is as American as Apple Pie
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- ...compares Donald Trump to Teddy Roosevelt, and suggests that Roosevelt is the President to whom Trump is best likened. Both Donald Trump and Teddy Roosevelt are complicated and nuanced figures, even by presidential standards, and that makes direct comparisons between the two difficult, but at a broad level at least, the comparison is apt. Donald Trump and Teddy Roosevelt have a similar core issue cluster, not necessarily because of any peculiarities of Roosevelt’s agenda, but because Roosevelt represents typical early 20th century Republicanism.
“It is tempting to see Trump’s nationalism as a foreign import that is of a recent vintage, but the reality is that his ideology—good, bad, ugly, or some combination of all three—is more deeply rooted in the American experience than many would care to admit.”
Mr. Beale is correct. The above point is one I, as a conservative who boarded the Trump Train early, have been making all along. There is nothing foreign or particularly novel about Trump’s basic agenda cluster. Candidate Trump expressed positions that would have been broadly held by Republicans prior to World War II.
People who were baffled by where Trump was coming from policy wise, like much of the Conservative Inc. punditocracy, were stuck in the current paradigm and lacked historical perspective. Trumpism is in many ways the Republican Party agenda until the 1940s. The GOP platform opposed free trade up to 1944. The GOP has always been the party of nationalism, for better or for worse, whether real nationalism or a false nationalism (proposition nation foolishness and overseas military adventurism). In fact, you could argue that nationalism has historically been the Republican Party’s primary distinguishing/unifying rhetorical feature.
People who see Trump’s nationalism and his overall agenda as a foreign import, including well-meaning people (as opposed to Social Justice Warrior name callers) who see it as some sort of manifestation of fascism, an almost exclusively European phenomenon, seem woefully ignorant of U.S. political dynamics prior to World War II.
The GOP did pretty well for itself with essentially the Whig Platform from after the War Between the States until the 1940’s. There was clearly a majority coalition at the national level that allowed Republicans to dominate the Presidency during this time frame until the disruption of the Great Depression and Franklin Roosevelt’s four terms. Why would this governing coalition necessarily go away just because the GOP changed its rhetorical stance? In fact, it could be argued that it never went away (although it got demographically diminished) and the two party dynamic that emerged post World War II left a lot of people unspoken for.
Perhaps Trump’s continuity with the past was more obvious to people like me coming from a paleoconservative perspective, because this is an aspect of the Republican’s historic agenda that some of us as proponents of localism and constitutionalism, and generally sympathetic to the South, have been critical of.
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Trumps presidency is anything but normal. Why is no-one actually paying attention? Trump is the frontman for the second US revolution.. already complete to take back the United State of America from the corporation from in 1861 by the rockefellers and rothchilds that made the USA a private corporation owned by them. Since them, the USA has been owned. As of now, Trump has returned the USA to the republic. There will be a new currency, and the Federal Reserve Note will be defaulted. Buy silver now, this is already a done deal.
Trump is unique.
He's the first 'not a politician' who has ever been elected president. The presidency is the FIRST elected office that he has EVER held.
He is still a Freemason.. Just white hat vs kill the world jesuit version.
It turns out he's still a jesuit controlled new world order puppet. When in doubt, just consult the Simpsons. It seems to be the most accurate prognosticator of truth.
wow could not have said it better myself
lets keep spreading the word about how great the god emperor himself really is this is historic times were are living in