08-04-2016, 03:18 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-04-2016, 03:21 PM by Eric the Green.)
(08-04-2016, 01:00 AM)Cynic Hero 86 Wrote:(08-04-2016, 12:31 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:(08-04-2016, 12:14 AM)Cynic Hero Wrote: The forces that dominated in the 3T always constitute the establishment when the 4T hits. In the recently completed 3T the government championed immigration, permanent free trade, and internationalism. Thus the side that supports those ideas and values constitute the establishment in the current 4T with the factions that are against those ideas constituting the anti-establishment. Thus hillary personifies the establishment because she is a main supporter of these policies.
Hillary is not on board with free trade. The 3T was not about internationalism. In America, it was about militarism under Reagan-Bush.
The government didn't champion immigration in the 3T. It happened. That's different. Nothing has been done to reform our immigration system. The status quo is the Republicans who refuse to act.
The Establishment or status quo that dominated the 3T is trickle-down economics, or Reaganomics. Trump supports it; Hillary opposes it.
Trump is better on the trade issue. That's the only issue he's better on. That's not enough. And no-one should trust a man who never makes anything in America with his own business, to force businesses to make things in America.
The 3T did emphasize military/defense in the earlier stages, but once the USSR fell, it became much more about internationalism and globalism. The corporations were the biggest backers of immigration and outsourcing, they were the main champions of the free-trade and end of history idea. The reaganite wing of the GOP has been thoroughly subjugated by trump. So the GOP will now focus on protectionism, and supporting US manufacturing. The only way it can return to Reaganomics would be if Trump loses and the establishment GOP regains and consolidates its former power.
You make some good points here. But again, trade is not the whole of Reaganomics. It's a small part of it, and the most bi-partisan part. Reaganomics is lower taxes on the wealthy, fewer regulations on business, and cuts in social programs. That's what Trump has promised. So although the GOP now has two wings, they are both essentially Establishment wings.
Trump will lose, and I think the Republican Party may fall to pieces before this 4T is over after 2028. Trump is the first step in that dissolution.