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Historian Victor Davis Hanson always comes up with insights
on today’s headlines, and in his latest, he offer perspectives not only as a
scholar and professor, but also as a California farmer. His column at American Greatness on “Counterfeit Elitism” starts off:
Those damn dairy farmers. Why do they
insist on trying to govern? Or, put another way:
Why are Republicans trusting
Devin Nunes to be their oracle of truth!? A former dairy farmer who House intel
staffers refer to as Secret Agent Man because he has no idea what’s going on.
Thus spoke MSNBC panelist, Yale
graduate, former Republican “strategist,” and Bush administration speechwriter
Elise Jordan.
Jordan likely knows little about
San Joaquin Valley family dairy farmers and little notion of the sort of
skills, savvy, and work ethic necessary to survive in an increasingly
corporate-dominated industry. Whereas dairy farmer Nunes has excelled in
politics, it would be hard to imagine Jordan running a family dairy farm, at
least given the evidence of her televised skill sets and sobriety.
Republicans “trust” Devin Nunes,
because without his dogged efforts it is unlikely that we would know about the
Fusion GPS dossier or the questionable premises on which FISA court
surveillance was ordered. Neither would we have known about the machinations of
an array of Obama Administration, Justice Department and FBI officials who, in
addition to having possibly violated the law in monitoring a political campaign
and unmasking and leaking names of Americans to the press, may have colluded
with people in the Clinton campaign who funded the Steele dossier.
The rest of his article is here. It’s a long look at the insulated elites who know better than the basketfuls of deplorables.
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