Blog & Mablog - The Kind of Election We Are Not Going to Have | Doug Wilson

Blog & Mablog
Aug 29, 2023
The Kind of Election We Are Not Going to Have | Doug Wilson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwDvraY5wlg
I am afraid I have been selected (yet again) to break some bad news to you guys. But there is good news at the end of it.Show more

I mentioned this in passing a few weeks ago, but it was not greeted with loud shouts of acclaim or ahas! from the populace, or with rank-and-file Republicans slapping their foreheads as the light finally dawned. But that is what should have happened. Want to know what I said? I will tell you. I am going to tell you this in the immediate aftermath of what some are calling the “Mona Lisa of mugshots.”

I said that you cannot bring about a normal election by simply nominating a normal candidate. It should be so easy.

Trying to bring back the electoral stability of yore in that way is only going to prove that the normal guy you nominated is delusional, which is not how you want your normal guys to normally be. Positioning yourself to be slightly to the right of Marco Rubio, as envisioned in a polite exchange sponsored by the League of Women Voters, simply demonstrates that you don’t know what time it is. The delusion concerns not so much a particular policy problem as it displays a gross anachronism. Your favored candidate should just drop everything and go join the re-enactors at Lexington and Concord. The good guys win that one every year, but you do know its a pretendy-thing, right?

So as the great band Chicago once lamented . . . does anybody really know what time it is?

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