{"id":4525,"date":"2018-05-15T07:25:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T07:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/05\/15\/the-trump-paradox-and-phenomenon\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T07:25:04","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T07:25:04","slug":"the-trump-paradox-and-phenomenon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/05\/15\/the-trump-paradox-and-phenomenon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trump Paradox and Phenomenon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Solid analysis<\/a> as usual from my man Hanson:<\/span><\/p>\n

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[Conrad] Black instinctively captures the essence of the Trump paradox: How did someone supposedly so crude, so mercantile, and so insensitive display a sensitivity to the forgotten people that was lost both on his Republican competitors and Hillary Clinton? Certainly, no one on stage at any of the debates worried much about 40 percent of the country written off as John McCain\u2019s \u201ccrazies,\u201d Hillary Clinton\u2019s \u201cdeplorables\u201d and \u201cirredeemables,\u201d and Barack Obama\u2019s \u201cclingers,\u201d who were judged wanting for not capitalizing on the bicoastal dividends of American-led globalism.<\/span><\/p>\n

Black notes the Trump-hinterland synergy. The country was looking for a third alternative to both free-market economics and neo-socialism, and yet again to both political correctness and the Republican often groveling surrender to it. Or as Black puts it, \u201cTrump\u2019s rise was an expression of sub-revolutionary anger by a wide swath of dissatisfied and mainly not overly prosperous or influential people.\u201d But he adds that Trump was no third-party Ross Perot \u201ccharlatan\u201d (or, for that matter, a Quixotic Ralph Nader), who came off quirky and without a workable agenda. Trump took a path that was far different from third-party would-be revolutionaries, in seeking to appropriate rather than to run against the apparatus of one of the two major political parties.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Black\u2019s final third of the book is magisterial, as he recites nascent Trump achievements\u2014tax reform, deregulation, the end of the Affordable Care Act individual mandate, superb judicial appointments, curbs on illegal immigration, expanded oil and gas production, a restoration of deterrence aboard\u2014against a backdrop of nonstop venom and vituperation from the so-called \u201cResistance.\u201d He is certainly unsparing of the Left\u2019s desperate resort to discard the Electoral College, sue under the emoluments clause, invoke the 25th Amendment, introduce articles of impeachment, and embrace a sick assassination chic of threats to Trump\u2019s person and family. Some element of such hysteria is due to Trump\u2019s ostensible Republican credentials (the Left had devoured even their once beloved John McCain, as well as the gentlemanly and judicious Mitt Romney), but more is due to Trump\u2019s far more conservative agenda and his take-no-prisoners style.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Solid analysis as usual from my man Hanson: [Conrad] Black instinctively captures the essence of the Trump paradox: How did someone supposedly so crude, so mercantile, and so insensitive display a sensitivity to the forgotten people that was lost both on his Republican competitors and Hillary Clinton? Certainly, no one on stage at any of … Continue reading “The Trump Paradox and Phenomenon”<\/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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525","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=4525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}