Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. is a heavyweight big-time editorial hitter for the powerful, prestigious WSJ. We don't know for sure, but we suspect an Ivy League pedigree lurks somewhere in his elitist DNA.
What we do know is his last two articles focused on the Trumpster. That's a lot of attention. Keep in mind people like Jenkins accuse this guy they so clearly fear of using crude, uncivil, deprecating language. We know not Mr. Jenkins' religious belief or even if he has one. We suspect, however, to justify his consistent rantings, he's an eye-for-an-eye guy.
So here are a few paragraphs from his recent attack: "Can Trump Start a Trade War?"
Discussing Trump's claim to be a businessman, Jenkins writes:
"Not that he actually reminds us of any business great we've heard of--Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Jack Welch or Indra Nooyi, say." So let's just take Nooyi, the current CEO of Pepsi. Jenkins obviously tossed her name in, a token to the fairer gender. But not everyone concedes she's a great business leader. Someone might want to query a billionaire named Nelson Peltz. Maybe even a few thousand Pepsi shareholders.
The heavy handed, imperious Jack Welch just came out as recently as this week as a Trumpster critic. We call them Trumpster Dumpsters; that's where they'd like deposit him. His next paragraph is almost too cute to deserve a response let alone a grade higher than C- in a decent freshman composition class if any are around these days.
"Countless have been the incoming e-mails suggesting that any doubts voiced about President Trump are but the wailings of a deranged and impotent 'establishment.' Countable--in fact, the number is zero--have been those laying out an actual case for a Trump presidency."
With all due respect we hope Mr. Jenkins didn't compose that paragraph while sitting on the can because there's a lot of literary straining in there to make his point. But we will make the point for you, Mr. Jenkins, indirectly. We as did millions of other Americans have the same feeling about Obama, Bush II, Carter, LBJ, Nixon and a raft of others. Who gets to define qualifications, the WSJ editorial staff? And who gets to define case?
Then with his arresting prose, fantasizing what a Trump presidency would be like, he reels off this gem of solid reasoning. "What would President Trump do in office? He may be the narcissist his critics say, but he would arrive in the White House looking for something to do consistent with his promises and his supporters' expectations, and his own penchant for action."
We don't want to linger on the silliness of this construction. It's the obvious straw man. We'll just respond with this question: Name a president who didn't didn't arrive with these aspirations?
Such aspirations were not dangerous with those others guy. But Trump?
Jenkins then rolls out the benchmark for all these wise guys, a comparison with Ronald Reagan. We have to concede we called a Las Vegas bookies about the odds on this one. As you might suspect it's about a buzz word all the rage of editorialists, corporates, politicians and government bureaucrats today, outcomes.
As a successful business associate and longtime WSJ editorial page reader recently told us: "We're just one of the ignorant members of the masses who never saw the light at the end of a high school tunnel, one of those you and your elitist colleagues have such contempt for."
And as for the mighty Trump versus the mighty Reagan comparison, it's spring time so we'll take some license from what was once America's favorite pastime.
...It shook upon the mountain top, it rattled in the dell. Oh, somewhere bands are playing and somewhere children shout.
...With mighty Trump versus mighty Reagan....well, .......to Mr.Jenkins' kind...we all know how that came out.
You can smell the fear from here.
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