How Did I Miss this Great Article?

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It’s hard to keep up with things in any news cycle, and especially in this crazy election season.  Every day there’s so much going on, so many articles to read, so many podcasts to listen to.  Anything more than a week old seems like ancient history. So it may be hard even to remember that three weeks ago an article came out on the Claremont Institute’s website called “”2016 Is the Flight 93 Election.” (Claremont is a conservative think tank based in California.) I have posted on excellent article already on Facebook: “No this is not the ‘Flight 93 Election,’ Rush” by Ben Howe of RedState.  The focus of that article, though, was more on Howe’s disillusionment with Rush Limbaugh and less about the article itself.  I’d like to point out a couple of things before giving the link to the article below from The Federalist that I ran across by accident last night and decided to post:

1.  As has been pointed out ad nauseaum, the author claims that voting for Trump is an action akin to rushing the cockpit of Flight 93 over Pennsylvania on 9/11, but he’s too cowardly to give his own name, hiding behind the pseudonym of “Publius Decius Mus,” a Roman consul who sacrificed himself in battle.  I have a theory about who the author is, but since I’m pretty harsh about him I guess I should keep my mouth shut lest I criticize the wrong person.  I’m perfectly willing to criticize the correct person, you understand.

2.  Comparing the heroes of Flight 93 to Trump supporters is laughable and insulting.  What possible comparison can there be between people who did indeed give their very lives to save others and . . . those who have fallen into line with the crowd, followed the party line?  What sacrifices are they making, may I ask?  

Well, you get the picture.  The article is a brilliant takedown of the whole airplane flight metaphor:

“This Isn’t the Flight 93 Election, It’s the Flight MH370 Election”