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| Donald Trump and Boris Johnson Are the Avatars of the Future |
| 2019-12-19 |
| h/t Instapundit [NewsMax] There were two momentous occurrences last week, one in the United States, one in the United Kingdom. One was the vote in the Judiciary Committee of our House of Representatives to advance two articles of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump, and the other was the landslide victory of the Conservative Party and its leader, Boris Johnson, in the elections for Parliament. These are two watershed events in the struggle of Anglo-American politics to determine what the basic values of our two countries have been and ought to be. They should also be seen as two aspects of a continuing historical conflict between left and right on the political spectrum, a conflict that has been with us at least since the eighteenth century. On the left in Britain was the Labour Party of Jeremy Corbin, which, at least in the minds of the British voters who decidedly rejected Labour’s platform, stood for internationalism, for redistribution of wealth, and for transformation of Britain into something closer to the utopian socialism favored by progressive ideology. On the right in the United Kingdom were the Conservatives who favored accomplishing Brexit, the notion of Britain becoming more independent of the European Community, and of preserving the traditions of the British nation, including the great principles of the English common law, such as respect for property, monarchy, and Judeo-Christian religion. ...It is sometimes difficult to understand what Donald Trump has accomplished, given the leftist leanings of the mainstream American media, which accord with the progressive tenets of the Democrats. Nevertheless, and to an extent remarkable in recent American politics, Trump has kept the promises he made when running as a candidate, to reform the judiciary along conservative lines, to reform the economy by reducing taxes and regulation, and to transform foreign relations by putting American interests in front of internationalist concerns. The president’s economic successes in job creation, in the reduction of unemployment, particularly among minorities, and in the rise of the stock market, all reinforce the appeal to Americans of the conservative elements of the Republican Party. Boris Johnson’s triumph suggests the doomed nature of the House Democrats’ efforts against Donald Trump, and, further, that the Conservatives in the UK and in the U.S. are the party of the future. |
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