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*** 21-Jan-17 World View -- President Trump's inauguration speech links today's America to the 1930s

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  • President Trump's inauguration speech links today's America to the 1930s
  • The Gambia's leader steps down, after his army chief deserts him

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**** President Trump's inauguration speech links today's America to the 1930s
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Friday's inauguration in Washington

After the end of World War II, world leaders decided that the root
causes of the war were nationalism and xenophobia in the 1930s, as
I've been writing about for years, as well as American isolationism.

President Donald J. Trump's inauguration speech combined strong
nationalism and isolationism with just a tiny smidgen of xenophobia,
much less of the latter than we've heard from him in the past. It
seemed to me that he struck the right balance, but even so, his speech
was a return to the mood of the 1930s.

His appeal to nationalism and isolationism was at its strongest when
he firmly declared that "it's going to be only America first, America
first." All of these themes can be identified from the following
excerpts:

> [indent]<QUOTE>"We assembled here today are issuing a new decree to
> be heard in every city, in every foreign capital, and in every
> hall of power. From this day forward, a new vision will govern our
> land. From this day forward, it's going to be only America first,
> America first.
>
> Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign
> affairs will be made to benefit American workers and American
> families. We must protect our borders from the ravages of other
> countries making our products, stealing our companies and
> destroying our jobs. ...
>
> We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the
> world, but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of
> all nations to put their own interests first. We do not seek to
> impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an
> example. We will shine for everyone to follow."<END QUOTE>
[/indent]

The invocation of nationalism and isolationism was not the only link
in Trump's speech to 1930s America. His description of today's
America could have come right out of a history book describing the
Great Depression:

> [indent]<QUOTE>"At the center of this movement is a crucial
> conviction, that a nation exists to serve its citizens. Americans
> want great schools for their children, safe neighborhoods for
> their families, and good jobs for themselves. These are just and
> reasonable demands of righteous people and a righteous public.
>
> But for too many of our citizens, a different reality exists:
> mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities;
> rusted out factories scattered like tombstones across the
> landscape of our nation; an education system flush with cash, but
> which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all
> knowledge; and the crime and the gangs and the drugs that have
> stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized
> potential.
>
> This American carnage stops right here and stops right
> now."<END QUOTE>
[/indent]

MSNBC's Chris Matthews made the truly idiotic statement that Trump's
inauguration speech was "Hitlerian." Actually, it was much more
"Rooseveltian," because it describes a national mood today that's very
similar to the national mood in the 1930s -- not Germany's mood, but
America's mood.

Perhaps, in drafting this speech, Trump was influenced by his chief
strategist Steve Bannon, who is very knowledgeable about Generational
Dynamics and about history in general. But however it came about,
Trump's view of America today is remarkably similar to the
Generational Dynamics view of America that I've been writing about for
years. And Generational Dynamics predicts that the world his headed
for a Clash of Civilizations world war, pitting China and its allies
against America and its allies. This is what America and the Trump
administration should be preparing for. Washington Post and The Hill

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**** The Gambia's leader steps down, after his army chief deserts him
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There was a lot of talk on Friday comparing the United States to the
Gambia. America has had orderly transitions of power every four years
since 1792, even during the American Civil War -- a remarkable feat
possibly unparalleled by any other country in history.

By contrast, in many countries in Africa, when a leader comes to
power, he refuses to step down, and directs violence and torture to
any opposition figures who object. I've written extensively about
this in Zimbabwe and Burundi for example, as well as in Syria (not an
African country).

The Gambia was on exactly the same path, when the dictator Yahya
Jammeh, who took power in a 1994 coup, refused to step down after
losing the December election for president to businessman Adama
Barrow. Jammeh's mandate ended on January 19, and troops from several
of The Gambia's neighbors in the ECOWAS confederation (Economic
Community of West African States) sent troops into The Gambia and
threatened to force Jammeh to step down.

What's remarkable about this situation is the unanimity of
international opinion. In any similar situation, some countries would
side with Jammeh and others would side with his opponent. But in this
case, every country that made any statement at all sided against
Jammeh.

On Friday, the leaders of Mauritania and Guinea flew into The Gambia's
capital city Banjul to convince Jammeh to leave without bloodshed.
According to reports, Jammeh refused to give up power until late
Friday evening, when his army leader General Ousman Badjie defected,
and joined the calls for Jammeh to step down.

Late reports indicate that he's agreed, but it's not known what the
terms are or where he would be going.

Meanwhile, on Friday, President Obama left office and President Trump
entered that office. No threatening troops from any foreign country
were required for that change to occur. Vanguard (Nigeria) and BBC

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KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Donald Trump,
The Gambia, Banjul, Yahya Jammeh, Ousman Badjie,
Adama Barrow, Senegal, Dakar, Nigeria,
Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS

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