The Memo: Nationalists gain upper hand in Trump’s White House

The Hill ^ | 04/25/18 | Niall Stanage

[bgill]

The more lib’s heads explode, the more we’re winning our country back. MAGA.

[MarvinStinson]

From the leftwing rag, The Hill:

It emerged late last week that McMaster’s replacement, John Bolton, would bring in Mira Ricardel as his deputy.

Ricardel had clashed with Secretary of Defense James Mattis during her tenure in the White House Office of Presidential Personnel.

“Ricardel was controversial for one reason — she was insistent on putting Trump people into the Pentagon,” said one Republican operative with knowledge of these dynamics.

Ezra Cohen-Watnick, who was ousted from the National Security Council staff by McMaster in August, has returned to the administration, this time at the Department of Justice.

Cohen-Watnick was a player in the controversy over Trump’s evidence-free allegation that his predecessor, President Obama, had wiretapped him at Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign.

Cohen-Watnick was named by The New York Times as one of the officials who had worked with Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) to try to buttress the allegation.

But to some Trump loyalists, his return, announced earlier this month, is cause for celebration.

“Ezra coming back was a sign that people who are true believers in ‘America First’ are now welcome once again in the administration,” said one former White House official, who asked for anonymity. “It is a signal that there is a home for Trump supporters within the Trump administration.”

[MarvinStinson]

From the leftwing rag, The Hill:

Early Trump backers complain that there are plenty of onetime Trump-haters who now feign enthusiasm for career reasons.

“On the record, I believe there was a cadre of anti-Trump Republicans who made it their mission to get into the White House in order to subvert his agenda,” said Michael Caputo, a longtime friend of the president.

“It’s about finding people willing to follow through on the president’s agenda versus people who see themselves as trying to … ‘save the country from the president’s agenda.’ ”

[Lurkinanloomin]

I saw that happening at the time and could not believe some of the appointments.

[Lurkinanloomin]

over Trump’s evidence-free allegation that his predecessor, President Obama, had wiretapped him at Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign.
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Now known to be true and yet they still propagandize.

[Ancesthntr]

McMaster leaving, and being replaced by John Bolton, was a seminal moment. I am INCREDIBLY happy about that particular personnel change.

The job of the President is to represent THIS country and the interests of THIS COUNTRY’S people. To the extent that this President, who has excellent instincts in this regard, is surrounded by people with both substantive experience and similar views, I am happy. Oh, and the more that the internationalist/one-worlder types scream like stuck pigs, the happier I am.

Did I mention that I’m happy?

[Ancesthntr]

“Ezra coming back was a sign that people who are true believers in ‘America First’ are now welcome once again in the administration,” said one former White House official, who asked for anonymity. “It is a signal that there is a home for Trump supporters within the Trump administration.”

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You want a real sign that things are on the right track? That’ll be when Sebastian Gorka returns to the White House as a federal employee.

In the meantime, I’m quite satisfied with John Bolton being there, and especially his replacing of globalist-extraordinaire McMaster.

[RonnG]

Ich bin ein nationalist!

[Architect of Avalon]

Those who don’t want their country invaded by hordes of homicidal savages from the Middle East and gang members from Mexico are labeled xenophobic.

[Little Ray]

I can’t see a downside to this.
The Federal Government policy should ALWAY be “America First!”

[Billthedrill]

I've seen this topic brought up in certain, ah, "learned" journals of late, and so to provide some clarity in definition I offer this:

Patriot: person proud of his country's government and willing to defend it.

Nationalist: person proud of his country's government and intent on imposing it on others.

Get it? Patriot, good, nationalist bad. The problem is that internationalists intend to do precisely the same imposition and are regarded as good for it.

So, the usual definitional calisthenics on campus that really don't take us anywhere much except for some superficially impressive abstraction juggling. "War-monger" is apparently a sobriquet of nationalism, for example, but it doesn't apply to wars of liberation instigated from the outside by internationalists that have proven every bit as deadly, especially to civilians.

There is value in this consideration, though. If one considers Nazis as national socialists - that is, after all the origin of the term - and Communists as international socialists, one gets a closer idea of what "nationalist" means in this context, and it hasn't anything to do with imposition, they're both guilty of that, it merely refers to what is being imposed.

Best to stick with "patriot", especially when one considers that what their opponents apparently mean by "nationalist" in this context (at least within American politics) apples more precisely to the grotesquely misnamed "neocons", whose numbers appear to be dwindling within the Trump administration, not that you'd ever know that from the howling on the Left. The lesson to take home is that the people they loudly condemn as nationalist, aren't.