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Donald Trump completes hostile takeover of Washington, puts both parties on notice
h/t InstapunditPresident Trump completed his hostile takeover of the Republican Party last July, and on Friday he completed his hostile, if temporary, takeover of Washington. In some significant ways, Trump is more like a corporate raider of the 1980s, when he came of age, than a typical politician of 2017. Thirty years ago, Gordon Gekko might have been more likely to deliver the speech that the billionaire businessman did today than Ronald Reagan. No president has ever before referred to "the establishment" in his inaugural address nor declared that every country in the world ought to pursue its own self-interest. But the guy who ended the Bush dynasty and then vanquished the Clinton machine, in a period of 17 months, put "the establishment" of both parties on notice once more. I get this picture of somebody who was quietly seething for decades and came to boil during Obama years. And found out that a lot of other people came to boil as well. Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-01-21 |
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