462 – Topics

00:03 Zeus among mortals: Donald Trump’s inevitable GOP nomination, closing chapter of the Vietnam generation, failed presidents, Salim Mansur’s July 17 American Thinker article, 1976 GOP parallels, history’s unintended consequences, detente
15:00 History’s struggle for memory: unintended consequences and unforeseen consequences, political insights through the Homeric Tales, parallels in Greece and Turkey, Ronald Reagan’s intended and unintended consequences, Saudi Arabia’ s active role in 9/11, Trump vs the establishment, America’s embrace of Islamism, Shah of Iran, inertia of the cold war policies
31:30 An unexceptional presidency: contrast in leadership – Trump vs Obama, Obama’s war on American exceptionalism, Obama as the most divisive president on race relationships, Obama’s embrace of Black Lives Matter, Obama’s support of Islamists, Chilcot Report on Tony Blair’s Iraq Invasion, Jean Chretien’s hypocritical retrospect on Iraq
47:55 Establishing the new Establishment: Brexit, gap between the people and the establishment, globalism’s borderless world, the abandonment of nation states, global rejection of the elites, Brexit vote as a reassertion of national identity and control, Islamist terrorism in Nice France – Orlando – Turkey, mainstream media’s disconnect with the people, Trump’s ghostwriter of his 1987 Art of the Deal
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