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Television and culinary personality Anthony Bourdain says in a new interview that fellow "privileged Eastern liberals" are the reason that Donald TrumpDonald TrumpTrump's 'delayed' intelligence meeting was always scheduled for Friday: report ExxonMobil, Tillerson reach agreement to sever all ties with company Schumer: Trump 'really dumb' for attacking intelligence agencies MORE was elected.

"The utter contempt with which privileged Eastern liberals such as myself discuss red-state, gun-country, working-class America as ridiculous and morons and rubes is largely responsible for the upswell of rage and contempt and desire to pull down the temple that were seeing now," Bourdain told Reason.

Bourdain attributed the large divide during this political season and Trump's win last month on a division between "Eastern liberals" and red-state Americans.

When people are afraid and feel that their government has failed them, they do things that seem completely mad and unreasonable to those of who are perhaps under less pressure, Bourdain said.

Ive spent a lot of time in gun-country, God-fearing America, he continued. There are a hell of a lot of nice people out there, who are doing what everyone else in this world is trying to do: the best they can to get by, and take care of themselves and the people they love."

"When we deny them their basic humanity and legitimacy of their views, however different they may be than ours, when we mock them at every turn, and treat them with contempt, we do no one any good.

Bourdain also criticized HBO political talk show host Bill Maher as "the worst of the smug, self-congratulatory left," hitting the show as a perfect example for why many Trump supporters were frustrated with liberals.

It doesnt change anyones opinions. It only solidifies them, and makes things worse for all of us, Bourdain said.

We should be breaking bread with each other, and finding common ground whenever possible. I fear that is not at all what weve done.

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People march in protest against president-elect Donald Trump in Seattle, Washington on November 14, 2016.

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The sense of disillusionment white American liberals woke up with on Nov. 9 was powerful enough to taint the entire year with a sense of doom. So many illusions were shattered by the election of Donald Trump: about the media, polling, the Democrats vaunted ground game, the fundamental character of our fellow citizens, the viability of the American experiment. Even if the first 10 months and eight days of 2016 had been an era of unbounded inspiration and hope, the impact of Donald Trumps election would have outweighed them, reducing our optimism to a historical footnote.

Of course, the first 10 months and eight days of 2016 werent an era of unbounded inspiration and hope, even if the post-Nov. 8 world makes them look pretty good by comparison. Not even the most diehard, optimistic Hillary Clinton supporters could ignore the minor disillusionments that cropped up every few weeksevents that in hindsight seem like distant rumbles of thunder warning of the storm to come. Bernie Sanders supporters were disillusioned by the Democratic National Committees contempt for their chosen candidate. Moderate Republicans were disillusioned by Donald Trumps unforeseen takeover of their party. Queer people whod recently won the right to marry were disillusioned by the horrific massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Women who thought theyd seen overt misogyny disappear from polite society were disillusioned by the cavalier way Trump described grabbing women by the pussy.

To be disillusioned you have to have some faithin institutions, in progress, in human decencyto begin with. There are plenty of Americans who never had such faith, or who lost it at an early age. Black people who have seen members of their community shot by police and imprisoned under flimsy pretenses, undocumented immigrants who faced more deportations under President Obama than under any prior president, trans people who feared using public restrooms long before North Carolina sought to criminalize them for doing so, Muslims who experienced fingerprinting and surveillance after Sept. 11, 2001these are among the many groups who largely shrugged their shoulders at all the white liberal weeping and gnashing of teeth after the election and said, Well, what did you expect? This attitude doesnt minimize the very real threats these and other marginalized groups have faced since the election and will face when Trump takes office. But its possible to be frightened and angry without being disillusioned. The only people who experienced disillusionment in 2016 were people who had distanced themselves from the ugliness in American society enough that they could convince themselves that we were making meaningful progress.

After Trumps election, it is more or less impossible to believe that we are making meaningful progress. White liberals who woke up horrified on Nov. 9 werent horrified because the world had suddenly changedwe were horrified because the scales had finally fallen from our eyes, and we could at least see our unjust, racist, sexist country for what it is. The next president will not be a woman, the makeup of the Supreme Court will not shift toward progressivism, and we are not jolly passengers on a cruise ship sailing toward an era of tolerance, justice, and respect for the dignity and rights of all.

To look for an upside to all this would be ironic. And disillusionment in and of itself is not a virtue. (If anything, its a sign that someone has been estranged from reality for too long.) But if any good does come out of the political events of 2016, it will be when privileged liberals take their shattered sense of complacency and use it as fuel for all the work that needs to be done.

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Few people know better than Sessions how to purge the Department of leftist ideology, and how to cut off the large sums of money flowing to leftistnon-profiits. For leftists, ideology and money make up a potent combination, and they will do anything to try to preserve it.

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The Justice Department became the headquarters of Obamas campaign to transform America. The building on Constitution Avenue, complete with a blinded statue of lady justice at its front door and Equal Justice under Law inscribed on its faade, became the public-interest-law-firm, think tank, and money spigot for the ideological left.

The Justice Department is arguably the most powerful domestic branch of the federal government. Its arms reach into every facet of American life (and not a few places off shore as well), into every courtroom, into every state capitol, every police department, every business, every voting booth, even every Indian reservation, and much more. With some 100,000 employees and a budget of $27 billion, its power, particularly to those on its wrong side, is limitless.

Sessions, 69, who has served in the Senate since 1997, previously was an Assistant U.S. Attorney and then Ronald Reagans U.S. Attorney in Alabama (both Justice Department positions), and the states elected attorney general. In the Senate, he has served on the Judiciary Committee, which has oversight jurisdiction of the Justice Department. So he has seen firsthand what has gone on at the Obama Justice Department, and it is probably no understatement to say that there is a good deal of it that does not meet with his approval.

Last December, it was widely reported that over the past two years, the Department of Justice has overseen the transfer of over $500 million dollars to liberal activist groups from settlements with major banks in mortgage-lending lawsuits. Justice lawyers require that some of those penalties be paid, as donations, to liberal non-profit organizations, including groups such as La Raza, the National Urban League, National Community Reinvestment Coalition and NeighborWorks America, which in turn gives grants to leftwing community organizing groups and many others. In many cases the funds have gone to groups that Congress deliberately banned from getting government funds. Legislation is pending in Congress to ban the scheme, and members have also tried to ban the practice through the appropriations process.

Another pot of Justice money that funds the left is the Office of Justice Programs, a $2.4 billion agency that is supposed to assist federal, state and local criminal justice programs, juvenile justice and related projects with grants and other forms of assistance. It is impossible to know how much of that money goes to liberal institutions, but a great deal of it likely does. A Sessions Justice Department will change that, and put the squeeze on many leftwing causes and organizations as a result.

Much of the liberal activism emanating from Justice comes from the Civil Rights Division, dubbed the Departments crown jewel by Eric Holder, Obamas first Attorney General. Civil Rights has responsibility for enforcing federal statutes prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability, religion, and national origin. As such it is involved, among many other areas, in such diverse areas as religious liberty, law enforcement, housing, voting rights, apartment rentals, prisons, hiring practices, abortion clinic protests, school discipline, and who goes into which bathroom. As the crown jewel it has been, over the past eight years, at the center of Obamas campaign to move the country as far to the left as possible. And not surprisingly, its hundreds of lawyers are a band of leftwing activists intent on doing Obamas bidding to the maximum extent possible.

According to Hans von Spakowsky and Christian Adams, two attorneys who previously worked in the Civil Rights Division who conducted a multi-year study on the backgrounds of Division lawyers, every single one of the hundreds of lawyers hired during the Obama Administrationevery single onewas a leftwing activist. The Obama Justice Department, they wrote, has assembled a law firm of hundreds of fringe leftists to enforce a brave new vision of civil rights law.

The Civil Rights Division also has jurisdiction over police use-of-force situations, such as those in Baltimore, Ferguson, and Staten Island. It has commenced inquiries in those cities, and others, second-guessing local prosecutor and grand jury vindications of the officers involved and instead charging the officer involved with civil rights violations or, if there is no such violation, as happened in both Ferguson and Baltimore, issue a report critical of the entire department and mandating that changes be made.

The Obama-Holder-Lynch Justice Department has been on the front lines of the lefts campaign to vilify law enforcement and to promote radical anti-police organizations such as Black Lives Matter and Al Sharptons National Action Network. Over the past eight years, the Department has initiated investigations into 23 local police departments for civil rights violations and other nebulous allegations, including hotspots such as Baltimore, Ferguson, Missouri, and Chicago. In such cases, wide-ranging complaints are filed against a department, negotiations undertaken and more often than not an consent decree entered, allowing the Justice Department to in essence direct the day to day activities of the police force, mandating the Obama leftwing social agenda on local jurisdictions.

Further, the Department has been in the forefront of the effort to reduce sentences for serious drug offenders and others, and to release thousands of prisoners from custody before their sentences run. It has also been a strong advocate for legislation to reform the criminal justice system, which would allow, among other things, reductions in sentencing for thousands more felons.

All of those are issues Sessions is intimately familiar with and on which he has taken strong, conservative and pro-law enforcement positions. That sort of knowledge, coupled with his ability to make major changes, terrifies liberals. It is no wonder they dont want him as Attorney General.

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This is much ado about nothing. Its how guys talk. Nevertheless, the Washington Post crowed: With less than a month to go, a major party is walking away from its nominee. No, the people are walking away from the party. If the GOP abandons Donald Trump now a month before the election there will be no coming back from that. One month to go and these vicious cowards jump ship?

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John McCain, Mark Kirk, Kelly Ayotte, George Pataki RINOs who never stood up for conservative principles are the Republicans disavowing Trump now. The GOP will not recover from this. We had to swallow their failures RINO McCain, spineless weak sister Mitt Romney and we did. We worked hard to elect them, but they were and are failures. The people picked Trump over the objections of the elites. And the elites would rather set our house on fire than back the peoples candidate.

If the elite right went after the opposition the way theyve gone after Trump, they wouldnt be limping their way to oblivion.

The uproar over Trumps remarks is manufactured and opportunistic outrage. For example, I was actually surprised by the decorum in Trumps conversation. He was respectful of the married womans refusal. He was surprised that if youre famous, you can get all the sex you want. He was unashamedly heterosexual in his desires. He wanted to grab py, not force someones head down a la Bill Clinton. He appreciates beautiful and wants to kiss her face, not have her immediately perform oral sex a la Bill Clinton, and he wants to be pleasing to her with Tic Tacs for his breath very considerate. A pass, a kiss, is not rape. For that, youd have to ask Juanita Broaddrick.

The gross betrayal is not Trumps alpha male banter, but these turncoats in the party. Did they ever take such a defiant stand against the treasonous actions of Obama and his running dogs? Trump is an alpha male. Gutless, weak metrosexuals like Barack Obama have almost destroyed America, and now the world is in chaos because of their actions. Trump was quite right this is all a diversion from the real issues. He said in his statement:

Lets be honest were living in the real world. This is nothing more than a distraction from the important issues were facing today. We are losing our jobs, were less safe than we were eight years ago, and Washington is totally broken. Hillary Clinton and her kind have run our country into the ground.

Ive said some foolish things, but theres a big difference between the words and actions of other people. Bill Clinton has actually abused women, and Hillary has bullied, attacked, shamed and intimidated his victims.

There is no comparison between Trump and the Clintons. None. Not only has Bill Clinton abused women. Hillary Clinton routinely abuses her secret service detail, once screaming at an agent: If you want to remain on this detail, get your f***ing ass over here and grab those bags! When one said to her, Good morning, maam, she replied: F**k off! Its enough that I have to see you ****-kickers every day, Just do your G*damn job and keep your mouth shut.

The selective outrage is astonishing. The liberals corrupted the culture. No one cares. Trump looks cool. They live by the sword and they will die by the sword. All of a sudden the liberals are prudish? Barack Obama says, Gotta have them ribs and py too, and crickets dont even bother to chirp. On the same day that the shocked Washington Post released the naughty Trump video, they ran a front-of-the-book news story how cyber-policing hurts prostitutes.

Hollywood, too? Who stood by and did nothing why child actors were raped and trafficked? Hollywood actors and their sexcapades make Donald Trump look like a choirboy.

Then there are the rappers, the darlings of the establishment that are shocked at what Trump said. Got that super soaker, p*ssy pop like cola coka/Plus its tighter than a choka, got em smilin like the Joka Trump just got the Nicki Minaj voters. Imagine if I did that with your pearly on my tongue / I make that p*ssy talk to me / I could make it jump Trump will attract Lil Wayne voters. She make that assclap dancing like she on dBring it back I thru a stack, thats a lucky bitch Trump gets the Juicy J featuring, 2 Chainz and Lil Wayne vote. Kanye West said: I feel like Taylor Swift still owe me sex / Why? I made that bitch famous. The Trump video will attract the Kimye vote.

Trump must prevail. Trump has stood against Muslim migration. The consequences for American women if uncontrolled migration continues to take place will be far worse than Trumps macho talk.

Its the end of us the end of freedom if Hillary Clinton becomes President.

Pamela Geller is the President of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), publisher of PamelaGeller.com and author of The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administrations War on America and Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance. Follow her on Twitter here. Like her on Facebook here.

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The tension between defenders of the Second Amendment and those who believe gun ownership should be restricted has existed a long time. In 1837, Georgia passed a law restricting ownership of handguns. After the Civil War, laws were passed that made it illegal for black people to own guns.

In the 1930s Congress regulated machine guns and passed the Federal Firearms Act of 1938. But it was the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 that ushered in the modern argument over the issue.

Since then, the debate over gun control has been a key point of difference between Liberals who favor further restrictions on gun ownership and Conservatives, who support the right of citizens to possess and use firearms.

Here are seven reasons the Liberals have it wrong:

1. Gun control laws wont stop mass shootings. The tragic rash of school, religious and workplace shootings has turned up the heat on the public conversation about guns. In nearly all these cases, however, more restrictive gun laws would not have stopped the shooters from legally obtaining a firearm. Most mass shootings are perpetrated by mentally disturbed individuals who have never previously been identified as dangerous.

2. Guns are the most effective means of self-defense. If someone is breaking into your house, calling 911 will probably not save you. Self-defense techniques do not provide protection against an armed attacker or more than one man. Only a gun provides the ability to defend oneself from a safe distance. Guns are also an equalizer for women and the elderly or handicapped.

3. Gun laws wont keep guns out of the hands of criminals. While most law abiding citizens would obey new gun control laws, criminals would not. And with an estimated 300 million firearms in the United States, obtaining a gun will never be difficult.

4. Hunters and sportsmen would be unfairly penalized by gun laws. In only 3% of murders is the weapon a rifle, yet most proposed gun control legislation is directed toward long guns. Millions of law-abiding citizens keep guns for hunting and sport shooting. They, not criminals, would be forced by gun control laws to change their lifestyles.

5. Gun laws havent worked in the U.S. A recent study by Quinnipiac University studied 30 years of statistics, and determined that stricter gun control laws have not correlated with a reduction in crime.

6. Gun laws in other countries havent reduced violence. A Harvard University study debunked the myth that the rate of intentional deaths is higher in the U.S. than in countries with restrictive gun control laws. In Russia, where handguns are banned, the murder rate is much higher than that of the U.S. Yet Norway, where 32% of households own guns, has the lowest murder rate in Western Europe.

7. Crime rates are down without gun control. Crime is a reflection of culture, not gun ownership. Violent crimes in the United States have fallen 22% in the last ten years. The murder rate has actually fallen since 2004, when the federal assault rifle ban expired.

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