12-12-2016, 01:59 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-12-2016, 02:00 AM by Eric the Green.)
(12-11-2016, 01:39 PM)Anthony Wrote:(12-10-2016, 05:53 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Social Darwinism has never been more alive and well, and the Darwinist in Chief is there to make it official policy.
Stop being a reverse McCarthyist - accusing everyone not left of center of being a Social Darwinist.
And if Trump does pull a William Howard Taft he won't be re-elected.
Trump is clearly a Social Darwinist. He believes in survival of the fittest, and he's a racist and believer in genetics as determinative of superiority. These are clear in the appointments and proposals he is making to unleash laissez faire trickle-down economics on steroids and unleash the big business cabal as never before, and cut as many policies as possible that benefit the poor and middle class. His appointments are the worst ever proposed by a president-elect, and the most extremely right-wing and laissez faire/social darwinian ever.
I don't know what you mean by "pull a William Howard Taft." All he did was deviate a little from his sponsor's policies and make him mad. TR was something of a tempermental brat and he spoiled Taft's chance for re-election. Taft was a progressive; he did nothing to deserve his defeat. All Trump has to do to prove he's a Social Darwinist is to stay on the path he's on now.