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THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Theodore Dalrymple) - The Baseball Cap Maketh the Man

The loss of distinctions in dress and speech has made the world sadder and more vulgar. The post The Baseball Cap Maketh the Man appeared first on The American Conservative .

Takimag The Baseball Cap Maketh the Man The loss of distinctions in dress and speech has made the world sadder and more vulgar. TakiMag President Trump has been criticized, in my view rightly, for wearing a baseball cap at a ceremony for U.S. servicemen killed in the war against Iran. His cap is undignified at best and wearing it at the ceremony was lacking in respect for men who had died carrying out his policy.  No doubt by wearing the cap he was showing himself to be a man of the people, and doing so in a sense quite accurately: It is true that much of the population of the Western world has lost any notion that there are…Open