If necessary to prevent recession, Trump has an important card that he has not yet played. He can ban US exports of oil & gas. This would free up substantial oil & gas supply for the American people, which is currently being exported. It would reduce the price of oil within the US, and it would keep the economy moving. It is consistent with the America First agenda, because it puts US interests ahead of European interests.
Part of the problem is social media, but a large part of the problem is the inability to pass legislation due to the 60 vote rule in the Senate. The 60 vote rule is not something envisioned by the Constitution, it is a bug introduced by the provision that each part of Congress will make its own rules. The Constitution envisioned the Vice President as casting a tie-breaking vote in the Senate, but there are no tie breaking votes if one needs a 60-40 margin to pass legislation.
There is widespread recognition that the 60 vote rule is a problem, but Republicans are reluctant to return to majority rule because of fears that the Democrats will create new states or pack the Supreme Court, locking in an advantage that is difficult to overcome. The solution is to require 60 votes for those 2 types of actions, but it might take a constitutional amendment to reliably enact such a provision.
As I wrote in my comment to the previous article, "populism" is not a dirty word. Our system of government was designed to be populist. Any politician should be proud to be populist.
Thomas Jefferson once wrote, “The only safe depository of the ultimate powers of society are with the people themselves" - clearly an endorsement of populism.
In one of Abraham Lincoln's most famous and most quoted speeches, he said, "A government Of the people, By the people, and For the people shall not perish from this earth" - a call to arms to protect a populist government.
A politician who treats populism as a dirty word, as Paul Ryan does here, is basically confessing to his/her belief in a government run by a privileged class, not by representatives of the People. He is confessing that he wants a full-time "swamp" of unelected bureaucrats with no accountability to the People. He is confessing to being a Washington insider with disdain for the opinions of those outside the beltway.
Of course, there are some islands of insiders outside the beltway. The campus of Harvard is one of them. And, Paul Ryan is appealing to Harvard to remain an island of insiders who believe only they know best, even as some at Harvard feel differently.
Trump's attraction is that he is trying to restore populism at a time when decades of establishment rule have allowed many important problems to fester to the point of causing great damage to our Republic.
Paul Ryan argues that Trump's populism is not conservative ... that it is not republican. Paul Ryan is wrong. Trump is trying to restore the Republican Party to its founding ideals. It is Paul Ryan, and his ilk, who promote a more establishment oriented Republican Party that abandons its founding principles in favor of a more centrist alliance with the Democratic Party and all the many evils that come with that.
The very word "republican" is derived from the Roman word for tax collector. At the time of Christ, Roman tax collectors were called "publicans." They made a good living taxing the common populace for the sake of big Roman government. The term "re-publican" represents opposition to the tax collectors.
But, noone defines it better than Abe Lincoln when he refers to America as "a government Of the people, By the people, and For the people." That, my friends, is just another way of saying that we have a populist system of government ... that we have one of the only populist governments on the the earth ... and that it is worth preserving.
I wish the article would have gone on to describe what is meant by a moral conservatism and detail how that would work.
Yes, morality is key, but what about just following the law?
This is the regime that Paul Ryan, and the other moderates, would appease with their weakness. This is the regime that Obama gave $Billions to ...
https://www.foxnews.com/world/iran-executes-people-including-teens-hanging
If necessary to prevent recession, Trump has an important card that he has not yet played. He can ban US exports of oil & gas. This would free up substantial oil & gas supply for the American people, which is currently being exported. It would reduce the price of oil within the US, and it would keep the economy moving. It is consistent with the America First agenda, because it puts US interests ahead of European interests.
Part of the problem is social media, but a large part of the problem is the inability to pass legislation due to the 60 vote rule in the Senate. The 60 vote rule is not something envisioned by the Constitution, it is a bug introduced by the provision that each part of Congress will make its own rules. The Constitution envisioned the Vice President as casting a tie-breaking vote in the Senate, but there are no tie breaking votes if one needs a 60-40 margin to pass legislation.
There is widespread recognition that the 60 vote rule is a problem, but Republicans are reluctant to return to majority rule because of fears that the Democrats will create new states or pack the Supreme Court, locking in an advantage that is difficult to overcome. The solution is to require 60 votes for those 2 types of actions, but it might take a constitutional amendment to reliably enact such a provision.
As I wrote in my comment to the previous article, "populism" is not a dirty word. Our system of government was designed to be populist. Any politician should be proud to be populist.
Thomas Jefferson once wrote, “The only safe depository of the ultimate powers of society are with the people themselves" - clearly an endorsement of populism.
In one of Abraham Lincoln's most famous and most quoted speeches, he said, "A government Of the people, By the people, and For the people shall not perish from this earth" - a call to arms to protect a populist government.
A politician who treats populism as a dirty word, as Paul Ryan does here, is basically confessing to his/her belief in a government run by a privileged class, not by representatives of the People. He is confessing that he wants a full-time "swamp" of unelected bureaucrats with no accountability to the People. He is confessing to being a Washington insider with disdain for the opinions of those outside the beltway.
Of course, there are some islands of insiders outside the beltway. The campus of Harvard is one of them. And, Paul Ryan is appealing to Harvard to remain an island of insiders who believe only they know best, even as some at Harvard feel differently.
Trump's attraction is that he is trying to restore populism at a time when decades of establishment rule have allowed many important problems to fester to the point of causing great damage to our Republic.
Paul Ryan argues that Trump's populism is not conservative ... that it is not republican. Paul Ryan is wrong. Trump is trying to restore the Republican Party to its founding ideals. It is Paul Ryan, and his ilk, who promote a more establishment oriented Republican Party that abandons its founding principles in favor of a more centrist alliance with the Democratic Party and all the many evils that come with that.
The very word "republican" is derived from the Roman word for tax collector. At the time of Christ, Roman tax collectors were called "publicans." They made a good living taxing the common populace for the sake of big Roman government. The term "re-publican" represents opposition to the tax collectors.
But, noone defines it better than Abe Lincoln when he refers to America as "a government Of the people, By the people, and For the people." That, my friends, is just another way of saying that we have a populist system of government ... that we have one of the only populist governments on the the earth ... and that it is worth preserving.
“values”