Comment: I have a hunch that people are judging Trump by the wrong metric.
They think of Presidents of the recent past, and think of how much they simply delegate to their cabinet members, who have great independence in implementation of their duties.
But all recent Presidents were fundamentally politicians before they became President, and came to the executive role with the sort of management style customary for politicians.
Trump, though, has never been a politician, and has only been in an executive role in business, and indeed a private business, answerable to no one. This, I think, will incline him to judge his cabinet members by a simple measure: are they implementing the policies that I have told them they must? I don’t think there’s going to a lot of tolerance for a failure to follow his marching orders. I suspect he has made them quite aware of that fact, as a condition of their getting their jobs.
I suspect that the usual assertion, personnel is policy, is not going to be true under Trump in the usual sense — Trump will see to it that his personnel does his policy.
In a way it is telling that Trump has chosen so many with military backgrounds. They get the idea of getting orders and following them. My guess is that that is what he is demanding of his appointees.
* Jewish pundits also tend to loathe the WASP foreign policy “realists.” These are the guys who have the crazy idea that the Palestinians/Arabs have legitimate grievances, and that it’s ok to say no to Israel. James Baker III, George H.W. Bush’s Secretary of State, is a good example.
* Since when did Vladimir Putin ever claim to be White first and Russian second?
Vladimir Putin does not give a damn if a WASP in Detroit for example is mugged at gunpoint by a Black or if a WASP in Detroit is racemixing with a Black.
Vladimir Putin’s tribalism mentality does not extend beyond the Russian people. Vladimir Putin does not see Anglo Saxon Protestants as his people. Vladimir Putin is a Russian nationalist, not a White nationalist.
* They’re white – as our countries used to be. They’re Christian – as our countries used to be. And they don’t believe in deliberately dividing their population by race, sex (sorry, ‘gender’), sexuality in order that a relatively small and cohesive elite can farm them for fun and profit.
I imagine the Putin administration might even be concerned about increasing national unity, not decreasing it – which makes them just like most countries throughout history, but not like the West over the last 50 years.
The only other white, Christian countries with such ideas of national unity are the recent EU entrants, formerly Warsaw Pact countries like Poland and Hungary. But Western elites don’t see them as much of a threat – calculating, probably correctly, that a combination of EU gimmedats and the threat of the Big Bad Bear will ensure their compliance and eventual absorption into post-Christian, multi-ethnic Europe. After all, Greece knuckled under when faced with leaving the Euro. The southern European economies have been devastated since 2008, massive youth unemployment, GDP falls – yet they “held on tight to Nurse, for fear of finding something Worse”.
This happy (for our elites) scenario is threatened by things like Brexit, ‘populism’ and the Italy vote, which is why they’ll fight dirty, and why it’s so important to nourish the ‘populists’.
