09-30-2021, 02:16 PM
Donald Trump, the Law and Order President. Not!
#32 in public persuasion
#41 in crisis leadership
#34 in economic management
#44 in moral leadership
#43 in international relations
#44 in administrative skills
#42 in relations with Congress
#36 in vision and setting an agenda
#40 in pursuing equal justice for all
#42 in context for the times.
With all the corruption he was creating pointless crises. Trump is to integrity in government what Bill Cosby was to ethical dating or Bernie Madoff in fiscal probity. Mobsters have their own strange way of keeping people in line, but those ill fit the Fortune 500 businesses. Equal justice for all? Trump likely turns up better than those Presidents who promoted or appeased slavery. "Criminal justice" usually means the suppression of crime, and not seeking breaks for well-connected criminals.
The Chicago Machine wanted Barack Obama out of Chicago and indeed Illinois, and certainly not in federal prosecution or a federal judgeship in Illinois. Can you imagine facing Obama as a prosecutorial adversary or a judge hearing one's corruption case? He would have been a monster. Obama is the classic exponent of "do the crime, do the time". He was not generous with pardons.
#32 in public persuasion
#41 in crisis leadership
#34 in economic management
#44 in moral leadership
#43 in international relations
#44 in administrative skills
#42 in relations with Congress
#36 in vision and setting an agenda
#40 in pursuing equal justice for all
#42 in context for the times.
With all the corruption he was creating pointless crises. Trump is to integrity in government what Bill Cosby was to ethical dating or Bernie Madoff in fiscal probity. Mobsters have their own strange way of keeping people in line, but those ill fit the Fortune 500 businesses. Equal justice for all? Trump likely turns up better than those Presidents who promoted or appeased slavery. "Criminal justice" usually means the suppression of crime, and not seeking breaks for well-connected criminals.
The Chicago Machine wanted Barack Obama out of Chicago and indeed Illinois, and certainly not in federal prosecution or a federal judgeship in Illinois. Can you imagine facing Obama as a prosecutorial adversary or a judge hearing one's corruption case? He would have been a monster. Obama is the classic exponent of "do the crime, do the time". He was not generous with pardons.
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.