an example what frustrates me about globalists

[doodydota]

This article from foreignpolicy.com is a perfect example what frustrates me in discussions with ferocious anti-Trump militants. First, the author describes Trump by constructing a massive strawman with typical talking-points from the globalists' echochamber:

 

The presidential campaign has seen Trump demonize his opponents, flaunt his rampant tax avoidance, make almost-overt calls to violent action, and relentlessly question the motives of institutions, such as the judiciary and the media, meant to keep unscrupulous businessmen and politicians, such as Trump himself, on the straight and narrow. He has declared that he would see his opponent jailed if elected. He has even pronounced that he may not recognize an electoral defeat. To top it off, Trump has trampled on the norms protecting the disadvantaged: women, ethnic minorities, religious minorities and the disabled. He has done all this — and still been accepted as a legitimate candidate by the Grand Old Party.

 

It's ironic how the author finishes with proposals outright from Trump's very own ideas for the presidency. This shows he must have taking his information not directly from Trump, but from other second-hand sources.

 

 

 

At the root of our problems is our inability to create shared prosperity and the unwillingness of the political system to discuss and tackle this problem. To equal our modern-day challenge, our institutions therefore need to show that they can make the gains from new technologies and trade more widely shared; build a much stronger and more rational social safety net; reform our tax and entitlement system; reduce the increasingly onerous red tape confronting small businesses; improve our badly failing educational system (if necessary over the objections of teachers unions); start investing in our long-neglected infrastructure; and at last, recognize some of the most debilitating problems facing our society’s most disadvantaged, including violence in our inner cities and mass incarceration in our prisons. All this needs to be done without further deepening the polarization that laid the tracks for Donald Trump’s rise. It’s a tall order, though not an impossible one. And it will require that American elites recognize that the battle to save American democracy won’t be over on Tuesday, regardless of the outcome of the vote.

 

The author is obviously a smart guy and probably not a payed shill. The audience for this article is a small group of elitists and hardly a campain contribution. It seems the author actually believes what he writes. How is it possibe that Trump has been effectively cast as the bad guy by most intellectuals and analysts? 

[matthewcl375]

This confuses me too. People say oh because he threatens their way of life (academics etc) but I really don't think he does.