Foreigners often get Mrs Merkel all wrong. She is not the queen of Europe, nor has she any desire to be it. She is a domestic leader and politician whose mounting international stature is always a function of her ability…
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The Economist: How to understand Angela Merkel’s comments about America and Britain
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Tweet-Drizzle on Merkel on New World Disorder (OAG #12)
If the generation since the fall of the USSR has been a tale of the unfitness of the USA for leadership, then Trump is pure continuity.
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Republicans are openly considering Donald Trump’s ’emotional stability’, says Carl Bernstein – The Independent
Donald Trump’s “emotional maturity [and] stability” are being discussed in private by senior members of his own political party, according to veteran Washington journalist Carl Bernstein, in a turn of events he has described as unprecedented.Bernstein was speaking on CNN…
Hollywood’s Protests Are Getting to Trump – Vulture
“This Meryl Streep speech is why Trump won,” warned Meghan McCain. “And if people in Hollywood don’t start recognizing why and how — you will help him get reelected.” No sale. The argument that Trump voters flocked to a TV…
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Peter Sloterdijk: On Democracy’s Discontent- Die Zeit
The “People,” as constituted by 59 million Trump-voters (a bit more than 20 percent of the population of 320 Million), have decided to follow the message disseminated by the Republican publicity machine: The solution can be found only in incompetence. …
Alex Ross: The Frankfurt School Knew Trump Was Coming – The New Yorker
At some point over the summer, it struck me that the greater part of the media wanted Trump to be elected, consciously or unconsciously. He would be more “interesting” than Hillary Clinton; he would “pop.” That suspicion was confirmed the other day, when…
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Robert Bateman: The James Mattis I Saw Behind Closed Doors – Esquire
I think I know what Mattis is trying to do by accepting this position, and it is not because he supports Mr. Trump: Mattis is sacrificing himself. He knows that this will not end well, but he’s doing it in…
Matthew Yglesias: The case for normalizing Trump – Vox
Trump genuinely does pose threats to the integrity of American institutions and political norms. But he does so largely because his nascent administration is sustained by support from the institutional Republican Party and its standard business and interest group supporters.…
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No One Can Say: Before Us (OAG #5)
We might say that it will likely be many years before we can reasonably pronounce the American project truly over, but the main reason we cannot say so is not that the evidence has still to be accumulated, the 10,000 simultaneous simulations run, and a probability estimate produced.
No One Can Say: Absurdifaction (OAG #4)
…the dis-assembling assembly of disconnected yet interrelated not quite anythings, not quite somewhere, with which one might or might not perform something approaching or in some ways vastly exceeding, yet not possibly entailing, disagreement.