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Hitler was born of Weimar because the people in charge of the liberal German government failed to maintain order; they were too weak, incompetent, corrupt and entitled. We have the same sort of political order in the US today.
Washington elites want to see more power put into their hands. Justification for this would require:
And, of all publications, The Guardian has something useful to say on this:
This is the generation trained in academe to value ideology over facts. Presented with evidence that their models are failing them they just ignore the facts. They are going to crash again in ways that nobody can imagine. They've learned nothing from their failures.
Listen to what they say to know they truth. The truth is often the opposite of what they say.
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/267414/
Washington elites want to see more power put into their hands. Justification for this would require:
...addressing the people’s legitimate anxieties about the professional class. These include policy incompetence ranging from mismanagement of the economy and immigration to botching diplomacy and the conduct of war; politicization of the administrative state as illustrated by IRS targeting of conservatives during Obama’s first term; and the elite media’s use of double standards in reporting and opining about left and right. Underlying it all is the corruption of liberal education, which has become boot camp for progressivism, and of graduate and professional schools, which provide advance training in the progressive exercise of power. To play the vital role contemplated for them by our constitutional system, intellectual and political elites have a long way to go in regaining the people’s trust.
And, of all publications, The Guardian has something useful to say on this:
[The 2007 financial crisis,] Brexit, Donald Trump, Jeremy Corbyn: time after time, the political class has completely failed to understand the world they were governing, policing and analysing. Allow me to be blunt: our political crisis is also a crisis for our political class. And it is one from which I doubt they can recover.
At each major fork in the road, they have sped off down the wrong turning, while decrying the other as unimaginable. Each time, they have crashed.
This is the generation trained in academe to value ideology over facts. Presented with evidence that their models are failing them they just ignore the facts. They are going to crash again in ways that nobody can imagine. They've learned nothing from their failures.
Listen to what they say to know they truth. The truth is often the opposite of what they say.
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/267414/