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DemocratSinceBirth

(101,740 posts)
Sun May 21, 2017, 11:42 AM May 2017

I like neo-cons better than crypto-Deplorables

I was listening to Bill Kristol and Salena Zito discuss the coverage of the Trump campaign. It was like listening to Kristol and the lead actress in Legally Blonde discuss the First Continental Congress. Kristol said Trump is getting negative coverage because he is involved in negative things. He mentioned that within one hundred twenty days of his Inauguration he fired his NSA adviser, then fired the chief of the FBI for investigating him, and now is the subject of an independent prosecutor. Zito just tried to deflect.


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I like neo-cons better than crypto-Deplorables (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth May 2017 OP
Tragic thing is that compared with the Alt-Fascists in power now Jake Stern May 2017 #1
Trump's America Firstism is a specific rejection of neo-conservatism. DemocratSinceBirth May 2017 #2

Jake Stern

(3,146 posts)
1. Tragic thing is that compared with the Alt-Fascists in power now
Sun May 21, 2017, 12:19 PM
May 2017

that a Neo-Con run government would almost feel like a respite.

However the fact is that Neo-Cons breached the wall allowing these vipers to slither inside.

DemocratSinceBirth

(101,740 posts)
2. Trump's America Firstism is a specific rejection of neo-conservatism.
Sun May 21, 2017, 12:24 PM
May 2017

IMHO, neo-conservatism was Wilsonian Internationalism on stilts. There has to be a middle ground, America is more than just a big piece of real estate or used to be.

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