The first Jewish president

Please compare to Bruce Schneier’s description of high and low-trust societies.

I’ve only read a couple of chapters of The Ordeal of Civility. Cuddihy’s style isn’t too my taste. I’d sum up the idea as that, as Heinlein said, “An armed society is a polite society,” and Ashkenazi society wasn’t very armed and thus was, despite its high literacy rate, pretty crass. So it ended up less civil than gentile polite society of similar wealth levels, which caused post-Jewish Enlightenment Jews a lot of distress and agitation when they tried to enter the broader society.

In a new article in Thermidor, Hoyt Thorpe summarizes Cuddihy in relation to Trump’s highly Jewish crassness:

Trump And The Return Of Pre-Modern Incivility

…Cuddihy describes civility as a ritual exchange of “gifts” among strangers enabling us to “live with unknown others without transforming them into brothers or enemies.” This ritual carries with it a differentiation between private and public behavior and spaces, with social appearances, respectability, and censorship (both self- and other-directed) coming to dominate the public sphere. In western Protestant society, civility demands public humility about one’s wealth and power, respect for strangers, and censorship of one’s private convictions about individuals and groups. The development of civility in western history is, for Cuddihy, bound to the refinement of “barbaric” behaviors, with the prototypical example being the refinement of the feudal baron into the high-modern aristocrat…

Steve Sailer
Judge Kozinski’s “Ordeal of Civility”

So we’ve had the first black president in Bill Clinton, the first female president in Barack Obama, and finally the first Jewish president in Donald Trump. Maybe next we can elect George Zimmerman and finally have a white male president again, to do the dirty jobs normie Americans can’t be bothered with.

Joking aside, that’s one of Sailer’s best posts and you should read the whole thing twice.