The Most Consequential Words of Our Time?
Trump took Mark Milley's words to heart and... here we are.
Anderson Cooper ran a segment on the firing of the Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, last night.
Unfortunately, CNN hasn’t seen fit to post the entire segment, including Cooper’s introduction in which he listed all the words from all of the books the armed services are being made to purge from their libraries, or the part of his interview with Sherrilyn Ifill in which she talks about Dr. Haden and the fact that she was fired via an email that addresses her by her first name and contains just two lines of text, composed in a distinctively disrespectful manner, designed to insult the recipient.
Cooper, quite rightly, began his segment with the most consequential words uttered in a congressional hearing in recent memory. Mark Milley appeared at a hearing on June 23, 2021:
Looking back at the first days of the second Trump term, it appears that Trump turned Mark Milley’s answer to Matt Gaetz into a comprehensive to-do list and methodically set about to excise every last component of every single issue Milley touched upon, with the express intent to turn America’s enlightenment clock all the way back. It is quite clear that among Trump’s many resentments are the breadth and depth of Mark Milley’s intellect, knowledge, and culture. He embodies all of those things Trump has always lacked. Trump, as a member of New York’s high society, was derided and shunned by his peers for his boorishness.
The cultural and educational destruction of this second Trump administration is at least on the order of magnitude of Mao Zedong’s cultural revolution, erasing all of the things Trump either couldn’t or wouldn’t absorb through learning. Take his often-times odd usage of language as compared to Mark Milley’s, for example. Self-expression is a skill honed by years of learning, reading and care. These are the things that a boorish Trump never had any affinity or use for or harbored a deep resentment toward. Most importantly, they are all of the things that have instilled in Trump shame, inadequacy, and great resentment over a lifetime. During the lead up to the 2016 election, Trump was overt in his courtship of the uneducated.
Milley is the superior to Trump’s inferior and all of Trump’s current and past associates constitute the mirror image of that inferiority. They are his cabal of retributionists.
We are not only ruled by a highly boorish and insecure pack of individuals, but also by the most resentful ever.
Addendum: The New York Post’s YouTube video on the firing of Dr. Carla Hayden
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