03-27-2021, 09:49 PM
** 24-Mar-2021 World View: Trump's legacy
A web site reader asked me to comment on an article on Trump's legacy.
The following are excerpts from my response to him:
The problem I'm having with this article is that it's making a number
of political judgments that may seem true today, but which could turn
out to be false at any time in the future, even a few months from now.
Making these judgments is definitely not the domain of Generational
Dynamics.
Most likely, the only thing that will matter ten years from now is
whether and how well the country survives the war with China. The
current political nonsense will end with a "regeneracy event." This
is a concept in generational theory, referring to an event that
regenerates civic unity for the first time since the end of the
previous crisis war. It's an event that presents a strong existential
threat to the nation or society, and forces all sides to put aside
their political differences and unite behind the leadership for the
common survival.
In 1941, it was the Pearl Harbor attack and the Bataan Death March.
Today, it might be a missile attack on an American city, or it might
be a major military loss overseas. Today, it's most likely going to
be whatever event triggers war with China.
So if you take a look at the article, and evaluate the remarks in the
context of a Chinese missile attack on the United States, then you can
see that nothing that it says is something that anyone would care
about.
How will future historians evaluate Trump's presidency? Maybe they
will praise him for increasing military spending. Of maybe they will
condemn him for some policy that caused a Chinese advantage in a way
that we don't yet even know about.
These are the kinds of issues that I watch for and write about. The
creation of a Stalinist state by the Democrats, mainstream media and
Big Tech is probably the scariest domestic development in my lifetime.
The mindless destruction of the country by the Biden administration in
order to stay in power is heartbreaking.
And yet, I can't really say whether Biden's policies will help or hurt
during a war with China. For example, Biden's Open Borders policies
is creating a massive cartel force in Mexico using children for sex or
as slaves or drug mules. The Democrats are doing this because they
assume that these abused children will vote for Democrats. How will
these cartels act when there's a Chinese invasion?
Trump is promising to launch a new "Trump Big Tech Platform" within
the next 2-3 months, and he expects his 74 million supporters to
become subscribers. That may be the next event that will define
Trump's legacy. And then we might begin to see whether your article
is relevant.
A web site reader asked me to comment on an article on Trump's legacy.
The following are excerpts from my response to him:
The problem I'm having with this article is that it's making a number
of political judgments that may seem true today, but which could turn
out to be false at any time in the future, even a few months from now.
Making these judgments is definitely not the domain of Generational
Dynamics.
Most likely, the only thing that will matter ten years from now is
whether and how well the country survives the war with China. The
current political nonsense will end with a "regeneracy event." This
is a concept in generational theory, referring to an event that
regenerates civic unity for the first time since the end of the
previous crisis war. It's an event that presents a strong existential
threat to the nation or society, and forces all sides to put aside
their political differences and unite behind the leadership for the
common survival.
In 1941, it was the Pearl Harbor attack and the Bataan Death March.
Today, it might be a missile attack on an American city, or it might
be a major military loss overseas. Today, it's most likely going to
be whatever event triggers war with China.
So if you take a look at the article, and evaluate the remarks in the
context of a Chinese missile attack on the United States, then you can
see that nothing that it says is something that anyone would care
about.
How will future historians evaluate Trump's presidency? Maybe they
will praise him for increasing military spending. Of maybe they will
condemn him for some policy that caused a Chinese advantage in a way
that we don't yet even know about.
These are the kinds of issues that I watch for and write about. The
creation of a Stalinist state by the Democrats, mainstream media and
Big Tech is probably the scariest domestic development in my lifetime.
The mindless destruction of the country by the Biden administration in
order to stay in power is heartbreaking.
And yet, I can't really say whether Biden's policies will help or hurt
during a war with China. For example, Biden's Open Borders policies
is creating a massive cartel force in Mexico using children for sex or
as slaves or drug mules. The Democrats are doing this because they
assume that these abused children will vote for Democrats. How will
these cartels act when there's a Chinese invasion?
Trump is promising to launch a new "Trump Big Tech Platform" within
the next 2-3 months, and he expects his 74 million supporters to
become subscribers. That may be the next event that will define
Trump's legacy. And then we might begin to see whether your article
is relevant.
