Trump attacked the intelligentsia of the right in an epic run on sentence via his Save America PAC. Here’s the text of it, which I got from Mediaite:

“I listen to all of these foolish (stupid!) people, often living in a bygone era, like the weak and frail RINO, Peggy Noonan, who did much less for Ronald Reagan than she claims, and who actually said bad things about him and his ability to speak, or Rich Lowry, who has destroyed the once wonderful and influential National Review, the pride and joy of the legendary William F. Buckley, or George Will, whose mind is decaying with hatred and envy before our very eyes, or Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes, two people who are finally out of the conversation and of no relevance whatsoever,” Trump said. “Where do these people come from? They have no idea what the MAGA movement is, and even less of an understanding of America First, which is necessary, and even vital, to save our Country.”

For once I’m going to agree with Donald Trump about something and that is Peggy Noonan living in a bygone era. She almost got laughed off of one of the Sunday shows this morning when she said that the Republican party should now become “the party of helping women and children.”

That is not only pie in the sky fantasizing, it’s proof that she is totally out of touch with the party and from a bygone era. Reagan is gone. So are both Bushes and this isn’t even the party of John McCain or either of the Cheneys anymore. I would say wake TF up, but I don’t think she can. If she’s been somnambulant these past seven years, there is no hope.

Here is what got Trumplestiltsken all fired up into screaming mode. Wall Street Journal:

I wrote last week about Mr. Trump’s position. Much will be made of the latest data, a small University of New Hampshire poll in the first-in-the-nation primary state. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is tied with Mr. Trump in a Republican primary and runs better against Mr. Biden than Mr. Trump does. Pertinent here: “Biden and Trump are increasingly unpopular in New Hampshire.” Only 62% of Republicans want Mr. Trump to run again and 54% of Democrats say the same of Mr. Biden. These results are consistent with what I hear from readers.

A distinction must be made between Trump voters and Trump supporters. Trump voters are the bigger group. They don’t love him, but made a considered judgment he was better than the Democratic alternative and don’t regret it. From my email I’d say they’re shopping—eagerly. Trump supporters, the smaller but still considerable group, are true enthusiasts. It’s about him. They will never not cheer him, especially when the cameras are around, and they will never turn their backs—but they are turning away. Quietly, in a way unacknowledged to their friends and maybe to themselves. But there’s a new hesitancy in their notes, or rather an absence of the previous tone of “I’m on the winning side.” And yes, both groups seem to like Mr. DeSantis, who is capturing the Republican imagination as tough and committed but not unstable or criminal.

Mr. Trump’s national polling numbers continue underwater, but the real test will be to see those numbers after the Jan. 6 hearings are over. I believe we’ll see Rep. Liz Cheney’s kamikaze mission hit its target, and the SS Trump will list. More on that further down.

Noonan has to resort to both siderism, which is the knee jerk reaction of the GOP whenever they’re wrong. It’s totally baked in at this point. 54% of Democrats, in the poll that she herself quoted, want Joe Biden to run again. Doesn’t play out like desertion to me. She cites back to 1978 and Jimmy Carter. Biden is not on the same planet Carter governed on in 1978 and I’m sure Carter would be the first to point that out.

Then she goes on to how the J6 Committee hearings are sinking Trump.

They are telling a fascinating and devastating story: An American president tried to thwart the democracy that raised him high and to steal a presidential election he’d lost. And it almost worked. But good people stopped it. There was a sturdy infrastructure of still-moral elected officials and bureaucrats and political appointees. Against pressure, intimidation and mob rule they held. Many, most, were political conservatives, and many were people of deep religious faith. In explaining their motives and way of thinking on Jan. 6, they quoted Scripture. For Greg Jacobs, counsel to Mike Pence who was with the vice president in an undisclosed location on Jan. 6, it was the lion’s den: “Daniel 6 was where I went.” Chief of staff Marc Short at the end of the terrible day texted Mr. Pence 2 Timothy 4:7: “I fought the good fight, I finished the race, I have kept the faith.” Rusty Bowers, speaker of Arizona’s House, testified he believes the writers of the U.S. Constitution were inspired by God. “I took an oath” to that document, he said. And he wouldn’t break it.

Then she conflates the integrity of Rusty Bowers, (who, don’t forget, said that he would vote for Trump again, he just wouldn’t lie for him) and the others who told the truth with the overall wonderfulness of the Republican party. She honest to God thinks that public officials doing their jobs is evidence of strong moral fiber in the GOP. This is where I jump ship. I think she’s lost her damn mind. As stated above, I finally agree with Donald Trump on something, although not for the same reasons.

Now read this and watch your jaw drop. She declaims on the “health” of the Republican party.

An unanticipated benefit—almost all who testified were the unbroken leadership class that still remains in spite of the daily freak show of American life and politics. Media folk, including in this space, often call out the sickness of the Republican Party. But the hearings were about the health of it: “I took an oath.” At the same time the Democrats on the committee defied expectation and tradition by being serious, sober, grave—showing respect to the Republicans before them, not sloughing off their Bible reading. Rep. Adam Schiff wasn’t smarmy. It was like a re-enactment of the old Republican Party and the old Democratic Party. It was the return of the adults. They never fully left, did they? Maybe we should give them more attention. Let’s build on them.

“The unbroken leadership class that still remains in spite of the daily freak show?” Whut? Peggy, we hate to break it to you, but there is no leadership class in the GOP, much less an unbroken one. That is patently insane. Donald Trump got the GOP nomination in 2016 because of a VACUUM of leadership in the party! That’s MAGA 101.

The fact that Noonan is trying to whitewash the ascension of Trump and sweep it under the rug like it was a mild aberration is completely bonkers. If Trump had been a crazy senator, that would be something else. But no. Trump got on the GOP ticket in the number one slot.

Maybe Noonan’s mind exploded the day Trump got nominated and she’s still trying to rationalize. And I know how she feels. I do. My mind exploded as well. The difference between Peggy Noonan and the rest of us, is that we saw the truth of what happened that day and we see the truth of what Trump represents. And what he represents is the death of the Republican party, and her precious conservative values, which she thinks is still alive and well and manned by an “unbroken leadership class.” The mind reels.

Maybe I’ll send Noonan an email and ask, “Have you noticed that Liz Cheney is being driven out of politics and Adam Kinzinger has already stated his plans not to run again, due to the death threats he and his family have received? Did the “unbroken leadership class” do that? Is the “unbroken leadership class” aware of it?”

Jesus Christ on a bagel. The GOP is dead. MAGA lives. The only question now is whether there are going to be three parties, MAGA, a conservative party and the Democrats, or if the old conservatives get swallowed whole by MAGA. The party of Ron DeSantis is not going to be the party of Reagan, hate to break it to ya.

Between her last line in the WSJ article, about “the return of the adults” and her comment on TV today about the Republicans “helping women and children” I think the woman is gone. I agree totally with Donald Trump. (I typed those words and my fingers didn’t break, how amazing.) Noonan is from a bygone era. Noonan is full of it.

Maybe this will educate her, although I seriously doubt it.

Everybody can see this except her. She’s still living in la la land writing dreamy copy for the B-movie actor to gaslight everybody with. Peggy Noonan is now Norma Desmond.

I don’t know what Trump has against George Will or the others, but maybe I’ll stumble on it in my travels. Noonan has zero credibility with anybody right now, including Tangerine Palpatine.

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6 COMMENTS

  1. I really……….can’t stand……….to hear this woman………talk.

    The dramatic……….pauses…….like everyone……..is hanging on……her every word……

    …..when in fact……..n……….lone……gives a flaming rat’s ass…..what she has…….to say.

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  2. I was never particularly impressed with her. She was a decent writer and had enough of a political science background that she could understand the broad strokes of policy initiatives and shape talking points and speeches. What made her famous was her ability to develop an understanding of and connection with Reagan’s B-movie acting skills and speaking style to deliver lines on the page. However she’s no expert on any topic except WH communications operations and messaging.

    And you’re quite correct she (and others) are completely out of touch. The GOP as they knew it is GONE. If there was true, old-school leadership they’d have cut Trump off at the knees when he started picking up steam in the primaries. If they’d been too late they could have engineered a brokered convention and taken him out then even at the cost of Hillary getting elected – they still would have had the Senate and House.

    The only thing they can do at this point is abandon the old GOP to Trump and the MAGAts and pour all their old-school money (and organization) into forming a new Party. Yes, that means some setbacks for a cycle or two but in the long run it’s the only way to regain some semblance and control over the conservative side of poltitics.

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  3. It’s not just Noonan, folks. The entire Republican party is made of decaying relics in their leadership with the younger (relatively speaking) upstarts proving to be political illiterates.

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  4. I’m sorry but did she honestly say, in public, the ‘pubes should help women and children? What f*cking planet does she think she lives on? The ‘pubes are among the greediest pieces of sh*t on the planet…hell, in the galaxy most likely. They have been for more than four decades-this is not a new position for them as they were like this back when she was sucking ronny ram-jet’s teeny weeny.

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  5. Republicans have always been racist scum. Nixon to Trump. The party is the KKK + The Robber Barons + Benedict Arnold. That their face used to be only spoiled rich kids like Noonan does not change that sad and disgusting fact. Trump simply exposed them for the filth they have always been. Leadership class my ass. Frat boys and sorority sisters with strong fascist tendencies is all they are. Now they just don’t care that we know they endorse violence against Americans to take/keep power.

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    • Oh, they care. That’s why they’re endorsing such. Watching all their grand 21st Century dreams wither and die over 20 years got the better of them. All Trump ever did was convince them that they could be successful by just coming out and saying it. Given how he’s decaying in real time, that might have been a bad bet.

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