tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post5858739246399265765..comments2024-03-28T03:16:14.104-04:00Comments on Noahpinion: Trump happened because conservatism failedNoah Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09093917601641588575noreply@blogger.comBlogger83125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-54495520522934224162017-12-03T15:59:11.287-05:002017-12-03T15:59:11.287-05:00I think a big reason of why Clinton wasn't tha...I think a big reason of why Clinton wasn't that appealing is that she represents conservatism even more than Trump does. Yes, she's got the social issues, but she's a strong supporter of continued military interventionism in the Middle East and a Wall Street centric economic policy. Trumpists don't like globalism, and I guess Clinton gave us that, but I feel like it was a very oligopolistic globalism, not a free trade for its own sake globalism.James Oswaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06341537292469972279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-8353622122882129022017-03-15T17:08:46.987-04:002017-03-15T17:08:46.987-04:00That's the dumb and unhelpful take, yes.That's the dumb and unhelpful take, yes. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-50489622629770472902017-03-15T17:03:46.633-04:002017-03-15T17:03:46.633-04:00I think this is highlighted in Rep. Steve King'...I think this is highlighted in Rep. Steve King's controversial remarks about demographics the other day. Leaving said the racial element, it really IS something depressing about our inability as a society to replace ourselves with natural births. It's causing us to lose hope in the future.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-54914377216188665042016-11-10T09:49:32.384-05:002016-11-10T09:49:32.384-05:00Re-reading this post-11/9, and it holds-up well. T...Re-reading this post-11/9, and it holds-up well. Thank you.Phil O.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14499273759083108847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-1881132721858529262016-10-02T03:00:49.354-04:002016-10-02T03:00:49.354-04:00There has been nothing more intolerant than cannab...There has been nothing more intolerant than cannabis Prohibition. And no party in power Federally has done anything about it. <br /><br />The rabid anti-Prohibitionists have noted this failure and about 1/2 of them (5% of the population) are very proTrump. The thinking - punish those who could have done something. And. He couldn't be any worse. M. Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09508934110558197375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-67767078428265367582016-10-02T02:49:18.674-04:002016-10-02T02:49:18.674-04:00All the Parties have gone States Rights when it co...All the Parties have gone States Rights when it comes to cannabis. Hillary says it. Trump says it. Johnson says it.<br /><br />The message? The Federal Government is defective. M. Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09508934110558197375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-26340169224118502572016-10-02T02:45:19.491-04:002016-10-02T02:45:19.491-04:00The smart people have been buying government.
An...The smart people have been buying government. <br /><br />And that is the problem. Too much government and ALL of it is for sale. M. Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09508934110558197375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-25720334401844338402016-08-23T15:38:08.494-04:002016-08-23T15:38:08.494-04:00Johnny Ridden . . . you're kidding, right? No ...Johnny Ridden . . . you're kidding, right? No one in the United States gives a damn about Honduras or about Serbia: first principle of American politics.SqueakyRatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-57944317884338753872016-08-09T17:54:58.263-04:002016-08-09T17:54:58.263-04:00Mr Grey, nobody wants to read your partisan hyperb...Mr Grey, nobody wants to read your partisan hyperbole. Present some facts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-60110562894454687552016-08-05T15:36:40.969-04:002016-08-05T15:36:40.969-04:00I partially agree, but it has been both progs and ...I partially agree, but it has been both progs and cons, in Europe, pushing for globalization almost in a script like fashion.<br />Plus free market is distorted, in the case of china, by value change, intertwined with less labour rights, aka, not "playing" with the same rules.<br />That it means lowered princes, along with tax lowering, it's mostly a travesty, a comedy, if it's made on low labour wages, not only it's bad per sè, but in the long term it means less job and jobs elsewhere, lowered taxes, if not progressive means maybe a bit lower prices, but there is little incentive to big enterpreuner to spread well being and occupation, in globalized economy, there's little incentive in that direction compared to how much it used to.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-85257836465491390392016-08-05T15:28:06.482-04:002016-08-05T15:28:06.482-04:00Point is, Clinton's foreigno policy has been a...Point is, Clinton's foreigno policy has been announced to be disasterous by herself, in her intention to sanction and undermine Russia and have Ucraine in Europe (after a very democratic nazi coup d'etat against a democratically elected presindent - old story waging them), then insist on messing against Assad. If she stays true to her very proposal she's threatening another geopolitical chaos, after Isis, which came from the fall of Qaddafi in Libia, can somebody stop her, please?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-43007382201158570322016-07-31T04:01:09.853-04:002016-07-31T04:01:09.853-04:00That seems backwards to me, as someone whose count...That seems backwards to me, as someone whose country was adversely affected by the US doing just that.<br /><br />Trump is winning because he's running on being the guy to STOP that process that hasn't stopped churning since the Clintons-backed Serbian "intervention" by NATO. (or, for solely American interests, Iraq II) He is saying without the threats of the cold war, it's alright to stop playing Mighty Whitey and running all over the world playing policeman in rough neighborhoods that are used to always taking care of themselves. The only thing US intervention ever causes is fighting forces to unite...Against Americans.JohnnyRiddenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11899467802054509391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-3559301079350226902016-07-31T03:57:22.167-04:002016-07-31T03:57:22.167-04:00If that were true on its own, then Romney should h...If that were true on its own, then Romney should have beaten Obama. Granted, maybe it's his choice of corporation to raid that killed him. No one likes a grinch.JohnnyRiddenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11899467802054509391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-3741493297622995832016-07-31T03:55:57.490-04:002016-07-31T03:55:57.490-04:00Yeah, all the disgusting GOP refuse has been trash...Yeah, all the disgusting GOP refuse has been trashed so the hobos in the DNC can pick it up. Let's hope Koch, PNAC, and Bill Kristol never darkens its doorstep again. There's a chance, however minute, it may once again become a sane party.<br /><br />One of the stranger things in modern post-nixon politics is that, rather than cease doing things because of a scandal, they add those pages into their playbook along with a sticky note reminding them how the previous person got caught. In other words, "we know we can cheat even better than those other guys!"JohnnyRiddenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11899467802054509391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-23500593106189601892016-07-31T03:51:24.045-04:002016-07-31T03:51:24.045-04:00Hardly ironic at all if you pay attention to who s...Hardly ironic at all if you pay attention to who stuffs her coffers. It looks way more like Bush II's donation trail.JohnnyRiddenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11899467802054509391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-28471706155408268922016-07-31T03:49:59.351-04:002016-07-31T03:49:59.351-04:00He's oblivious. Look at the last line. Which i...He's oblivious. Look at the last line. Which is a shame because it's sooooo bloody close. Self-awareness is pure zilch.JohnnyRiddenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11899467802054509391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-13740930093386402082016-07-31T03:48:46.544-04:002016-07-31T03:48:46.544-04:00Think you ran headfirst into an actual libewall th...Think you ran headfirst into an actual libewall there, Donk, not merely a 'democrat'JohnnyRiddenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11899467802054509391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-62068827861244784422016-07-31T03:46:48.079-04:002016-07-31T03:46:48.079-04:00Yup. But the con was its own con as well. Don'...Yup. But the con was its own con as well. Don't forget Bush I's promises to reverse course. If Obama never appeared you would have likely seen a revolving door where the Republican nominee wins or brings it to contest by simply "promising to unfuck what my predecessors fucked up"<br /><br />In 92, the spoiler was Perot, and had he not run you would probably have seen Junior with a higher approval rating just for berating his father on bad fiscal policies....Before recruiting the same "financial gurus" for his cabinet.JohnnyRiddenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11899467802054509391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-31988972650172031172016-07-31T03:43:05.779-04:002016-07-31T03:43:05.779-04:00I believe you mean "Hillary Clinton soulless ...I believe you mean "Hillary Clinton soulless drone"<br /><br />Berners are at least willing to consider a candidate that won't send the country into another in a string of endless wars. Just check out some of Justin Raimondo and William Blum's writings on the subject.JohnnyRiddenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11899467802054509391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-42945131912952407442016-07-31T03:40:55.950-04:002016-07-31T03:40:55.950-04:00Good answer, like that one, yeah hadn't though...Good answer, like that one, yeah hadn't thought of it.<br /><br />It's probably one reason the EU floundered so badly is it tried to stitch everyone together the same way, and stubbornly continued pushing forwards rather than release all power and just be a trade regulation board.<br /><br />It was meant to fix the League of Nations, not become it!JohnnyRiddenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11899467802054509391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-49002562316379884892016-07-31T03:38:37.067-04:002016-07-31T03:38:37.067-04:00She has no chance. Honduras will kill her. And if ...She has no chance. Honduras will kill her. And if not the campaign, Honduras WILL kill her. The largest group of protesters at DNC weren't BLM, but South American. And they were armed. Whatever happened to "Don't shit where you eat?" Or near it, at least. Imagine if some policy of Trump's got Pope Francis killed and he still ran in the next election. That's South America's reaction to Berta Carceres.<br /><br />Serbia also, has beef on that level with her, but at least there's a really large continent and even larger ocean in the way, for now. There are too many cultures singling her out for revenge, it's going to be a very nasty presidency either way.<br /><br />Hope at least her cheating scoundrel ways kicks the green party up to approved funding levels for the next shot. (If there is one. If she wins, I'm betting against it and using the winnings to hit the Seychelles)JohnnyRiddenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11899467802054509391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-12028402921501942552016-07-31T03:32:04.614-04:002016-07-31T03:32:04.614-04:00Short short answer to that? Same reason monopolies...Short short answer to that? Same reason monopolies 'technically' fail. Lack of competition. Being able to pass anything you want makes you less focused on what's stuffed in those bills themselves. Essentially the Bush era (especially the latter half) made neocons and paleocons put down their sticks and celebrate drunkenly, ignoring the damage their policies were doing because it all went mostly unopposed at home.JohnnyRiddenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11899467802054509391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-63172553695852227692016-07-30T21:21:05.402-04:002016-07-30T21:21:05.402-04:00Anon,
I think you have it mostly right. Maybe tho...Anon,<br /><br />I think you have it mostly right. Maybe though you lack the same link in the chain that Noah does. The Dems have been increasingly successful over decades at dividing off their constituency according to race, ethnicity, and etc. And so, Trump, instead of pandering to the Hispanic vote as other Repubs have, he ignored the conventional wisdom and simply aimed his efforts at the group that sees both parties for the disingenuous scoundrels that they are. Naturally, though, Trump is a better scoundrel than most of them are, but mostly just because he was able to recognize how many potential voters are feed up with the standard lies. <br /><br />So I suppose that makes him a master opportunist. But the opportunity wasn't that difficult to recognize. A vast number of Americans, and especially those of us living near the border with Mexico, know full well that the damage being done by illegal immigrants is far more extensive than what nearly all politicians were willing to admit. And especially at times when there are too few jobs for citizens. Then too, everyone gets the laws of supply and demand, and... that simply enforcing the laws 'against' employing illegal workers would cause a voluntary exodus. So when the overly repeated claim that 11 million illegals can't be deported is made, along with other such asinine claims, those who live in real world start looking for solutions, and Trump was the only choice thereto. r l lovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00286816802001327725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-67800050791338370242016-07-30T01:11:36.339-04:002016-07-30T01:11:36.339-04:00Lots of truth in this post... However, the graph a...Lots of truth in this post... However, the graph also shows the crushing failure (worse than Bush) of Obama.<br /><br />"But whatever the reason for Trump's support, a necessary piece of the Trump takeover equation was the collapse of the conservative ideology. That epochal event should be a lesson to us all - it's what inevitably happens to an ideology when it succumbs to overreach, dogmatism, and an echo chamber."<br /><br />True.<br /><br />"I hope I don't ever have to watch the same thing happen to the American left."<br /><br />It already has. Hillary is just Bush wrapped in racial, sexual, and ethnic identity politics. Her policies won't work any better than Bush. Why? Because they are the same as Bush (with more racism and sexism).Skeptical Economisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04068911900225517137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-64611243307470823322016-07-29T20:18:44.445-04:002016-07-29T20:18:44.445-04:00Excellent article, one of your best. "Trumps&...Excellent article, one of your best. "Trumps" are ever present opportunists, they only get backing from the "ordinary people" when the "rational politicians" have demonstrably failed. Usually this is because the "rational politicians" themselves cannot distinguish between their "theories" and current reality. The trouble is "Trumps" are an unmitigated disaster when in power. Their only positive role is to get rid of the existing ruling "elite". That usually occurs via a war, economic collapse or worse.John McEwanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15804606343552140028noreply@blogger.com