I get it. John is simply (and cynically) hyping the Horowitz book, to his rubes and chuckle-heads, to help Horowitz fleece them out of about $35 or so, on Amazon. I don’t care that Hinderaker likely gets a cut of all click-throughs that purchase Horowitz’ book — on Amazon or wherever, from that Powerline post.

Such grifting is the bread and butter of these deeply cynical hard right racists. [Note in that regard, that just last night, John cried “foul!” when a leader of the West Coast portion of BLM (“Oh! the humanities!!!“) bought a nice home in California for herself. With her own money. Money she worked hard to earn. Charming Hinderaker. Charming.]

Even in the hype though — I need to point out this quoted bit in Trump orange below. It is his concluding thought — insofar as such a thing might be [mis-]characterized as a “thought” — it is more like “a headache, with pictures” in Frye’s (he, of “Futurama” fame) immortal turn of phrase:

“…The U.S. Constitution does not contain the words “white,” “black,” “male” or “female,” precisely because the Founders believed they were creating a society in which equality would eventually prevail….”

Welp. Where to start with this… hideously malignant lunacy? The original Constitution ALSO does not (outside of its much later amendments) mention the more historical term “women” (as opposed to female, of course, in his formualtion)

They need not be mentioned, of course, because in many ways, like people of color, they were treated as the right-wise property of white men — specifically, land-owning white men. The records of the debates in Philadelphia make put the lie to every conclusion suggested by Horowitz and Hinderaker. It only proves the adage that if you are going to lie about something within the common knowledge of all the humans of even ordinarily intelligence, be sure to tell a really HUGE lie. It is more likely to be swallowed without even a critical thought.

It took fourteen separate amendments, and then the fifteenth and well-beyond, over a century later, to get around to repudiating what all the Founders took as Gospel, in the Xistian sense of that word: only white land owning men possessed the “necessities” to be trusted with advancing their own interests, either at the ballot box, or in business. It was okay to let all “others” fight their hot wars for these white men — to bleed and die for the white causes of the day (whatever those might be) — preserving the abhorrent institution of chattel slavery; denying women the franchise; genocide against native peoples… and on and on. But no — never grant these “others” any full measure of a birthright — for that would be the very certain deaths, of mediocre white men (like Horowitz and Hinderaker).

And so, boys — “Yo! Horowitz and Hindy” — let’s give this particular lie-fest… a rest: I do believe America is a great nation, in spite of and BECAUSE of all that the peoples these men marginalized (and worse) have had to overcome, over these four centuries of oppression here. We are collectively far better for their sacrifices. It is a great system in the main in 2021.

But only so, because so many bled and died to begin to right the nation’s founding… wrongs. Those fundamental wrongs (not rights) make for a hard road back to equality. A road we still have quite a distance yet to traverse. So — yeh — you boys can take a seat. Take several, actually.

We, the adults… will take it from here — those of us who can see both the perversion… AND the promise… embedded in the founding documents. You boys can just go… die off, in time — since it is clear you cannot be taught a single new thought.