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| Spengler breaks silence. |
| 2016-05-12 |
| h/t Instapundit A fit of high dudgeon has gripped many of my Republican friends, ex-friends, and soon-to-be-ex-friends now that Donald Trump has all but won the Republican nomination. My advice to them: get over it. This presidential race will look like Alien vs. Predator. I'm for Predator, without a second's hesitation, because he's our Predator. For all his faults Donald Trump would be (and I'm confident will be) an incomparably better president. I'm not pleased about the outcome of the primaries. I supported Ted Cruz and helped out in his campaign with economic research and news analysis. Yes, Trump is a vulgarian with poor impulse control. I don't like him and find his vulgarity objectionable and his insulting remarks about Mexicans (for example) deplorable. The mother of my children is Mexican, and I take this sort of thing personally. If I ever have the opportunity I will give Trump a black eye. But there's a war on--three different wars, in fact. To remain neutral is moral cowardice; to choose the wrong side would be downright wicked. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #4 US headed to scrap heap the same way Rome did. Rotting from the inside, discarding what made the US powerful. Strong individualism. US is becoming collectivist by socialism Bernie progressivism Clinton/Trump or by populism Trump |
| Posted by: Phaque Glish8284 2016-05-12 22:35 |
| #3 I'm not so sure about that scrapheap. It seems that there's quite a bit of recycling going on in the former world power game. Think Persia, Turkey, Russia, China.. All former big time players in the world looking to be reborn. The only two on the scrap heap for sure are the UK and Rome. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2016-05-12 15:15 |
| #2 He's pretty much spot-on with this: Russia is the last redoubt of the nasty old European nationalism that gave us so much conflict in the past. It is not a revived Soviet empire seeking to conquer the world, but a come-from-behind spoiler, burning with resentment at its would-be relegation to the scrapheap of former great powers. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2016-05-12 13:08 |
| #1 I've met him and his wife. Both are interesting and quite nice people. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2016-05-12 12:29 |