Levin has elitist goggles on most times. Even now he claims Trump is purely pragmatic/business-minded and street smart, but not conservative in the “intellectual” sense.
Actually, Trump is someone who has been interested in politics throughout his life and in the past has cited his respect for the ideas of intellectual heavyweights like William F. Buckley. Trump’s interest in Chinese history and culture also precedes his businessman days. Just saying...
You can’t simply be a money/numbers guy and handle leaders from Asia and the Middle East as deftly as he has. He has a knack for understanding how other cultures operate in ways most Americans cloistered in ivory towers and think tanks do not.
Just saying. (Reposted.)
The neocons are having difficulty accepting the realities of global economics, and are desperately hanging on to the Reagan era that is far, far gone.
Trump is about responsibility. The neocons are hopeless romantics clinging to an abusive trade paradigm.