04-27-2019, 07:21 PM
We could see people seemingly unlikely as models of the Grey Champion. Figure that America now has more dissidents than it has had since the era of anarchists and Bolshevik-imitators. They could be libertarians, conservative traditionalists, liberals, socialists, or Marxists. Trump is objectionable to many for different reasons.
Social media could thrust people from obscurity to unforeseen prominence. Some people who have thought that their views are a significant minority may find that they have an input into institutional change. Some of us have the same capabilities that our Founding Fathers has.
Donald Trump represents much that is wrong with our country -- greed, dishonesty, contempt for reason, sexual exploitation, and moral hollowness. The 4T leadership that defines the future of American life usually implies a coalition of disparate interests; in the late 1930s such included rising minorities (then Jews and Irish-Americans), western and southern agrarian interests, conservationists, liberal intellectuals, and organized labor. If America is divided neatly between Trump supporters and those who loathe him, those who now opposed to Trump are divided also on why they oppose him. Trump would have succeeded had he put together so disparate a coalition (which might have included Christian fundamentalists, racists and religious bigots, monopoly capitalists, bureaucratic elites, farmers and ranchers, energy interests, and maybe some people who now despise him; at such he seems to have failed catastrophically. Someone else will define a 4T coalition that sets the tone of the forthcoming 1T. Just watch the 2020 election.
Social media could thrust people from obscurity to unforeseen prominence. Some people who have thought that their views are a significant minority may find that they have an input into institutional change. Some of us have the same capabilities that our Founding Fathers has.
Donald Trump represents much that is wrong with our country -- greed, dishonesty, contempt for reason, sexual exploitation, and moral hollowness. The 4T leadership that defines the future of American life usually implies a coalition of disparate interests; in the late 1930s such included rising minorities (then Jews and Irish-Americans), western and southern agrarian interests, conservationists, liberal intellectuals, and organized labor. If America is divided neatly between Trump supporters and those who loathe him, those who now opposed to Trump are divided also on why they oppose him. Trump would have succeeded had he put together so disparate a coalition (which might have included Christian fundamentalists, racists and religious bigots, monopoly capitalists, bureaucratic elites, farmers and ranchers, energy interests, and maybe some people who now despise him; at such he seems to have failed catastrophically. Someone else will define a 4T coalition that sets the tone of the forthcoming 1T. Just watch the 2020 election.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.