05-19-2016, 05:42 PM
(05-19-2016, 11:29 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: Great article by Robert Kagan above.
The only thing I wonder about is, how much would Trump bow down to the Republican Party's politicians and platforms? Will Trump feel the need to fall in line, as he is doing now? (witness his announced conservative field for Supreme Court pick) Will he feel the need to have a united Republican congress and Court behind him as he becomes virtual dictator of America to make it "great again?" I assume he'll largely fall in line, and that makes him even MORE dangerous.
And thus ever more need to get over the nonsense about Hillary and get behind her now.
Once in power, most leaders who achieved power through demagoguery end up $crewing the people most vulnerable -- those people who have no recourse if the promises made are not or cannot be met. What can they do? Wait until the next election? Donald Trump will quickly make amends with the "Establishment" Republicans who, once they see his largely-reactionary agenda, will ignore his style as he sells out many of those who voted for him.
The real danger arises should the Trump Administration enact 'reforms' that further consolidate the power of our economic elites -- like giving employers rights to determine how their employees vote.
Can anyone really trust him?
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.