Things Trump Is Doing Right

[Bob Butler 54]

(05-15-2017, 10:13 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(05-15-2017, 05:42 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: Reagan's being perfectly able to sense and articulate the nation's mood as it entered a 3T mood is a dubious gift.  It changed the country profoundly and earned him the illusion of sainthood.  It prolonged and deepened the unraveling.  Trump is still riding his rails, borrow and spend, trickle down, the government is the problem and strengthen the military.

But unravelings don't or shouldn't last forever.  There comes a time when new problems have to be solved.  The conservative attachment to the ways things are is a formidable inertia that Reagan made more formidable.  I'm not sure where the faint praise 'sensed the mood of the country well' should give way to the raging frustration at conservative selfishness, and refusal to see oncoming problems.

Kurt Horner covered this on the old forum.  If he was right, and it looks possible that he was, we are due for a libertarian era that will continue through the 4T.  How that correlates with anything like a resolution of the crisis is hard to know.  More to the point, what does the 1T look like? 

At this point, each faction is still seeing a triumph of their own faction.  My own angle is that you can't have a resolution of the 4T problems unless you can see and address the 4T problems.  However, those with other world views are quite capable of convincing themselves that only their approach can work.

(05-15-2017, 10:13 AM)David Horn Wrote: Reagan had few ideas of his own,  His most important mentor was William F. Buckley, who sold him on many of the ideas that are still carrying forth.  I don't see Trump as ideological, so his embrace of those ideas is more a mater of tactics than true belief.  In any case, it presents a dilemma that is hard to rectify.

Amen.