My latest in PJ Media:
In a lengthy Twitter thread that was trending on Saturday afternoon, far-left presidential historian Michael Beschloss, an energetic purveyor of anti-Trump propaganda, repeatedly compared Donald Trump and Joe Biden to Goofus and Gallant, the bad boy and good boy of a comic strip that has appeared for decades in the children’s magazine Highlights. Predictably, Trump is Goofus, who can never do anything good or right and doesn’t even want to, and Gallant is the sainted empty suit who can barely make it up a flight of stairs. It will surprise no one to learn that Beschloss’ analysis is as puerile as the comic strip hero he invokes.
Beschloss started off with “Goofus and Gallant – attitudes toward political expression” as the heading over a cartoon in which “Goofus blasts his opinion around like fact and makes open conversation difficult,” while “Gallant helps lead discussions with his peers about the possibilities, advantages, and disadvantages of different choices.”
Remember, he’s casting as Goofus the president who patiently faced a blisteringly hostile and dishonest press nearly every day, answering even their rudest and most loaded questions, while Gallant is the chief executive whose handlers shoo away the media after nearly every rare public appearance, and when he does answer questions, he does so only in a carefully-scripted setting. Do you remember Gallant Old Joe ever, in his 600 years in Washington, helping to “lead discussions with his peers about the possibilities, advantages, and disadvantages of different choices”? Neither do I. And it’s Old Joe’s party that is moving to exploit the January 6 riot at the Capitol to stigmatize and demonize all opposition to its policies.
This claim from Beschloss is particularly ludicrous in light of the fact that Trump repeatedly called for restrictions on the social media monopolies’ ability to close off the freedom of speech (although he is to be faulted for not acting on this in any effective manner when he had the power to do so), while Biden’s handlers have promised to convene an Internet censorship task force to combat “disinformation and hate speech,” i.e., opinions that differ from those of the leftist establishment.
Much of what Beschloss says in his Goofus and Gallant thread is just silly, as when he gives us, “More Goofus and Gallant — at the dining table,” featuring Goofus saying “Make it fast. I’m hungry,” while Gallant reminds his family as it is gathered around the dinner table: “We have so many things to be thankful for.”…
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RichardL says
he probably described 0bama as intelligent, well spoken, and humble…
JimJFox says
He was right, except for the humble bit. Obama’s glorification of Islam made me vomit.
Trump blew it, with a little less bombast and more truth he would very likely have been re-elected.
Karen Dowden says
Excuse me. The election was blatantly rigged. Biden in no way won!! Trump got 10 million + more votes than 2016.
rick oneil says
how can you be reelected in a rigged system?
MrLogical says
No, it would have made no difference. The deck was staked, the game was rigged, the house (deep state) always wins… He wasn’t supposed to win in ’16 and they (Obama) were going to make darn sure he wasn’t going to win again.
Brando says
That is how LEFTISTS are corrupt,evil.
THE CASE OF ARGENTINA
I am PRO-abortion ( for Pragmatic Reasons), but I respect the technical arguments of Pro-Lifers(and they are technically right, abortion , from a Genetic and Biological pt of view, means killing a Homo Sapiens,human being, in the First Stage of Development).
1.There,according to reliable sources ( like paleolibertarian AGUSTIN LAJE ( Argentina) ) , 75% of the people are AGAINST allowing abortion.
2.Yet due to PLANNED PARENTHOOD
( which has 46,000 abortion centers in the WORLD , MORE abortion centers than MACDONALD’s in the world, and which is financially supported by Leftist SOROS ),
BRIBING Argentine politicians who VOTED on it (a few months ago), abortion is now allowed there.
NOT ONLY THAT
Soros and company have been funding NGOs( non-governmental organizations) in Argentina and all Over South America trying to push down the population’s THROAT:
1.Gender Ideology, LGBT ideology, Radical Feminism,quotas for women, the idea there is a Patriarchy( since women there in all the countries have the SAME RIGHTS as men).
2.They are also trying to force the DIVORCE LAWS that exist in the US
( like ALIMONY and the husband having to give to the ex-wife HALF of his money,
and that even if by DNA testing, the children are NOT the man’s,he still has to CHILD SUPPORT till they are 18,etc. )
Brando says
Correction: in “the idea there is a Patriarchy( since women there in all the countries have the SAME RIGHTS as men). ” I meant:
“the idea there is a Patriarchy( which is FALSE since women there in all the countries have the SAME RIGHTS as men).
gravenimage says
Brando, women don’t have the same rights as men in all countries. For instance, this is not the case in most Muslim nations.
JimJFox says
Quite right GI, I would go further saying Muslimas in ALL Islamic countries and many western ones are severely discriminated against.
Brando says
Hello, that is true,I was referring only to the situation in South America,where fortunately there is today a Real Alliance and Personal Friendship among Most Intellectuals
who are Not LEFTISTS, against Leftism. They are also, judging from their remarks about Islam, Well-Aware of how ANTI-HUMAN RIGHTS Islam is. Virtually all of them are Pro-Trump.
THE INTELLECTUAL ELITE DECIDES IT ALL
In general,in history,it is a Minority (intellectual elite ) who creates the CULTURAL IDEAS
that the Majority follow,
and I am glad down there Most Intellectuals are Against Leftism,Communism and Socialism.
They often appear in videos and talk about subjects,they are:
AGUSTIN LAJE ( paleolibertarian)(Argentina)
MIKLOS LUKACS (Conservative,Peru)
VANESSA VALLEJO (Colombia, Libertarian)
MAMELA FIALLO( Ecuador,Libertarian)
JEAN CARLO PORTILLO ( Mexico,Libertarian )
CRISTIAN ITURRALDE (Conservative,Argentina)
HORACIO GIUSTO (Conservative, Argentina)
AXEL KAISER (Chile,Libertarian)
GLORIA ALVAREZ (Guatemala,Libertarian)
NICOLAS MARQUEZ (Conservative,Argentina)
ANTONELLA MARTY (Libertarian,Argentina)
PABLO MUNOZ ITURRIETA (Conservative)
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA (Classical Liberal,Peru)
CARLOS ALBERTO MONTANER (Classical Liberal,Cuba)
ALVARO VARGAS LLOSA (Classical Liberal,Peru)
PLINIO APULEYO MENDOZA (Classical Liberal,Colombia)
1.VIDEO IN ENGLISH : where Gloria Alvarez talks about the dangers of Socialism
“Gloria Alvarez brilliantly EXPLAINS Socialism in English”( 8 min)
https://youtu.be/ZOq_vPDxG8c
2.Other video where several of those mentioned have a colloquy:
“”Iniciativa Vengadores” Nicolás Márquez /Mamela Fiallo/Horacio Giusto /Miklos / Pablo Iturrieta”
https://youtu.be/3jgzM4qHygo
gravenimage says
OK, Brando.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of Leftist–and far-Leftist, and Communist–intellectuals in South and Central America. Just look at the Pope and the situation in Venezuela and Cuba.
Brian Hunter says
Trump had his share of indiscretions, but they were all with consenting adults. Biden, on the other hand, was captured on multiple videos in the act of fondling underage girls. In the upside-down world of leftists, that is the definition of gallant behavior.
gravenimage says
Presidential ‘Historian’ Michael Beschloss Casts Trump as Goofus and Biden as Gallant
…………….
Uh…right. Acting to protect your people from Jihad terror makes you “Goofus”.
And now we see the caliber of analysis on parts of the Left–just pathetic.
mortimer says
Historian? What type of historiography is that?
Domingo says
In many cases that is how it is. A person can be intelligent and well educated but have no common sense,.Beschloss is no different. On top of being bereft of common sense he also lacks wisdom because that comes from the Holy Spirit with whom he has no relationship. One must have a certain modicum of pity for people like him.
Mica Garrett says
Intellectual elite in U.S. Higher Education (college professors) is an oxymoron.
Malcolm (South Afric) says
President Trump efforts in securing peaceful co-existence, withdrawing troops from areas where they were just targets used to justify a military establishment concerned only sales of hardware. Trumps efforts in securing your borders happens to be totally logical and sane.
Drugs are coming through your boarders, killing your brothers and sisters, children are used for sex trafficking not to mention woman, gang members are organized in your towns and city’s reinforced by your open boarders.
As an African it is disgusting to see how Americans are in self destruct mode. Who cares what Michael Beschloss has to say when reality of present day Americans are dying, suffering because of a left leaning ideology.
gravenimage says
+1
Felix Katz says
Yeah Right…………China Joe…….Mr 10% …………….giving Tara “the Finger”…..now this is REAL Comedy.???
vcragain says
There is no comparison between the Last Guy, and the New Guy – one is & has ALWAYS been a Con-man, thief, liar & complete charlatan HIS WHOLE LIFE, and the other is a man trying to do what is right, occasionally getting it wrong as most of us normal people do ! How ANYBODY can make excuses for the Last Guy, when you all know perfectly well what he is & has always been, he has done nothing but tell LIES his whole 4 years as prez, and has turned the Republican party into the trump party, apparently terrified to cross him. WHY ??? What has happened to them is beyond what anybody can imagine, unless they have all taken putin’s blackmail cash, and gotten themselves so far up a gum tree they are now terrified to cross either trump or putin ! The rest of the world just watches in total amazement at this cowardice……
gravenimage says
vcragain, do you *really* think that it is preferable to overturn the “Muslim ban”, and resume forking money over to the Mullahs again? This is what Biden is doing.