Guest Post by The Zman
Way back in the olden thymes, conservatives during the Reagan years had a real fear that the Rockefeller Republicans would not only undermine the conservative agenda, but find a way to corrupt the Reagan administration. It was an unwarranted fear. Those Progressive Republicans were a dying force in politics. Reagan was a man of his age so his conservatism does not always make sense to the modern ear, but he stuck to his guns for the most part. He was a politician, so he compromised when he had to.
Then George H. W. Bush was ready to take the reigns of the movement and the party, despite being a Rockefeller Republican. Bush was a Progressive by any measure, but he supposedly got religion in the 1980’s, and to be fair, a lot of people went through that transformation. There were even old Jewish guys, who used to support communists, that were suddenly changing teams to join the new emerging majority. Bush spent a lot of time convincing the voters he was just like Reagan and they had nothing to fear.
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The ’88 election was a landslide for Bush and a lot of sensible people thought that he would be the finishing touches to the new conservative majority. He would smooth out the rough patches and put a shine on other aspects to it. His famous pledge to never raise taxes was the cornerstone of his pitch. Wiser heads, the paleocons, saw what was coming, but most did not. That’s why when Bush broke his promise, a year into his presidency, his voters were crushed. Bush was a liar.
History is written by the victors and that means the Left, so we’re always told that Bush lost in ’92 because Clinton was sent by the void where God once existed, to bring joy and bliss to the blessed and smite the wicked. The truth is, Bush lost because the core of his voters rightly saw him as a liar and a fink. Many people I know, including myself, voted third party as a protest. Yeah, it meant a degenerate would win the election, but at least we knew what we were getting. Liars like Bush always find new ways to screw you.
Unless you have been in a cave, you know where this is heading. Trump won the nomination and the presidency on one core issue. He would be the President of the United Sates, not the President of the world. That was his line. He repeated it often. It allegedly captured his one core belief. What is good for America is what is good for Americans and the government should always be working to further the interest of Americans, over the interests of foreigners.
The fact that something so obvious and sane has to be explained speaks to the the degeneracy of our age. But, we live in a time when we have to debate physical reality with people who insist things like biology and math are a plot by a mystery cult of white men to keep down women and non-whites. Still, Trump running on a platform of rationality, and winning on the platform, gave a lot of people, including me, a spark of hope. Maybe what comes next does not have to be what always comes next.
Yesterday, the alt-right and even many seasoned geezers like me took a body blow when Trump abandoned everything he said over the last two years and embraced the idiocy of yet another war in the Middle East. Not only is he embracing the lunacy of the traitorous neocons, he is risking war with Russia. His “reason” for condemning himself to ruin is that his daughter got the sads over seeing pictures of dead kids in Syria. She takes to twitter over this latest agit-prop and in a day daddy is launching missiles at Assad.
The United States has no interest in Syria. There are no good guys to back. There’s no “solution” to what ails that part of the world, short of another flood. Syria is a mess because it is full of Syrians. The only sane policy is to make sure it remains full of Syrians. Let them kill each other there, not in Paris or Portland. If the Russians want to build their pipeline there and pay the price for it, good for them. If the Saudis want to stop them, best of luck with it. This is not an American problem. It is their problem. Let them own it.
This brings us back to Bush. He spent the remainder of his presidency trying to rebuild his standing with conservatives. He even scored what was pitched as a stunning victory in the First Gulf War. But, you only get one shot to piss away your integrity and Bush did not miss that opportunity. He entered the general election as a weak incumbent and Clinton used his broken pledge in commercials to remind everyone that Bush was an untrustworthy liar. Imagine that. Clinton beat Bush on the integrity issue.
It’s not too late for Trump. This may be one of those times where a President learns that his advisers are not politicians for a reason. They lack political sense. Trump does have a habit of learning quickly from his errors. That’s not the way to bet. He is now getting tongue-kissed by the Establishment. Like all men with out-sized egos, vanity is his greatest weakness. If Trump is enjoying the praise from his adoption of the “invade the world” position, imagine what happens when he accepts the “invite the world” half.
Maybe Trump recovers and avoids the fate Bush I, but I have my doubts.
Maybe we should wait to see how this plays out before drawing conclusions.
The leftist anti Trump people are seeing this as a Russian move to make their puppet, Trump, look good.
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/04/07/msnbcs-odonnell-maybe-putin-masterminded-chemical-attack-so-trump-could-look-good-by-striking-syria/
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/04/07/dem-rep-lieu-trump-might-have-launched-syria-strike-to-distract-from-possible-collusion-with-putin/
Along with others.
BTW, Gorsuch is on the Court, another Trump accomplishment in keeping with his campaign promises, many of which he has already filled and is in the process of filling.
Glenn Greenwald makes a good, if long, case that the temptations to war are too great to withstand – especially for Trump and especially in America. Worth the time:
Meanwhile, the very pro-Trump Conservative Treehouse site has, in three short days, switched from “don’t get suckered into attacking Syria” to “Assad must go – and we have to make him”. I guess they’re suddenly ok with Hillary’s foreign policy. Fuck.
There are other players involved and that Egypt’s al Sisi and Jordan’s King Abdullah met with Trump in the days just before the missile strike leave me to believe they are the reason behind the about face on Assad.
In any event this, despite the sound and fury, isn’t that big a deal. I was more irritated that it, once again, steps all over Trump’s more important domestic agenda and the fact that so many Democrats and neverTrumpers are so enthusiastic makes it suspect but we’ll see.
Iska…Don’t put 100% faith in Greenwald. I get The Intercept weekly. I sent this to The Intercept the other day:
INTERCEPT
Yes. First, on your email, you state “We’re curious why you visit The Intercept — what you love, what you’d like to see more of, what you could do without.” So where is the opportunity on this survey why I visit the Intercept?????????
Also, your Editors are flaming liberals without a shred of honesty, integrity, or knowledge. On Global Warming for instance:
Did your Editors ever read ClimateGate emails? Read them and then tell me you would hire any of those despicable people. If you are dishonest and without integrity, you would hire them.
Are they aware that the 1990 AR1 graph of temperature and CO2 did show the MWP and LIA and that the AR3 in 2001 did not. In between was a 2000 docudrama ‘An Inconvenient Lie’ by Al Gore with his PR graph of temp and CO2 that did not show the MWP and LIA. My, my what a coincidence and deceit and trickery, and lack of scientific integrity.
Do you know the IPCC does not use the Scientific Method. Can you even guess why?
Do you know about the fiasco in AR4 where the highly political document, the Summary for Policymakers (which goes to Congress) stated the Himalayas’s would be ice free by 2035. Do you have any idea how many bureaucrats go over this SPM to ensure its political message captures members of Congress. Some time after issue of AR4 (2007), the Himalaya announcement was a Lie. The IPCC later said it was a typo and should have been 2350 – yeah, right.
Do your Editors even know the seas have been rising for 23,000 years due to the unwinding of the Pleistocene.
Do your Editors know that ‘Consensus’ is not science – it is political.
The only thing the warming alarmists achieve correctly is Propaganda. Hyperbole and Anecdotal Evidence is not Science.
BTW, I have listened to G. Greenwald and am very impressed. I also give him very high marks for supporting Ed Snowden. That is why I visit the Intercept.
Ray Aronson
04-05-2017
Let’s calm down and give the man a chance.
Getting elected president is a bit like being a relief pitcher in baseball. You don’t take the mound with a clean slate, you are brought in to clean up someone else’s mess. With Syria, Trump inherited quite a mess. First of all, the chemical weapons problem was supposed to have been ‘solved’ by Obama and John Kerry. They told us so. The deal they made to renege on Obama’s ‘red line’ being crossed was supposed to have ‘destroyed’ Syria’s remaining chemical arsenal. Apparently somebody was lying. Now if it was al Nusra or ISIS who have the chemical weapons why hasn’t Assad been crying foul and Obama and Kerry backing him up and blaming al Nusra/ISIS for the incident? I sure would if I were Kerry or Obama rather than look like suckers.
It sure would have been a lot easier for Trump to blame the incident on ISIS or al Nusra than Assad. Nobody cares if he were to bomb them. In fact we have been for years now- to no great effect!
blatant false flag
Maybe, and it well could be. Nothing in the ME is as it seems to be.
But who would be the real winner if it resulted in Russia and the US killing each other off?
That would be the most likely party to benefit from it if it is.
You get two enemies that stand in your way to fight and decimate each other then you march forward to where you want to go without resistance from them.
One strike does not constitute a war.
Clinton bombing a pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum, for alleged WMD reasons, did not constitute a war with Sudan.
That was a so different time, before Putin, before Russia arose again.
Time will tell that, we’ll see how it plays out soon.
I’m guessing nothing will come of it other than a lot of talk and Assad being more cautious about what he is doing or setting himself up to be blamed for.
Maybe I’m wrong, but that is my thinking at this point barring further developments to change it.
Excellent article that brought me back to the day. Coming from Connecticut I had a front row seat to watch snakes like the Bush family in action. Prescott, like the old blue blood Yankee stock he was spawned from worshiped money (by any means) and power. That’s it. Forget about the high minded “thousand points of light” bullshit. For me, it was a time when the full realization set in that Washington was right; ” Government is not reason, it is not eloquence — it is force”. And, like a bad habit I would give it up.
It followed a brutal let down by Reagan who talked the talk of conservatism but walked the walk of a big spender. I stopped voting at that point and never looked back.
The other option is not that Trump is being led astray by the likes of his slimy smooth son in law. It’s that he is following a path he purposely chose from the start. Run like a populist and govern like an establishmentarian. It means that he was every bit as devious and calculating as his pals the Clinton’s were and then some. This morning he’s being lauded by McClain, the Bushes, Pelosi, Kissinger, Mika, Joe and the like and doubted by Savage, Coulter, Farage and the like. Feeling nervous yet Trump fans? And of course it also means that all those of good will who supported him will have gotten danced down the primrose path. We’ll see how the battle between Sonny-Boy Jared and Bannon turns out. If Bannon goes, what else is left to believe in?
To those who see (or want to see) Trump as a master chess player: Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. The truth is that Trump is an empty suit who runs a small family real estate business. His expertise lies solely in self-promotion. He knows jack shit about the rest of the world. The truth is also that the GoP is a wasteland of treason and incompetence. Trump is surrounded by idiots, neocons and warmongers because that is all the GoP has to offer. Russia has given their warning. Fuck with them again and there will be war. Watch Trump fuck with them again.
If he’s that insignificant, where does that place Zarathustra?
Unless you’ve achieved more than him you aren’t in a position to belittle him as a low achiever.
BTW, he’s accomplished more of his promised agenda in a few months than any other President in history I know of, that hardly qualifies him as an “empty suit” in my view.
But you may be right about most of the rest of the GOP’s higher ranks, but the same would apply equally to virtually all of the Democrats, from top to bottom, as well.
Read 7 Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence to truly understand why we should not be in the Middle East, period. Extraordinary book by a westerner who really understood the Arabs.