Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
This is a blog about history and politics, mostly.
Comments are welcome, and comment moderation has been turned off. To comment on a post, click on the word "Comments" below the post. You will be asked to type some letters you see. The purpose of this is to ensure you are a human being and not a spam machine.
Of course, you may be a human being and a spam machine. We'll be the judge of that.
Originalism
"Originalism is the "no new taxes" of constitutional theory, as easy to understand as it is insipid."
Ruth Marcus
Hard-earned Wisdom
It is not what we say or feel that makes us who we are. It is what we do; or fail to do.
Sense and Sensibility
The one with the most toys when he dies dies.
EMH
If you don’t want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying you want a country based on Christian values, because you don’t.
Jimmy Carter
The one with the most toys when he dies dies.
EMH
If you don’t want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying you want a country based on Christian values, because you don’t.
Jimmy Carter
Blog Archive
-
▼
2015
(57)
-
▼
September
(14)
- I So Want This Not To Be True
- Syria
- Why Does Fox Still Have a License to Broadcast?
- Boehner
- Ben Carson
- Too Depressing
- Perspective on Guns
- You Want Trump? I'll Give You Trump.
- A New Blog!
- Just Sayin' ...
- Who's to Blame for the Republican Clown Car? You'l...
- The Spiders Among Us
- The Wisconsin Weasel
- Wackos Will Decide the Next GOP Nominee
-
▼
September
(14)
Currently Reading
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, by Timothy Snyder (New York: Crown, 2017
"Both fascism and communism were responses to globalization: to the real and perceived inequalities it created, and the apparent helplessness of the democracies in addressing them. Fascists rejected reason in the name of will, denying objective truth in favor of a glorious myth articulated by leaders who claimed to give voice to the people. They put a face on globalization, arguing that its complex challenges were the result of a conspiracy against the nation.
Americans today are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Naziism, or communism in the twentiety century. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. Now is a good time to do so.
"Both fascism and communism were responses to globalization: to the real and perceived inequalities it created, and the apparent helplessness of the democracies in addressing them. Fascists rejected reason in the name of will, denying objective truth in favor of a glorious myth articulated by leaders who claimed to give voice to the people. They put a face on globalization, arguing that its complex challenges were the result of a conspiracy against the nation.
Americans today are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Naziism, or communism in the twentiety century. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. Now is a good time to do so.
4 comments:
I don't necessarily think this particular example should be put on Trump. I think for the purposes of his campaigning strategy he is told not to disagree with any of his supporters, but that doesn't mean he agrees with that guy. If he did, he would have explicitly stated so. However, with that being said, I think the point you're trying to get at is what Trump has created, which is a mob of horrible people with horrible ideas who now all believe that they're on the correct side. But I'm not saying either that the mob represents all Trump supporters. If you look closely, you can see some people shaking their heads in the background.
I don't want it to sound like I'm defending Trump, I'm just attempting to be nuanced. But that's difficult to do with someone like Trump.
> "I'm just attempting to be nuanced. But that's difficult to do with someone like Trump."
Well put! (Though I don't think anybody TELLS Trump to do anything. He does what he wants.)
In the 2008 campaign, when a doddering old lady in a McCain rally audience said Obama was an Arab, McCain corrected her. He wanted to keep his campaign on a higher plain than that.
But that's so Old School! Trump's ethics are much easier: In response to criticism about his response to the guy, Trump tweeted: "Am I morally obligated to defend the president every time somebody says something bad or controversial about him? I don't think so!"
The audience guy was spewing fear and hatred of Muslims. In another time and place, it would have been hatred of Jews, or Blacks, or Catholics.
What kind of country do we want?
Right. He's basically a fascist, no exaggeration.
Post a Comment