{"id":212582,"date":"2021-03-01T09:21:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T14:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/?p=212582"},"modified":"2021-03-01T11:20:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T16:20:25","slug":"bobs-big-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/blog\/bobs-big-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob\u2019s Big Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So, have you seen the hideous golden statue of former president Trump they wheeled out at CPAC\u2014the annual meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference?  I grew up in antebellum Alabama rather than post World War II Southern California, but apparently it really does resemble the famous Bob\u2019s Big Boy statue that stands outside all it\u2019s burger joints.  In short, if you stayed up nights trying to create something as tasteless and grotesque as Donald Trump himself, you probably couldn\u2019t do a better job.  But clearly the people at CPAC don\u2019t realize how grotesque Trump is, and needless to say, they don\u2019t realize how grotesque they <\/em>are.  We can remain puzzled as to what these people see in Donald Trump, the lowest level of grifter, a fraud and a demagogue, who even tried to overthrow our democracy to hold onto power, but no explanation is likely to make our present situation any better.  As I\u2019ve said before, Trump\u2019s Republican base has shown us who they are\u2014and we need to believe them, even if it isn\u2019t a pretty sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This new breed of \u201cTrump Republican,\u201d who were crawling all around at CPAC last weekend, continue to reveal their true colors, along with their hatred for people of color.  They are not only the party of \u201cno\u201d\u2014no action and no change for the better\u2014they are the party of no immigrants, as in no potential threat to the white majority, meaning no threat to what they like to call \u201cthe American way of life.\u201d When Trump talks about \u201cTaking back our country\u201d and claims \u201cOur incredible journey has only just begun,\u201d it\u2019s pretty damn scary, especially if you\u2019re not white.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donald Trump and CPAC Cater to a Dangerous and Desperate Market<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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To be charitable, to muster all the empathy I can for the umpteenth time, Trump Republicans are trying to preserve an America that existed after World War II, when most of the world lay in ruins and America was the world\u2019s economic and military superpower.\u00a0 Most importantly, perhaps, back then a white man with only a high school education could support a family in a middle-class lifestyle.\u00a0 In those days, most consumer products were manufactured in the good ol\u2019 USA, and industries like autos, appliances, and electronics (yes, believe it or not, they used to build those here) were booming.\u00a0 But the world has changed: for better and admittedly for worse, today we live in a globalized, post-industrial, technological, information-based economy.\u00a0 The sad fact is, Trump Republicans love to scream about socialism and the radical left, but given their lack of suitability for competing in the modern world, most of them should pray for socialism!\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not surprisingly, a lot of Americans wish life had remained as it was in the last half of the 20th century, but no matter how many lies Donald Trump tells his loyal followers to the contrary, America simply no longer has the advantages it once did, and the country they long for isn\u2019t coming back.  Make no mistake, Donald Trump and CPAC are catering to what has become a dangerous and desperate market.  Many of the \u201cTrump Republicans\u201d live in fear that the \u201celites\u201d are using minorities and immigrants to deliberately destroy the America they love.  They honestly believe their own circumstances are now worse than those of African Americans, people who lived through hundreds of years of slavery and Jim Crow, and their \u201cwhite grievance\u201d reached a crescendo on January 6th<\/sup> at the U.S. Capitol. I know I\u2019ve said it before, but it is simply the overwhelming reality: a big chunk of the American people are reluctant to accept the realities of the modern world and want to live in a never-never land of yesteryear where white Americans ruled supreme with no threat to their privilege.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, have you seen the hideous golden statue of former president Trump they wheeled out at CPAC\u2014the annual meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference?  I grew up in antebellum Alabama rather than post World War II Southern California, but apparently it really does resemble the famous Bob\u2019s Big Boy statue that stands outside all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212582"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212591,"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212582\/revisions\/212591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}