High Noonan
6th September 2021
Scott Johnson at Power Line discusses at great length the degeneration demonstrated by Peggy Noonan, hitherto a reliable conservative voice, during the Age of Trump.
Noonan is a sore subject of long standing with me. She makes my skin crawl.
Noonan joined the crowd turning on George W. Bush in what I thought was (in Noonan’s case) a grossly unfair manner in 2008. Noonan wasn’t just unfair, she was also cowardly. I wrote critically about one of Noonan’s weekly Wall Street Journal columns in which she identified with the public disapproval of Bush that April in “Season of the witch.”
Having turned on George W. Bush, Noonan moved on to support the election of Barack Obama later that year. Noonan all but endorsed Obama in her 2008 column “Obama and the runaway train.” The anti-Bush and pro-Obama columns fit neatly together.
Tru dat.
The advent of The Magic Negro, and then of Donald Trump, has acted as a political power-washer upon the layers of nominally conservative and formally Republican ‘knowledge workers’ in D.C.–Noo Yawk Crust, sluicing away those whose attachments were weak and easily degraded. This ought to serve as a wake-up call to those who insufficiently cognizant of the corrosive effect of living adjacent to the Corridors of Power on The Other Left Coast. Perhaps it’s something in the water.