Posted on 03/07/2016 12:21:15 PM PST by donna
There are those who seek merely to decry Trump, and there are those who are befuddled by him. His opponents want to destroy him now that he is winning, and some in the establishment – like former presidential candidate Mitt Romney and the old guard – fear his taking over the GOP.
Donald Trump and the political phenomenon he has created are most understandable.
Three kinds of people are involved in politics: political theorists, unprincipled actors and principled actors.
Political theorists
Theorists of both the right (like Charles Krauthammer and George Will) and the left (Brookings Institute senior fellow William Galston and Harvard University political theorist Danielle Allen) and many lesser minds in academia and in the media conceive of politics as putting into practice a preconceived theory.
- To be educated into this ideology is to be taught how to expound, defend and implement the ideology. Today, political theorists on both the left and the right act as if they believe their political goals can be advanced and largely accomplished through intellectual discourse alone.
- Theorists expect politicians to be imperfect but deferential versions of themselves. The theorists like to be consulted, and while theorists may pretend they have no ego (it’s all about the theory), political theorists today are increasingly devoted to maintaining and building their own prestige.
- Political theorists believe that political actors who do not play their intellectual game are either fools or scoundrels.
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Nice read.
IMO the whole program should be terminated. The fat cats will buy Congress to put 'em back a few years later, but I want everyone to know that abuse will be costly to more than working Americans.
Trump so far has shown that they can get to him before he's President. This is not encouraging.
He’s not a career politician, but he IS a brilliant businessman, CEO- which is what we need to run this country.
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