washingtonpost.com [Robert Kagan - 5/18/2016]
Posted on 05/19/2016 9:54:57 AM PDT by rktman
The Republican Party’s attempt to treat Donald Trump as a normal political candidate would be laughable were it not so perilous to the republic. If only he would mouth the party’s “conservative” principles, all would be well.
But of course the entire Trump phenomenon has nothing to do with policy or ideology. It has nothing to do with the Republican Party, either, except in its historic role as incubator of this singular threat to our democracy. Trump has transcended the party that produced him. His growing army of supporters no longer cares about the party. Because it did not immediately and fully embrace Trump, because a dwindling number of its political and intellectual leaders still resist him, the party is regarded with suspicion and even hostility by his followers. Their allegiance is to him and him alone.
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The Compost still stinks!
In 2013, longtime owners the Graham family sold the Washington Post to Jeff Bezos founder and chief executive of Amazon.com.
Bezos purchased the newspaper for $250 million dollars in cash.
The newspaper is now legally owned by a holding company, Nash Holdings LLC, created by Bezos for the the purpose.
washingtonpost.com [Robert Kagan - 5/18/2016]
Kagan the pagan..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7370992.stm
Robert Kagan is an adviser to Senator John McCain and his idea that the United States should continue to take a strong, and possibly a confrontational, role in world affairs accords with McCain’s own views.
Kagan’s brother Frederick was instrumental in persuading President Bush to reinforce US forces in Iraq with last year’s “surge”, against the advice of the Iraq Study Group of “wise men” at the time. The surge was and is a policy supported by John McCain and one of the reasons for his political success.
Obama taps Victoria Nuland for assistant secretary
Friday, May 24, 2013
EXCERPT
Following the announcement, Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which is tasked with confirming her nomination, remained mum on her nomination, though a committee source speaking to The Cable said there is “very little chance” the nomination won’t trigger a fight.
Nuland, however, is something of an awkward target for Republicans. From 2003 to 2005, she served as principal deputy national security advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney. Her husband is prominent neoconservative writer Robert Kagan, co-founder of the Project for the New American Century and an advisor to Mitt Romney’s failed presidential bid.
“In such an environment, every political figure confronts a stark choice: Get right with the leader and his mass following or get run over.”
Trump Train. Get on or get run over.
How many times have we heard that here?
Anyhow, again, the fascism is coming from the left, has been for a long time. Trumpism is a reaction to it. Obamaism is a cult of personality and fascist to a huge degree.
I just hope Trump stands strong against the global warming totalitarians.
Against the Muslim infiltration.
Against criminal and rapist illegal aliens and the sanctuary cities.
They’re starting to pee their pants over the prospect of President Trump.
He describes Obama and his supporters. Supporters who view(ed) him as a deity.
OH goody. A Greek born Harvard educated, Bill Kristin buddy,who’s wife is Nuland of the state department tells me, in WaPo no less, what his fears are.
His dad was a decent historian. This off spring, like other neocons, is a fraud
“Kagan is often characterized as a leading neoconservative, but prefers to call himself a “liberal interventionist””
I appreciate the honesty in that.
I know, right? Like a rattlesnake rattling, just to let you know what and where he is. ;)
Neulands husband telling us about fascism. Is his wife still handing out donuts to Svoboda?
Why yes, thank you for the compliment. LOL!
This person’s entire existence is dedicated toward convincing the U.S. government to commit blood and treasure in useless wars of choice overseas. I wonder who’s his closest relative currently serving in a combat role in the U.S. military.
Most likely
Paraphrasing Reagan when he ceased being a Democrat, we didn't leave the party; the party left us.
Benito Mussolini was a Communist who couldn’t win the nomination of his party.
So he broke away and set up what he called “The Fagot Party” (Fascist in English).
Mussolini and his Fascist used a simple strategy to win: They disrupted all competition. Mass numbers of Fascists would show up opposition rallies shouting slogans, locking hands, blocking doors and roads, etc. They would get in the faces of anyone who dared disagree and use their mass numbers to intimidate. They’d show up at businesses who opposed them and houses of people they didn’t like.
The bullying efforts paid off - Mussolini became the leader of Italy and began to make the place a paradise.
Mussolini defined Fascism as a state where people owned private property as long as they were serving the public interests.
Taking a bunch of ideas from “The Communist Manifesto” it didn’t take long for Mussolini to seize the hospitals, the banks, the media, the auto companies and others in the name of the people. Those greedy industries were finally brought to heel.
Though a lot of the above does sound familiar in American politics, I don’t think any of it sounds like Donald Trump or his proposed policies.
After 8 years of blatant Fascism from 0bama and his clown posse NOW this utter imbecilic wants to talk is about “Fascism”?
Kagan is a complete moron without the slightest hint of a clue of notion of being in the same postal code of an idiots understanding of Fascism.
Trump is the cure of the creeping Fascism of Kagan and his of “progressive” Fascist wannabe.
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