{"id":18957,"date":"2022-05-20T11:55:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T15:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=18957"},"modified":"2022-05-20T11:55:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T15:55:08","slug":"friday-happenings-and-a-hint-from-the-z-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/20\/friday-happenings-and-a-hint-from-the-z-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Happenings and a Hint from the Z Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A marvelous morning.\u00a0 After a lot of rain and cool weather over the last two day the sun has broken through and the temperature is supposed to be skirting with eighty.\u00a0 The pool guys are here today and will open it up and treat it.\u00a0 Right now, it\u2019s a rich color that I\u2019m told is green and I\u2019m guessing those guys will have an awful lot of vacuuming to do.<\/p>\n<p>Camera Girl has finally found some butternut squash seedling for her garden and I\u2019m continuing with my program of chopping down and uprooting invasive trees like Russian Olive and Ailanthus that spring up everywhere.\u00a0 Now that my great experiment with the fence support has panned out, I\u2019ll buy a few more supports and strengthen the posts.\u00a0 That will give me the chance to decide on the \u201cfinal solution.\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019ve been thinking about metal posts but that\u2019s a big effort and as usual my laziness weighs in against it.<\/p>\n<p>As is my routine on Friday mornings I listened to <a href=\"https:\/\/thezman.com\/wordpress\/?p=27436\">the Z Man\u2019s podcast<\/a>.\u00a0 I heard a sort of throwaway line that he is having a essay of his posted at American Greatness.\u00a0 That I think is a significant moment.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been wondering how much farther the coalescence would move between the Dissident Right and the MAGA Right.\u00a0 Previously I observed paleoconservative Paul Gottfried as a link between the two sides.\u00a0 Gottfried writes on American 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and sit down with more moderate types like Michael Anton and the people over at Claremont.\u00a0 Both sides would benefit enormously by the chance to speak openly and honestly with each other.\u00a0 At some point it might be possible for the agenda of an energized MAGA coalition to even get the dissidents to climb down off the ledge and rejoin the rest of the Right.<\/p>\n<p>Look, I know that last statement sounds like happy-happy talk but I think there\u2019s more than just unbridled enthusiasm at work here.\u00a0 The overreach of the Left has done them serious damage.\u00a0 Damage on a scale we haven\u2019t seen since the American electorate booted Jimmy Carter out of the White House and spawned the Reagan \u201880s.\u00a0 I think it would be extremely valuable to have some voices from the Dissident Right in the mix when we start talking about agendas.\u00a0 Obviously not everybody on the fringe is safe to have mixing with us normies.\u00a0 But the more sober-minded and thoughtful 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