Beto O’Rourke
16th March 2019
ZMan looks at the latest pseudo-Kennedy.
Beto O’Rourke, the Irish playboy who tried passing himself off as a Mexican in his run against Ted Cruz in 2018, has declared for President. The boomers in the Progressive commentariat are rushing to their fainting couches, as they are sure he is the Hispanic-ish John F. Kennedy or Robert F. Kennedy, depending upon which end of the 60’s they remember best. Watching a geriatric old fool like Chris Mathews fawn over O’Rourke is a reminder why the Germans gave the world the word fremdschämen.
It’s a good reminder that the Left is more burdened with yesterday men than right-side of the political divide. Even the cuckiest conservative is not comparing a guy like Ben Sasse to Reagan, Goldwater or Eisenhower. Progressive boomers still have a bust of JFK in their house and talk about where they were when he was shot. They are a walking, talking museum displays of a bygone era. That’s why they are gushing over O’Rourke. He’s the last white man of any standing in the Democrat Party.
It’s amazing how much more reactionary Democrats are than Republicans. They want to return to the days of Good Union Jobs when the only good union jobs left are working for the State. They want to cancel the Industrial Revolution by getting rid of automobiles and planes and returning to bicycles and trains. Whenever they see the word ‘orphanage’ they think it’s 1844, and whenever they see the word ‘immigrant’ they think it’s 1895. It’s as if the 20th century never happened for them.