Well, well, well...it almost sounds like Trump is vetting his next Security Advisor.

[Miles Archer]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

Excellent interview by @CondoleezzaRice on @MarthaMaccallum on @FoxNews. Very interesting and secure perspective on life.

8:49 PM · Sep 10, 2019·Twitter for iPhone

Link to tweet

[Skittles]

1. LOLOL

as if Condoleezza has ANY credibility

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. CondorLizard is too smart to take a job with Trump.

She may be evil but she's not stupid.

[trixie2]

3. I was going to say that!

[stopdiggin]

6. exactly my take (nt)

[Dorian Gray]

7. I was going to say the same thing

I don't think she's stupid enough to get into bed with this administration.

[Hortensis]

9. :) If only. But she's "relieved" no Taliban at Camp David and

and likens Trump's foreign policy to the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Maybe she's trying to head off an offer.

From today's The Hill:

Condoleezza Rice warns of 'Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse' in US foreign policy

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned in a new interview that America could be headed toward a crisis because of rising nationalist and protectionist forces.

Speaking on "CBS This Morning," the former national security adviser said she was most worried about internal issues that the U.S. faces and appeared to take a veiled shot at the Trump administration with criticism of "populism," "isolationism," "protectionism," and "nativisim," all labels that have been applied to the Trump administration's trade and immigration policies by its critics.

"I've seen the return of what I've called the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse," Rice said, evoking the biblical figures. "Populism, I'll say nativism, not nationalism, isolationism and protectionism."

"We did that before. It was the period between World War I and World War II. It led to a Great Depression. It led to a war. And the system we put in place after World War II, of free markets and free trade and kind of global commons that we talk about here, that system worked awfully well. It's under challenge now," she added. ...

[CentralMass]

4. Kindauseless Rice.

[RockRaven]

5. *Susan* Rice was on CNN and MSNBC today criticizing him. He cannot stand women of color doing that.

In light of that fact, I am curious: what is the timeline of Susan Rice's appearances, and Condoleeza Rice's appearance, and Trump's tweet. I don't watch cable news regularly, so I don't know when these things aired live.

I strongly suspect the tweet occurred *after* he saw Susan Rice's appearance. A sort of passive-aggressive "oh yeah?" thing: "See? I've got a black woman on my side!"

[tanyev]

8. "Very interesting and secure perpective on life"?

1. That's not a combination of words that Donald Trump's brain would produce.
2. What the hell does that even mean?

[Hortensis]

10. +1. Bizarre.

[Hortensis]

11. The four horsemen: "Populism, nativism, protectionism, isolationism"

"I've seen the return of what I've called the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse," Rice said, evoking the biblical figures. "Populism, I'll say nativism (not nationalism), isolationism and protectionism."

"We did that before. It was the period between World War I and World War II. It led to a Great Depression. It led to a war. And the system we put in place after World War II, of free markets and free trade and kind of global commons that we talk about here, that system worked awfully well. It's under challenge now," she added. ...

Populism is, by its nature, anti-pluralist, and thus very dangerous to democracies. Populist movements draw those angry at, and wanting to put an end to, being outvoted by majorities. They can arise among people of ANY political ideology.

Thus, in the U.S. Trump and Sanders can advocate very different ideologies yet draw many of the same people by appealing to the same resentments and antagonisms. (Remembering that Trump probably stole the 2016 election and Sanders asked the superdelegates to set aside the Democrats' popular vote for his opponent and give him the nomination, as he promised his supporters many times he would.)

Pluralism as a political philosophy is the recognition and affirmation of diversity within a political body, which permits the peaceful coexistence of different interests, convictions, and lifestyles.