The Deep State Rides Again Book
A Hearty Summertime Reading Recommendation: 'Armstrong Rides Again!'
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Posted: May 28, 2021 12:01 AM
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It's been a crude year, to say the least, with a global pandemic, the ballot of the most dangerous, leftist presidential administration always, and a media and institutional elite in this country who are essentially Marxist functionaries.
Summer and beach reading might provide some needed relief. Just before you lot pack your numberless and caput to the sun and the sand, here's a recommendation for a fun book to take along.
Information technology's a western like no other (expect perhaps its prequel, "Armstrong," which I read and much enjoyed a couple of years ago). Written past H.W. Crocker Iii, information technology's chosen "Armstrong Rides Again!" and information technology imagines the continuing adventures of George Armstrong Custer after he survived the Battle of the Petty Bighorn and became an incognito marshal and soldier of fortune.
In this tale, he meets up with a few real-life characters such as Blackness Bart and Ambrose Bierce and gets involved in an entirely make-believe Latin American civil war. The book is activity-packed -- a existent folio turner -- and hilarious at the same time.
Not merely does this volume provide recreational distraction from securely troubling headlines and the cares of the day just information technology has, beneath the surface, a surprisingly deep and affirming conservative message -- 1 that doesn't interfere with its entertainment value. If anything, information technology adds to it, because you lot know the writer is on your side. (I know this for certain because, full disclosure, Harry Crocker is a friend of mine.)
"Armstrong" was great, but "Armstrong Rides Once again!" is one of those cases where the sequel is fifty-fifty better. In "Armstrong," the conservative themes were subtler; here, they are more direct, but in an amusing manner, as in the comical monologues of the ruler of the imaginary Latin American country.
In that location's a lot in this book most the nature of a just regime, loyalty, religion, the fetishization of "scientific discipline" (what could exist more timely?), the hypocrisy and cocky-serving nature of the liberal establishment, the essential importance of history and patriotism -- all as retold past our incomparably courageous narrator, George Armstrong Custer, who battles American Indians, revolutionaries and spies with equal aplomb while matching wits with his ain on-again, off-again marry: the sardonic, skeptical martial Ambrose Bierce.
You'll likewise meet a priest who designs submarines; a quondam Confederate officer-turned-federal agent; a multilingual, theologically minded American Indian picket; a suave, villainous turncoat whom the modern reader might liken to sure modern-24-hour interval "principled conservatives"; and, of class, the Latin American ruler El Caudillo. Motion-picture show Donald Trump as the head of a Latin American monarchy and you might become some idea of what the character is like; he's the man whose counterrevolutionary cause Custer joins.
The book, written as a letter to Custer'southward wife, Libbie, is endlessly quotable, but perhaps these opening paragraphs will be enough to entice you: "I write this from a study with a window overlooking the ships in San Francisco Bay. Beside me, smoking a cigar and criticizing my every word, is Major Ambrose Bierce, the announcer. He would rather tell this tale himself -- he is the professional writer after all -- just as you know, dearest Libbie, I can turn a handsome phrase myself, and this is our tale, Bierce'southward and mine, and would not have happened had nosotros non crossed paths (and swords), and I can tell it plain, unadorned past journalistic exaggeration.
"My last letter chronicled how I liberated Bloody Gulch, Montana -- and a fine, rousing story it was. Only it left you hanging precipitously wondering what happened side by side. At present I tin can tell you.
"I had to flee. The U.S. Cavalry was on its way -- and much equally I love the Cavalry, I had to preserve my anonymity. A sorrowing world believes I am expressionless, and I cannot disabuse it of that mournful conclusion until I can prove that my men and I were betrayed into catastrophe at the Little Bighorn."
Who could terminate reading afterward that! Do yourself a favor. Buy this book; permit it entertain you while reminding yous of the things that matter nigh in life; and pass it along to your older kids. They'll get a kick out of it, also. Every bit Andrew Breitbart famously said, "Politics is downstream from civilisation." Isn't it nice to accept some popular civilisation of our ain for a change? Thanks, Harry. Long may Armstrong ride!
David Limbaugh is a writer, author and attorney. His latest volume is "Guilty by Reason of Insanity: Why the Democrats Must Not Win." Follow him on Twitter @davidlimbaugh and his website at www.davidlimbaugh.com.
Source: https://townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/2021/05/28/a-hearty-summer-reading-recommendation-armstrong-rides-again-n2590103
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