According to a recent poll, 61% of Israelis view Trump positively. But not the hardcore lefties like this guy.
Larry Derfner writes: In the 31 years I’ve lived in Israel, I’ve never voted in a U.S. election – mainly because I have a problem voting in a country where I don’t live anymore, especially when the one I do live in makes such a big issue of telling outsiders to stay out of its business. Also, I would be voting in California, which is by now so solidly Democratic that my vote would just be sending coals to Newcastle.
But if Donald Trump wins the Republican nomination as expected, I’m going to vote in the November election. Because he is in an entirely different category from any Republican leader I ever opposed, including Nixon, Reagan and George W. Bush. No need to explain why; his story is being written every day, and it’s all too unmistakably clear.
But I want to point out a few things about Trump, any one of which would have hobbled or destroyed the candidacy of a normal American politician, but which have been swallowed up and forgotten in the daily cascade of new moral atrocities he produces.
1. The news is that Trump got the endorsement of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, and that he won’t renounce it. What’s forgotten is that his father, Fred Trump, the formative influence in his life, his mentor and benefactor, was arrested at age 21 during a KKK brawl with New York police. The roots of the younger Trump’s racism run very deep.
2. In the 1970s, by which time Trump had taken over his father’s New York real estate business, the Justice Department sued his company for refusing to rent to black tenants. Despite an out-of-court agreement to end the practice, three years later, the Justice Department charged the Trump Organization with continuing its exclusionary policy: “[R]acially discriminatory conduct by Trump agents has occurred with such frequency that it has created a substantial impediment to the full enjoyment of equal opportunity,” the Justice Department declared.
3. Before running for president, Trump’s political renown came mainly from his leading role in the “birther” movement – the bunch that deny Obama’s right to be president because they claim he wasn’t born in America, but in Kenya. The movement is built on white racism, Islamophobia and ultra-nationalism, all staples of Trump’s appeal.
4. Last July, when Republican Senator John McCain slammed him for “firing up the crazies” in the party, Trump belittled McCain for having been a POW during the Vietnam War. “He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured,” Trump told an Iowa audience. Trump didn’t only denigrate McCain with that remark – he denigrated all POWs. Trump himself ducked the Vietnam War with a series of college and medical deferments, which hadn’t stopped him from being a self-described “star athlete” in high school. This is the individual who’s going to “make America great again,” whose fanatical supporters chant “U-S-A! U-S-A!” at his rallies.
There’s never been an American presidential candidate remotely like him. And the worse he is, the better he does.
So this year’s U.S. election will be to other U.S. elections like World War II was to other wars – truly a battle of good vs. evil, a holy war, a war for survival. And I believe it’s not enough to beat Trump – his candidacy and everything it stands for has to be utterly destroyed, obliterated, left in smoking ruins. America must violently cast him out. It must write in the sky, “This is not us.”
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* In addition to being a tireless worker with abundant energy, Trump appears to have a long memory. Should he win the White House, its a safe bet that he would bring the law and order policies of former NY mayor Rudy Giuliani to a national level.
Speaking of law and order, this does remind one of 1968, when far leftists disrupted the Democratic Convention in Chicago. One has to ask here, does BLM and Soros funded groups think that they are actually persuading independent/moderate voters into supporting their cause, OR are they rather driving more and more voters….to support Trump at the ballot box? If anything, like the Mitt Romney criticism, BLM/protesting/coalition of fringes nuttery may just have the opposite effect and drive more and more independent voters into fully supporting Trump’s candidacy. This is why I’ve said before that Trump, if he is the GOP nominee in November, should carry ca. 70% of the total white vote; BLM/overall fringe nuttery is helping to make this a reality.
Trump has publicly run on a law and order platform. This weekend is making his case that voters should seriously consider the truthiness of his words.
* I know Trump has a conceal carry permit, I think it would have made a great Instagram if he had pulled that pistol out, and stood there like Steve McGarrett in the old Hawaii 5-O shows. I’m not saying he should have shot him, but hey, I am not saying he should not have shot him either.
* PC is no longer “fringe”. It is, in fact, the new bourgeois morality. It must be embraced by all ‘right-thinking’ educated persons, from senators and CEOs on down to ordinary accountants and adjunct professors. To repudiate it publicly is to invite total ostracism–if not legal sanction.
* When a candidate rents a hall in which to speak and when private citizens have taken the time and trouble to attend and hear what this speaker has to say, is their right to hear him rather than some disruptive protester protected by some variety of right to peaceable assembly?
If we pay to attend a professional basketball game and some clown runs out on the court dribbling his own ball and starts shooting baskets, do we tolerate his behavior in the name of “freedom of expression” or are we not delighted when security tackles the idiot?
If we are attending a theater and someone in the audience disrupts the performance by loudly giving vent to his personal views on the world, do we good-naturedly tolerate the interruption and listen closely to the text of what he is saying in order to assess its merits relative to the lines of the actors whom we came to hear?
If we are on a jet airplane 35,000 feet in the air and some person gets out of their seat and belligerently rants about some private grievance do we allow them to continue undisturbed, acknowledging their right to freedom of expression or are we not grateful when the flight attendants shut him down (and hopefully sedate him)?
Please help me out here people.
What is the general Law which you, as Chief Justice, would invoke that would justify suppressing the disruptive behavior of the offending individual in all these cases?
* I can remember a time when the GOP stood for more than just cutting taxes and killing our little brown brothers. It’s been a while, though.
I don’t want to invade the world; I don’t want to invite the world, and I don’t want to be in hock to the world.
Is Libya better off today than it was under Cathafi? Is Iraq better off now than it was under Saddam? (Some people, sure.)
Is America better off for having a substantial Somali community in Minnesota? If so, how?
People talk about free trade and comparative advantage and forget that the United States isn’t just some other country—-it’s the single largest market in the world. Why not experiment some with tariffs to move production back in country?
Do we benefit from having the Chinese manufacture our dog food? Chips for our missiles?
Sheldon Adelson and Haim Saban might be fine gentlemen on the whole but I somehow suspect that they are a wee bit more concerned about Israel than the average American is.
* The Trump administration should focus on humiliating and destroying left-wing idiocy (and its followers). He should start a relocation program aimed at dumping millions of blacks and immigrants from red states into nice, white democrat areas – then denounce them for racism when they flee or protest. The only way to destroy the mental illness of the left is to publicly humiliate its followers by giving them what they profess. Progressivism is a mental illness – a personality defect focused on social advancement by extreme (and almost always hypocritical) virtue signalling. Stop fighting the symptoms and destroy the disease.
* If Trump is successful it will be a masterstroke. He will have simultaneously bested the feminism/black/Latino Democratic coalition while handcuffing the religious conservatives and moneyed elites within his own party at the same time Religious conservatives have held the Republicans hostage for a generation but you can only keep losing for so long. They have no where else to go now. That has been OK with the Republican elite, who does not care whether abortion is legal or not. They only care if their economic interests are served. The irony is that religious conservatives and white liberals now have a way out of the box they have put themselves in. Perhaps they can be passionate about something else for a few decades while we move on to other more interesting things.
* Trump tosses around some pretty inflammatory rhetoric, and the MSM had been running some very inflammatory rhetoric against him. I’m not surprised there are some clashes.
I do wonder to what extent this was orchestrated (or simply exploited) by Trump. This whole election, watching Trump vs the other candidates has been like watching a really good chess player play against a bunch of novices. And this image of protesters (especially young, nonwhite, leftist, educated SJW types) trying to shut Trump down is going to play very well with his natural voters.
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REPORT: Second huge brawl ‘was planned between gang members’ in central Melbourne before police stepped in to separate them.
Victoria police have managed to disperse two rival gangs that planned another mass brawl in Melbourne on Sunday night.
The second brawl which is believed to have been scheduled for 11pm on social media saw Apex and Islander 21 gangs glaring at each other in Federation Square, reported the Herald Sun.
Around 20 police officers standing in between the Sudanese and Islander gang members eventually saw their plans cancelled.
This comes after the two armed rival gangs caused chaos on Saturday night as they fought amongst each other in front of terrified families in Melbourne’s CBD.
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* Steve, it is interesting that you bring up the example of the EU and also of mass immigration, when illustrating the ‘precautionary principle’.
In fact, regarding mass immigration, at least, the EU is the absolute and complete antithesis of the ‘precautionary principle’.
All EU member states are legally bound to uphold the stinky 1951 Geneva Convention on ‘refugees’. EU law takes supremacy over national law. Therefore, the ‘sovereign’ parliaments, assemblies, presidents etc of any EU member state *cannot do a damned thing* to alter the 1951 Convention. They *MUST* enforce it, even if it is against the will of their people, the democratically elected representatives, parliaments, or presidents.
Now, amongst its stinky obligations the stinky 1951 Convention obliges signatories to accept unlimited massive uncontrolled immigration -if- the magic word ‘ASYLUM’ happens to be uttered.
This is not a ‘precautionary principle’. It’s a ‘permissive proviso’.
It’s also the clinching argument of why the British should vote to ‘leave’.
* A related example is Libya. The FT has an editorial this weekend agreeing with Obama that France and Britain should have put troops on the ground after deposing Qatafay and implanted democracy there, and how their failure to do that led to ISIS taking root in Libya and migrants pouring out into Europe. Not much on how they shouldn’t have deposed him in the first place.
* I’m sorry, they are NOT ‘free’ to ignore the 1951 Convention.
The EU CAN and WILL take action against them, involving nasty, bullying, ‘sanctions’ , fines, freeze-outs, embargoes etc. Also many eastern European nations are dependent on central EU funding (Britain is a massive contributor, but that’s another story). This is the real meaning of ‘independence’. If you depend on another man, any man for your sustenance, then you are his slave, effectively.
* Ross [Douthat]’s latest column suggests using party machinations to subvert the will of the voters. I’m wondering when an established pundit will take the leap and suggest scrapping democracy all together.
Although, ironically, an autocratic America might turn restrictionist. After all, there’d be no incentive to import voters.
* President Trump deports all infiltrators, we suffer through all the protests and angst and recriminations and then we vigorously enforce the law and the new “culture on immigration” will become the norm.
The weak link in the plan is that we have to count on President Trump having the backbone to do what is necessary. Surgeons manage to do what is necessary even as they inflict great trauma on the bodies of their patients because they realize that they’re doing good for the patients. We need to all embrace this analogy and apply it to the immigration issue.
* Any country that’s bound by the Geneva refugee treaty would have to withdraw separately from it, regardless of its EU status. Also, all Western European countries are part of the Council of Europe, and therefore under the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights. This has control over immigration policy and has stopped deportations in many test cases. But anyway, as Wilkey says, the countries’ leaders will do what they please, as Merkel has done by ignoring the EU and opening Germany’s borders to invasion.
* I’d point to how effortlessly the major European powers have pivoted from denouncing Hungary as un-European for controlling its borders to denouncing Greece because it doesn’t. Previously, the wave of migrants was this Unstoppable Force, this 1000-foot wave, which will just overwhelm or route around any puny obstacles a Hungary might place in its way and all the European masses could do was cower before the Will of the Desperate. Now, suddenly, you see the awesome efficiency of the modern European state effortlessly chopping the wave into little rivulets, turning into stagnant puddles in backwater European states, with no ability to force their way into Germany.
Passing healthcare reform was politically hard ’cause it took decades and faced deeply entrenched opposition. Abolishing the ExIm bank is politically hard. Policies which are shown to be easily reversible within a matter of *months* don’t qualify as politically hard at all. Hillary is dragged to the left on immigration by liberal-White-Power Bernie Sanders, not by fear of implicitly dissing Jorge Ramos.
* Political experiments have uncertain outcomes, and someone has to be first to try them. But the result of mass non-white immigration was obvious before it ever started. Even the most uneducated Englishman in 1950 could have predicted that his country would be changed irreparably by making it ten per cent African or Asian.
The fact is that we are ruled by people who hate and despise us – there is no other way of putting it. To take people’s country from them as Merkel and Blair have done is the most poisonously evil thing imaginable. They’re spitting on the memory of people who defended us from Saracen and Hun invasions in the past, and they’re condemning us permanently to the status of peoples like the Kurds, forever living as outsiders in countries ruled by other races and hoping our rulers will be merciful to us.
* If we restrict immigration or in any way acknowledge group differences then inevitably Hitler will be resurrected and the 4th Reich will plunge the world into eternal night!
* The West has simply gone batshit crazy on immigration….
That’s just one of the things the West has gone “batshit crazy” over. The West cannot be long for this world.
Some of the others include:
Financialization, creating globally-parasitic institutions “To Big To Fail” (i.e., to kill the parasite is to kill the host).
Civil rights, privileging minorities so that they no longer need to make any effort to fit into the majority society (for, if they did so need, that would be evidence of bigotry), while bringing about the incurable self-debasement of white Europeans, a situation in which all parties can only succeed by failing.
Nationalism, leading to two World Wars and innumerable smaller conflicts and revolutions (If you don’t control the Nation State you don’t control your life; if you don’t control the neighboring Nation State you don’t control yours, ad infinitum).
Welfare statism, bankrupting all these Nations one after the other.
Celebrity, leading to the psychotic belief that if you aren’t famous (or notorious) you don’t actually exist.
All of these, and others, are nothing but luxuries that only wealthy cultures can afford, and spoiled cultures demand. As most of them, while being narcotically popular (for being morally self-satisfying), and therefore irreversible, are unproductive, they will slowly bleed these cultures dry.
* For a white South African such as myself this is all so déjà vu. We always assumed the Americans and Europeans knew that they were screwing us, i.e. acting in bad faith. But now I’m beginning to think they really believed all the BS they unloaded on us. That we were the guinea pigs to see how this wonderful multicultural project, where whites are the minority, would work out. Somehow they forgot to register how the experiment turned out, before embarking on that same disastrous road. But then again, they never listened to us in the past, so why should they listen to us now. Since colonial times they always knew everything better.
* Bringing democracy to the benighted Muslims we’ve just bombed and forcibly regime-changed. That stuff *never* gets old!
* South Carolina and Mississippi had white minorities for over a century. Minority status isn’t all that bad if you maintain control. (You don’t even have to work!)
South Africans dug their own graves when they allowed black Africans to cross the line in the sand to come in and make their beds. The western Cape could have made a lovely lily-white country, but no, you had to throw it away.
* Black population growth under Apartheid was not a function of immigration (the borders were tightly controlled by the military), but due to free health care, proper nutrition, clean water, missionary activity, law and order, and work opportunities, all provided by whites. Mass immigration only started once the ANC took over. Its main purpose was to provide cheap labor for the industries and mines who were benefactors of the ANC, and to render the whites politically irrelevant. South Africans “dug their own graves” by developing the black population. Of course since most whites were Christians, it was kinda the obvious and right thing to do. I have yet to find a pastor that can explain that contradiction to me.
* There were state elections in three German states today. AfD made massive gains, at about 12,5% in Rheinland-Pfalz, at almost 15% in Baden-Württemberg (where I voted for them), and almost 25% in Sachsen-Anhalt (in the former GDR) where it’s the 2nd strongest party after the Christian Democrats. Elite reaction has been predictable, totally along antifa lines, i.e. above all we need to demonize and exclude the evil right-wingers. Probably won’t change much (though it will be difficult to form a government at least in Sachsen-Anhalt) in the near run…will be interesting how things work out until 2017.
* Donald Trump is firmly in the mainstream of American historical policy. Strong military with limited intervention? Ike. Protectionist tariffs? Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, Lincoln through FDR. Affirmative Action? Nixon to Present. Medicare-Social Security? FDR to Present.
The man spent his life in NYC being both a big time real estate developer and major celebrity who poked fun at himself. He is as mainstream as it gets. Nor can someone maintain public life in both spheres for over thirty years without his flaws and virtues being well known. Trump is pretty socially liberal and uncaring about much beyond law and order, nationalism, protectionism, and border control. That’s enough for me.
He is not a True Con like Cruz, who also subscribes to BLM aka “Grovel Whitey before your masters.” He is favor of AA, which hurts me as a Straight White male, but the only candidate who has even a chance of limiting both H1 Bs and illegal/legal mass Third World immigration which hurts me more.
Other than the border and tariffs Trump will be decidedly non revolutionary. That suits me just fine.
* Why is nationalism on that list? There was a severe problem with out-of-control nationalism in 1930s Germany, but that is long gone. No western nation is threatened by the nationalism of another nation. In fact we need some sense of nationalism to return if our societies are to avoid further degradation.
As James Goldsmith put it in the 1990s:
Indeed, nations need new blood and new ideas. But they can only absorb a limited amount at a time. They cannot allow themselves to be overwhelmed by immigration otherwise they will lose their identity and cease to be nations. Newcomers who are welcomed into a nation should want to honour and respect the customs of their new home. They must not step on shore or over the border and reject the national culture. If they do, the inevitable results are hostility, intolerance and conflict.
I’ve been re-reading some of Goldsmith’s stuff (and watching his interview with Charlie Rose on YouTube). Truly a Cassandra whose wisdom could not get the attention it deserved at the time. He had it right on trade, financialization, immigration — pretty much all the points you mentioned.
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Donald J. Trump arrived at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in April 2011, reveling in the moment as he mingled with the political luminaries who gathered at the Washington Hilton. He made his way to his seat beside his host, Lally Weymouth, the journalist and socialite daughter of Katharine Graham, longtime publisher of The Washington Post.
A short while later, the humiliation started.
The annual dinner features a lighthearted speech from the president; that year, President Obama chose Mr. Trump, then flirting with his own presidential bid, as a punch line.
He lampooned Mr. Trump’s gaudy taste in décor. He ridiculed his fixation on false rumors that the president had been born in Kenya. He belittled his reality show, “The Celebrity Apprentice.”
Mr. Trump at first offered a drawn smile, then a game wave of the hand. But as the president’s mocking of him continued and people at other tables craned their necks to gauge his reaction, Mr. Trump hunched forward with a frozen grimace.
After the dinner ended, Mr. Trump quickly left, appearing bruised. He was “incredibly gracious and engaged on the way in,” recalled Marcus Brauchli, then the executive editor of The Washington Post, but departed “with maximum efficiency.”
That evening of public abasement, rather than sending Mr. Trump away, accelerated his ferocious efforts to gain stature within the political world. And it captured the degree to which Mr. Trump’s campaign is driven by a deep yearning sometimes obscured by his bluster and bragging: a desire to be taken seriously.
That desire has played out over the last several years within a Republican Party that placated and indulged him, and accepted his money and support, seemingly not grasping how fervently determined he was to become a major force in American politics. In the process, the party bestowed upon Mr. Trump the kind of legitimacy that he craved, which has helped him pursue a credible bid for the presidency.
“Everybody has a little regret there, and everybody read it wrong,” said David Keene, a former chairman of the American Conservative Union, an activist group Mr. Trump cultivated. Of Mr. Trump’s rise, Mr. Keene said, “It’s almost comical, except it’s liable to end up with him as the nominee.”
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Raheem Kassam writes: I’ve been saying it for a while now, the mainstream media, alongside the politicians running against Donald Trump on both sides, are creating the conditions in which it would be totally “understandable” if there were an attempt on Trump’s life. Seriously.
1/Make #Trump enemy 2/Make him Hitler (last wk) 3/Blame for violence (this wk) 4/Make him look vulnerable (2day) 5/Someone tries to kill
Think about it. First, they made Donald Trump the enemy of this race, albeit the butt of the jokes. Then the joke got unfunny. Mr. Trump started attracting serious support. And the primary victories came. And the other candidates dropped out. And now we’re down to just four. Three in reality. Subtract Rubio or Kasich at your discretion. Maybe you deduct both. We’re down to two.
Now Donald Trump is Adolf Hitler. Because people raise their hands at his rallies. THEY RAISED THEIR HANDS WHEN ASKED TO. That must make them Nazis. Forget that Mrs. Clinton’s supporters have done the same thing. Forget it. He’s Hitler. Heute America, morgen die Welt!
And as this week has drawn on it has become clear that Mr. Trump’s influence is being worked on by… passionate observers… to make it look like he and his campaign are the violent ones. Make what you will of that sentence, but I’ve been in the thick of a populist campaign before, and I know exactly how it feels to have to protect your “principal”.
That’s your boss. The head honcho. The prime target.
I was hired to be UK Independence Party Leader Nigel Farage’s senior advisor. I was supposed to be a sounding board for ideas, with a trumped up job title. In reality, I served as an extra member of his security team (though his team were and are absolutely fantastic, for the record).
So Mr. Trump, like Mr. Farage, has been portrayed as the progenitor of violence, despite the fact that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) supporters shut down his rally in Chicago last night. And despite the fact that someone tried to jump Mr. Trump on stage in Ohio today. The problem, to these people, is Mr. Trump. Not their own, barbaric, inbuilt (and often inbred) violent tendencies.
The truth is, no matter how much Mr. Trump’s team will tell you that today’s events won’t shake their resolve: it will.
When your principal is threatened: you start to change the way you operate – Secret Service or not.
More security screenings, before and after, for attendees of Trump rallies. This is a major issue because it will discourage attendees if word gets around as to how difficult it is to get inside any more;
Greater distance between the crowds and Mr. Trump at the rallies. The Secret Service won’t mess around. And it won’t be up to the Trump campaign. What this means in reality is slightly altered optics. Not a huge issue for those in the hall, but a problem for the Trump comms team. They’ve gotta make it look like nothing has changed, gotta make it look like he’s still in the thick of people, while having 10 foot more between the stage and the fans. Not as easy as it sounds.
Mr. Trump will be distracted on stage. As I’m sure Nigel Farage – for all of his gusto – was during the entire election campaign. Despite eggings, being hit with banners, having to evacuate pubs, being locked into pubs, being swept away by police, Mr. Farage kept up if not increased his campaign schedule. Which led to more dirty tricks (like Neo Nazis being snuck into his meetings by newspapers, so that they could photograph them inside and run a story about it – expect this too).
Greater lead time between events, and more work for the advance teams. I know, this is “inside baseball” for political campaigners. But a lot of Trump’s lure so far has been this appearance of working on a shoestring. Of attracting thousands of people in a matter of days. It won’t be that easy anymore. Because it’s not just people jumping barricades that security teams will be concerned about anymore. It’s bombs. It’s weapons secreted in venues. It’s chemicals. You have no idea how much this can weigh on the operations teams.
And it’s quite clear who is to blame for all of this. Who will be to blame if Mr. Trump experiences anything close to what Democrat George Wallace – an actual segregationist and racist – did. Being shot four times. And never being the same.
It’ll be the fault of the Hitlerizing media. It’ll be the fault of the groups who shut down his events, and made him an easy target. And it’ll be the fault of those who would rather defend President Barack Obama’s record as the “first black president” instead of conceding that he has divided your country more than he has united it.
This is Obama's legacy. Racially divided riots in major U.S. cities. This is what happens when U politicise your skin colour. #TrumpChicago
And that he has given succour to the hard leftist groups within which he played out his own formative years.
As a journalist – sadly – we relish news stories like we’ve seen over the past 24 hours. As a human being, and as a former politico, I dread what I’ve seen. Something very bad could be about to happen.
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A friend says: Last Thursday Shapiro was on Dennis Prager’s show explaining the reasons he would never support Trump. It was amazing to hear how Shapiro was talking about devoting his whole life to the conservative movement only to see Trump who is not a conservative seize the nomination.
It is unprecedented for any candidate to come under such attack both from his own party as well as the other party.
Shapiro reminds me of what Kroeber said about Ishi (the last wild Indian living in California) that he thought of the white men who he came to live with as intelligent children – smart but not wise. That is what I think of Ben Shapiro. He was born in 1984 which should give you some idea of his perspective. He has no experience of the cold war. No first hand memories of any president before George H.W. Bush. No first hand memories of the Israeli Arab conflict until sometime after 1995 or so. His views on conservatism and Republican party are based on the only elected Republican he remembers George W. Bush, and the overwhelming influence of neo conservatives (especially Jewish ones) on American foreign policy. Again, he grew up in L.A. He attended both public schools although he graduated from Yeshiva. Then went to UCLA and Harvard Law school I don’t think he has had any real work experience outside of being a lawyer and commentator and doesn’t realize his limitations. The conversation with Prager was revealing since Prager although he has expressed his dislike for Trump, makes clear that he is still preferable to any Democratic nominee, because Prager asked plenty of questions and gave Shapiro plenty of time to answer them. In my opinion Shapiro came off as arrogant and vindictive in that nothing so far has been able to derail Trump’s path to the nomination, and since it hadn’t, Shapiro (out of principle as he put it, but out of spite as I perceived it) was taking his ball and going home.
We shall see if Professor Reynolds (or anyone else) retracts their position on the Michelle Fields claim.
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I reply to Russell Roberts: “China is our enemy. As they grow richer, they threaten the countries around them and US power. China cannot rise peacefully.”
“You say the welfare of Chinese is equally important as the welfare of Americans. You are a globalist, not an American patriot.”
“Do you not favor your children over other children? Why do you not favor the welfare of your country over other countries?”
“Free trade with Germany in the 1930s would have boosted Germany’s capacity to wage war, same with China today.”
Russell Roberts on KCRW: “Trade with China has accelerated the job loss in [America’s] manufacturing.”
“On the plus side of the ledger, hundreds of millions of Americans have been able to buy relatively inexpensive goods from China, which they love to buy.”
“I want to add something equally important that has not been mentioned by any of the candidates, which I find deeply depressing and may not be mentioned by anyone else on this program — that trade with China has transformed the lives of the Chinese people and I don’t think that’s irrelevant. I don’t know why people on either side of the political spectrum… ignore the tremendous benefits that have accrued to desperately poor people [in China]. Yes, it is hard for certain Americans with low levels of education to find work when they have to compete with people outside the United States. Let’s fix that by improving their skills and their opportunities and not by artificially keeping out foreign products that help those workers who are even poorer than ours. As a person who cares about humanity, I don’t know understand how you can suggest that we should not bring in their goods and allow them to be as poor as they have been in the past.”
"This guy knows all the gossip, the ins and outs, the lashon hara of the Orthodox world. He’s an [expert] in... all the inner workings of the Orthodox world." (Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff)
