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Globalist Insider Larry Summers: "Trump Is a Serious Threat to American Democracy"
The New American ^ | 01 March 2016 | William F. Jasper

Posted on 03/01/2016 5:57:58 PM PST by VitacoreVision

The title of the Washington Post op-ed wastes no time on subtlety: "Larry Summers: Donald Trump is a serious threat to American democracy." The March 1 opinion piece by Lawrence H. Summers accuses the Republican presidential front-runner of, among other things, being a "thug," a "demagogue," and a threat to "the rule of law" and "democracy," but feigns graciousness by opining that Trump is slightly better than Hitler and Mussolini on the thuggery scale.

"While comparisons between Donald Trump and Mussolini or Hitler are overwrought," says Summers, "Trump's rise does illustrate how democratic processes can lose their way and turn dangerously toxic when there is intense economic frustration and widespread apprehension about the future."

"The possible election of Donald Trump as president is the greatest present threat to the prosperity and security of the United States," Summers avers, and warns that Trump "is demagogically offering the power of his personality as a magic solution to all problems—and making clear that he is prepared to run roughshod over anything or anyone who stands in his way."

Summers, of course, sees no irony or hypocrisy in his remarks, or in his failure to recognize that his boss, Barack Obama is (and has been, for the past eight years) "demagogically offering the power of his personality as a magic solution to all problems — and making clear that he is prepared to run roughshod over anything or anyone who stands in his way."

So, who is Lawrence "Larry" Summers, and why does his opinion matter enough for the Washington Post to put the op-ed on Trump in headlights? What credentials does he bear to teach or preach on the dangers of this or that candidate to "democracy" and "the American project?" Although not a household name among the lower and middle classes, Summers is a big name among the ruling and chattering classes. Besides his recent post as director of President Obama's National Economic Council, he has been a denizen of the shadowy corridors of power for decades: World Bank, White House, Clinton Cabinet, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, U.S. Treasury Department, Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg Group, United Nations, Group of 30, Harvard, etc. And in those positions, he has shown again and again that he is prepared to assist the globalist elites he serves to "run roughshod over anything or anyone who stands" in their way, including whole nations and regions of the world.

Summers, an economist, served as president of Harvard University from 2001-2006, and now holds the position of president emeritus and Charles W. Eliot university professor at Harvard. As a certified Harvard double-dome, Summers should know (and most probably does) that the American Founding Fathers bequeathed us a constitutional republic, not a democracy (see Republics and Democracies) and that the internationalist elites he works for have been struggling mightily for over a century to destroy the constitutional restraints on power and convert the United States into a democracy, which (as the Founders warned) would lead inevitably into mobocracy, and then to oligarchy, rule by the few.

In addition to being a longtime prominent member of world-government-promoting Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and the Trilateral Commission, Summers is a former chief economist of the World Bank, former treasury secretary, and a former member of the Steering Committee of the ultra-secret, ultra-powerful Bilderberg Group. Summers is also a member of the secretive and little-known Group of Thirty (G30), the coterie of international bankers and economists that wields enormous influence over the global economy.

Summers has grown immensely wealthy as a result of his "public service," raking in millions of dollars from Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Lehman Brothers, and other Wall Street giants he helped bail out with hundreds of billions of dollars from the American taxpayers. Then there is Summers' role with the "Harvard Group" in the ransacking of Russia of untold billions during the phony privatization by Boris Yeltsin (under the advisement of Summers' "Harvard Boys").

Although Donald Trump may merit some of the charges thrown at him by Summers, the credibility, motives, and connections of the accuser are more than merely suspect; they are sufficient to recognize this Washington Post op-ed as a hit piece aimed at a potential threat to the "new world order" favored by Summers and company, not "the  American project" as envisioned by this country's Founders.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: New York
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To: VitacoreVision

Coming from that scumbag that’s pretty funny


61 posted on 03/01/2016 7:29:23 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouadsandb)
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To: VitacoreVision

Trump is a threat to your lifetime free ride Summers. Most overrated jerk in Washington.


62 posted on 03/01/2016 7:33:16 PM PST by kempster (o)
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To: gg188

Exactly ..you’re hitting home runs tonight..


63 posted on 03/01/2016 8:18:01 PM PST by Neu Pragmatist (It's now or never , Trump now more than ever)
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To: VitacoreVision

Larry Sanders has one vote - just like the rest of us...


64 posted on 03/01/2016 8:44:53 PM PST by GOPJ (Will Hillary totally disavow ANY group connected to the Muslim Brotherhood, AlQaeda or ISIS?)
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To: VitacoreVision

And Clinton isn’t?


65 posted on 03/01/2016 9:48:13 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The Supreme Court is a joke being played on the American people.)
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To: VitacoreVision
Funny how our best bets are always the ones who will destroy everything - and people still believe that crap even after 8 years of Obama.

I'm starting to think that a lot of these "conservative pundits" are actually Leftists who have infiltrated our side and found many of us to be easy pickings.

66 posted on 03/02/2016 4:13:55 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: VitacoreVision

Democracy IS the problem. It is why we will not keep the republic.

Democracy is abolition of the Constitution.


67 posted on 03/02/2016 7:01:50 AM PST by Blue Collar Christian (Ready for Teddy, Cruz that is.)
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To: VitacoreVision

This is not a Democracy! Switzerland is a Democracy! America is an oligarchy and the elitist asshats are afraid that what Americans voting for Trump amounts to is a quiet overthrow of this stinking, rotting mess!

Perhaps America had to suffer through mediocre previous administrations and that the horrendous upheaval created by over seven years of this phony Obama was the catalyst.

Thanks to Trump Americans have a clearer reason to hate, no despise, what our nation and country has morphed into: a vile caricature of a great power. It’s a mere plaything for the actors and actresses that prance about the halls of power for their own aggrandizement.


68 posted on 03/02/2016 2:24:42 PM PST by HomerBohn (Liberals and slinkies: they're good for nothing, but you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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To: VitacoreVision

And Obama is the Mulatto version of George Washington...


69 posted on 03/02/2016 2:26:07 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (It is better to live one day as a lion than one hundred years as a sheep)
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