I think there’s a lot of things that frustrate me about Trump and his relationship to his followers, but it’s articles like this that really drive a point home.
It’s clear the author of this article is smart, realistic, intelligent, and writes a compelling argument. Honestly, the author probably knows more about foreign policy than me.
But Trump doesn’t care about foreign policy. He’s a collection of impulses to make jokes and memes to satiate a base that seems to have no real clear policy goals outside of spite and humiliation of their opponents. No one was talking about annexing Canada on the campaign trail at all. But now Trump said it, so the conservative world has to hastily put together arguments on why this was a stroke of genius all along. And maybe it is? But too much of the intellectual conservative movement reads as a tail being wagged by a dog.
Does Trump ***really*** want to annex Canada? No. What he wants is for people like me to say “That sounds terrible and unrealistic”, and then someone else to say “Stupid lib”, and then post a link to this article like a drunk man groping at a breast, where he neither grasps it cleanly and the owner of the breast (you, the author of this article,) realizes it was not grasped well at all.
" homeostasis is unachievable in human affairs, " finite resources competed for in a finite space. As you have described elsewhere, salesmen will claim neither is finite. Boltzman told us how that resource competition plays out. And then he killed himself. Somewhere between Boltzman and salesmen is strategy.
I think there’s a lot of things that frustrate me about Trump and his relationship to his followers, but it’s articles like this that really drive a point home.
It’s clear the author of this article is smart, realistic, intelligent, and writes a compelling argument. Honestly, the author probably knows more about foreign policy than me.
But Trump doesn’t care about foreign policy. He’s a collection of impulses to make jokes and memes to satiate a base that seems to have no real clear policy goals outside of spite and humiliation of their opponents. No one was talking about annexing Canada on the campaign trail at all. But now Trump said it, so the conservative world has to hastily put together arguments on why this was a stroke of genius all along. And maybe it is? But too much of the intellectual conservative movement reads as a tail being wagged by a dog.
Does Trump ***really*** want to annex Canada? No. What he wants is for people like me to say “That sounds terrible and unrealistic”, and then someone else to say “Stupid lib”, and then post a link to this article like a drunk man groping at a breast, where he neither grasps it cleanly and the owner of the breast (you, the author of this article,) realizes it was not grasped well at all.
" homeostasis is unachievable in human affairs, " finite resources competed for in a finite space. As you have described elsewhere, salesmen will claim neither is finite. Boltzman told us how that resource competition plays out. And then he killed himself. Somewhere between Boltzman and salesmen is strategy.