As We Look For Others

Whoever would lead America’s deplorables must head up a national effort to discredit and stop the totalitarian tactics of the Left. 

By Angelo Codevilla  March 30, 2021

 

 “Art thou he that should come, or look we for another? Then Jesus answering said . . . tell John . . . how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.”—Luke 7: 20, 22.

Who will lead the deplorables’ exodus from the bondage that the political-corporate-cultural oligarchy imposes on America? The power that the oligarchy has gathered since 2015 pales by comparison with the resentment it created thereby, and the wave of public opinion that is building against it. 

America’s deplorables, clingers, irredeemables, chumps, dregs, neanderthals, etc.—persecuted, increasingly prosecuted for being on the wrong side of the oligarchy—yearn for political leaders to rescue their way of life. Demand is so high because most self-proclaimed conservative leaders talk the voters’ talk, but walk the big donors’ oligarchic walk. 

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem’s recent self-disqualification as a potential leader bids us recall that the public will follow only those who actually lead them by personally defying the oligarchy. Focusing on themselves is the worst thing that they can do.

Noem had seemed to be such a leader. Her manner, personifying the beautiful, no-nonsense young mother next door as she defied the oligarchy regarding the COVID-19 virus led many to count her among the few Republicans who answer to the voters rather than to the big donors. Few noticed, however, that as regards COVID-19, and when she ordered law enforcement to stop the summer 2020 riots in their tracks, she was acting with the local business community’s full support. She had not been tested............To Read More....