Homans is getting harder and harder to take. Like Timothy Snyder, he barely conceals his contempt for the average American. (Snyder, in one of his lectures on Ukrainian history, actually smirked at the idea that American history could be interesting. It’s on tape.) By hauling out once again the hoary term “isolationist”, invented by liberal internationalists (heavily Jewish) to browbeat Americans who saw no need to interfere in Europe’s squabbles in 1917 and again in 1940 (they were right, there was no need) to attempt to discredit Americans, Homans is losing me.
And in any case, though it would be nice if we actually were “isolationist”, our policy and actions toward Ukraine (and scores of other countries) have been anything but. So Homans is using a label that is discredited to begin with, and then slaps it on a situation where it manifestly doesn’t apply, even if it had any force.
But this misuse of terms pales in comparison with Homans’ other gaffes. The man acts like there is only one party to the debates in Congress. According to him, the Democrats have nothing to do with the impasse over funding Ukraine. Yet it has been Democrats who are most to blame for the collapse of America’s borders, Democrats who established the sanctuary cities, Democrats who have sabotaged every effort to deport illegal aliens, and Democrats who keep pushing to legalize these criminals. Going back further, it was the Democrats Kennedy and Cellar who passed the legislation that opened America to unlimited immigration, that is to say, began the dismantling of the historic American nation. Democrats’ disastrous, traitorous failure to protect Americans from this foreign invasion has handed Republicans an issue that no opposition politician could be expected to pass up. If the shoe were on the other foot, you can bet Democrats would be blocking a Republican bill.
Even worse, Homans quotes, evidently approvingly, someone quoting this guy:
“Vance’s immediate predecessor, retired GOP Sen. Rob Portman, put it more succinctly at the Cleveland City Club on Nov. 17, 2023: “Remember — during World War II, we almost didn’t join. What if we hadn’t? The world would be a very different place. Everybody in Europe would be speaking German.””
Oh, let me unpack this! I could be reading Goethe, Novalis, Rilke, and Junger in German, not the fanciful interpretations of academics—precious thought! The world could have been spared 45 additional years of communist terror! The Communist takeover of China! Wars in Korea, Viet Nam, all over Africa! With the loss of American lives and the incalculable damage to American society from the war, Homans could not pick a worse example of misbegotten foreign policy.
The Republicans opposing Biden’s spending bill are doing so for a variety of reasons, good and bad. A few might be fans of Putin. A few might even be fighting for the preservation of the remnant of this nation. In any case, to put the blame entirely on them, when all Biden has to do is to fulfill his constitutional duties to defend America from foreign invasion, i.e., a national security issue of the first order, enforce the laws of the land, and ensure the peace and prosperity of the American people and their posterity, shows at the least a very suspicious partisanship on Homans’ part, if not a downright absence of patriotism. Ex patriot, indeed.
Homans is getting harder and harder to take. Like Timothy Snyder, he barely conceals his contempt for the average American. (Snyder, in one of his lectures on Ukrainian history, actually smirked at the idea that American history could be interesting. It’s on tape.) By hauling out once again the hoary term “isolationist”, invented by liberal internationalists (heavily Jewish) to browbeat Americans who saw no need to interfere in Europe’s squabbles in 1917 and again in 1940 (they were right, there was no need) to attempt to discredit Americans, Homans is losing me.
And in any case, though it would be nice if we actually were “isolationist”, our policy and actions toward Ukraine (and scores of other countries) have been anything but. So Homans is using a label that is discredited to begin with, and then slaps it on a situation where it manifestly doesn’t apply, even if it had any force.
But this misuse of terms pales in comparison with Homans’ other gaffes. The man acts like there is only one party to the debates in Congress. According to him, the Democrats have nothing to do with the impasse over funding Ukraine. Yet it has been Democrats who are most to blame for the collapse of America’s borders, Democrats who established the sanctuary cities, Democrats who have sabotaged every effort to deport illegal aliens, and Democrats who keep pushing to legalize these criminals. Going back further, it was the Democrats Kennedy and Cellar who passed the legislation that opened America to unlimited immigration, that is to say, began the dismantling of the historic American nation. Democrats’ disastrous, traitorous failure to protect Americans from this foreign invasion has handed Republicans an issue that no opposition politician could be expected to pass up. If the shoe were on the other foot, you can bet Democrats would be blocking a Republican bill.
Even worse, Homans quotes, evidently approvingly, someone quoting this guy:
“Vance’s immediate predecessor, retired GOP Sen. Rob Portman, put it more succinctly at the Cleveland City Club on Nov. 17, 2023: “Remember — during World War II, we almost didn’t join. What if we hadn’t? The world would be a very different place. Everybody in Europe would be speaking German.””
Oh, let me unpack this! I could be reading Goethe, Novalis, Rilke, and Junger in German, not the fanciful interpretations of academics—precious thought! The world could have been spared 45 additional years of communist terror! The Communist takeover of China! Wars in Korea, Viet Nam, all over Africa! With the loss of American lives and the incalculable damage to American society from the war, Homans could not pick a worse example of misbegotten foreign policy.
The Republicans opposing Biden’s spending bill are doing so for a variety of reasons, good and bad. A few might be fans of Putin. A few might even be fighting for the preservation of the remnant of this nation. In any case, to put the blame entirely on them, when all Biden has to do is to fulfill his constitutional duties to defend America from foreign invasion, i.e., a national security issue of the first order, enforce the laws of the land, and ensure the peace and prosperity of the American people and their posterity, shows at the least a very suspicious partisanship on Homans’ part, if not a downright absence of patriotism. Ex patriot, indeed.