In an election season like the present, the Alfred E. Smith Dinner seems conspicuously dated.<\/p>\n
Not unlike the annual White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner, in this year of the Outsider (or is it the year of the Deplorables?) last week\u2019s event appeared more than ever as but another occasion to showcase the incestuous relationship between the members of the Government\/Media elite.<\/p>\n
Donald Trump\u2019s appearance would have<\/em> threatened to compromise his reputation as the anti-Establishment candidate had it not been for the fact that some of his remarks regarding his opponent managed to elicit loud boos from<\/a>, well, the very Establishmentarians against whom he\u2019s been railing for the last year-and-a-half.\u00a0 His enemies in the national press and the professional politicians for whom they routinely apologize still haven\u2019t figured out that in assailing Trump, they only vindicate him in the eyes of the tens of millions of his supporters.<\/p>\n Such has been the impact of Trump\u2019s candidacy that it would be only slightly hyperbolic to divide the timeline of our political universe into B.T.P (Before the Trump Phenomenon) and A.T.P (After the Trump Phenomenon).\u00a0 The problem with the GOP nominee\u2019s legions of detractors in the halls of power is that they lack either the ability or the will to recognize that the force of Trump\u2019s break out candidacy has thrust us from one epoch to another. Both Republican and Democrat Regimists in D.C. and the national press now live within a time warp. <\/em><\/p>\n At no point in our history has the Regime\u2019s hegemony been as vulnerable as it is at the present moment.\u00a0 Courtesy of the Trump Phenomenon, i.e. the movement that\u2019s coalesced around Trump\u2019s candidacy, the electorate has been able to confirm what it has long suspected.\u00a0 For perhaps the first time ever, even those voters who only engage in politics every four years know about such things as the faux-democratic nature of the primary process, the deception and hypocrisy of \u201cconservative\u201d politicians and media personalities, and the nakedly partisan nature of self-styled \u201cjournalists.\u201d<\/p>\n Voters now know of the \u201calt-right\u201d and, by implication, the \u201calt-left<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Voters know of Wikileaks, private servers, compromises of national security, and hacked emails revealing corruption after corruption within the Clinton campaign specifically, and the DNC generally.<\/p>\n For a long while, indignation has been fomenting among much of the American citizenry.\u00a0 Among those Americans\u2014mostly whites of the middle and working classes\u2014this indignation has been as acute as it has been justified.\u00a0 These are the Americans who could usually have been counted upon to vote Republican.\u00a0 After years of having been taken for granted, millions began sitting out elections<\/a>.\u00a0 The resistance on the part of Republican establishmentarians to Trump\u2019s candidacy has vindicated their suspicions that the GOP is but another wing of the very Regime whose interests are diametrically at odds with those of their own.<\/p>\n And Trump\u2019s candidacy itself, while giving voice to their frustrations and their hope that the powers-to-be just may succumb to defeat, has catapulted them back into the political fold with a vengeance.<\/p>\n Hillary Clinton didn\u2019t misspeak at all when she referred to \u201chalf\u201d of Trump\u2019s backers as \u201cdeplorable\u201d and \u201cirredeemable.\u201d\u00a0 She didn\u2019t misspeak when she accused them of every politically incorrect phobia and \u201cism.\u201d At the same time, the Deplorables are all too aware that Clinton\u2019s remarks hardly reflect idiosyncratic sentiments on her part.\u00a0 Quite the contrary: Clinton was merely expressing the shared judgment of her class, the Regime.<\/p>\n The Deplorables have always suspected that both Democrat and Republican regimists have long regarded them as, well, deplorable. The Regime\u2019s scorched Earth treatment of Trump and, by implication, his supporters, transformed this suspicion into knowledge.\u00a0 Clinton\u2019s comments made this knowledge explicit.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the point: Win or lose, but especially<\/em> if he loses<\/em>, Trump\u2019s army of Deplorables promises to grow.\u00a0 As much as the Government-Media Axis would like to turn back the hands of time, we are now living in a post-Trump epoch.\u00a0 The toothpaste, as we say, is out of the tube.<\/p>\n Trump supporters, including and most tellingly women and young teens, had been attacked and beaten for no reason other than that they were Trump supporters. As we now know courtesy of Project Veritas<\/a>, assailants were not infrequently rental thugs dispatched by the DNC. \u00a0No one is going to tolerate this any longer.<\/p>\n When thugs threatened to wreak similar havoc in Cleveland during Trump\u2019s convention, thousands of armed bikers and truckers\u2014\u201cBikers for Trump<\/a>\u201d and \u201cTruckers for Trump<\/a>\u201d\u2014poured into the city to assist the police in patrolling the streets.\u00a0 There were no incidences. Even now, former soldiers and police officers have taken up arms<\/a> along our southern border to function as the wall that Trump insists he will build to arrest the massive influx into the United States of illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n By two-to-one<\/a>, active military personnel support Trump over his opponent.\u00a0 A Border Patrol Agents\u2019 Union of 5,000 members, for the first time in its history, endorsed a presidential candidate when it endorsed<\/a> Trump.\u00a0 The Fraternal Order of Police<\/a>, the largest police union in the country, did the same.\u00a0 So too does the NRA endorse<\/a> Trump.<\/p>\n With some 300 million guns, there are more legal guns in America owned by private citizens than there are private citizens who own guns.\u00a0 Most of these gun owners are disposed to sympathize with Trump.<\/p>\n If Trump loses, all of these folks will take it as a given that it is because the election has indeed been \u201crigged\u201d against their candidate.\u00a0 Insofar as the Regime\u2019s propagandists in the national press long ago threw off so much as the pretense of objectivity when covering this presidential race, they have been working overtime at cooking its outcome.\u00a0 For the Deplorables, this is as plain as the noses on their faces.<\/p>\n