Posted on 02/27/2016 5:31:28 AM PST by VitacoreVision
It's February 23 as I write, and the season when political parties choose their nominee for the office of president is in full swing. Republicans from Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina have catapulted Donald Trump into a commanding lead. And the pundits in all phases of the media are worried.
Frank Rich is a former New York Times columnist whose opinions are now published in New York. He has just written about the worriers who are scratching their heads in discontent about the prospect of Trump winning the nomination and the White House. Rich pointedly cited the seeming desperation among "the Establishment" about the success achieved by the New York billionaire. He stated:
After Donald Trump's victory in South Carolina, the GOP Establishment is left with what some political reporters have called "an urgent decision: Either destroy Mr. Trump or embrace him.... Far and away the Establishment's bigger challenge is to destroy Trump."The question Rich didn't answer is: Who are the individuals who form this "Establishment"? He didn't name any, so let us give an opinion about the people who seem anxious, according to Rich, to "destroy Mr. Trump."
In December 1961, nationally syndicated columnist Edith Kermit Roosevelt, the granddaughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, gave her readers as sound a definition of this powerful clique as could be found anywhere. Her description made sense 55 years ago, and it is still on target today. She wrote:
The word "establishment" is a general term for the power elite in international finance, business, the professions and government, largely from the northeast, who wield most of the power regardless of who is in the White House. Most people are unaware of this "legitimate Mafia." Yet the power of the Establishment makes itself felt from the professor who seeks a foundation grant, to the candidate for a Cabinet post or State Department job. It affects the nation's policies in almost every area....
What is the Establishment's viewpoint? Through the Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations its ideology is constant: That the best way to fight Communism is by a One World Socialist state governed by "experts" like themselves. The result has been policies which favor the growth of the superstate, gradual surrender of United States sovereignty to the United Nations.
Miss Roosevelt's mention that members of the Establishment are "largely from the northeast" leads to the conclusion that she had in mind the members of the New York City-based Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). That's where the bulk of the "power elite" can be found. If indeed members of the CFR and several lesser-known but likeminded Establishment groups "favor the growth of the superstate [and] gradual surrender of U.S. sovereignty to the United Nations," and these individuals see a need to destroy Donald Trump's so far very successful race to the nomination, then it would seem that Trump is not one of them. Which, in the view of this prognosticator, is a huge plus. It is also interesting that the people Rich has written about have no similar fears about Rubio, Cruz, and Kasich.
The New York pundit, himself easily linked to the Establishment, says the power elite would like to have all but one of Trump's competitors bow out so that he would have to face in a one-on-one duel a candidate the Establishment would prefer. It may happen.
Please don't anyone get the idea that what I have written is an endorsement of Donald Trump. When asked whom I might favor, I always answer, "The one who wants to have the U.S. withdraw from the United Nations." That means I favor none of the GOP (or Democrat) candidates. But if Donald Trump wins the White House, he might realize the importance of separating from the UN. That would make him the hero of every red-blooded American.
John F. McManus is president emeritus of The John Birch Society.
Trump scares all of Washington. Too bad Socialism doesn’t.
Their “leadership” leaves a lot to be desired, and any real leader worth his/her salt will send them to the unemployment line.
This is who they are:
Mitch McConnell
Paul Ryan
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I support Trump because he is not the GOP establishment, and he understands that our nation is almost finished if we do not turn around quickly. The GOP establishment has stabbed America in the back. We handed them the House AND the Senate, and not only did they screw those who have been the most loyal to them (Christians, veterans, patriots, the military, conservatives), they have done NOTHING to hold Obama and the Democrat Criminal Enterprise accountable for their blatant tyranny.
More DJT agitprop shoring up the True-Believers in their adulation of the Magic Prince whose actual policies mirror the the so-called Establishment’s policies, True-Believers who now feel justified in their blind allegiance to a neophyte tyrant.
Trump should. When you have a job where you do not have to work or do anything worthwhile, draw a big salary and get rich by taking working peoples money why would you not want that to go on forever.
Then the GOPe wonders why Trump is so attractive?
I don’t know if McConnell is gay or not. But, I do know he has to go. We need a Senate leader with some balls, Literally and figuratively.
Socialism doesn’t scare them because they want to be in charge of it.
And too bad the politicians show repeatedly that they can promise something and then do nothing with impunity. THOSE DAYS MUST END.
(Jeb, and Rubio, take note!)
Cubans Chihuahua Marko and Pinocchio Ted attacking Big Donald.
Hopefully his circle of advisers will skillfully wield axes to the gigantic and bloated parts of the government, corrupt internationalist treaties that have severely harmed America and the American people.
And hopefully again, he will overcome the Republican liberals obstructionism in the senate and house, so that they enable this dismantling of the worst parts of the monster.
And hopefully again, the senate and house will reorganize the judiciary both structurally, and to remove those judges who legislate from the bench, and exceed all bounds of propriety and authority. While they cannot be fired, they can be retired.
And hopefully again, he will appoint motivated federal prosecutors to accomplish the indictments of all the corrupt federal employees, who will either end up behind bars for many years, at at a minimum will be permanently barred from federal employment, as well as being prohibited for hire or contract by any corporation with a federal contract.
“When you [Trump] have a job where you do not have to work or do anything worthwhile, draw a big salary and get rich by taking working peoples money why would you not want that to go on forever.”
I’m not a big fan of Trump, but the above classicist drivel is more likely to be found at Solon or DU. Are you sure you’re on the right sight?
sight = site
I heard Lou Dobbs say the other day on his show that Trump is the only person who is not afraid of Obama. EVERYONE else is petrified of Obama, and they cower to Obama. It is true!
Good. Scare them like they have been scaring us for years.
..... who, when it was polemically convenient, contravened the 'rules' of his own homosexual sodality to out David Brock, a closeted gay then writing for The American Spectator about the cascading felonies of the Clinton crime family.
Hillary and her swarm of homosexual admirers then cornered Brock and almost literally enslaved him to her cause, which he now serves miserably at Media Matters, the John Podesta-founded, George Soros-funded leftist propaganda mill.
“New York City-based Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). That’s where the bulk of the “power elite” can be found.”
Including Cruz’ wife.
“I heard Lou Dobbs say the other day on his show that Trump is the only person who is not afraid of Obama. EVERYONE else is petrified of Obama, and they cower to Obama. It is true!”
Lou Dobbs is right!
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