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Globalist Insider Larry Summers: "Trump Is a Serious Threat to American Democracy"
The New American ^ | 01 March 2016 | William F. Jasper

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: New York
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1 posted on 03/01/2016 5:57:58 PM PST by VitacoreVision
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To: VitacoreVision

We’re not a democracy.


2 posted on 03/01/2016 5:59:12 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: VitacoreVision

3 posted on 03/01/2016 5:59:28 PM PST by SoFloFreeper (I am undecided between Carson, Cruz, Rubio & Trump...)
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To: VitacoreVision

We’re not a democracy.


4 posted on 03/01/2016 6:00:07 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: VitacoreVision

Voters may pick the president rather than doners. That’s a threat to “democracy”.


5 posted on 03/01/2016 6:00:07 PM PST by LostPassword
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To: VitacoreVision

Actually, Trump is a serious threat to globalist insiders.


6 posted on 03/01/2016 6:00:33 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: VitacoreVision

Isn’t people voting for their candidate democracy?


7 posted on 03/01/2016 6:00:35 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: VitacoreVision

Obama created the precedent. Trump is just going to run with it.


8 posted on 03/01/2016 6:01:06 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: VitacoreVision

“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” —Thomas Jefferson

“Democracy is indispensable to socialism... The goal of socialism is communism... Hatred is the basis of communism.” —Vladimir Lenin


9 posted on 03/01/2016 6:01:27 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("The goal of socialism is communism... Hatred is the basis of communism" --Vladimir Lenin)
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To: DuncanWaring

The article might just have well have been written by Larry Bud Melman.


10 posted on 03/01/2016 6:01:54 PM PST by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prosecution 2016)
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To: VitacoreVision

The Clintons and 0bama have already destroyed the rule of law.
Can’t destroy what doesn’t exist.


11 posted on 03/01/2016 6:02:18 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: VitacoreVision

Hey Larry, take this to heart ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tto9o8hTl8I&list=PL813690032BF2CE3C&index=43


12 posted on 03/01/2016 6:02:18 PM PST by soycd
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
Correct. To quote the Article:

... 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 ...
13 posted on 03/01/2016 6:02:33 PM PST by VitacoreVision
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Bump.


14 posted on 03/01/2016 6:03:07 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: DuncanWaring

correct


15 posted on 03/01/2016 6:03:19 PM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: All

Comments BUMP!


16 posted on 03/01/2016 6:04:39 PM PST by PGalt
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To: VitacoreVision
Credibility questionable, considering previous Larry Summers' articles:


17 posted on 03/01/2016 6:04:52 PM PST by Byron_the_Aussie (Michelle Obama, The Early Years: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBYGxBlFOSU)
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To: VitacoreVision

Wrong - Hillary and Rubio are the threats.


18 posted on 03/01/2016 6:05:39 PM PST by Dante3
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To: VitacoreVision
Trump is a serious and deadly threat to GLOBALISM
19 posted on 03/01/2016 6:05:40 PM PST by gg188 (Ted Cruz, R - Goldman Sachs)
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To: VitacoreVision

Thank you Mr. Trump for saving us from fraud Ted Cruz. Cruz is a fake and big time liar.

What good law has Cruz gotten passed or even tried to pass?

Cruz has helped the 2 worst laws ever get passed TPA TPP(obamatrade) and
the Corker bill.


20 posted on 03/01/2016 6:05:50 PM PST by Democrat_media (ONLY Trump will build the wall that will stop the illegals invasion of the USA!)
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