Machiavelli was simply an honest political philosopher. He correctly understood human nature and how humans behaved. He correctly described how humans behaved to manage their necessary group associations and why some were successful and others failed. He was not “evil”. If there was any evil involved in his writings it was there to describe the actual behavior of human beings.
| I have not studied Machiavelli, but I suspect you are right. Psychiatrists have an interest in creating labels such as Machiavellian and Narcissist. It keeps them employed. Wish I had a dollar for every MSM story labeling Trump a narcissist. |
Machiavelli wasn't necessary immoral himself.
But Ted Cruz has adopted these "Machiavellian" tactics wholeheartedly, and indeed has behaved exactly as if the end does justify the means.
The People have seen this, and Cruz's ongoing collusion with the party elite, and they are rejecting it forcefully.
Donald Trump, on the other hand, as lowbrow as he's been in some instances, has categorically not adopted these sorts of tactics.
Ted Cruz is just out of control with blind ambition at this point, while Donald Trump is pointing out that this movement isn't even about Trump, it's about "We the People".
Ted Cruz and the GOPe are strategically and tactically joined at the hip in the Peoples' minds, and deservedly so. All Cruz can do is go around and literally lie about manh of Donald Trump's policy positions. Ironically Crus has come to personify the "Lyin' Ted" label that Donald Trump sight to associate him with.
Vote Trump