The American Postliberal believes that Donald J. Trump remains the man to serve the interests of the common good, the common man, and put our country first.
Interesting that one of the most authentically liberal political figures (in the sense postliberal sense) in our lifetime would be get the nod from TAP.
Trumpism has been purely atomizing because it has no true philosophical foundation.
"They hate him because he shattered this liberal consensus and stood for the common man."
He has galvanized varying angers and suspicions of different groups of "common men" without providing any kind of long term promise.
Your three points and how Trump fails to provide a path towards the common good.
Immigration - the Republican and Trumpist failure with regard to immigration has always been and continues to be a complete abandonment of trying to appeal to immigrants especially those of the Latin American type. They don't even try, they just assume that the Dems will gobble up these voters.
These immigrants are far more likely to be moved in principle by #FamilyFriendsFaith than the average atomized American. The difference is they need support to access an #OwnershipEconomy which neither the GOP in general or Trump espouse.
This leads us to Economy and Trade - Tariffs? The common good would be better served by worker cooperatives, small businesses, and employee stock ownership plans being the norm and not the exception. Trump, as a billionaire who has forever leveraged his wealth to squeeze the little guy, has never talked about dismantling the corporate overlord system because he functions within it.
"I am your peacemaker" cannot be our hope for peace in the world. Once Trump is gone, "us versus them" and "America First" will not be enough to forge any form of Common Good discourse. The entire engine is based off of a cult of personality. True international peace must be rooted in principles not personalities.
If your argument is the best GOP candidate is Trump I can see it, but
"Donald J. Trump remains the man to serve the interests of the common good, the common man, and put our country first." is implausible.
Donald J Trump remains the man to serve Donald J Trump is more accurate.
FDR’s NEW DEAL MOVEMENT (1933-1963) WAS A WILDLY SUCCESSFUL SOLIDARITY, POST-LIBERALISM MOVEMENT
1. Mr. Patel: You wrote "The common good would be better served by worker cooperatives, small businesses, and employee stock ownership plans being the norm..."
2. This is the "small is beautiful" political philosophy.
3. But owners of capital are free right now in America to divide up their huge corporations into worker cooperatives, small businesses, and employee stock ownership companies. But this free choice is generally not made.
4. And consumers are free right now to purchase things from the few worker cooperatives, small businesses, and employee stock ownership companies that do exist. But this free choice is generally not made.
5. The fact is that the bigness of companies is directly connected to our high standard of living in the USA. Both capital owners and consumers want this bigness because they want this high standard of living.
6. The breakup of the big "corporate overlords" could only come by the intervening force of big government, but the exercise of such force would always be opposed by nearly all consumers since it would lead to a devasting plummeting of the standard of living.
7. Bigness might not be beautiful, but it does lead to inexpensive consumer goods and lots of research and development which leads to constantly advancing technological innovation (including new medicines and treatments).
8. But this doesn't mean all hope of solidarity and social justice is lost.
9. The FDR New Deal Era (which really lasted for 30 or 40 years, from 1933 to 1963, or maybe to 1973) allowed corporate bigness to remain big, and allowed corporate profits to remain big, but the FDR New Deal Era created greater solidarity and social justice by counterbalancing corporate bigness with the bigness of big labor unions and the bigness of prudent, judicious federal government regulation of the economy for the common good and the common man. The Democrat Party of FDR, Truman, Eisenhower (he governed like a Democrat of that era), and JFK was the original American solidarity party. And it worked. They won election after election. And it created a golden age in American society and economics. These were the “Happy Days,” as a nostalgic TV show about that era was called.
10. When Trump and his voters speak about making America great again, they are talking about the going back to golden age created by the FDR New Deal model of governance and economics. That's the golden age that Donald Trump, born in 1946, grew up in. Donald’s father, Fred Trump, got rich from government housing programs of the FDR New Deal Era.
11. But unfortunately, the Trump’s misguided, cockeyed way of getting back to that New Deal Era golden age is (despite misleading, obscuring populist rhetoric & token, ineffectual populist acts of governance) the anti-solidarity, classical liberalism philosophy of Reaganism (cut taxes on the rich, be pro-laissez faire capitalism, cut regulations on businesses, repeal Social Security, Medicare, and Obamacare, etc.).
12. So, Trump and his voters will never recreate or surpass the golden age of the FDR New Deal Era (1933-1963).
13. We need to let go of the eccentric, impractical "small is beautiful" political philosophy, and get back the original, hugely successful solidarity movement of America: the FDR New Deal movement. This is the winning ticket. This will get pro-solidarity citizens elected to Congress and the White House. Bigness will always defeat littleness. So, let’s go big, for the sake of solidarity and social justice.
14. Today's Democrats can't carry this solidarity message, being weighed down with their commitment to unpopular positions on abortion, racial identity politics, gender ideology, immigration, and secularization.
15. Today's Republicans can't carry this solidarity message, being weighed down with their commitment to unpopular positions on laissez faire capitalism, tax cuts for the rich, deregulation for the rich, privatization (i.e., elimination) of Social Security, Medicare, and Obamacare, etc.
16. There’s no need to invent and convince people to accept a newfangled solidarity movement for our country, or to import a foreign solidarity movement from Europe. We have a very successful history and model of political solidarity and post-liberalism in the US: The 30 or 40 years of the golden age FDR’s New Deal movement.
-Nothing about Vivek being an insane radical libertarian who wants to somehow cut government spending by 80%. He's just "Trump light".
I plan on voting for Trump, but acting like he would be a realigning president like FDR is false hope that should have gone away during his first term. He will not turn the GOP into a "post-liberal" party. We are looking at strategically supporting Republicans OR Democrats on a election by election basis from now on. I would probably support Biden or RFK Jr. over Haley if she were the nominee. The GOP probably will go back to nominating Haley-esque. candidates in 2028 even if Trump wins. The best argument for voting for Trump is that if Trump wins, there is a small chance this doesn't happen. But let's not overstate Trump's effect on the GOP or his postliberal credentials.
On abortion, there is little the legal system can do to suppress the abortion rate outside of a national ban, which is not politically feasible given the widespread popularity of abortion rights. The post-Dobbs status quo allows a small number of very red states to ban abortion, which has no effect on national abortion rates given the ease of crossing state borders. Meanwhile, the GOP governors in those states oppose Medicaid expansion and pass Right to Work laws. Until we can change hearts and minds so that voters would support a national ban, the issue is moot. This basically eliminates abortion as a reason to vote for Republicans in national elections--the National Catholic Reporter/America Magazine/libcath position wasn't valid pre-Dobbs because we had to overturn Roe, but it is largely valid now. If the GOP forced through a national ban, it wouldn't last one election cycle, and the blowback would be severe. Maybe the blowback is so bad a constitutional amendment for abortion rights is ratified. It sucks to say baby murder is a "settled issue", but that's the reality.
On immigration, Trump is better than Biden, but look at the recent history and the fundamentals. The GOP is structurally pro-immigration due to its donor base consisting of employers, both billionaires like Charles Koch and upper-middle-class small business owners who need to suppress wages to stay in business (think McDonald's franchisees and landscapers). EPI, a liberal think tank funded by unions, is more likely to criticize immigration than the Cato Institute. Bush Jr. tried to force through an amnesty during his second term with Cato/Koch backing. Obama actually increased deportations due to a fear of looking weak and liberal. It looks like something similar is now happening with Biden. He's getting pushback from moderate Democrats who are calling him weak and liberal on the issue. He can make the criticisms go away by getting tough on the border like Obama did. What Trump could do in the White House in 2025 might not look that dissimilar than what Biden ends up doing in 2024, even if Trump talks a big game during the campaign. And Trump can't pass any legislation limiting legal immigration like the RAISE Act because the pro-business wing of the GOP will block him. He's limited to what he can do via executive order, which is further limited by what the courts allow. The only difference between Trump and Biden on a BILL reforming the immigration system is that Trump will try and fail, while Biden won't try.
On trade, Biden has been largely identical to Trump, although perhaps we can thank Trump for pushing the Democrats to a more protectionist direction. But again, the GOP is structurally set up to be pro-free trade. The moment Trump leaves without putting a clear successor in place, we are back the the Dubya-era GOP. And while tariffs might be good on the margins, we are not returning to 1970s levels of domestic manufacturing and employment no matter what the president does.
On most fiscal issues, it seems that Biden is better than Trump from a post-liberal vantage point. Trump only looks good compared to other Republicans.
If your reason for voting for Trump is something like "feminism", realize that these deep seated social transformations are bigger than politics. President Trump cannot undue the industrial revolution or reverse the regrettable secularization of society. Even an authoritarian single party state would be unable to abolish 21st century cultural conditions through government writ. All that would happen is that cultural conservatism would be identified in the public's mind with an oppressive government.
1. I propose Donald Trump might be better called "post-civilization" or “post-constitutional” rather than “post-liberal.” Please let me explain.
2. Consider the following quote from Trump in his 2007 book titled "Think Big and Kick Ass":
3. “The world is a vicious and brutal place. WE THINK WE'RE CIVILIZED. IN TRUTH, it’s a cruel world and people are ruthless. They act nice to your face, but underneath they’re out to kill you. You have to know how to defend yourself. People will be mean and nasty and try to hurt you just for sport. Lions in the jungle only kill for food, but humans kill for fun. Even your friends are out to get you: they want your job, they want your house, they want your money, they want your wife, and they even want your dog. Those are your friends; your enemies are even worse!"
4. Notice how in that quote he doesn't say that SOME people are ruthless, brutal, vicious, cruel, uncivilized, and killers. He says ALL people (“even your friends”) are, “underneath,” that way (Even if “They act nice to your face”). The universe of ALL people would of course include Donald Trump himself. Thus, this statement is Donald’s unapologetic confession of his immoral character. But since he thinks that “underneath” everyone is this way, he sees himself as being no worse than anyone else. We are all animals, says Donald.
5. Donald actually said all human beings are animals in a 1981 interview with People magazine. Here’s the quote: “Man is the most vicious of all animals.”
6. There are many other statements by Donald Trump, in his pre-presidential years, that express this same philosophy of barbarism and biologism.
7. Donald Trump is very philosophical. He took a required course in philosophy, taught from a Catholic point of view, during his two years as a student at Fordham University from 1964-66.
8. Trump's sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, at a young age, did convert to Catholicism when she married her first husband who was a Catholic. She remained Catholic for the rest of her life.
9. But Donald ended up believing in a philosophy of life with many similarities to Nietzsche’s philosophy of the Will to Power, Master Morality, and Übermensch, and also with many similarities to Ragnar Redbeard’s (Arthur Desmond) philosophy in his book “Might Is Right or The Survival of the Fittest.”
10. In a 2004 interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN, Donald Trump said this: “Life, this is sad--no politician would say this, so, you now, I’m not going to be a politician--life is what you do while you’re waiting to die. Sad. Horrible statement. I hate to say it, but I say it, you know, because it’s true: Life is what you do while you wait to die. Have fun. Just enjoy it. Enjoy what you're doing. If you don't enjoy what you're doing, it doesn't mean anything.”
11. What a perfect expression of nihilism, atheism, barbarism, pure hedonism, post-Christian mindset, and post-civilization mindset.
12. In a Truth Social post on Dec. 3, 2022, Trump explicitly called "for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution." This makes Trump the only president or ex-president to call for termination of some provisions of the U.S. Constitution.
13. How can such a person ever conduct his business with any semblance of integrity? How can anyone trust his oath to uphold the Constitution and enforce the laws? How can the republican form of government (as guaranteed in the Constitution) ever survive if its leaders have no integrity and if its voters willingly vote for leaders with no integrity?
14. Donald’s aforementioned sister, Maryanne, a respected federal appellate judge, said this about Donald in a recorded phone conversation with her niece: "It’s the phoniness of it all. It’s the phoniness…He has no principles. None. None…His goddamned tweet and lying, oh my god…I’m talking too freely, but you know. The change of stories. The lack of preparation. The lying. Holy shit…you can't trust him.”
15. Could this integrity factor explain why Trump promised in thousands of campaign speeches in 2015 to 2016 to build an urgently needed secure border wall on the 2,000 mile long southern border, but in four years in office he only built 30 miles of border wall, which is even less than was built by President Obama? (Notice that in four years’ time the U.S. government defeated Nazi Germany, defeated Imperial Japan, and built the world’s first atomic bomb.)
16. And notice that in the Trump quote above (“life is what you do while you’re waiting to die”) he said that “no politician would say this.” Of course, now that he is a politician, he doesn’t any longer openly disclose his inner philosophy of barbarism and nihilism. He’s no dummy. He’s a politician. But everything I’ve seen indicates that his lifelong inner philosophical core self is still the same.
17. So, vote for him if you estimate that he will do the most good or the least harm.
18. But recognize the barbaric, nihilistic, satanic philosophical character of the man whom you are putting at the helm of world’s last, great constitutional republic.
Interesting that one of the most authentically liberal political figures (in the sense postliberal sense) in our lifetime would be get the nod from TAP.
Trumpism has been purely atomizing because it has no true philosophical foundation.
"They hate him because he shattered this liberal consensus and stood for the common man."
He has galvanized varying angers and suspicions of different groups of "common men" without providing any kind of long term promise.
Your three points and how Trump fails to provide a path towards the common good.
Immigration - the Republican and Trumpist failure with regard to immigration has always been and continues to be a complete abandonment of trying to appeal to immigrants especially those of the Latin American type. They don't even try, they just assume that the Dems will gobble up these voters.
These immigrants are far more likely to be moved in principle by #FamilyFriendsFaith than the average atomized American. The difference is they need support to access an #OwnershipEconomy which neither the GOP in general or Trump espouse.
This leads us to Economy and Trade - Tariffs? The common good would be better served by worker cooperatives, small businesses, and employee stock ownership plans being the norm and not the exception. Trump, as a billionaire who has forever leveraged his wealth to squeeze the little guy, has never talked about dismantling the corporate overlord system because he functions within it.
"I am your peacemaker" cannot be our hope for peace in the world. Once Trump is gone, "us versus them" and "America First" will not be enough to forge any form of Common Good discourse. The entire engine is based off of a cult of personality. True international peace must be rooted in principles not personalities.
If your argument is the best GOP candidate is Trump I can see it, but
"Donald J. Trump remains the man to serve the interests of the common good, the common man, and put our country first." is implausible.
Donald J Trump remains the man to serve Donald J Trump is more accurate.
FDR’s NEW DEAL MOVEMENT (1933-1963) WAS A WILDLY SUCCESSFUL SOLIDARITY, POST-LIBERALISM MOVEMENT
1. Mr. Patel: You wrote "The common good would be better served by worker cooperatives, small businesses, and employee stock ownership plans being the norm..."
2. This is the "small is beautiful" political philosophy.
3. But owners of capital are free right now in America to divide up their huge corporations into worker cooperatives, small businesses, and employee stock ownership companies. But this free choice is generally not made.
4. And consumers are free right now to purchase things from the few worker cooperatives, small businesses, and employee stock ownership companies that do exist. But this free choice is generally not made.
5. The fact is that the bigness of companies is directly connected to our high standard of living in the USA. Both capital owners and consumers want this bigness because they want this high standard of living.
6. The breakup of the big "corporate overlords" could only come by the intervening force of big government, but the exercise of such force would always be opposed by nearly all consumers since it would lead to a devasting plummeting of the standard of living.
7. Bigness might not be beautiful, but it does lead to inexpensive consumer goods and lots of research and development which leads to constantly advancing technological innovation (including new medicines and treatments).
8. But this doesn't mean all hope of solidarity and social justice is lost.
9. The FDR New Deal Era (which really lasted for 30 or 40 years, from 1933 to 1963, or maybe to 1973) allowed corporate bigness to remain big, and allowed corporate profits to remain big, but the FDR New Deal Era created greater solidarity and social justice by counterbalancing corporate bigness with the bigness of big labor unions and the bigness of prudent, judicious federal government regulation of the economy for the common good and the common man. The Democrat Party of FDR, Truman, Eisenhower (he governed like a Democrat of that era), and JFK was the original American solidarity party. And it worked. They won election after election. And it created a golden age in American society and economics. These were the “Happy Days,” as a nostalgic TV show about that era was called.
10. When Trump and his voters speak about making America great again, they are talking about the going back to golden age created by the FDR New Deal model of governance and economics. That's the golden age that Donald Trump, born in 1946, grew up in. Donald’s father, Fred Trump, got rich from government housing programs of the FDR New Deal Era.
11. But unfortunately, the Trump’s misguided, cockeyed way of getting back to that New Deal Era golden age is (despite misleading, obscuring populist rhetoric & token, ineffectual populist acts of governance) the anti-solidarity, classical liberalism philosophy of Reaganism (cut taxes on the rich, be pro-laissez faire capitalism, cut regulations on businesses, repeal Social Security, Medicare, and Obamacare, etc.).
12. So, Trump and his voters will never recreate or surpass the golden age of the FDR New Deal Era (1933-1963).
13. We need to let go of the eccentric, impractical "small is beautiful" political philosophy, and get back the original, hugely successful solidarity movement of America: the FDR New Deal movement. This is the winning ticket. This will get pro-solidarity citizens elected to Congress and the White House. Bigness will always defeat littleness. So, let’s go big, for the sake of solidarity and social justice.
14. Today's Democrats can't carry this solidarity message, being weighed down with their commitment to unpopular positions on abortion, racial identity politics, gender ideology, immigration, and secularization.
15. Today's Republicans can't carry this solidarity message, being weighed down with their commitment to unpopular positions on laissez faire capitalism, tax cuts for the rich, deregulation for the rich, privatization (i.e., elimination) of Social Security, Medicare, and Obamacare, etc.
16. There’s no need to invent and convince people to accept a newfangled solidarity movement for our country, or to import a foreign solidarity movement from Europe. We have a very successful history and model of political solidarity and post-liberalism in the US: The 30 or 40 years of the golden age FDR’s New Deal movement.
-Nothing about Vivek being an insane radical libertarian who wants to somehow cut government spending by 80%. He's just "Trump light".
I plan on voting for Trump, but acting like he would be a realigning president like FDR is false hope that should have gone away during his first term. He will not turn the GOP into a "post-liberal" party. We are looking at strategically supporting Republicans OR Democrats on a election by election basis from now on. I would probably support Biden or RFK Jr. over Haley if she were the nominee. The GOP probably will go back to nominating Haley-esque. candidates in 2028 even if Trump wins. The best argument for voting for Trump is that if Trump wins, there is a small chance this doesn't happen. But let's not overstate Trump's effect on the GOP or his postliberal credentials.
On abortion, there is little the legal system can do to suppress the abortion rate outside of a national ban, which is not politically feasible given the widespread popularity of abortion rights. The post-Dobbs status quo allows a small number of very red states to ban abortion, which has no effect on national abortion rates given the ease of crossing state borders. Meanwhile, the GOP governors in those states oppose Medicaid expansion and pass Right to Work laws. Until we can change hearts and minds so that voters would support a national ban, the issue is moot. This basically eliminates abortion as a reason to vote for Republicans in national elections--the National Catholic Reporter/America Magazine/libcath position wasn't valid pre-Dobbs because we had to overturn Roe, but it is largely valid now. If the GOP forced through a national ban, it wouldn't last one election cycle, and the blowback would be severe. Maybe the blowback is so bad a constitutional amendment for abortion rights is ratified. It sucks to say baby murder is a "settled issue", but that's the reality.
On immigration, Trump is better than Biden, but look at the recent history and the fundamentals. The GOP is structurally pro-immigration due to its donor base consisting of employers, both billionaires like Charles Koch and upper-middle-class small business owners who need to suppress wages to stay in business (think McDonald's franchisees and landscapers). EPI, a liberal think tank funded by unions, is more likely to criticize immigration than the Cato Institute. Bush Jr. tried to force through an amnesty during his second term with Cato/Koch backing. Obama actually increased deportations due to a fear of looking weak and liberal. It looks like something similar is now happening with Biden. He's getting pushback from moderate Democrats who are calling him weak and liberal on the issue. He can make the criticisms go away by getting tough on the border like Obama did. What Trump could do in the White House in 2025 might not look that dissimilar than what Biden ends up doing in 2024, even if Trump talks a big game during the campaign. And Trump can't pass any legislation limiting legal immigration like the RAISE Act because the pro-business wing of the GOP will block him. He's limited to what he can do via executive order, which is further limited by what the courts allow. The only difference between Trump and Biden on a BILL reforming the immigration system is that Trump will try and fail, while Biden won't try.
On trade, Biden has been largely identical to Trump, although perhaps we can thank Trump for pushing the Democrats to a more protectionist direction. But again, the GOP is structurally set up to be pro-free trade. The moment Trump leaves without putting a clear successor in place, we are back the the Dubya-era GOP. And while tariffs might be good on the margins, we are not returning to 1970s levels of domestic manufacturing and employment no matter what the president does.
On most fiscal issues, it seems that Biden is better than Trump from a post-liberal vantage point. Trump only looks good compared to other Republicans.
If your reason for voting for Trump is something like "feminism", realize that these deep seated social transformations are bigger than politics. President Trump cannot undue the industrial revolution or reverse the regrettable secularization of society. Even an authoritarian single party state would be unable to abolish 21st century cultural conditions through government writ. All that would happen is that cultural conservatism would be identified in the public's mind with an oppressive government.
What a surprising and disappointing endorsement. No longer sure the American Postliberal is meaningful Postliberal.
1. I propose Donald Trump might be better called "post-civilization" or “post-constitutional” rather than “post-liberal.” Please let me explain.
2. Consider the following quote from Trump in his 2007 book titled "Think Big and Kick Ass":
3. “The world is a vicious and brutal place. WE THINK WE'RE CIVILIZED. IN TRUTH, it’s a cruel world and people are ruthless. They act nice to your face, but underneath they’re out to kill you. You have to know how to defend yourself. People will be mean and nasty and try to hurt you just for sport. Lions in the jungle only kill for food, but humans kill for fun. Even your friends are out to get you: they want your job, they want your house, they want your money, they want your wife, and they even want your dog. Those are your friends; your enemies are even worse!"
4. Notice how in that quote he doesn't say that SOME people are ruthless, brutal, vicious, cruel, uncivilized, and killers. He says ALL people (“even your friends”) are, “underneath,” that way (Even if “They act nice to your face”). The universe of ALL people would of course include Donald Trump himself. Thus, this statement is Donald’s unapologetic confession of his immoral character. But since he thinks that “underneath” everyone is this way, he sees himself as being no worse than anyone else. We are all animals, says Donald.
5. Donald actually said all human beings are animals in a 1981 interview with People magazine. Here’s the quote: “Man is the most vicious of all animals.”
6. There are many other statements by Donald Trump, in his pre-presidential years, that express this same philosophy of barbarism and biologism.
7. Donald Trump is very philosophical. He took a required course in philosophy, taught from a Catholic point of view, during his two years as a student at Fordham University from 1964-66.
8. Trump's sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, at a young age, did convert to Catholicism when she married her first husband who was a Catholic. She remained Catholic for the rest of her life.
9. But Donald ended up believing in a philosophy of life with many similarities to Nietzsche’s philosophy of the Will to Power, Master Morality, and Übermensch, and also with many similarities to Ragnar Redbeard’s (Arthur Desmond) philosophy in his book “Might Is Right or The Survival of the Fittest.”
10. In a 2004 interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN, Donald Trump said this: “Life, this is sad--no politician would say this, so, you now, I’m not going to be a politician--life is what you do while you’re waiting to die. Sad. Horrible statement. I hate to say it, but I say it, you know, because it’s true: Life is what you do while you wait to die. Have fun. Just enjoy it. Enjoy what you're doing. If you don't enjoy what you're doing, it doesn't mean anything.”
11. What a perfect expression of nihilism, atheism, barbarism, pure hedonism, post-Christian mindset, and post-civilization mindset.
12. In a Truth Social post on Dec. 3, 2022, Trump explicitly called "for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution." This makes Trump the only president or ex-president to call for termination of some provisions of the U.S. Constitution.
13. How can such a person ever conduct his business with any semblance of integrity? How can anyone trust his oath to uphold the Constitution and enforce the laws? How can the republican form of government (as guaranteed in the Constitution) ever survive if its leaders have no integrity and if its voters willingly vote for leaders with no integrity?
14. Donald’s aforementioned sister, Maryanne, a respected federal appellate judge, said this about Donald in a recorded phone conversation with her niece: "It’s the phoniness of it all. It’s the phoniness…He has no principles. None. None…His goddamned tweet and lying, oh my god…I’m talking too freely, but you know. The change of stories. The lack of preparation. The lying. Holy shit…you can't trust him.”
15. Could this integrity factor explain why Trump promised in thousands of campaign speeches in 2015 to 2016 to build an urgently needed secure border wall on the 2,000 mile long southern border, but in four years in office he only built 30 miles of border wall, which is even less than was built by President Obama? (Notice that in four years’ time the U.S. government defeated Nazi Germany, defeated Imperial Japan, and built the world’s first atomic bomb.)
16. And notice that in the Trump quote above (“life is what you do while you’re waiting to die”) he said that “no politician would say this.” Of course, now that he is a politician, he doesn’t any longer openly disclose his inner philosophy of barbarism and nihilism. He’s no dummy. He’s a politician. But everything I’ve seen indicates that his lifelong inner philosophical core self is still the same.
17. So, vote for him if you estimate that he will do the most good or the least harm.
18. But recognize the barbaric, nihilistic, satanic philosophical character of the man whom you are putting at the helm of world’s last, great constitutional republic.