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Home Front: Politix
CNN’s David Gergen Knocks Trump for Focusing on Domestic Policy
2016-12-03
[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] Minutes after President-Elect Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
’s "Thank You Tour" rally in Cincinnati, Ohio Thursday night CNN commentator, and former White House adviser, David Gergen voiced his displeasure for the man during Anderson Cooper 360. "I think there was any doubt that we’re putting an end in one chapter in American history and moving on to a new one he dispelled that doubt tonight," he whined after bemoaning, "The alpha male reappeared tonight."

Host Anderson Cooper seemed taken aback by Gergen’s direction since he originally went to Gergen to discuss Trump’s use of teleprompter and "conversational style which has always been incredibly effective certainly for his supporters on the campaign trail."

"I'm talking about announcing who his defense secretary pick is. You know, in a sort of charming way," Cooper explained trying to get Gergen back on track.

Gergen then went on a small rant about how America’s path is going to change under a Trump presidency:

This is goodbye to American leadership in the world. It’s goodbye to globalization. He's bringing America home. He's going to lead a nativist, nationalistic, populist movement and if you want to join up with him fine, if you don't, forget it.

Cooper countered by noting that American history is full of presidents pulled into foreign engagements, "But I got to say, a lot of presidents have started out saying, "You know what? I'm not talk about nation-building. I'm focusing here at home." And world events have led them elsewhere."

Posted by:Fred

#8  I wish that this was good-bye to globalism but it's not.

The sun will come up tomorrow and the slime will continue to ooze.

I first encountered the globalist mind 50 years ago as a college freshman and the World Federalists were recruiting. Sounded reasonable for a while then as I got older (like about 2 months) I realized that utopia just ain't in the cards. The New Soviet Man is just the same old polish on a turd.

Doesn't matter though, Hope springs eternal that utopia is just around the corner.......if we can just find the right corner.
Posted by: AlanC   2016-12-03 14:14  

#7  "We won. Get over it."
Posted by: Raj   2016-12-03 13:24  

#6  David Gergen - "the talking thumb"
Posted by: Frank G   2016-12-03 10:48  

#5  GW Bush was going to concentrate on the domestic stuff, then 9-11 drove the entire neocon contingent entirely mad. let's hope history does not repeat.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2016-12-03 10:33  

#4  See - "It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world": it was George Washington's Farewell Address to us. The inaugural pledge of Thomas Jefferson was no less clear: "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations-entangling alliances with none."
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-12-03 08:58  

#3  Globalism was a silly thing promoted by people who think that a few tech trinkets can cause a complete redo of human nature. And that they can profit and be the ones with all the money, and in charge, in the process.

Inherent fear of nationalism is as ridiculous and dangerous as seeing nationalism as the end-all and be-all.

Our species might be ready for the concept of "world citizen" in a thousand generations, but probably never. One of the many genius ideas from the Founding Fathers was the notion of balance between centralization and atomization. Subsidiarity is inherently necessary for optimum life among humans. The globalists went to great lengths to convince everyone otherwise and it has blown up in their face.
Posted by: no mo uro   2016-12-03 06:24  

#2  "I think there was any doubt that we’re putting an end in one chapter in American history and moving on to a new one he dispelled that doubt tonight," he whined after bemoaning, "The alpha male reappeared tonight."

Like that's a bad thing?
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-12-03 02:42  

#1  It’s goodbye to globalization.

From your mouth to the ear of G*d.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-12-03 02:02