Is President Donald Trump a conservative? While other contemporary writers and thinkers may be quick to write the President off as an anomaly to the conservative movement, Corey Robin has another theory. He argues that if you trace conservatism back through the centuries to understand what the movement is really truly about, then Donald Trump makes perfect sense. Corey Robin, author of “The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump”, is the guy who can explain why this is happening.
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The Conservative Movement With Corey Robin | Why Is This Happening? – Ep 3 | MSNBC
#NotMyPresident
J Devlin no! YOU are not my president!
I won the argument didn’t I? Everybody says so…
Trump knows he won the election because Putin helped him. All of Europe, Australia and three fourths of USA population knows this as well and not just because of the Mueller report.
Your FBI and other intel dropped the ball. By the time they began looking and investigating what intels world wide had shared with yours during the last year Obama was in office, it was too late.
So it was no surprise to Trump when during the transition to office he learned of the investigation. But he didn’t expect it would come to light to USA citizens, which made him very angry to look so small.
Anger, desperation and selfishness is what drove Trump to legitimate his election by trying to take the heat off Russia/Putin and blame Ukraine and the DNC to insure his re-election.
Let alone how he’d look to his buddy Putin who will throw him under the bus faster than all others Trump did.
Like the commentary. Sadly, you keep cluttering it up with intrusive background tracks. I can get insightful commentary elsewhere.
Background tracks? What? R u ok? I think you are having auditory hallucinations…
This is happening bcoz some people believe truth isn’t truth.
SOME SAY, “THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE”. IS THAT TRUE? THE TRUTH IS TRUMP IS A CHRONIC LIAR AND CONMAN. hOW DOES THAT SET ANYONE FREE?
Conservatism is very strong! democrats are in fact WEAK!
MSNBCoverUp news is the most cartoonishly evil propaganda that belongs in a dystopian movie
The people attempting to destroy your country are not conservatives. They are the radical right and have radical right intentions. Quit foolishly and incorrectly calling them conservatives, you are giving legitimacy to a very dangerous development in your crumbling democracy.
Conservatives do NOT hate the constitution. The traditional conservatives have left the republican party leaving the corrupt, the Christian fascists, and pigs like Trump. Anyone calling Trump a conservatives does not know what a conservative is.
Your country, your democracy, and your foundational document, the constitution, are in serious trouble, while you refuse to call things by their real names. You are endangered by a movement of the radical right. You are afraid to name it. That fear speaks volumes.
DynaCatlovesme The data shows time and time again that conservatives give more time and money to charity. Do you volunteer?
Definition of conservatism has been so bent and twisted by lobbyists that today it means serving the interest of those who have money and power to influence policies by deceiving those who are at the receiving end of the food chain, by instilling false sense of optimism and power by manipulating their emotions, be it their patriotism, religion.
Otherwise how can so many conservatives christians be duped into voting for someone who cheated on three wives and continues to do so? How can anyone honestly serving in military feel honored to meet a person dodged drafting? And how can those who want corruption free society voted for someone who whole life has been marked by deception, be it in form of tax evasion, not paying contractors, cheating investors..? And the whole team of republicans put him on that pedestal of god like authority.
@Jerome Hugh I don’t disagree with your observation, but I wouldn’t say there’s really a change of definition. Conservatism has always been about maintaining the power of those who have power, while the means and rhetoric of doing so changes quite a lot over time.
@DynaCatlovesme
Bottomline is that for conservatism to survive presence of gullible population is a must.
@Jerome Hugh Wasn’t always the case, and it’s a modern goal to make it not the case again (control or eliminate voting and own the law and the law enforcers).
Boring and bias 😔
It is the Conservative GOP that enable trump.
catalinacurio- TRUMP isn’t a Conservative he’s a Populist…RINO Conservatives hate TRUMP, Because he’s done everything they’ve been preaching for 20 years in 2 1/2 years without any support from them…You know that TRUMP has +94% Support amongst Republicans, that other 6% are the RINO Conservative Republicans ( Many are hired by CNN & MSDNC to show the Anti-TRUMP narrative has bi-partisan support- Democrats on the other hand hate TRUMP, because he’s done everything they’ve been for Higher Employment Rates including minorities, Higher Family Income Rate, Minority small business opportunity,
Continued-…Prison Reform, increase in Child tax credits, Pay Rate increases amongst lower wage & workers without college educations, Ending foreign wars/ police campaigns-….
catalinacurio
actually it is the going further to the left Democrats that enables Trump.
TL;DR… its happening because the Democratic party is wholly unpalatable to the typical sane person.
It wasn’t until the strong emergence of progressives in the 2018 election that I realized the the essence of Trump was regressive. Progressives strive for a future that will probably never quite be, while Regressives yearn for a past that never was. Perhaps it is because I remember the 1950’s as a time that was quite far from the idyllic moment others try to make it.
The right has been calling progressives “regressives” for years and years now. Just as they’ve called many on the left “snowflakes” which prompted many on the left to label someone on the right as such, though it never stuck because we all know who the snowflakes are.
@mtb416 If all that makes sense to you , you are indeed regressive, almost pre-verbal.
ruth depew That’s the best you can do, isn’t it?
Wow never heard 50/50 Booking being describe in a political way
For what does it profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Yes, God did indeed knows the outcome of mankind as we have seen the apex of man’s sin in these the very last days in the Day of Judgment.
To hear the real truth please log onto http://www.ebiblefellowship.org or .com. Or Bible Ministries International.com.
God also give us a parable of his children being home in bed in Luke 11. This parable is talking about Judgment Day which is now upon the entire world.
These children are reaping the true blessings and riches of God almighty. The riches talked about in this program are no more than a woman’s rag thrown away after it’s usage.
As we are seeing what God tells us would come to pass in the Day of Recompense: Revelation 11:22 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still, and he that is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still, and he that is holy, let him be holy still. This verse is speaking of Satan and those that taken the bait of thinking that the riches of this world is the ultimate in glory and limited unto death eternal. And this verse is also a picture of God and his elect in our eternal glory forevermore.
This enormous message that the world is blind to is becoming more and more obvious to those God gave the riches of his kingdom to. And the riches of the so called winners spoken of in this program pale in comparison. Politics has nothing to do with God’s workings.
May you too be one of God’s elect.
Why Conservatism do nothing but undo everything ?
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“The anger from conservatives comes from the fear to be dominated by progress” –
Geoffroy de Lasagnerie
“Thinking in an Ugly World”