I thought I’d heard the name Robert Boxwell, writing in today’s South China Morning Post. And I had.
Back in 2015, I challenged him over his criticism of Uber in our city. I “won” that argument, in the sense that Uber is still operating here in Hong Kong. The government has bigger problems to sort out other than some allegedly errant car-hailing service.
This time Boxwell is writing what I think is a pretty fair and balanced article on American politics. The Post is strongly anti-Trump, so most of its Op-Eds are too. Boxwell, by contrast, makes the point that there are plenty of people who don’t like Trump’s bullying boorishness, but who appreciate many of his successes, the economy not the least. And that hyper-partisanship is, as it were, bi-partisan. Politics were divisive well before Trump came on the scene.
From the Left it’s been nearly four years of attacking not just Trump, but also the people who voted for him. I’m with Ann Althouse on this: “Me — and I'm not a Trump voter — I'm just someone offended by the 3 years of disrespect shown to the people whose candidate won an election.”.
So here is Boxwell’s article.
Back in 2015, I challenged him over his criticism of Uber in our city. I “won” that argument, in the sense that Uber is still operating here in Hong Kong. The government has bigger problems to sort out other than some allegedly errant car-hailing service.
This time Boxwell is writing what I think is a pretty fair and balanced article on American politics. The Post is strongly anti-Trump, so most of its Op-Eds are too. Boxwell, by contrast, makes the point that there are plenty of people who don’t like Trump’s bullying boorishness, but who appreciate many of his successes, the economy not the least. And that hyper-partisanship is, as it were, bi-partisan. Politics were divisive well before Trump came on the scene.
From the Left it’s been nearly four years of attacking not just Trump, but also the people who voted for him. I’m with Ann Althouse on this: “Me — and I'm not a Trump voter — I'm just someone offended by the 3 years of disrespect shown to the people whose candidate won an election.”.
So here is Boxwell’s article.
As for this year’s SOTU: I watched it live and thought it was pretty good. Then I watched CNN analysts tell me it was “dark and dangerous”. Huh? For “dark” try Obama’s SOTU of 2010 when he’d been in office for two years. Or his 2011 SOTU, which was every bit as self-congratulatory as Trump was accused of being, and which is par for the course of all SOTUs.
As for the “facts” in Trump’s SOTU, NPR couldn’t find any substantive falsehoods. But you wouldn’t know that from CNN. (Trump said at a later rally that there were “exactly 142 people at the [Biden] rally”, clearly a dissing joke. Fact checkers called it a “lie”!).
The only decent commenter that day in CNN, was Van Jones, who commented how Trump was going after the African-American and Latino votes and that Democrats had better “take notice”.
Oh, yes, David Axelrod was also pretty decent and fair. But the rest, on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, all in their own powerful vortexes.
UPDATE: Watching Bernie’s speech on winning New Hampshire. (12:07 pm HKT). It’s very close: Bernie 25.9%, Pete Buttigieg 24.4%. Amy Klobuchar clocked in at 19.8%. Warren and the rest in single figure.
And … Andrew Yang is pulling out. Got only 2.8% of the vote.
Bernie calls Trump “the most dangerous president in history “. I don’t get that. How? exactly. Of course it’s an election.
Bernie has a simple message which is why it resonates: free health care, free tuition, cancel student debt, tax the rich (100% at the top…), open the borders, green new deal. Of course, nothing is ever “free”. And… you can have open borders or broad social security. But you can’t have both. And… open borders in places like California have most negative impact on the poor, especially working class blacks who are displaced by undocumented Latinos. Plus, he wants to nationalise energy, telecoms, internet, steel, major manufacturing. Just, you know, most of the economy....
Warren is finished. So much for my prediction. Which, TBF, was just taking the average of some polls at the time, so so much for their polling. Well… it was accurate at the time.
Bennet (who?) andSteyer, are also out. [Steyer still in. FWIW]
And … Andrew Yang is pulling out. Got only 2.8% of the vote.
Bernie calls Trump “the most dangerous president in history “. I don’t get that. How? exactly. Of course it’s an election.
Bernie has a simple message which is why it resonates: free health care, free tuition, cancel student debt, tax the rich (100% at the top…), open the borders, green new deal. Of course, nothing is ever “free”. And… you can have open borders or broad social security. But you can’t have both. And… open borders in places like California have most negative impact on the poor, especially working class blacks who are displaced by undocumented Latinos. Plus, he wants to nationalise energy, telecoms, internet, steel, major manufacturing. Just, you know, most of the economy....
Warren is finished. So much for my prediction. Which, TBF, was just taking the average of some polls at the time, so so much for their polling. Well… it was accurate at the time.
Bennet (who?) and
