LAwrence may be too early to make a Jefferson out of Trump. Given his
relative political inexperience, and the provincialism of most his
supporters, guidance seems to be imperative. We don't want another US
president waging wars in the Middle East while he had never even heard
about Sunni or Shia sects.
Th immigration from Mexico has already declined during Obama
administration.
The issue of abortion being left to individual states does not seem very
plausible now given that it takes only a few hours to get to another state
and have an abortion.
On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 4:29 AM, Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I'm 254/300 through Jefferson's first term in Henry Adams history. Adams
has quite a lot to say about the executive position. Jefferson like Trump
believed in a small, not very powerful central government. He favored the
preservation of State's rights. Ironically, Adams writes, there was no one
in either the Senate or the House with as much competence, force, ability
etc as Jefferson. And so Jefferson assumed the power that he argued
against in order to do what he believed was necessary. And the House &
Senate, peopled by lesser folk, supported him. In his day the opposing
party was the Federalists and Jefferson's resounding victory over them
ended them as a party. It is hard to believe something like that happening
today. Democrats or Republicans might lose but they are too well
established to end. John Adams, the Federalist (one-term) president who
preceded Jefferson did one finally thing before he left the presidency,
something that preserved Federalism. He appointed John Marshall head of
the supreme court. Marshall was another powerful personality like
Jefferson. Marshall was a Federalist who didn't mind legislating from the
Supreme Court.
And so the idea that the Democratic Party had some power over Hillary
Clinton, power to approve or deny her the ability to run for President
doesn't ring true in the Jefferson/Marshall sense. She was too big a
personality to be controlled. Was Trump also too big? I frankly haven't
been following politics for a long time so I don't know. He is either the
truest Republican who has come along in a long time or he has made some
very clever decisions about what to do during his first term, especially,
reduce immigration, negotiate with businesses by means of tax incentives to
do their business here in the U.S. and thus keep more jobs here (something
some important swing states will especially appreciate), and reduce taxes.
He also intends to appoint conservative judges to the supreme court, judges
who will do less legislating of the sort that Marshall did, judges who
favor decentralizing power (something Marshall did not favor), that is
restoring more power to the States. An early test case may be Row vs
Wade. The right of abortion may be left to the individual states rather
than dictated as it is now by Central Government, i.e., the supreme
court.
As to giving Trump guidance, that may be difficult. If he is the huge
personality that he seems to be (something on the order of a Jefferson or a
Marshall), he may just hire the "reason' and "guidance" his non-political
background has denied him.
Mike is just now returning from a spate of novel writing, but he hasn't
told us anything about it. I was just a bit ago trying to imagine the sort
of novel Mike would write. In my imagined Mike-novel, the hero would be a
pessimistic fellow who did way too much drinking. He supported several
worth-while programs but was each time thwarted by evil white capitalism.
The hero's love interest leaves him for a Republican lawyer. He had stayed
sober just so he could keep her happy but with her gone, he returns to his
favorite pub only to learn that it is closed. The owner has died of a
heart attack. He backs up to see if anyone is still living up above where
the owner used to live and is struck down by a police car, going much too
fast for conditions. The paramedics arrive moments later while he is lying
in the street and the head medic shakes his head to the junior medic, a
gorgeous blond that looks like Megyn Kelly. "Is there anything we can do
for you," the Megyn Kelly look-alike bends near to ask? The hero coughs,
bloody drool slides down his cheek, "either of you two happen to have a
drink," he asks? The two medics look over at the closed bar, shake their
heads at each other, and when they look back they see that the hero has
died.
Lawrence
On 11/24/2016 6:27 PM, Omar Kusturica wrote:
We will see. The Democrats should not have allowed a woman like HC to be
their candidate. It may be that the bulk of Trump supporters can be brought
to reason, with some guidance.
On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 6:42 PM, david ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Nov 24, 2016, at 7:44 AM, Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
attention boys and girls, you never know how the rhymes might flow.
Bravo.
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Yes, at last! the long awaited anarchic rhymer has arrived. Pay
Hereabouts anarchy has been a response to Trumpery. That, by the way, is
pretty much how I dance—which doesn’t happen often.
David etc.--------------------------------------------------------
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