tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post1528428092102546335..comments2024-03-28T17:08:15.784-07:00Comments on Social Democracy for the 21st Century: A Realist Alternative to the Modern Left: Tucker Carlson versus Unhinged Far LeftistLord Keyneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06556863604205200159noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-18856704225632674292017-07-20T12:04:47.977-07:002017-07-20T12:04:47.977-07:00Would it be OK if I cross-posted this article to W...Would it be OK if I cross-posted this article to WriterBeat.com? There is no fee; I’m simply trying to add more content diversity for our community and I enjoyed reading your work. I’ll be sure to give you complete credit as the author. If “OK” please let me know via emfail.<br /><br />Autumn<br />AutumnCote@WriterBeat.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-12605375709582542722017-02-23T17:19:53.060-08:002017-02-23T17:19:53.060-08:00Trump has picked up on some of the issues and talk...Trump has picked up on some of the issues and talking points Buchanan pushed for beginning in the early 90s, but I would not say Trump is an ideological or principled isolationist like Buchanan is. Trump is not opposed to interventionism on principle like Buchanan is. Buchanan has no problem with Iran, is against Israel, and wants to withdraw from Europe, the Mideast, and cede the Pacific to China. Trump, needless to say, does not support these things. <br /><br />Trump recognized that the Iraq and Afghanistan wars were unpopular, which is why he was critical of them and of the neocon interventionism of the Bush years. But he also knows that "fighting the terrorists", hostility to Iran, and militarism are generally popular, which is why he described himself as "the most militaristic person" during the campaign, said he would "bomb the shit out of ISIS" and that military force against Iran is on the table, promised for more military spending and building more ships and nukes. Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-45670969290816879342017-02-22T14:45:45.229-08:002017-02-22T14:45:45.229-08:00I am told Trump is Putin's stooge, and about t...I am told Trump is Putin's stooge, and about to let Putin eat most of Eastern Europe.<br /><br />I am also told Trump is about to start a nuclear war with Putin.<br /><br />Trump's greatest political gift is his ability to make his critics crazy.Ken Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08207803092348071005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-15956747562754664002017-02-22T10:22:00.176-08:002017-02-22T10:22:00.176-08:00There was a way to stop Trump. There was an elect...There was a way to stop Trump. There was an election on Nov. 8, 2016. <br /><br />I bet Ms.Taylor sat it out, to the same effect as the Trotskyites and others who supported Jill Stein.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-10065920423442020242017-02-22T06:39:09.960-08:002017-02-22T06:39:09.960-08:00LK, you regressive leftist, how dare you suggest t...LK, you regressive leftist, how dare you suggest that the US invasion and mismanagement of Iraq played a role in the explosion of a secetarian civil war there! Didn't you check what the great neocon thinker Bill Kristol had to say on Iraq shortly after Trump's election? The war in Iraq was right and necessary, and the US won it! Iraqi's chose civil war for themselves!<br /><br />On a more serious note, Rand Paul had made a similar observation about the despicable John McCain, another reactionary hawk who hates Trump for having the audacity to recognize that "Problem in the world+US military intervention=A Viable Solution" hasn't been the case for decades, if it ever was reality to begin with. It's telling that the right wingers who are most vocally opposed to Trump are the biggest hawks. If Trump's advisors can get him off the course of hostility to Iran, America might actually be able to start spending money on rebuilding this country, rather than rebuilding some backwater in Afghanistan.<br /><br />The Trump=Hitler talk is truly insane. I had thought that fascism can not be properly understood outside of its opposition to communism; given Trump has been mum on the threat of communists, calling him a fascist makes absolutely no sense. SHNnoreply@blogger.com