Related: The Mirror
Related: The Mirror
Making decisions based on raw emotion is the hallmark of liberalism ...
I posted an article about Ivanka yesterday. They must have deleted it. Let’s see if they let us keep this one up. Glad you mentioned a lot more than one source.
Trump is replacing all the conservatives in his admin with Jared’s globalists friends.
Good grief... just because she’s vocal about matters doesn’t mean she’s appointed herself Madam President.
No it wasn’t. People who think Mattis and McMaster would have allowed that is delusional
specifically, pax americana is a response to the perceived failure of strict USA neutrality a la switzerland. it surfaced briefly during ww i in 1917 after the zimmerman telegram from germany to mexico promising mexico some of USA land if mexico supported germany and germany successfully attacked and defeated the USA.
after ww i, so called isolationists in the USA argued for a return to swiss style neutrality by the USA.
this state of affairs was overturned by the japanese attack on pearl harbor in 1941, which was regarded as another failure of swiss style neutrality. the driving concept of modern (post ww ii) pax americana, as i informally understand it, is that the usa cannot afford to be neutral (in the style of switzerland) because evil countries continue to do evil things and eventually those evil actions by evil countries will infringe upon the security of the USA.
with this policy and driving concept, isolationism as a political force receded into the background after ww ii.
isolationism as a political force resurfaced during the vietnam war, specifically beginning with senator mccarthy campaigning for president in the 1968 presidential campaign. however, it seemed IIRC to be limited mainly to US policies in southeast asia.
beginning with the freeing of the iranian embassy hostages by reagan in 1981, pax americana again became the dominant USA foreign policy.
(i wonder if this very brief summary is accurate.)
At this rate Ill be staying home in 2020. My support level is down to about what I had for W after TARP.
in the 2016 presidential election, trump campaigned in part on a foreign policy of modern day isolationism and rejection to some degree of pax americana.
however, it has seemed to be difficult in practice for trump supporters to pin trump down on some campaign specifics, particularly on issues that did not seem central to his campaign. issues that seemed most central to trump’s campaign included building a wall on the mexican border, limiting immigration from some muslim countries, reducing taxes, supporting the military, and repealing obamacare.
imho trump is certain to be aware of recent USA history, including the recurring theme of pax americana.
therefore the notion of ivanka trump suddenly influencing trump in the direction of pax americana seems somewhat oversimplified and naiive to me. more likely there was an active debate pro and con intervention by trump’s advisors, and the pro intervention trump advisors won trump over to their side with arguments based on or similar to pax americana.
having made the decision, trump would have been faced with coming up with a story that would maximize public support and minimize alienating his true believer (isolationist) supporters. ivanka claiming influence would be a convenient avenue towards maximizing such political support for the intervention by trump.
by using ivanka in a political way, trump continues in the mold of Andrew Jackson, specifically his first lady, who was Emily Donelson.
“it has been claimed”
WOW! Now THERE’S a definitive attribution!
Get rid of her! Fat chance I know. She will bring DJT down with her whinny liberal outlook.
Even though she appears personally graceful and likable,I’m very skeptical of her political views.
I don’t trust her, or Mr. Priebus.
I don’t want to turn my back on my president but if he abandons Bannon in favor of his lefty daughter I’m going to be pissed. Not what I voted for.
With reports that she met with Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, I hope her feelings of outrage and heartbreak will also extend to the maiming and mutilation of the babies killed in abortions.
Key words: “it has been claimed.”