I like Tony Blair. I don’t always agree with him on issues, but he is reasonable. I am surprised that he is anti-brexit. I did not know that. I think it is further evidence of the western elite’s drift. They seem to think that citizens of democratic countries are not capable of deciding issues, only the governing elite can do that. When the citizens decide contrary to elite opinion, you simply redo the vote, over and over, until the citizens decide the issue correctly. I am inclined to agree with his analysis in this case with respect to Jeremy Corbyn. I am saddened to see what an elitist he has become.

I should say master communicator. This is how Trump bypasses the media and communicates. He reaches his base. He reaches likely voters. The media cannot prevent this. The media cannot interpret it before Americans see it. The strategy is highly effective. This is why “Trump Tweets” upset the media so much. The more upset the media gets, the more effective the tweets become.

This is another great piece from Victor Davis Hanson. Required reading for parents about to send their children to college. Click over for the whole thing.

Victor Davis Hanson:

“…Most of us who came of age in the 1970s revered the university—even as it was still reeling from 1960s protests and beginning a process that resulted in its present chaos and disrepute.

Americans of the G.I. Bill-era first enshrined the idea of upward mobility through the bachelor’s degree—the assumed gateway to career security—and the positive role of expanding colleges to grow the new suburban middle classes.

Despite student radicalism and demands for reform, professors had been trained in the postwar era by an older breed of prewar scholars and teachers. As stewards they passed on their sense of professionalism about training future scholars and teachers—and just broadly educated citizens. In classics, I remember courses from scholars like British subjects like H.D. Kitto and Michael Grant, who lectured on Sophoclean tragedies or the late Roman emperors as the common inheritance of undergraduates.

Overwhelmingly liberal and often hippish in appearance, American faculty of the early 1970s still only rarely indoctrinated students, or bullied them to mimic their own progressivism. Rather, in both the humanities and sciences, students were taught the inductive method of evaluating evidence in hopes of finding some common explanation of natural and human phenomena…”

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Liberals Clarify They Only Want Black Voices To Be Heard When They’re Saying Liberal Things

AOC Says She’s Awakened at 3:30 AM Scared Because of Climate Change

Editorial of The New York Sun:

“…Prime Minister Thatcher’s speech at Bruges, Belgium. That’s where, in 1988, the Iron Lady warned that Britons had not “successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at a European level with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.”

Mrs. Thatcher came to view as “the greatest issue before our country” the question of whether Britain would “remain a free, independent, nation state. Or whether we are to be dissolved in a federal Europe. There are no half measures, no third ways — and no second choices.” She wanted to look westward to America and to the freedom countries imbued with such values as the English and Scottish enlightenments.

No wonder Mr. Johnson turned to the British sovereign. He campaigned for office on the vow, as the BBC reminded, to do whatever it takes to secure Brexit. So, in seeking the prorogation of Parliament, he is doing just what he promised. President Trump was smart to signal his support for Mr. Johnson. He’s one of the few non-British leaders to have expressed confidence that Britain will get over any rough spots and go on to greater glory…”

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