Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

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Break up the Chicago teams! The Cubs and White Sox have the best records in their respective leagues. Windy City World Series, anyone?

These people have unwittingly done Donald Trump a service. He now has a list of people who will have no role in his administration, and hence no political power or influence. I love it! Hell hath no fury like a Republican insider scorned.

Ted Cruz just suspended his campaign. I'm surprised, because I thought he would fight until the bitter end out of stubbornness, spite, and pettiness. Perhaps God told him it was okay to give up. But seriously, it's time to get right with Donald, if you haven't already. He can and will beat Hillary Clinton. Please don't say that you disagree with him about many things. You disagree with everyone about many things. This is a special time in American history. Ordinary, everyday, hard-working, God-fearing, patriotic Americans have been screwed for so long by so many people, of both political parties, that they're rising up. The country is being cleansed of free traders, cosmopolitans, the open-borders crowd, neoconservatives, and war-mongers. It's a good thing.

By the way, I look forward to listening to Rush Limbaugh tomorrow during my bike ride. He's been in the bag for Cruz since the race narrowed to three candidates, but has been unwilling to admit it to his listeners. He seems to despise Trump's supporters for some reason.This was a mistake, because he now has to support and defend Trump all the way to November, whether he likes it or not. There's no alternative. He can't support Hillary Clinton, and if he refuses to support the Republican nominee, he'll lose most of his listeners. Maybe he'll retire from radio, which will give him more time to play golf, smoke cigars, write children's books, and play with his Apple toys. The irony is that Limbaugh didn't see the Trump phenomenon, because he claims to be right 99.7% of the time. How smart can he be? I knew months ago that Trump would win. (If you don't believe me, go back and read my blog entries.) I'm not bragging. Anyone not blinded by ideology or driven wild by animosity toward Trump would have known it.

Addendum: I have been saying for years (in this blog) that free trade has been a disaster for this country. A few people benefit from free trade, admittedly (most of them already rich), but the vast majority of Americans suffer from it, some greatly. Donald Trump understands this and has made it the centerpiece of his campaign. In case you're wondering, Bill Clinton was one of the original free traders; he signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Guess whose wife is running for president? I can't wait for the evisceration of Hillary to begin. When Trump gets done with her, she'll be crying.

Addendum 2: Memo to William Kristol, George Will, Charles Krauthammer, Bret Stephens, Stephen Hayes, Jonah Goldberg, Rush Limbaugh, Amanda Carpenter, and John Podhoretz: It's over. You fought and lost. Get right with Donald. Just admit that you were wrong; apologize for the vicious, dishonest, stupid things you said; and get behind your Republican nominee. If you're lucky, you will be forgiven by the Americans you slandered; and if you're really lucky, you will be forgiven by their chosen candidate.

Addendum 3: I'm proud to have been on the side of Sarah Palin, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Jeffrey Lord, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and many others, all of whom saw what was happening and got on board the Trump bandwagon. These are conservative stalwarts. Anyone who thinks that Donald Trump is not a conservative doesn't understand conservatism, which is about language, culture, borders, and tradition. It is only incidentally about small government. Libertarians advocate small government. Libertarians are one-dimensional. Conservatives, who are multi-dimensional, advocate that amount of government that is necessary to achieve conservative aims, among which are seeing to it that every American receives a decent minimum of health care. A nation as affluent as ours must not allow its citizens to suffer or die for lack of medical care. This is not a defense of ObamaCare, which goes about it in precisely the wrong way.

To the Editor:

Re “The Reactionary Mind” (column, April 24):

The “neoreactionaries,” conservatives opposed to liberal orthodoxy whom Ross Douthat would like to see in academia, actually do exist in the academy: But we are called scientists. The reason that we tend to identify with the left is that the right has established a long record of supporting ideologically driven political policies that run counter to empirical evidence.

In general, these policies have taken the form of reaction against change despite overwhelming evidence that such changes will serve the common good. Examples include resistance to controls on tobacco, pollution, seatbelts, civil rights, access to health care, evolution and climate change.

Additionally, the general perception that resistance to such changes is based on narrow financial and/or ideological interests has served to further discredit the right.

Our civilization is founded on science and technology, without which nowhere near 7.5 billion human beings could possibly be living on this planet. While the humanities are free to fight their narrow ideological battles, this is only one facet of that academy.

For the last 100 years, the truly radical ideas have come from science, technology, engineering and mathematics: Ignore them at your own peril.

JONATHAN D. DINMAN

Potomac, Md.

The writer is chairman of the cell biology and molecular genetics department at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Note from KBJ: This poor man is under the illusion that science is a source of values. It is not. Science is about what is, not what ought to be. It supplies means, not ends. It tries to get things right, not set things right. If scientists persist in being partisan, they will become even less authoritative than they are. They might cast an eye toward journalists to see what I mean.

Here's what Republican elites don't get. Hillary Clinton has been planning for many years to run against a conservative. Among other things, this involves:

• Accusations of racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, ethnocentrism, &c.
• Accusations of religious bigotry, religious fundamentalism, theocracy, &c.
• Accusations of unconcern for the poor, the working class, the elderly, and the disadvantaged.
• Accusations of warmongering, imperialism, arrogance, &c.
• Accusations of favoritism toward the wealthy, the powerful, the connected, &c.
• Accusations of lack of concern for the environment.
• &c &c &c.

Donald Trump throws Hillary off her game. She can't attack him the way she would have attacked Jeb Bush or the way Barack Obama attacked John McCain and Mitt Romney, because he's not a traditional conservative. He's a nationalist and a populist. He's not beholden to the Republican establishment, its donors, its consultants, its pollsters, and its theoreticians. For one thing, Trump fights back. McCain and Romney rolled over when attacked, and you can be sure that Jeb Bush or Ted Cruz would have done the same had they been nominated. Hillary Clinton has no idea how to deal with Trump. She would never admit it, but she is scared to death of him—of what he might say about her, of what he might say about her sexually abusive husband, and about what he might do during the campaign.

Get right with Donald. We are taking our country back from the thugs. America is going to be great again.

Donald Trump will win big in Indiana tomorrow. Write it down.

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Territory (1986). One of the greatest guitar players ever, in my humble opinion. Rest in peace, Ronnie.