Here's Garrison Keillor. Obviously, he's angry. But clearly, his picture of
who will be most hurt is skewed, as is his picture of America. He's focused
on his former teachers, in their 90's, former fighters in our wars which,
apparently, he considers to have been glorious. He's managed to forget who
the majority of the American population is in 2016 and who Trump's followers
are already victimizing. Really, I'd like to write an angry letter to
Keillor!
Miriam
Keillor writes: "For the Trump voters, the disasters he will bring on this
country will fall more heavily on them than anyone else. The uneducated
white males who elected him are the vulnerable ones, and they will not like
what happens next."
Supporters listen as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks
during a campaign stop at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, Sunday,
May 1, 2016, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. (photo: Darron Cummings/AP)
Trump Voters Will Not Like What Happens Next
By Garrison Keillor, The Washington Post
11 November 16
Garrison Keillor is an author and radio personality.
So he won. The nation takes a deep breath. Raw ego and proud illiteracy
have won out, and a severely learning-disabled man with a real character
problem will be president. We are so exhausted from thinking about this
election, millions of people will take up leaf-raking and garage cleaning
with intense pleasure. We liberal elitists are wrecks. The Trumpers had a
whale of a good time, waving their signs, jeering at the media, beating up
protesters, chanting "Lock her up" - we elitists just stood and clapped.
Nobody chanted "Stronger Together." It just doesn't chant.
The Trumpers never expected their guy to actually win the thing, and that's
their problem now. They wanted only to whoop and yell, boo at the H-word,
wear profane T-shirts, maybe grab a crotch or two, jump in the RV with a
couple of six-packs and go out and shoot some spotted owls. It was pleasure
enough for them just to know that they were driving us wild with dismay - by
"us," I mean librarians, children's authors, yoga practitioners, Unitarians,
bird-watchers, people who make their own pasta, opera-goers, the grammar
police, people who keep books on their shelves, that bunch. The Trumpers
exulted in knowing we were tearing our hair out. They had our number, like a
bratty kid who knows exactly how to make you grit your teeth and froth at
the mouth.
Alas for the Trump voters, the disasters he will bring on this country will
fall more heavily on them than anyone else. The uneducated white males who
elected him are the vulnerable ones, and they will not like what happens
next.
To all the patronizing B.S. we've read about Trump expressing the white
working-class's displacement and loss of the American Dream, I say, "Feh!" -
go put your head under cold water. Resentment is no excuse for bald-faced
stupidity. America is still the land where the waitress's kids can grow up
to become physicists and novelists and pediatricians, but it helps a lot if
the waitress and her husband encourage good habits and the ambition to use
your God-given talents and the kids aren't plugged into electronics day and
night. Whooping it up for the candidate of cruelty and ignorance does less
than nothing for your kids.
We liberal elitists are now completely in the clear. The government is in
Republican hands. Let them deal with him. Democrats can spend four years
raising heirloom tomatoes, meditating, reading Jane Austen, traveling around
the country, tasting artisan beers, and let the Republicans build the wall
and carry on the trade war with China and deport the undocumented and deal
with opioids, and we Democrats can go for a long , brisk walk and smell the
roses.
I like Republicans. I used to spend Sunday afternoons with a bunch of them,
drinking Scotch and soda and trying to care about NFL football. It was fun.
I tried to think like them. (Life is what you make it. People are people.
When the going gets tough, tough noogies.) But I came back to liberal
elitism.
Don't be cruel. Elvis said it, and it's true. We all experienced cruelty
back in our playground days - boys who beat up on the timid, girls who made
fun of the homely and naive - and most of us, to our shame, went along with
it, afraid to defend the victims lest we become one of them. But by your
20s, you should be done with cruelty. Mr. Trump was the cruelest candidate
since George Wallace. How he won on fear and bile is for political
pathologists to study. The country is already tired of his noise, even his
own voters. He is likely to become the most intensely disliked president
since Herbert Hoover. His children will carry the burden of his name. He
will never be happy in his own skin. But the damage he will do to our
country - who knows? His supporters voted for change, and boy, are they
going to get it.
Back to real life. I went up to my home town the other day and ran into my
gym teacher, Stan Nelson, looking good at 96. He commanded a landing craft
at Normandy on June 6, 1944, and never said a word about it back then, just
made us do chin-ups whether we wanted to or not. I saw my biology teacher
Lyle Bradley, a Marine pilot in the Korean War, still going bird-watching in
his 90s. I was not a good student then, but I am studying both of them now.
They have seen it all and are still optimistic. The past year of politics
has taught us absolutely nothing. Zilch. Zero. Nada. The future is scary.
Let the uneducated have their day. I am now going to pay more attention to
teachers.
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Trump Voters Will Not Like What Happens Next
By Garrison Keillor, The Washington Post
11 November 16
Garrison Keillor is an author and radio personality.
o he won. The nation takes a deep breath. Raw ego and proud illiteracy have
won out, and a severely learning-disabled man with a real character problem
will be president. We are so exhausted from thinking about this election,
millions of people will take up leaf-raking and garage cleaning with intense
pleasure. We liberal elitists are wrecks. The Trumpers had a whale of a good
time, waving their signs, jeering at the media, beating up protesters,
chanting "Lock her up" - we elitists just stood and clapped. Nobody chanted
"Stronger Together." It just doesn't chant.
The Trumpers never expected their guy to actually win the thing, and that's
their problem now. They wanted only to whoop and yell, boo at the H-word,
wear profane T-shirts, maybe grab a crotch or two, jump in the RV with a
couple of six-packs and go out and shoot some spotted owls. It was pleasure
enough for them just to know that they were driving us wild with dismay - by
"us," I mean librarians, children's authors, yoga practitioners, Unitarians,
bird-watchers, people who make their own pasta, opera-goers, the grammar
police, people who keep books on their shelves, that bunch. The Trumpers
exulted in knowing we were tearing our hair out. They had our number, like a
bratty kid who knows exactly how to make you grit your teeth and froth at
the mouth.
Alas for the Trump voters, the disasters he will bring on this country will
fall more heavily on them than anyone else. The uneducated white males who
elected him are the vulnerable ones, and they will not like what happens
next.
To all the patronizing B.S. we've read about Trump expressing the white
working-class's displacement and loss of the American Dream, I say, "Feh!" -
go put your head under cold water. Resentment is no excuse for bald-faced
stupidity. America is still the land where the waitress's kids can grow up
to become physicists and novelists and pediatricians, but it helps a lot if
the waitress and her husband encourage good habits and the ambition to use
your God-given talents and the kids aren't plugged into electronics day and
night. Whooping it up for the candidate of cruelty and ignorance does less
than nothing for your kids.
We liberal elitists are now completely in the clear. The government is in
Republican hands. Let them deal with him. Democrats can spend four years
raising heirloom tomatoes, meditating, reading Jane Austen, traveling around
the country, tasting artisan beers, and let the Republicans build the wall
and carry on the trade war with China and deport the undocumented and deal
with opioids, and we Democrats can go for a long , brisk walk and smell the
roses.
I like Republicans. I used to spend Sunday afternoons with a bunch of them,
drinking Scotch and soda and trying to care about NFL football. It was fun.
I tried to think like them. (Life is what you make it. People are people.
When the going gets tough, tough noogies.) But I came back to liberal
elitism.
Don't be cruel. Elvis said it, and it's true. We all experienced cruelty
back in our playground days - boys who beat up on the timid, girls who made
fun of the homely and naive - and most of us, to our shame, went along with
it, afraid to defend the victims lest we become one of them. But by your
20s, you should be done with cruelty. Mr. Trump was the cruelest candidate
since George Wallace. How he won on fear and bile is for political
pathologists to study. The country is already tired of his noise, even his
own voters. He is likely to become the most intensely disliked president
since Herbert Hoover. His children will carry the burden of his name. He
will never be happy in his own skin. But the damage he will do to our
country - who knows? His supporters voted for change, and boy, are they
going to get it.
Back to real life. I went up to my home town the other day and ran into my
gym teacher, Stan Nelson, looking good at 96. He commanded a landing craft
at Normandy on June 6, 1944, and never said a word about it back then, just
made us do chin-ups whether we wanted to or not. I saw my biology teacher
Lyle Bradley, a Marine pilot in the Korean War, still going bird-watching in
his 90s. I was not a good student then, but I am studying both of them now.
They have seen it all and are still optimistic. The past year of politics
has taught us absolutely nothing. Zilch. Zero. Nada. The future is scary.
Let the uneducated have their day. I am now going to pay more attention to
teachers.
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