[Peace] Robert Reich’s letter to ‘MoveOn’ CORRECTED

[Debra Schrishuhn]

Or maybe it is because Trump is a lawless, bald-faced liar, cheater (in
every sense of the term), underhanded, self-serving (and self-dealing),
misogynistic, homophobic, xenophobic racist with no core principles other
than his own advancement and that of his cronies.

On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 3:57 PM C. G. Estabrook via Peace <
peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> Robert Reich’s letter to ‘MoveOn’ is an absolutely mad appeal by a
> self-proclaimed 'liberal' to get Trump out of office as soon as possible.
>
> Why is the political establishment so desperate not just to win the next
> election but to remove Trump now?
>
> I think that the answer is to be found in the US grand strategy , followed
> by all recent US administrations. That depends on maintaining the US
> control of the world economy by retarding the economic development of
> Eurasia. (Not a new idea - see the 'Open Door Policy' of 1899.) Zbigniew
> Brzezinski wrote clearly of the US government's need to prevent the
> emergence of "peer competitors," Russia and China.
>
> Trump was the first major party candidate in 40 years to attack the
> neoliberal and neoconservative policies of previous administrations, which
> were designed to do that.
>
> In office, Trump has been compelled or cajoled to acquiesce in those
> policies, but the political establishment can't be assured that will
> continue, given the rising populist wave that put him in office. The threat
> has to be suppressed as soon as possible, and a reliable neolib/neocon
> executive put in place (by a coup, if necessary, as Adm. McRaven recently
> argued in the NYT).
>
> The example of Obama - the first president to be at war throughout two
> presidential terms, who waged no less than eight wars to constrain Eurasia
> and protect the economic control of the US 1% and for whom stooges like
> Reich and McRaven are working, must be followed, insists that establishment.
>
> (Reich? McRaving? To avoid being Trumped? Do the gods of history have a
> sardonic sense of humor?)
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