In a separate exchange, Page goes after Russians—all of them—again: “…hate 
them. l think they’re probably the worst. Very little I find redeeming about this. Even in 
history. Couple of good writers and artists I guess.”

“Probably the worst?” Even worse than those entitled Italians and sleazy 
Romanians? I guess that means no Tchaikovsky or Rimsky-Korsakov on her 
playlist.
But it’s not just foreigners. It turns out, they’re not terribly fond of Americans 
either. Virginians and Texans come in for particular scorn because, well, you 
know, it’s always open season on rural America and the South. Virginia and 
Texas must seem like a twofer.
When Jill McCabe (D-Va.), wife of former Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew 
McCabe, lost a race for the Virginia state senate after taking nearly $700,000 
from the Clintons and their allies, Strzok let loose on his neighbors and 
countrymen.“Disappointing, but look at the district map,” he texted.“Loudon is 
being gentrified, but it’s still largely ignorant hillbillys (sic). Good for her for 
running, but curious if she’s energized or never again.”
I’d guess that the “ignorant” voters of Loudon County probably realize that the 
slur he was reaching for is spelled “hillbillies” and not “hillbillys.” Strzok can 
remember it in the future because it’s the same construction used in other words, 
like “adulteries” and “felonies.”
He had a few words for the Lone Star State too. “And while i (sic) hate Trump, 
part of me thought (redacted) would not/may not get into (redacted) because 
they’re white and not from buttf*ck Texas…”
How about the hundreds of thousands of people from all parts of the country 
and all walks of life attending the annual March for Life? Page isn’t a fan of them 
either: “I truly hate these people. No support for the woman who actually has to spend the rest of her life rearing this child, but we are about ‘life.’ Assholes.”

In Page’s world, “life” comes with scare quotes and consists of adultery with a 
co-worker, leaking classified information to the press, using federal police power 
to rig presidential elections, and spewing venom at virtually everyone outside of 
her social and professional circle. What a life.
Maybe Page and Strzok are outliers. Maybe they were just venting private f
rustrations with a lover. Maybe. But the public statements of the leaders of their own party, the people they admire, who Page called the “very impressive” (the Obamas) and the woman 
who deserves to win “100,000,000-0” (Clinton) are even worse.
The Strzoks and Pages, the Clintons and Obamas have all made it abundantly 
clear that they don’t like the America they see around them. They don’t like 
where it came from or the people who live here. The ruling class makes no 
secret of it: they hate you.
In 2008, Barack Obama derided people from rural America: “You go into some 
of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the 
Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced 
them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush 
Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these 
communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising 
then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who 
aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to 
explain their frustrations.”
Hillary Clinton’s campaign chief, John Podesta was part of a thread of anti-
Catholic emails with activist Sanford Newman: “There needs to be a Catholic 
Spring, in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages 
dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender 
equality in the Catholic church.”
And, of course, there was Hillary’s open contempt for the Deplorables.
“You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s 
supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?” Clinton said. “The
 racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic—you name it. And 
unfortunately, there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.”
If that’s not enough, compare the slogans of the Left to their candid public and 
private statements.
The Rhetoric
Love trumps hate.Hope and change.“Hate is not a family value.”Tolerance.DiversityCoexist
The Reality
SleazyEntitled“Buttf*** Texas”HillbilliesBitter clingersDeplorablesIrredeemable
The sense of entitlement and open disdain of this country’s counterfeit elites is 
dangerous. Early in the Obama Administration, it led to weaponizing the IRS 
against political rivals. That manifest wrong was never punished and it 
emboldened ruling class Democrats in the FBI to lie to the FISA court so they 
could spy on the Trump campaign for the benefit of Hillary Clinton.
The unfolding political corruption is just the public manifestation of a deeper 
social and political crisis that strikes at the heart of our ability to maintain a 
system of constitutional self-government. George Washington addressed his 
countrymen as “friends and citizens” in his Farewell Address. The ruling class 
doesn’t want that. They don’t want citizens, much less friends. They want subjects.
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