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| Trump's first two months prove he's anything but a fascist |
| 2017-03-20 |
| h/t Instapundit [NYPost] When Donald Trump moved into the White House, were you under the impression it was tantamount to either Fifth Avenue Moses coming in to part the filthy waters of the Swamp, or MussoHitler about to bring down the mighty hammer of neo-fascism upon the US? If so, the joke’s on you. If there’s any ancient tale that presaged the start of the Trump Era, it’s the Voyage to Lilliput in "Gulliver’s Travels." Gulliver-like, Trump finds himself tied down by a thousand tiny strings, paralyzed by micro-people he can barely detect. Because of their combined power, he can’t do much of anything. If it’s the system vs. Trump, the system is winning, bigly. But it isn’t Berserkeley radicals or marching feminists in pussy hats who are leading the charge to #resist. Resistance to change is as natural in Washington as cherry blossoms in spring. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #4 Correction: "All along", |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-03-20 14:55 |
| #3 "My little friend Grildrig; you have made a most admirable panegyric upon your country. You have clearly proved that ignorance, idleness, and vice are the proper ingredients for qualifying a legislator. That laws are best explained, interpreted, and applied by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding, and eluding them. I observe among you some lines of an institution, which in it original might have been tolerable, but these half erased, and the rest wholly blurred and blotted by corruptions." - Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Part 2, Ch. 6 Along, I had been thinking that Travels was a travelog. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-03-20 14:37 |
| #2 "All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state." Benito Mussolini "Ten Trillion Dollars of cuts to the State" Donald Trump If you want to find genuine fascists look at the EUSSR politburo. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2017-03-20 09:52 |
| #1 Time for a new category called "Perfesser's Ramblings" to put all the h/t Instapundit crap in. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2017-03-20 06:37 |