[Peace-discuss] Bacevich on Trump

[C G Estabrook]

The Clintons are hated (appropriately) because they represent the triumph of neoconservative and neoliberal policies ( = more war and more inequality), 40 years in the making, from the Carter administration on.

Scales fell from eyes as it became clear to many Americans that Obama’s “hope and change” was malarkey, and the one percent was using the 2008 financial crisis to confiscate the life chances of the majority. Obama was their agent.

That’s the ‘MAGA’ appeal - restore the possibilities that seemed to be open to this generation's parents, and are not open to them. A justified politics of resentment - populism - animated both the Sanders and Trump campaigns.

It will only grow. —CGE


> On Sep 14, 2018, at 11:41 AM, E. Wayne Johnson via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> 
> David Green via Peace-discuss wrote:
>> Americans today are deeply divided. There exists no greater symbol of that division than Trump himself — the wild enthusiasm he generates in some quarters and the antipathy verging on hatred he elicits in others.
>> 
>> The urgent need of the day is to close that divide, which is as broad as it is deep, touching on culture, the political economy, America’s role in the world, and the definition of the common good
>> 
> I didnt vote for Trump but I intend to next time around because some pundit said that NATO could not survive another 4 years of Trump.
> 
> Bacevich is saying, "Be reasonable and see it my way."
> 
> A large number of people who voted for Trump in 2016 did so because they despise the Clintons, and hate Hillary Clinton in particular,
> not because they shared a strong common ideology with Donald Trump the tycoon.  You can use whatever symbolism you like
> to stand for that division between Clinton voters and Clinton haters but it wasn't the Russians who brought people out
> of the hills and hollows of rural america and the cul-de-sacs of suburbia to say "no, and I mean, No Hell No!" to Hillary Clinton and her ilk.
> The antipathy for the Clintons does not "verge on hatred".  It is absolute and utter hatred of the Clintons and what they stand for
> and more intense hatred of Hillary in particular.  There ain't no changing it.
> 
> The problem is with the way that people perceive the world.
> 
> Be reasonable, and see it my way, and we will have unity.
> 
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