive-run cities with strict gun control laws.

19. When leaders virtue signal about global or cosmic sin, it is often proof they have no willingness or power to address any concrete crisis.

20. The public tires of such empty platitudes because they also see the culpable trying to divert attention from their own earthly failure by loudly appealing to a higher moral universe.

21. And then there is the role of hypocrisy: elites themselves never suffer the consequences of their own ethical inaction while the public never sees any benefit from their moral rhetoric.

22. New Yorkers in 2011 were worried more about the piles of snow on the sidewalks than they felt threatened by 32-ounce Cokes—while realizing that no snow blocked either the Bloomberg official or private residence.

23. So no wonder a recent 'inexplicable' Zogby poll indicated 51 percent of blacks and Hispanics might support Donald Trump. How would such a supposedly counterintuitive result even be possible? Here's how...

24. Minority communities live first-hand with the violence and dangers of the gang gun culture. More policing and incarceration of guilty felons improve their lives.

25. Secure borders mean fewer drug dealers and cartel smugglers in local communities, fewer schools swamped with non-English speakers, and social services not overwhelmed with impoverished non-Americans.

26. These can all be real concerns for beleaguered minorities. Yet they are virtue-signaled away by progressive elites whose own power and money allow them to navigate around the consequences of their own liberal fantasies that fall on distant others.

27. Add in a booming economy, rising incomes, and low unemployment for minorities, and the world of shrill yelling on the debate stage about “white privilege” seems some sort of an irrelevant fixation of the elite and privileged.

28. Rather than 'white privelege,' blue governance and shrill progressive nostrums have much more to do with dangerous streets, wrecked schools, whizzing bullets, and social services that are becoming inoperative.

29. So next time a legislator, mayor, or governor rails about plastic straws or the Paris Climate Accord, be assured that his/her state’s roads are clogged, his/her public schools failing—and he/she is clueless or indifferent about it.

The End

Here's the link to the superb article by Victor Davis Hanson.
amgreatness.com/2019/08/18/cos…