After the rage of Justine McCarthy over the weekend, and the wilful blindness of Una Mullally on Monday, it was the turn of Fintan O’Toole on Tuesday to take to the pulpit and explain the result of the US election to the faithful in the pews of the Irish Times. Once Mr O’Toole got through some nonsensical introductory parable about Halloween, we were, I am disappointed to say, subjected to little more than the usual gaslighting.
If one wanted to sum up his argument in a sentence, it would be as follows: that all the destructive policies that have been imposed on the citizens of the west by the left, and which drew a furious reaction from voters, were inevitable and necessary. Fintan would have us believe that once the voters understand that – once the slower amongst us finally get it through our thick, far-right skulls that there is no going back – then the left will eventually triumph. But some of us remain slow and stuck clinging bitterly to the past, so for now, Trump won. That’s the theory, and he’s sticking to it.
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