re: #91 The Ghost of Bork Bork Bork Bork

NRO are indulging in their own preferred “stab-in-the-back” myth, where God and Capitalism and Right-Thinking Republicans are doing their damnedest to Jerb Create, but those filthy proles just aren’t motivated and are secretly liberals. The secret liberals all through rural Kentucky.

No, that’s not it at all. The writer was defending Kevin D. Williamson’s contention that many white working-class people who are in a bad position bear a large share of the blame for their predicament. It’s not “pull yourself up by your bootstraps”, it’s more “Barack Obama didn’t make you take oxycotin, and neither did Charles and David Koch. You made that bad decision yourself, so stop blaming others and work to turn your life around. Because Donald Trump can’t fix your lack of effort, no matter how much you cheer him.”