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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This from the man who blew through Harvard’s endowment fund and shared his lack of wisdom as obama’s economic advisor?
How do these guys even stay among polite society much less have any strategic political creds?
Keeper
Bad taste but funny
trump is a threat to the rino freakin gop freaks...lol
Trump is the greatest hero ever 10 billion times better than William Wallace of Braveheart. I prove it here in this letter I wrote (Not spam as cruz bots say) . I owe my life, my liberty , my property to Mr. Trump and what he is doing to save us and America from falling into the abyss of hell politicians have us about to fall into (TPP).
See who the media is lying against Trump .
Trump is who we should support!
Trump will stop TPP!
Trump will stop China
Trump will stop illegals with the wall
The media , Rubio,the GOPe etc. all want trump out because Trump is for America and for freedom.
They all want to inundate the USA with hundreds of millions of 3rd world socialist immigrants. TPP does this.
If Trump is able to overcome the media lies and become president Trump will save the USA.
Trump if he can pull it off will save America from Cruz, Rubio, Jebb or Hillary all of which would have produced the exact same results the destruction of the USA by not stopping the flood of illegals and immigrants.
Trump is the only one I trust out of those running or that ran. Truly Trump will do a heroic thing risking his fortune and success to literally save us from falling in the abyss. Trump is a modern day William Wallace of braveheart only 10 billion times better. if he can become president we will all owe him our freedom , and property and lives.
Definitely Obama had the USA at the tipping point and with TPP etc. they would have destroyed the USA sending it into the abyss. But at the last second Trump arrives , really the only person in the world that i see that could have done it, saved us, and the only person in Washington that is not corrupt or bought off by the globalists and marxists.
Trump is our last hope
TPP : “The Trans-Pacific Partnership includes an entire chapter on immigration. It is a Trojan horse for Obama’s immigration agenda.”
Donald Trump has a long history of things I don’t like about him.
But, he seems to be picking-up all the right enemies.
Absent a black swan, I’ll be voting for him.
If Trump was not worthy Palin and Sessions would not have endorsed him.
Only Reggie Love could find that attractive. Gross, really gross.
“Obama created the precedent. Trump is just going to run with it.”
And that is where I have an issue with him saying he is a conservative. If you look at the comments over the past 8 years on this website, you will soon realize that if you are going to follow in the footsteps of Obama, you are not doing the right thing for the country.
I would also think that a real conservative would distance himself from a liberal the likes of Obama.
Trump is the greatest hero ever 10 billion times better than William Wallace of Braveheart. I prove it here in this letter I wrote (Not spam ) . I owe my life, my liberty , my property to Mr. Trump and what he is doing to save us and America from falling into the abyss of hell politicians have us about to fall into (TPP).
See who the media is lying against Trump .
Trump is who we should support!
Trump will stop TPP!
Trump will stop China
Trump will stop illegals with the wall
The media , Rubio,the GOPe etc. all want trump out because Trump is for America and for freedom.
They all want to inundate the USA with hundreds of millions of 3rd world socialist immigrants. TPP does this.
If Trump is able to overcome the media lies and become president Trump will save the USA.
Trump if he can pull it off will save America from Cruz, Rubio, Jebb or Hillary all of which would have produced the exact same results the destruction of the USA by not stopping the flood of illegals and immigrants.
Trump is the only one I trust out of those running or that ran. Truly Trump will do a heroic thing risking his fortune and success to literally save us from falling in the abyss. Trump is a modern day William Wallace of braveheart only 10 billion times better. if he can become president we will all owe him our freedom , and property and lives.
Definitely Obama had the USA at the tipping point and with TPP etc. they would have destroyed the USA sending it into the abyss. But at the last second Trump arrives , really the only person in the world that i see that could have done it, saved us, and the only person in Washington that is not corrupt or bought off by the globalists and marxists.
Trump is our last hope
TPP : “The Trans-Pacific Partnership includes an entire chapter on immigration. It is a Trojan horse for Obama’s immigration agenda.”
Politicians have not passed a good law in 100 years , Cruz hasn’t even tried to pass a good law but only 2 worst laws ever did Cruz vote for TPA TPP and the Corker bill. Trump will save America from what politicians did to us.
And Shlafly.
This time last year I laughed off talk of Trump running.
I never liked him, never watched his show or read his books.
Americans have been wanting a President who would stop the illegal alien inundation, nobody else really stepped up until Trump.
LOL bet he doesnt think that about Sanders or Clinton, liberal loons only think that living in a Socialist Utopian society is a “Democracy”
No Larry this country is at risk from the
East coast elite.
$100bills are another serious threat to the American way of life as we know it.
$100bills are another serious threat to the American way of life as we know it.
You got that right.
Dear Larry,
You ignorant slut! This nation was not founded as a democracy. It was founded as a constitutional republic
What a dumbass.
Too soon?
I have T-Shirt I picked up in The Hamptons with that emblazoned on it....
One of my favorite snowboarding shirts....
Well I sure am glad we’re NOT democracy.
Well I sure am glad we’re NOT democracy.
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