"Trump's success in any field depended on the increasing corruption of the world he lived in. He would never have gotten very far in a business environment in which investors had a sound sense of the worth of a project, or in a publishing world dedicated to bringing out quality work--or in a political system that still served the needs of the American people."
These are ideals shared by many both in 1776 and now. Many people thought that the new American system would serve the needs of the American people, and frankly of all people, better than the one they were throwing off.
Trump, oddly enough, is throwing into high relief the bi partisan shortcomings of the new American system that everyone is now fully aware of. In so doing he is appealing to a strong thread that informed the original rebellion against Britain. Rebelling against his own party, while simultaneously fending off its Democratic opposition, is emblematic of how revolution has sometimes gone forward.
If he does turn out to have a serious reform agenda, he will have fooled a lot of people who maintained that he did not, including myself.
I will say this: anyone who tried to seriously reform our system would have conduct it a good deal by improvisation.
The aspects that Trump and Hitler share are that they both played the ethnic race card, and that they both try to capitalize on existing unrest. That is the extent of the comparison; they differ in more ways than they are similar.
Postscript: I originally wrote this post with Randy Fertel's work very much in mind.
This post is therefore now dedicated to him.
If he does turn out to have a serious reform agenda, he will have fooled a lot of people who maintained that he did not, including myself.
I will say this: anyone who tried to seriously reform our system would have conduct it a good deal by improvisation.
The aspects that Trump and Hitler share are that they both played the ethnic race card, and that they both try to capitalize on existing unrest. That is the extent of the comparison; they differ in more ways than they are similar.
Postscript: I originally wrote this post with Randy Fertel's work very much in mind.
This post is therefore now dedicated to him.
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