{"id":185,"date":"2017-02-20T14:27:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T19:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/?p=185"},"modified":"2017-02-20T18:26:17","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T23:26:17","slug":"on-this-pesidents-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/185","title":{"rendered":"On This Presidents’ Day…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Following is an excerpt from an article published in\u00a0the NEW REPUBLIC<\/a> <\/strong>July 12, 2016. On Presidents’ Day 2017, as we pay respect to President’s of the past as well as\u00a0witnessing\u00a0widespread dissatisfaction\u00a0and protests\u00a0of our current siting president<\/a>,\u00a0the words following now seem\u00a0\u00a0prescient<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

If making sense of Donald Trump requires regular reminders that he is an outgrowth of powerful, ingrained political forces, rather than an unfortunate aberration, the world is certainly obliging. He is the patron saint of resentful whites, who are in turn the dominant faction of the Republican Party. But these reminders provide little information about how the American political economy should be reordered to meet the needs of both white nativists and ethnically diverse liberals.<\/p>\n

In a country divided such as ours is, an election can help break impasses by providing reasonably clear guidance on what changes the majority of people want to make. But the strangeness of Trump\u2019s campaign is sidelining that guidance. Rather than serving as an exponent of white working-class interests, advancing a policy agenda that would materially benefit his supporters, Trump serves merely as their id.<\/p>\n

This has made collateral damage out of ideology. Not since 2000 has a U.S. election been so untethered from substantive questions about how to make people more satisfied with the ways the government serves them. Trump has made this election a referendum on our national identity\u2014are we the kind of country that turns to a demagogue when enough people are frustrated?\u2014rather than on our policy status quo. Once that identity issue is resolved, the question of what comes next won\u2019t have a clear answer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

America choose a demagogue and they got what only 40% of Americans <\/a>apparently wanted. The other 60% either mildly or vehemently disapprove of the man America placed in the most powerful job I the world.<\/p>\n

Aside from Trump’s gross incompetence on other thing can be said bout the man. He is keeping the promises he made on the campaign trail. Most of which are as in American and borsch and Putin.<\/p>\n

America got what it voted for. Let the intense buyer remorse, and, extreme resistance <\/em><\/strong>begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Following is an excerpt from an article published in\u00a0the NEW REPUBLIC July 12, 2016. On Presidents’ Day 2017, as we pay respect to President’s of the past as well as\u00a0witnessing\u00a0widespread dissatisfaction\u00a0and protests\u00a0of our current siting president,\u00a0the words following now seem\u00a0\u00a0prescient If making sense of Donald Trump requires regular reminders that he is an outgrowth … Continue reading On This Presidents’ Day…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ovtF-2Z","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":526,"url":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/526","url_meta":{"origin":185,"position":0},"title":"Trump, Continuing His Descent, Is Now At 36% Approval…","author":"Les","date":"March 27, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Our pretend POTUS, always the winner according to his self proclamations, seems to be having a bit of a problem with\u00a0the majority of people in our ALREADY GREAT NATION. 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