“In fact, Trump is the most anti-exceptionalist POUTS since 1945.”
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American Idealism, American Identity – Thread by @dhnexon, with Brief Comments
Posted in Neo-Imperialism, Operation American Greatness, The Exception Tagged with: Alt-Right, Jacksonianism, thymos
Walter Russell Mead: The Jacksonian Revolt – Foreign Affairs
To paraphrase what the neoconservative intellectual Irving Kristol wrote about Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1952, there is one thing that Jacksonians know about Trump—that he is unequivocally on their side. About their country’s elites, they feel they know no such…
Nicholas M Gallagher: Andrew Jackson’s Nationalist Politics Are Back – National Review
While conservatives are more than within their rights to write off Trump, they would be neither wise nor justified to write off the Jacksonians. They may be disgusted with Trump’s antics, and they may find some Jacksonian positions inchoate, wrongheaded,…
Ian Bremer: Trump and the World: What Could Actually Go Wrong – POLITICO Magazine
Donald Trump presents himself as the man uniquely qualified to “remasculate” U.S. foreign policy, to sweep aside those who believe leadership depends as much on patience, discipline, generosity and imagination as on military muscle and an iron will. He wants…
Posted in International Relations, Noted & Quoted, Politics Tagged with: Jacksonianism, Neo-Isolationism, Trump
Conservative Neo-Imperialism vs Jacksonian Neo-Isolationism
As for Trumpism vs. Bushism, one will be no less dependent on “populist nationalism” than the other, to whatever extent it is also successful: In a mass electoralist national system under popular sovereignty, the winner will always be the truest national populist, by definition, if not necessarily the purest national populist according to some external or merely intellectual standard.
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