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New president, new world
Worldnet Daily ^ | January 19th, 2017 | Patrick J. Buchanan

Posted on 01/19/2017 7:49:14 PM PST by Mariner

“Don’t make any sudden moves” is the advice offered to the new president by Richard Haass of the Council on Foreign Relations, which has not traditionally been known as a beer hall of populist beliefs.

Haass meant the president should bring his National Security Council together to anticipate the consequences before tearing up the Iran nuclear deal, moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem or shooting down a missile being tested by Kim Jong-Un.

In arguing against rash action, Haass is correct.

Where the CFR and the establishment are wrong, and Donald Trump is right, however, is in recognizing the new world we have entered.

The old order is passing away. Treaties and alliances dating from the Cold War are ceasing to be relevant and cannot long be sustained.

Economic patriotism and ethnonationalism, personified by Trump, seem everywhere ascendant. Transnationalism is yielding to tribalism.

The greater danger for President Trump is that the movement he led will be abandoned, its hopes dashed, and the agenda that Trump rejected and routed will be reimposed by a Republican Establishment and its collaborators in politics and the press.

Again, it was Trump who read the nation right, which is why he is taking the oath today.

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To: FreedomStar3028

The primary issue if abortion, and I don’t know what to expect from Trump on that (and it would probably be linked to the Supreme Court); affirmative action is a close second.

The public education industry in particular needs to be crushed then reformed; hearing the lamentations of those unions is a reminder that they are the de facto owners of the Democratic Party - and they just lost big.


41 posted on 01/20/2017 3:31:32 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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