Saturday, 7 January 2017
Trump and The Establishment
Mr Trump is not anti-establishment, he is anti-anyone who is
not pro-Trump. He had no difficulty co-opting members of the establishment onto his
cabinet…and he will have no difficulty firing them if they speak against him.
Our Presidency has entered a cult of personality. What
won the election was not policy or plans but one man’s slogans, flamboyance and
flair.
Telling the people what they want to hear, even if you do not believe in
it yourself, has always been a good electioneering tactic, but it usually was
based on a party platform that had to have at least some truth and consistency behind it. Now the “great leader” can tweet flip-flops daily without consequence,
bringing the high low and the low high.
The establishment did not make Trump and so they fear him: they certainly should. Whether it be a CIA expert who disagrees with
Mr Trump’s world view or a general who disagrees on the tactical situation in a
given theatre, whether it is a CEO who thinks he knows how to run his own
company better than Mr Trump does, or a judge who thinks he knows the law better
--- all should live in fear.
Mr Trump is not beholden to, nor has any need for, political party or any other US institution except
insofar as they support and advance his personal agenda. Knowing
that he leads a cult of personality, he
can tolerate NO dissent and no image may shine half so bright as the dear leader’s. We are about to learn first-hand, what
third-world government is like.
Not only party politics, the entire concept of what politics is for will
change. From Truman onward the modern era was defined by presidents who believed
they were there to serve the American people.
Every president, whether Republican
or Democrat.
Now we have a president who does not think he is there to serve anyone:
he thinks he is there to win.
Some may say that is not a bad thing: we should do more winning,
Trump’s response is “whaddaya mean: we?”
Trump's national security pick Monica Crowley plagiarized over 50 sections of her 2012 book
It was gross negligence on the part
of Fox News, the Mises Institute, the BBC, Yahoo, New York Post, Wall
Street Journal, Politico, New York Times, Associated Press, Karl Rove, Stephen
Moore, Ramesh Ponnuru, Michelle Malkin, Rich Lowry and more to allow their material to be copied.
Democrats are making a big thing
about Crowley’s dishonesty because they are embarrassed at how badly they lost.
If Trump appointed her, she must be
good for us, regardless of how crooked she is.
# posted by Had It in Holland Park @ 23:35 
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