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AuH20
07-17-2018, 10:36 AM
Regardless of the actual policy achievements (which remains to be seen, given the sheer amount of entrenched domestic enemies), he is changing the course of the dialogue.

https://vdare.com/articles/president-honey-badger-upsets-the-cold-war-order-which-included-mass-immigration-doesn-t-care


Trump, in his best honey badger mode, has been on a roll.


Universalist language in American political discourse wasn’t anything new, but the Cold War went a long way toward promoting America as an idea, not a real place or a people with national interests to defend.

When the Soviet Union collapsed, the Cold War was supposedly over. But instead of a “peace dividend,” what America got was, as Pinkerton wrote, “more of the same” as Western elites “doubled down,” despite the fact “that everything in the world had changed.”

A global elite spawned during the Cold War, bolstered by Cold War era ideological abstractions, had solidified its stranglehold on power in the Western world. The United States wasn’t exactly the leader of “the Free World,” but, rather, had become the seat of an expansive globalist project. The “military-industrial” complex had interests of its own, and peace wasn’t one of them. Globalist billionaires and the “Deep State” had become the not-so-hidden hands that manipulated “democracy” for their own ends. Ending the global “geopolitical architecture” that was established during the Cold War would be a direct, existential threat to their power.