Posted on 05/09/2016 10:31:26 PM PDT by Trumpinator
Why George Washington Would Have Agreed With Donald Trump
Watch Out, Hillary: The Founding Fathers would have loved “America First,” and they might have been right.
By Michael Hirsh
May 05, 2016
In his big foreign-policy rollout speech last week, Trump declared it was time “to shake the rust off of America’s foreign policy” and drop American pretensions about remaking the world in our image any longer. Or as he put it, in an obvious reference to the failed invasion of Iraq and intervention in Libya, America should abandon the “dangerous idea that we could make Western democracies out of countries that had no experience or interest in becoming a Western democracy.” Brazenly calling his agenda “America First”—never mind that was the name of the notorious pre-World War II isolationist movement—he also directly challenged the 70 years of bipartisan consensus over the post-World War II global order that America created. He suggested that the world needs America far more than the other way around, and he effectively warned U.S. allies that without a new global deal that demands a kind of tribute paid to Washington for its defense umbrella—he wants them to “prove” they are our friends, he says—he’d walk away from the world’s trade table, so to speak. “We will no longer surrender this country or its people to the false song of globalism,” Trump said. “The nation-state remains the true foundation for happiness and harmony. I am skeptical of international unions that tie us up and bring America down.”
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http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/early-republic/resources/hamilton%E2%80%99s-report-subject-manufactures-1791
Hamilton’s Report on the Subject of Manufactures, 1791
Except Trump who probably owns control of more public bathrooms than all other Presidential candidates combined, has said “It has not been a problem.”
Oh Glenn won’t like this
And it hadn’t been until folks started passing laws that then allowed courts to get involved
Be careful what you wish for
One look at contemporary America and George Washington would have sh*t himself.
brilliant....
That’s why we are probably way far gone as a culture. I buy that Target might have this policy for social justice reasons. But I don’t buy that from Trump. What, he doesn’t know if his women customers care if men use the women’s bathrooms in his buildings? If we are at the point where women really don’t care, we are pretty way far gone.
We’ll see if Target is hurt by this policy in a few moths or so. They will only be hurt if women actually care about this. They might not.
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