Ironies Great and Small: Part III—Trump vs. Always Trump

Americans voted for a wrecking ball, and there’s little doubt that’s what America got, continues Victor Davis Hanson in NRO. To Always Trumpers, the president’s vulgarity is “the necessary tough antidote to what they see as the polished crudity of the elite class, who are quite indecent in their sanctimonious lectures on amnesties or globalized free but unfair trade — while having the personal means of navigating around the deleterious consequences of their own advocacy.”

Trump’s nihilistic and self-destructive tweets are yet again, for the Always Trumpers, the Semtex that helps blow up the entire spectacle of the feeding frenzy Washington press conference, the embarrassment of the White House Correspondents Dinner, the soft-ball televised interview, and the moral preening of television’s talking heads.

For AlwaysTrumpers, Donald Trump’s “ostensibly counterproductive outbursts and Twitter rants are the unpleasant castor oil that was long ago needed to break up and pass on a constipated, corrupt, and incestuous elite.”