{"id":4411,"date":"2018-07-20T04:58:10","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T04:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/07\/20\/the-reason-the-foreign-policy-establishment-has-gone-mad\/"},"modified":"2018-07-20T04:58:10","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T04:58:10","slug":"the-reason-the-foreign-policy-establishment-has-gone-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/07\/20\/the-reason-the-foreign-policy-establishment-has-gone-mad\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reason the Foreign Policy Establishment has Gone Mad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pat Buchanan<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Not since Robert Welch of the John Birch Society called Dwight Eisenhower a \u201cconscious agent of the Communist conspiracy\u201d have such charges been hurled at a president. But while the Birchers were a bit outside the mainstream, today it is the establishment itself bawling \u201cTreason!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

What explains the hysteria?<\/span><\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/span><\/p>\n

Using Occam\u2019s razor, the real explanation for this behavior is the simplest one: America\u2019s elites have been driven over the edge by Trump\u2019s successes and their failures to block him.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump is deregulating the economy, cutting taxes, appointing record numbers of federal judges, reshaping the Supreme Court, and using tariffs to cut trade deficits and the bully pulpit to castigate freeloading allies.<\/span><\/p>\n

Worst of all, Trump clearly intends to carry out his campaign pledge to improve relations with Russia and get along with Vladimir Putin.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOver our dead bodies!\u201d the Beltway elite seems to be shouting.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hence the rhetorical WMDs hurled at Trump: liar, dictator, authoritarian, Putin\u2019s poodle, fascist, demagogue, traitor, Nazi.<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Pitchfork Pat has it exactly right. Please read the whole thing. He hereby earns the highest of the MavPhil<\/em> accolades, the coveted Plenary Prize for Political Penetration.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pat Buchanan: Not since Robert Welch of the John Birch Society called Dwight Eisenhower a \u201cconscious agent of the Communist conspiracy\u201d have such charges been hurled at a president. But while the Birchers were a bit outside the mainstream, today it is the establishment itself bawling \u201cTreason!\u201d What explains the hysteria? [. . .] Using … Continue reading “The Reason the Foreign Policy Establishment has Gone Mad”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}