No sitting President has ever met with the ruler (I don’t know the formal title within which his power is cloaked) of North Korea. Given that this follows the also-unprecedented handshake at the border with the South Korean leader, we can safely say we are on new ground, figuratively and literally.
Yet when I listened to NPR yesterday–in my usual less-than-five-minute dose, which is all I can stand of their pseudo-pious informational charade–they were taking great pains to point out that all the promises made here are the same as before, with ZERO nod to what is actually, objectively new.
Add this to some discussions I’ve had over the past few days, and it occurs to me to submit that embracing ideology means renouncing at the level of principle all possibly competing ideas. You don’t have to hear the competing idea, much less comprehend it, to reject it. All you need to know is that it is different. CONSIDERING the idea, of course, is anathema. Considerers are heretics, and heretics are unwelcome.
The notion that Trump may know what he is doing, that he may well be what he has emerged to be–a competent, well meaning leader working in the interests of the American people, which is his job–is such an idea.
All that binds Leftists together is conformity. This is what makes it sacred to them, and heresies like Kanyes so dangerous.