contumacious

Never heard of the word, it sounds bad.

Having gone through all of that, imagine still having the desire to face down and defeat that kind of contumacious Alinskyism on a national scale. 

S.M. is writing about Scott Walker for The Wilderness.  The opening describes Walker's past travails.  He's challenged the progressive wing firsthand and defeated it multiple times. S.M.writes, Walker hasn't done it through a corporate-approved cult of personality nor by being the loudest guy in the room nor by prancing around with a selfie stick.

Prancing.

Not with a celebrity endorsements either, but simply by behaving as statesman articulating clear conservative principles and remaining preternaturally silent at the center of the whirlwind raging around him.

Preternaturally. That's an Anne Rice word.

The article describes the differences in appearance between Scott Walker with Mitt Romney and with Hillary's shoes, and Scott Walker's wardrobe and Chelsea Clinton's wardrobe. The piece proposes Scott Walker is best suited to make the far left play by their own rules and that a narrative is developing among establishment GOP that compromise is needed to move the country beyond the class division vitriol that dominates Obama's policies, the prevailing theme of Mitt Romney and appears to be forming with Jeb Bush.

S.M evokes Larry David invoking Henry Clay dismissing compromise as leaving everybody dissatisfied. Conservatives don't want a president who will reach across the aisle and work with Democrats. They dream of breaking what's left of the tired and aging Democrat minority in Congress.

The Wilderness describes Walker as the Mike Rowe candidate.

It is entertaining reading. The rest of the piece is Scott Walker boosterism.