Robert Reich: Does Hillary Get It? – OpEd

http://www.eurasiareview.com/24072016-robert-reich-does-hillary-get-it-oped/ ^ | July 24, 2016 | Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor

[arthurus]

I call you a fraud on both counts, or at least a dabbler rather than a student.

[Chaguito]

Reich is running about 3.7 years late. Anybody should have seen this after the last prez election. The treachery of the GOP was the bellweather of the new reality in politics.

[central_va]

1. America was founded on protectionism i.e. anti mercantilism. - fact.
2. The federal govt was funded completely by tariffs and other user taxes completely until 1913- Fact.
3. Under the protectionist umbrella American industry flourished - fact.
4. The first law ever passed was the tariff act of 1789 - fact.
5. The income tax(1913) has replaced tariffs and has allowed the unmitigated growth of government and the devaluation of the dollar year in and year out - fact.

You stand informed.

[central_va]

Free Traders

[Billthedrill]

The most powerful force in American politics today is anti-establishment fury at a system rigged by big corporations, Wall Street, and the super-wealthy.

Close, but I'm still trying to wrap my head around "authoritarian populism". I'm guessing Bobby is throwing abstractions against the wall to see if any stick.

The anger he's sensing is genuine but not quite directed in the way he's projecting. It is, as well, against arrogant party establishments, manipulative and power-hungry media, racist social activists; in short, against a fair proportion of the Democrat base. For Hillary to try to position herself in an adversarial role to all that is to try to deny everything she stands for and that got her here. It isn't going to happen and nobody would believe that outrageous sham if she tried.

Reich is in the position of an old aristo in the French revolution who sees the tidal wave coming and doesn't recognize that it's coming for him too. That's the real problem with media analysis of this thing. Objectivity is like virginity: once gone, it isn't coming back. Do not ask for whom the tumbrel rolls, friends, it rolls for thee.