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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHe Xeroxed the Convention Speech
By JOSH MARSHALL Published JANUARY 20, 2017, 12:27 PM EDT
"America First" has now be spoken in an inaugural address. This was quite similar to Trump's convention speech: dark, defiant, filled with talk of "American carnage", a landscape dotted with tombstones. This was vintage campaign Trump.
"Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation, an education system flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge, and the crime, and the gangs, and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential. This American carnage stops right here and stops right now."
If you didn't hear it, that's about all you need to know. This speech was about grievance and reclamation, reclaiming power, wealth from those who've stolen it. These themes can make sense and be salutary for countries which are weak, battered and poor. When they become the rallying cry for the strongest and wealthiest of countries, that is always dangerous. Our work is cut out for us.
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DonViejo
Jan 2017
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The dirty rotten bastard. All indications are that the rich will get richer and the poor and middle
The_Casual_Observer
Jan 2017
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The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)1. The dirty rotten bastard. All indications are that the rich will get richer and the poor and middle
class poorer.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)2. "An education system flush with cash" . . .
what the fuck is he smoking?
greatauntoftriplets
(175,750 posts)3. He's full of shit.