December 26, 2016
Transition: Sauce for Obama is Sauce for Trump
Over at the Murdoch kids’ blog the bribed apologists of the ruling class are in a tizzy over Trump’s foreign policy “forays” during the presidential transition.
President-elect Donald Trump is upending the modern convention that the U.S. speaks with one voice on foreign affairs…
No! Who knew that there was a convention about this? Somehow I had completely missed it. I must live in a bubble, thinking with Hillary Clinton that dissent from the government’s one voice was the highest form of patriotism. In addition, I am confused. I hadn’t noticed liberals ever worrying about America speaking with one voice on anything when Republicans were in office. And I notice that Senate opponents of president-elect Trump’s nominees for cabinet appointments are calling themselves the “resistance.” So cool, so edgy, so very Sixties, when ruling class septuagenarians call themselves the resistance during the Trump transition. And never,...(Read Full Article)