Posted on 03/01/2016 5:57:58 PM PST by VitacoreVision
The title of the Washington Post op-ed wastes no time on subtlety: "Larry Summers: Donald Trump is a serious threat to American democracy." The March 1 opinion piece by Lawrence H. Summers accuses the Republican presidential front-runner of, among other things, being a "thug," a "demagogue," and a threat to "the rule of law" and "democracy," but feigns graciousness by opining that Trump is slightly better than Hitler and Mussolini on the thuggery scale.
"While comparisons between Donald Trump and Mussolini or Hitler are overwrought," says Summers, "Trump's rise does illustrate how democratic processes can lose their way and turn dangerously toxic when there is intense economic frustration and widespread apprehension about the future."
"The possible election of Donald Trump as president is the greatest present threat to the prosperity and security of the United States," Summers avers, and warns that Trump "is demagogically offering the power of his personality as a magic solution to all problems—and making clear that he is prepared to run roughshod over anything or anyone who stands in his way."
Summers, of course, sees no irony or hypocrisy in his remarks, or in his failure to recognize that his boss, Barack Obama is (and has been, for the past eight years) "demagogically offering the power of his personality as a magic solution to all problems — and making clear that he is prepared to run roughshod over anything or anyone who stands in his way."
So, who is Lawrence "Larry" Summers, and why does his opinion matter enough for the Washington Post to put the op-ed on Trump in headlights? What credentials does he bear to teach or preach on the dangers of this or that candidate to "democracy" and "the American project?" Although not a household name among the lower and middle classes, Summers is a big name among the ruling and chattering classes. Besides his recent post as director of President Obama's National Economic Council, he has been a denizen of the shadowy corridors of power for decades: World Bank, White House, Clinton Cabinet, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, U.S. Treasury Department, Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg Group, United Nations, Group of 30, Harvard, etc. And in those positions, he has shown again and again that he is prepared to assist the globalist elites he serves to "run roughshod over anything or anyone who stands" in their way, including whole nations and regions of the world.
Summers, an economist, served as president of Harvard University from 2001-2006, and now holds the position of president emeritus and Charles W. Eliot university professor at Harvard. As a certified Harvard double-dome, Summers should know (and most probably does) that the American Founding Fathers bequeathed us a constitutional republic, not a democracy (see Republics and Democracies) and that the internationalist elites he works for have been struggling mightily for over a century to destroy the constitutional restraints on power and convert the United States into a democracy, which (as the Founders warned) would lead inevitably into mobocracy, and then to oligarchy, rule by the few.
In addition to being a longtime prominent member of world-government-promoting Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and the Trilateral Commission, Summers is a former chief economist of the World Bank, former treasury secretary, and a former member of the Steering Committee of the ultra-secret, ultra-powerful Bilderberg Group. Summers is also a member of the secretive and little-known Group of Thirty (G30), the coterie of international bankers and economists that wields enormous influence over the global economy.
Summers has grown immensely wealthy as a result of his "public service," raking in millions of dollars from Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Lehman Brothers, and other Wall Street giants he helped bail out with hundreds of billions of dollars from the American taxpayers. Then there is Summers' role with the "Harvard Group" in the ransacking of Russia of untold billions during the phony privatization by Boris Yeltsin (under the advisement of Summers' "Harvard Boys").
Although Donald Trump may merit some of the charges thrown at him by Summers, the credibility, motives, and connections of the accuser are more than merely suspect; they are sufficient to recognize this Washington Post op-ed as a hit piece aimed at a potential threat to the "new world order" favored by Summers and company, not "the American project" as envisioned by this country's Founders.
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Do you see what happens Larry?
Good. There is something very wrong with modern American “democracy”, a shadow of what America could be, and dammit it’s NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
Fantastic!! That’s where they found BatBoy, too.
Yes. The pedantic knee-jerking whenever someone confuses democracy for a republic, which is a form of democracy, is itself out of joint. The recent USSC interpretation of the Commerce Clause blew down the remaining barriers to centralized government control, quenching the notion that we still live in a republic. It’s become a distinction without a difference.
“The possible election of Donald Trump as president is the greatest present threat to the prosperity and security of the United States,” Summers avers, and warns that Trump “is demagogically offering the power of his personality as a magic solution to all problems—and making clear that he is prepared to run roughshod over anything or anyone who stands in his way.”>>>> and trump seems to think illegal and muslime immigration is the most destructive. Wonder who is correct?
That’s a pure classical democracy. But democracy as used commonly refers to a democratic republic where public policy is ultimately decided by the people and/or their elected representatives. The late Justice Scalia used the term “American democracy” often in that context.
If he is a serious threat to American Democracy, what is he to the Republic?
You beat me to it!
Actually, Trump is a serious threat to globalist insiders.
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That’s why they’re panicking.
The vitriol from all corners has been astounding.
The masks are off for those paying attention.
Cruz’s claim of not being a tool of the political elite is like Bill Clinton telling the world, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.”
Rockefeller and the other Oligarchs are a clear and present danger to the Constitution (which they hate.)
Summers and the RNC/DNC and other establishment figures are just well paid puppets.
If something - ANYTHING - bothers that scumbag, them I am for it.
I thought we were a constitutional free republic. com
Until I heard Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin turncoat for Rumio and Curz ad buys.
OH! FK!
Us against them.
The REVOLUTION IS ON!
“Trump’s policy positions include AUDIT THE FEDERAL RESERVE”
I gree with that position and pray that it gets done...but unfortunately it may be his biggest undoing...it was in a sense for Kennedy!
Nicely played. Slow start and then a line drive out of the park. Woe to those who don’t read to the end.
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