During my nightly rounds of the blogs I happened upon this post linked in a comment over at GOLDEN GEESE NEWS
John Michael Greer Writes:
Donald Trump and the Politics of Resentment
Of all the predictions I made for the new year in my post
two weeks ago, the one that seems to have stirred up the most distress and
derision is my suggestion that the most likely person to be standing up there with
his hand on a Bible next January, taking the oath of office as the next
president of the United States, is Donald Trump. That prediction wasn’t made to
annoy people, entertaining as that can be from time to time; nor is it merely a
reaction to Trump’s meteoric rise in the polls and the abject failure of any of
his forgettable Republican rivals even to slow him down.
The rise of Donald Trump, rather, marks the arrival of a
turning point I’ve discussed more than once in these essays already. Like the other
turning points whose impending appearance on the stage of the future has been
outlined here, it’s not the end of the world; it’s thus a source of amusement
to me to recall all those Republicans who insisted they were going to flee the
country if Obama won reelection, and are still here, when I hear Democrats
saying they’ll do the same thing if Trump wins. Still, there’s a difference of
some importance between the two, because in terms of the historical trajectory
of the United States, Trump is a far more significant figure than Barack Obama
will ever be.
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