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Applauding The Donald's Ongoing Creative Destruction |
2018-06-29 |
![]() Or, in Trump speak, "country-on-country agreements." But what does an entrenched punditocracy, a self-anointed, meritless intelligentsia (which is not very intelligent and draws its financial sustenance from the political spoils system), oleaginous politicians, slick media and big money care? They’ve all worked in tandem to advance a grand government ‐ national and transnational ‐ that aggrandizes its constituent elements, while diminishing those it’s supposed to serve. These political players have built the den of iniquity Trump keeps trampling. Against these forces ‐ NAFTA, NATO, FBI, DOJ, CIA, a whole alphabet soup of acronyms that stands for the Permanent State, national and international ‐ is Trump, still acting as a political Samson that threatens to bring the house crashing down on its patrons. And his latest: Trump’s judicial appointments, in particular, might just prove to be "his most enduring legacy," lamented the liberal Economist. These certainly threaten to cement the Supreme Court’s originalist bent: |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#2 There might be some funny 'tongue in cheek' going on here. I believe George Wills recently described Trump as 'oleaginous', a word you don't hear very often. Back at ya George. |
Posted by: Beau 2018-06-29 10:36 |
#1 Creative destruction? Like the Phoenix, the mythological born again bird. |
Posted by: JohnQC 2018-06-29 08:01 |