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| Trump's America: Establishment under siege |
| 2018-09-25 |
| [Asia Times] The funeral service for the late senator John McCain, which was held at Washington’s National Cathedral on September 1, was notable not so much because of the 2,500 mourners in attendance but because of the conspicuous absence of US President Donald Trump. The mourners paying their respects to the veteran conservative politician, who died on August 25 aged 81, included former US presidents Bill Clinton, George W Bush and Barack Obama, as well as Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos, comedian Jay Leno, former secretary of state Madeleine Albright, and former vice-presidents Dick Cheney and Al Gore. While the latter two were possibly as far apart politically as can be and ultimately represented the opposite bookends of the American political arena, they were still part of a political continuum that included the whole spectrum of the American power Establishment. That Trump was absent from this assembly was not a passing trivial occurrence. Those that had assembled to pay their last respects to one of their own was the American political Establishment. Trump’s absence was simply a brazen reminder that he was not one of them. |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #2 That he lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by a margin of 2 million should have ensured that a person of his ilk would never be elected president. The writer's assumption here is that all of those votes were cast by legally registered voters who are citizens of the United States. There are those of us who have some doubt about that. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-09-25 11:49 |
| #1 Why the "establishment" lost credibility was that #1 it decided it was above the law (see Hillary email treatment and Sandy burglar) and #2 decided it was entitled to rent-seek upon americans for things that were not in americas interests and #3 Americans could take a bit of rent-seeking if the establishment were at least a paragon of patriotism, but the current lot are oikophobic. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-09-25 03:42 |