Poor Rich Lowry, editor of National Review. He came out
early on, disavowed Donald Trump and dragged his entire team into doing
likewise. He thought he had enough sway among Republican voters to whip the
primary and caucus electorate into embracing his point of view, thus do away
with Trump once and for all.
The trouble is that the opposite happened in that it was
Donald Trump who swayed the Republican electorate into embracing his point of
view, thus doing away with Rich Lowry if not the National Review. That was the
culmination of a long playing drama that shook the Republican Party so hard; it
may not survive in its present form much longer.
Here now is a legitimate question: What happened to the
Republican Party of Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan? And
here is an informed answer: The Neocon movement infiltrated the Party, sucked
its supply of blood to the last drop, and left it as alive as a dried out twig
on a dying tree.
It all began to take shape during the second half of the
year 1967. America
was taking a terrible beating at the hands of the North Vietnamese and their
southern allies, the Vietcong ... both of whom used Soviet made weapons. And
then there was an Israeli success in June of that year using Western (French
made) weapons, that surprised the Egyptians and destroyed their Soviet made
weapons. It was a success that rivaled Japan 's
attack on Pearl Harbor 26 years earlier; a
success that provided the Americans with a kind of delayed catharsis.
The Jews took advantage of that development and argued that
because Israel managed to
kinda humiliate the Soviet Union, it deserved to be coddled by an America that
was humiliated by Soviet weapons. This is when Democratic Senator Henry (Scoop)
Jackson, who had big ambitions and small talent to achieve them, jumped on the
occasion and worked to turn the Soviet Union into enemy number one, while
turning Israel into a political heartthrob. The concoction grew quickly and
became a movement to be reckoned with for a time.
And then, a twist of the kind that's sometimes encountered
in history took place. Because opposition to the Soviet Union was held more
generally by the Republican Right, the Democrats who followed in the footsteps
of Jackson were
now led by Irving Kristol who identified with the Republicans more than the
Democrats. He switched parties and was followed by his flock – a group that
came to be known as the neoconservatives or neocons.
They swarmed the Republican Grand Old Party (GOP) and were
embraced by its conservative members. It was as if the turncoat Jewish
Democrats were the prodigal son that had come home to bestow on them wisdom,
wealth and a new era of triumphs. It was a thought that served to soothe the
folks who were more traumatized than others by their country's string of
defeats in Asia . Little did they know that their
party was stealthily transformed from being an American party serving America to a Jewish party serving Israel , always Israel
and no one but Israel .
Years passed during which time: “The neocons’ heedlessness stepped
all over the Republicans’ earnestness.” Ouch! Guess what I just did, my friend.
I committed a sin. I plagiarized Rich Lowry. That was his sentence, not mine …
except that he said it a little differently. Actually, he put it like this:
“Trump's heedlessness stepped all over Ryan's earnestness.” That passage came
in the article that Rich Lowry wrote under the title: “Many More Awkward
Moments Are Surely Ahead for Trump's Endorsers,” published on June 10, 2016 in
National Review Online.
The reality is that over a period of several years, the
neocons did to the Republican Party what Rich Lowry accuses Donald Trump of
doing in the blink of an eye. He starts his article with these words: “Trump's
endorsers have made their bed, and now must lie in it.” But the fact is that it
was the conservatives and neoconservatives who made the bed, and they are now
forced to lie in it whether Rich Lowry likes it or not. If he likes it, he can
hop into the bed, fleas and all, and make of it what he can. Or if he doesn't
like it, he can join William, the junior Kristol, and work with him to found
another party of the Right.
Having referred to the main culprits as “Trump's endorsers,”
Lowry goes on to describe the ills of the Republican Party without once
mentioning that such ills were long in the making, and were due to the
infestation of the Party by the neocons. And of course, you'll never get him to
admit that Trump's endorsers may turn out to be what they think of themselves:
an antidote to the neocons; the cure that will rid the Republican Party of its
infestation, and revitalize it.