30 August 2020 ~ 17 Comentarios

Donald Trump’s strategy

By Carlos Alberto Montaner

At last the conventions ended. Trump’s was much more showy than Biden’s. The amazing thing is that the Americans did not pay due attention to one or the other. The White House grounds were a natural set for projecting Trump’s message. The argument that the law prohibits the use of public spaces for partisan campaigns is weaker than the silent presence of Covid-19. These are special times. However, the attendees, except for a few citizens respectful of others, did not wear masks or keep the due “social distancing”. God have mercy on them.

The theme of the Republican campaign is the Democrats’ supposed socialism. I’ve heard that argument before, and I don’t believe it. Neither Joe Biden nor Kamala Harris have anything to do with the communist vision of society. Claiming that Joe Biden is like Fidel Castro is similar to saying that Donald Trump is like Vladimir Putin. An obvious exaggeration. I guess Trump is not capable of poisoning opponents.

I remember the 1982 elections in Spain, when Felipe González won by an absolute majority. A Cuban who worked with me, a very good person, came into my office to tell me that he was leaving Spain and going to the United States. “Why?” I asked him. “Because I won’t stand the cordon of olives.” He had suffered greatly from Castro’s collectivist follies. He had been forced to plant Caturra coffee in the agricultural “Cordon of Havana.” Whatever reasoning I put forward crashed against his experience.

Four Cubans participated in the Republican Convention: Florida’s Lieutenant Governor Jeanette Núñez, Mercedes Schlapp, Lourdes Aguirre and Máximo Álvarez, a man who delivered a very persuasive speech. He came to Florida in the “Peter Pan” operation organized by priests and the CIA during the John F. Kennedy administration. Probably none of them would have settled in the United States had an anti-immigrant nationalist like Mr. Trump been in the White House.

The irrefutable evidence: Trump, who promised to strike down Obama’s “executive orders,” has respected the one that put an end to the so-called “dry feet, wet feet” measure, signed by Bill Clinton, that allowed Cubans to seek asylum in the United States or go to any border checkpoint to request the US protection. Trump does not love the Cubans. At least he doesn’t want them on American soil.

Not only does he deny Venezuelans the TPS (Temporary Protected Status) requested by Mario Díaz-Balart and 30 other Congressmen, despite knowing that there is a failed communist dictatorship in Venezuela, and he plays with the eight hundred thousand “Dreamers,” sociological Americans who came to the country dragged by their parents, simply because his support base does not like immigrants.

Roughly speaking, Cubans make up just 4% of Florida’s votes. They can’t even win at Miami-Dade. In the last elections, Obama obtained 49% of the Cuban votes. In the November 3 election, Trump may be supported by 60% of Cubans, but the Puerto Ricans, established around Orlando, may give the victory to Biden, because they have reasons to feel insulted by the White House. According to Miles Taylor, a high-ranking DHS (Department of Homeland Security) official, Donald Trump tried to sell Puerto Rico, as if the Island were just another piece of the Monopoly game, without taking into account that since 1917, more than a century ago, Puerto Ricans are US citizens “by birth.”

I cannot be a Trumpist, precisely because Trump is a protectionist, anti-immigrant nationalist, three categories that I deeply reject. I like that he is (theoretically at least) prudent, preferring to lower spending rather than raise taxes, and that he has moved the embassy to Jerusalem, although I am irritated by his hyperbolic swagger and bully attitude, unable to understand that the Danes don’t want to sell Greenland or NATO partners don’t like being publicly mistreated.

I understand that he wants to attract the evangelical Christians, and that he publicly takes sides with the “pro-life” advocates, even if it is an issue solved by the Supreme Court, but someone with his south-of-the-waist biography, who boasts about grabbing the ladies at the crotch, surely does it as an electoral sacrifice rather than as an ingrained conviction. That’s what Jerushah Duford, Billy Graham’s pious granddaughter, claims. She often accuses Trump of being a great hypocrite.

There are only two months left until the November 3 elections. We’ll see what happens. According to Real Clear Politics, Biden is ahead in the polls. But we already know that doesn’t mean a lot.

17 Responses to “Donald Trump’s strategy”

  1. Manuel 31 August 2020 at 6:59 am Permalink

    Momentum.

    President Trump is surging in the polls following the Republican National Convention while Biden has plummeted to his lowest level of support yet (White House Watch 8/26).

    President Trump made huge gains with key voting blocks after Convention with his support among Black voters rising 9 points within just two weeks (Hill/HarrisX, 8/28). •

    The majority of Suburban voters now throwing their support behind the President – a complete reversal from two weeks ago when a majority backed Biden (Yahoo News/YouGov, 8/29).

    The enthusiasm level is rising in key states and President Trump has now taken the lead from Biden in Michigan (Trafalgar, 8/28).
    …by the way:
    -Trafalgar was the only pollster in 2016 to currently predict a Trump win in Michigan.

    Americans are recognizing the success of the Trump Administration and as a result, President Trump earned his highest approval rating ever in a Zogby poll (Zogby, 8/26).

  2. manuel 31 August 2020 at 10:57 am Permalink

    por si te lo perdiste, J

    Manuel
    27 August 2020 at 7:04 am
    PERMALINK
    The problem is one of perverse incentives. Almost everyone in the science ecosystem benefits from flashy original discoveries and astounding claims: the scientists, their institutions, grant-awarding bodies, academic journals, press officers and the media. Almost nobody benefits from caution, such as diligently combing through other people’s data or replicating experiments. As a result, science is increasingly and worryingly unreliable.”

    El problema es uno de los incentivos perversos. Casi todo el mundo en el ecosistema científico se beneficia de los llamativos descubrimientos originales y de las asombrosas afirmaciones: los científicos, sus instituciones, los organismos que conceden subvenciones, las revistas académicas, los oficiales de prensa y los medios de comunicación. Casi nadie se beneficia de la precaución, como peinar diligentemente los datos de otras personas o replicar experimentos. Como resultado, la ciencia es cada vez más y preocupantemente poco fiable”.

    Traducción realizada con la versión gratuita del traductor http://www.DeepL.com/Translator

    he acá J un hint de lo que pasa con la “ciencia”

    porqué ha ido cayendo en desgracia aceleradamente a pesar de sus logros espectaculares en ciertas áreas, logros reales, verdaderos; pero que por otra parte los “globos”, como el globo del sobrediagnóstico de COVID-19 y estadísticas falseadas por varias razones que ya hemos hablado de algunas.

    el sicólogo arriba menciona algunas virtudes de la ciencia, olvidó otras como la PARSIMONIA, por ejemplo.

  3. Humberto Mondejar Gonzalez 31 August 2020 at 2:51 pm Permalink

    General principles by which the Clandestines C40 will be governed to accuse us of being terrorists:
    http://humbertomondejargonzalez.blogspot.com/2020/02/569-principios-generales-por-lo-que-se.html

  4. Manuel 1 September 2020 at 7:48 am Permalink

    In the final month of the summer, Biden’s victory in two months is looking like a pretty good bet, but

    that was true in 2016 too, and look what happened that fall.
    Michael Biundo, a senior adviser to the 2016 Trump campaign, thinks 2020 could be a repeat, if the current re-election team plays it smart in the home stretch. “Got to convince the voters who came out in 2016 to come out again [and] litigate a case against Joe Biden,” he says. “I think there’s plenty of time.”

    • Manuel 1 September 2020 at 7:51 am Permalink

      Johnson of Lancaster University, also thinks more people could shift toward the president—particularly if increased attacks on Biden are effective. “There is a possibility that the undecided voters could disproportionately ‘break’ for Trump as we get nearer election day,” he says.
      Those undecided votes could really make a difference, like last time, in critical battleground areas. “Remember, he only ‘won’ in 2016 by 77,000 votes scattered across three states and lost the popular vote by over two points,” says Brockington. “He got lucky on the day, he got lucky with the Comey letter and he got lucky that he was facing a candidate with as much negative baggage as he had.”

  5. razón vs instinto 1 September 2020 at 11:32 am Permalink

    Las últimas encuestas están dando un empate. Si hace dos meses Biden llevaba 15 puntos de ventaja y se sigue la curva, para el 3 de noviembre mepa que Trump saca 15 puntitos de ventaja.
    En el mundo solamente ganan los partidos conservadores después de los desastres económicos heredados de los gobiernos de centro izquierda o izquierda.
    EEUU es el único país del mundo en el que un partido político conservador puede ganar elecciones aún con crisis económicas y sanitaria en el medio de la contienda.
    Y es justamente en esta peculiaridad estadounidense donde se asienta una de las bases que hace tan exitoso a ese pais.

  6. Manuel 1 September 2020 at 11:48 am Permalink

    “a Trump victory is far from impossible,” said William Galston in The Wall Street Journal.

    The Democratic convention opened up some “political vulnerabilities,” including a lack of outreach to white working-class voters who may decide Midwestern swing states. In 2016, poll analyst Nate Silver was ridiculed for giving Trump a 30 percent chance of winning. Today, he puts the odds at 26 percent. “That seems about right.” Trump is actually pulling better numbers in some swing-state polls than he was at this time in 2016, said Jim VandeHei and Jonathan Swan in Axios.com. The economy may be hurting, but the stock market is “on fire,” and many blue-collar workers in the building trades “are doing quite well, too.” Trump’s “floor of support holds strong, regardless of what he says or does.” A recent poll shows that 13 percent of voters remain in play—“enough to tip the election.”

    • Julian Perez 1 September 2020 at 11:58 am Permalink

      De todos los errores cometidos por los demócratas creo que el peor fue (porque fue demasiado obvio) el no condenar la violencia de BLM en su convención. Porque ese caos no le gusta a nadie.

      Además, se hace un poco difícil culpar al presidente Trump por situaciones que son más agudas en estados gobernados por demócratas.

      • manuel 1 September 2020 at 12:36 pm Permalink

        creo que venidos todos de una expansión económica sin precedente, y sabiendo el tremendo peso que siempre tiene la economía en el voto – “it´s the economy, stupid” de Clinton en 1992 lo dice todo-
        los Demócratas se dedicaron a dar señales de no estar entendiendo el peso que esta variable va a tener en las próximas 9 semanas.

        “while the long leading economic indicators do not support a significant new economic expansion for the remainder of 2020, by mid-year 2021 – if the pandemic is controlled or resolved – they suggest a renewed, even strong, expansion.”

        Disclosure: I/we have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.

        ESTO PESA CABALLEROS, un porciento elevadícimo de votantes cdo tienen dudas, eligen su bolsillo, y Trump es una buena apuesta en este sentido.

        https://seekingalpha.com/article/4371305-long-leading-forecast-for-economy-in-first-half-of-2021

        • manuel 1 September 2020 at 12:38 pm Permalink

          elevadísimo

        • manuel 1 September 2020 at 12:38 pm Permalink

          por ciento

        • manuel 1 September 2020 at 1:00 pm Permalink

          “Biden vowed to raise taxes on the wealthy and corporations and use the money to spend trillions to upgrade the nation’s infrastructure and shift to a clean-energy future, make housing and child care more affordable and improve education, among other proposals.”

          Así nos ve este congresista dentro de 14 meses si gana Biden:

          It is now November 2021, one year after Joe Biden was elected president after a razor-thin election. We have been given a glimpse into the future to see Biden’s America.

          Summer 2021 was another scorcher. The rolling brownouts California suffered in 2020 spread throughout the West. Record demand for air conditioning combined with the ongoing closures of coal, nuclear, and even gas-powered electric plants have left millions powerless in these heat waves.

          Energy Secretary Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, with the support of President Biden, has permanently extended the airlines’ drastic curtailments of flights, first seen during the late pandemic, in keeping with the Green New Deal they both support. Taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel have shot up to European levels “to discourage internal combustion engine use and to promote jobs in the alternative transportation industry, especially the manufacture of bicycles.”

          The Ferguson effect, where law enforcement pulls back in the wake of hostility, lawsuits, and violent crime increases, and seen in 2020 in certain cities such as Seattle, Portland, Chicago, and Minneapolis, has extended to hundreds of major cities. Attorney General Lori Lightfoot, former mayor of Chicago, has called for a blue-ribbon commission on how to best spend the mandatory 30% diversion of police funds to social service agencies that the Democratic U.S. House and Senate mandated.

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          Although Biden said during the 2020 campaign that he did not support defunding the police, he never denounced violence and rioting in the aftermath of the George Floyd protests. This was seen as a green light by progressives in Congress to divert money from law enforcement nationally, or else state and local governments would lose federal funding.

          Because Biden has been making fewer and fewer public appearances, his ability to impose his will on Congress has diminished. Rumors have circulated, but his advisers remain tight-lipped about his medical and mental condition.

          The economy has never recovered from what was hoped to be a temporary pullback during the pandemic. Even liberal experts agree with conservatives that the reversal of President Trump’s tax cuts by the new Congress did serious damage to economic investment and job growth. The difference between the two camps, though, is that liberal economists see a benefit to the lower standards of living. According to Treasury Secretary Elizabeth Warren, “When everyone’s income goes down, as long as the income of those who are wealthier go down more, the result is more equality.”

          Identity politics has expanded. Vice President Kamala Harris, who was chosen by Biden because she checked three boxes as a progressive woman of color, was designated by him as the czar in charge of “remedying historical grievances.” The 1619 Project, claiming that America was founded to promote slavery and first pushed by the New York Times, has been adopted as mandatory reading by the majority of public school districts in the country. This was after a guidance letter went out from her office to school districts nationwide, telling them to incorporate the 1619 Project or face liability exposure on civil rights grounds. The fact that the 1619 Project is opposed by liberal and conservative historians alike, and also ignores the abolition movement, are not considered significant by the Biden administration.

          In foreign affairs, Biden has attempted to resurrect the Obama-era agreement with Iran to keep it from developing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. Reversing all the Trump sanctions as a unilateral peace gesture to the regime did not work — Iran has ramped up its 20,000 uranium enrichment centrifuges, which mostly had been in storage prior to the election.

          National security adviser Adam Schiff has stated publicly that “Iran must curtail its nuclear efforts or face the consequences.” But when pressed, he could not say what those consequences would be. He said he hoped that discussions with the European Union, Russia, and China about how to deal with the Iranian crisis would find common ground for the first time.

          The new Democratic Congress has cut funding to the Department of Defense under pressure from the newly empowered progressive wing of the Democratic Party. The Joint Chiefs of Staff have been reacting to the painful cuts by triaging their defense priorities. Adversaries have shown signs of challenging U.S. interests abroad to exploit new weaknesses in American forces.

          The one bright spot in Biden’s America over the last 12 months has been in healthcare. When the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed led to a vaccine in record time, Americans, for the most part, decided they were tired of seclusion and took the vaccine. Even Democratic governors lifted coronavirus restrictions, employees went back to work, schools and universities reopened for the spring semester, sports teams played in front of fans, and the atmosphere of fear went away. Defeating the pandemic is now acknowledged by pundits on both ends of the spectrum as Trump’s finest hour. The vaccine came out two weeks after the November election.

          Rep. Doug Lamborn, a Republican, represents Colorado’s 5th Congressional District.
          https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/what-joe-bidens-america-would-look-like-in-2021

          “Biden se comprometió a aumentar los impuestos a los ricos y a las empresas y a utilizar el dinero para gastar trillones para mejorar la infraestructura de la nación y pasar a un futuro de energía limpia, hacer que la vivienda y el cuidado de los niños sean más asequibles y mejorar la educación, entre otras propuestas”.

          Así nos ve este congresista dentro de 14 meses si gana Biden:

          Es ahora noviembre de 2021, un año después de que Joe Biden fuera elegido presidente tras unas elecciones muy ajustadas. Se nos ha dado un vistazo al futuro para ver la América de Biden.

          El verano de 2021 fue otro día de mucho calor. Las caídas de tensión que sufrió California en 2020 se extendieron por todo el Oeste. La demanda récord de aire acondicionado combinada con los cierres continuos de las plantas eléctricas de carbón, nucleares e incluso de gas han dejado a millones de personas sin poder en estas olas de calor.

          La Secretaria de Energía Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, con el apoyo del Presidente Biden, ha extendido permanentemente los drásticos recortes de vuelos de las aerolíneas, vistos por primera vez durante la última pandemia, de acuerdo con el Nuevo Acuerdo Verde que ambos apoyan. Los impuestos sobre la gasolina y el gasóleo se han disparado a los niveles europeos “para desalentar el uso de los motores de combustión interna y promover los puestos de trabajo en la industria del transporte alternativo, especialmente la fabricación de bicicletas”.

          El efecto Ferguson, en el que las fuerzas del orden se retiran a raíz de la hostilidad, las demandas y los aumentos de los delitos violentos, y que se observa en 2020 en ciertas ciudades como Seattle, Portland, Chicago y Minneapolis, se ha extendido a cientos de grandes ciudades. La Fiscal General Lori Lightfoot, ex alcaldesa de Chicago, ha pedido que se cree una comisión de expertos sobre la mejor manera de gastar el 30% obligatorio de los fondos de la policía para los organismos de servicios sociales que la Cámara y el Senado demócratas de los Estados Unidos ordenaron.

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          Debido a que Biden ha estado haciendo cada vez menos apariciones públicas, su capacidad para imponer su voluntad en el Congreso ha disminuido. Los rumores han circulado, pero sus asesores siguen siendo muy reservados sobre su condición médica y mental.

          La economía nunca se ha recuperado de lo que se esperaba que fuera un retroceso temporal durante la pandemia. Incluso los expertos liberales están de acuerdo con los conservadores en que la revocación de los recortes de impuestos del Presidente Trump por el nuevo Congreso causó un grave daño a la inversión económica y al crecimiento del empleo. La diferencia entre los dos campos, sin embargo, es que los economistas liberales ven un beneficio en los bajos niveles de vida. Según la Secretaria del Tesoro Elizabeth Warren, “Cuando los ingresos de todos bajan, mientras que los ingresos de los más ricos bajen más, el resultado es más igualdad”.

          La política de identidad se ha expandido. La vicepresidenta Kamala Harris, que fue elegida por Biden porque marcó tres casillas como mujer de color progresista, fue designada por él como la zar encargada de “remediar los agravios históricos”. El Proyecto 1619, que afirma que América fue fundada para promover la esclavitud y que fue impulsado por primera vez por el New York Times, ha sido adoptado como lectura obligatoria por la mayoría de los distritos escolares públicos del país. Esto fue después de que una carta de orientación salió de su oficina a los distritos escolares de todo el país, diciéndoles que incorporaran el Proyecto 1619 o se enfrentaran a la exposición de responsabilidad por motivos de derechos civiles. El hecho de que el Proyecto de 1619 cuente con la oposición de historiadores liberales y conservadores por igual, y que también ignore el movimiento de abolición, no es considerado significativo por la administración Biden.

          En el ámbito de las relaciones exteriores, Biden ha intentado resucitar el acuerdo de la época de Obama con el Irán para impedir que éste desarrolle armas nucleares y misiles balísticos. Revertir todas las sanciones Trump como un gesto de paz unilateral hacia el régimen no funcionó: el Irán ha aumentado el número de sus 20.000 centrifugadoras de enriquecimiento de uranio, que en su mayoría habían estado almacenadas antes de las elecciones.

          El asesor de seguridad nacional Adam Schiff ha declarado públicamente que “Irán debe reducir sus esfuerzos nucleares o enfrentar las consecuencias”. Pero cuando se le presionó, no pudo decir cuáles serían las consecuencias. Dijo que esperaba que las conversaciones con la Unión Europea, Rusia y China sobre cómo tratar la crisis iraní encontraran un terreno común por primera vez.

          El nuevo Congreso Demócrata ha recortado la financiación del Departamento de Defensa bajo la presión del ala progresista del Partido Demócrata, que acaba de ser autorizada. El Estado Mayor Conjunto ha estado reaccionando a los dolorosos recortes triajando sus prioridades de defensa. Los adversarios han mostrado signos de desafiar los intereses de EE.UU. en el extranjero para explotar las nuevas debilidades de las fuerzas estadounidenses.

          El único punto brillante en la América de Biden en los últimos 12 meses ha sido en la salud. Cuando la Operación Velocidad Warp de la administración Trump llevó a una vacuna en tiempo récord, los americanos, en su mayoría, decidieron que estaban cansados de la reclusión y tomaron la vacuna. Incluso los gobernadores demócratas levantaron las restricciones del coronavirus, los empleados volvieron al trabajo, las escuelas y universidades reabrieron para el semestre de primavera, los equipos deportivos jugaron frente a los aficionados, y la atmósfera de miedo se fue. La derrota de la pandemia es ahora reconocida por los expertos en ambos extremos del espectro como el mejor momento de Trump. La vacuna salió dos semanas después de las elecciones de noviembre.

  7. manuel 1 September 2020 at 1:06 pm Permalink

    veamos que dice a esto el Sr. Castro cdo vuelva con su embestida de las 5 de la tarde.

    Así nos ve este congresista de Colorado dentro de 14 meses si gana Biden:

    It is now November 2021, one year after Joe Biden was elected president after a razor-thin election. We have been given a glimpse into the future to see Biden’s America.

    Summer 2021 was another scorcher. The rolling brownouts California suffered in 2020 spread throughout the West. Record demand for air conditioning combined with the ongoing closures of coal, nuclear, and even gas-powered electric plants have left millions powerless in these heat waves.

    Energy Secretary Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, with the support of President Biden, has permanently extended the airlines’ drastic curtailments of flights, first seen during the late pandemic, in keeping with the Green New Deal they both support. Taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel have shot up to European levels “to discourage internal combustion engine use and to promote jobs in the alternative transportation industry, especially the manufacture of bicycles.”

    The Ferguson effect, where law enforcement pulls back in the wake of hostility, lawsuits, and violent crime increases, and seen in 2020 in certain cities such as Seattle, Portland, Chicago, and Minneapolis, has extended to hundreds of major cities. Attorney General Lori Lightfoot, former mayor of Chicago, has called for a blue-ribbon commission on how to best spend the mandatory 30% diversion of police funds to social service agencies that the Democratic U.S. House and Senate mandated.

    Although Biden said during the 2020 campaign that he did not support defunding the police, he never denounced violence and rioting in the aftermath of the George Floyd protests. This was seen as a green light by progressives in Congress to divert money from law enforcement nationally, or else state and local governments would lose federal funding.

    Because Biden has been making fewer and fewer public appearances, his ability to impose his will on Congress has diminished. Rumors have circulated, but his advisers remain tight-lipped about his medical and mental condition.

    The economy has never recovered from what was hoped to be a temporary pullback during the pandemic. Even liberal experts agree with conservatives that the reversal of President Trump’s tax cuts by the new Congress did serious damage to economic investment and job growth. The difference between the two camps, though, is that liberal economists see a benefit to the lower standards of living. According to Treasury Secretary Elizabeth Warren, “When everyone’s income goes down, as long as the income of those who are wealthier go down more, the result is more equality.”

    Identity politics has expanded. Vice President Kamala Harris, who was chosen by Biden because she checked three boxes as a progressive woman of color, was designated by him as the czar in charge of “remedying historical grievances.” The 1619 Project, claiming that America was founded to promote slavery and first pushed by the New York Times, has been adopted as mandatory reading by the majority of public school districts in the country. This was after a guidance letter went out from her office to school districts nationwide, telling them to incorporate the 1619 Project or face liability exposure on civil rights grounds. The fact that the 1619 Project is opposed by liberal and conservative historians alike, and also ignores the abolition movement, are not considered significant by the Biden administration.

    In foreign affairs, Biden has attempted to resurrect the Obama-era agreement with Iran to keep it from developing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. Reversing all the Trump sanctions as a unilateral peace gesture to the regime did not work — Iran has ramped up its 20,000 uranium enrichment centrifuges, which mostly had been in storage prior to the election.

    National security adviser Adam Schiff has stated publicly that “Iran must curtail its nuclear efforts or face the consequences.” But when pressed, he could not say what those consequences would be. He said he hoped that discussions with the European Union, Russia, and China about how to deal with the Iranian crisis would find common ground for the first time.

    The new Democratic Congress has cut funding to the Department of Defense under pressure from the newly empowered progressive wing of the Democratic Party. The Joint Chiefs of Staff have been reacting to the painful cuts by triaging their defense priorities. Adversaries have shown signs of challenging U.S. interests abroad to exploit new weaknesses in American forces.

    The one bright spot in Biden’s America over the last 12 months has been in healthcare. When the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed led to a vaccine in record time, Americans, for the most part, decided they were tired of seclusion and took the vaccine. Even Democratic governors lifted coronavirus restrictions, employees went back to work, schools and universities reopened for the spring semester, sports teams played in front of fans, and the atmosphere of fear went away. Defeating the pandemic is now acknowledged by pundits on both ends of the spectrum as Trump’s finest hour. The vaccine came out two weeks after the November election.

    Rep. Doug Lamborn, a Republican, represents Colorado’s 5th Congressional District.
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/what-joe-bidens-america-would-look-like-in-2021

    “Biden se comprometió a aumentar los impuestos a los ricos y a las empresas y utilizar el dinero para gastar trillones para mejorar la infraestructura de la nación y pasar a un futuro de energía limpia, hacer que la vivienda y el cuidado de los niños sean más asequibles y mejorar la educación, entre otras propuestas”.

    Así nos ve este congresista dentro de 14 meses si gana Biden:

    Es ahora noviembre de 2021, un año después de que Joe Biden fuera elegido presidente tras unas elecciones muy ajustadas. Se nos ha dado un vistazo al futuro para ver la América de Biden.

    El verano de 2021 fue otro día de mucho calor. Las caídas de tensión que sufrió California en 2020 se extendieron por todo el Oeste. La demanda récord de aire acondicionado combinada con los cierres continuos de las plantas eléctricas de carbón, nucleares e incluso de gas han dejado a millones de personas sin poder en estas olas de calor.

    La Secretaria de Energía Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, con el apoyo del Presidente Biden, ha extendido permanentemente los drásticos recortes de vuelos de las aerolíneas, vistos por primera vez durante la última pandemia, de acuerdo con el Nuevo Acuerdo Verde que ambos apoyan. Los impuestos sobre la gasolina y el gasóleo se han disparado a los niveles europeos “para desalentar el uso de los motores de combustión interna y promover los puestos de trabajo en la industria del transporte alternativo, especialmente la fabricación de bicicletas”.

    El efecto Ferguson, en el que las fuerzas del orden se retiran a raíz de la hostilidad, las demandas y los aumentos de los delitos violentos, y que se observa en 2020 en ciertas ciudades como Seattle, Portland, Chicago y Minneapolis, se ha extendido a cientos de grandes ciudades. La Fiscal General Lori Lightfoot, ex alcaldesa de Chicago, ha pedido que se cree una comisión de expertos sobre la mejor manera de gastar el 30% obligatorio de los fondos de la policía para los organismos de servicios sociales que la Cámara y el Senado demócratas de los Estados Unidos ordenaron.

    Aunque Biden dijo durante la campaña de 2020 que no apoyaba el desfinanciamiento de la policía, nunca denunció la violencia y los disturbios tras las protestas de George Floyd. Esto fue visto como una luz verde por los progresistas en el Congreso para desviar el dinero de la aplicación de la ley a nivel nacional, o de lo contrario los gobiernos estatales y locales perderían la financiación federal.

    Debido a que Biden ha estado haciendo cada vez menos apariciones públicas, su capacidad para imponer su voluntad en el Congreso ha disminuido. Los rumores han circulado, pero sus asesores siguen siendo muy reservados sobre su condición médica y mental.

    La economía nunca se ha recuperado de lo que se esperaba que fuera un retroceso temporal durante la pandemia. Incluso los expertos liberales están de acuerdo con los conservadores en que la revocación de los recortes de impuestos del Presidente Trump por el nuevo Congreso causó un grave daño a la inversión económica y al crecimiento del empleo. La diferencia entre los dos campos, sin embargo, es que los economistas liberales ven un beneficio en los bajos niveles de vida. Según la Secretaria del Tesoro Elizabeth Warren, “Cuando los ingresos de todos bajan, mientras que los ingresos de los más ricos bajen más, el resultado es más igualdad”.

    La política de identidad se ha expandido. La vicepresidenta Kamala Harris, que fue elegida por Biden porque marcó tres casillas como mujer de color progresista, fue designada por él como la zar encargada de “remediar los agravios históricos”. El Proyecto 1619, que afirma que América fue fundada para promover la esclavitud y que fue impulsado por primera vez por el New York Times, ha sido adoptado como lectura obligatoria por la mayoría de los distritos escolares públicos del país. Esto fue después de que una carta de orientación salió de su oficina a los distritos escolares de todo el país, diciéndoles que incorporaran el Proyecto 1619 o se enfrentaran a la exposición de responsabilidad por motivos de derechos civiles. El hecho de que el Proyecto de 1619 cuente con la oposición de historiadores liberales y conservadores por igual, y que también ignore el movimiento de abolición, no es considerado significativo por la administración Biden.

    En el ámbito de las relaciones exteriores, Biden ha intentado resucitar el acuerdo de la época de Obama con el Irán para impedir que éste desarrolle armas nucleares y misiles balísticos. Revertir todas las sanciones Trump como un gesto de paz unilateral hacia el régimen no funcionó: el Irán ha aumentado el número de sus 20.000 centrifugadoras de enriquecimiento de uranio, que en su mayoría habían estado almacenadas antes de las elecciones.

    El asesor de seguridad nacional Adam Schiff ha declarado públicamente que “Irán debe reducir sus esfuerzos nucleares o enfrentar las consecuencias”. Pero cuando se le presionó, no pudo decir cuáles serían las consecuencias. Dijo que esperaba que las conversaciones con la Unión Europea, Rusia y China sobre cómo tratar la crisis iraní encontraran un terreno común por primera vez.

    El nuevo Congreso Demócrata ha recortado la financiación del Departamento de Defensa bajo la presión del ala progresista del Partido Demócrata, que acaba de ser autorizada. El Estado Mayor Conjunto ha estado reaccionando a los dolorosos recortes triajando sus prioridades de defensa. Los adversarios han mostrado signos de desafiar los intereses de EE.UU. en el extranjero para explotar las nuevas debilidades de las fuerzas estadounidenses.

    El único punto brillante en la América de Biden en los últimos 12 meses ha sido en la salud. Cuando la Operación Velocidad Warp de la administración Trump llevó a una vacuna en tiempo récord, los americanos, en su mayoría, decidieron que estaban cansados de la reclusión y tomaron la vacuna. Incluso los gobernadores demócratas levantaron las restricciones del coronavirus, los empleados volvieron al trabajo, las escuelas y universidades reabrieron para el semestre de primavera, los equipos deportivos jugaron frente a los aficionados, y la atmósfera de miedo se fue. La derrota de la pandemia es ahora reconocida por los expertos en ambos extremos del espectro como el mejor momento de Trump. La vacuna salió dos semanas después de las elecciones de noviembre.

  8. manuel 1 September 2020 at 2:56 pm Permalink

    CAM publishes he “cannot be a Trumpist, precisely because Trump is a protectionist, anti-immigrant nationalist, three categories that I deeply reject.”

    Trump is simply defending the rule of law and the people for whom he is in office: he is a servant, not a leader: he is just doing what he is suppose to do: SERVE.

    It is weird that CAM wrote 10 years ago:

    “Hamilton started a federal central bank to spread the credit, given that the Constitution did not forbid it, and introduced protectionist tariffs to develop the national productive apparatus by making foreign imports more expensive. From our contemporary perspective, Hamilton was a brilliant interventionist who could be declared the patron saint of the current Democratic Party.”

    CAM, The patron saint of the Democratic Party is this protectionist and interventionist Hamilton, but you, a faithful supporter of this Party at the same time hate Trump for those same features?

    “In turn, Jefferson mistrusted a strong central government, while he postulated the idea of a virtuous republic controlled by society and sustained by small farmers. He thought that it was better to distribute the power among the states and the local entities to protect the individual rights from the danger of tyranny, his main fear.”

    this was what Trump have done regarding the management of this current Pandemic, let each State authority to make the call of strategies on this regard.

    “Aside from his explicit rejection of the indebtedness that future generations would have to pay through taxes, his argument against the great federal bank disassembled and reverted Hamilton’s reasoning: because the Constitution of 1787 did not expressly authorize the creation of that credit body, the government should not found it.

    To Jefferson, the limits of legality were very clear: the government could do only what the law ordained; society, in turn, could do anything the law did not forbid. These were two very different spheres of action and initiative. Very justifiably, Jefferson could be the guardian angel of today’s Republicans.”

    yes!

    “…It is very interesting to see how the essential elements of that argument between Hamilton and Jefferson preserve much of their original vigor. The Republicans at least theoretically, though they deny it when they occupy the White House advocate smaller governments, fewer taxes, balanced budgets, limited expenditures and a certain isolationism in foreign policy.

    In turn, the Democrats usually prefer a forceful public action, greater fiscal pressure leading to a more equitable redistribution of wealth and, sometimes, some interventionist vocation in foreign policy that emanates from the optimistic conviction that the federal government is capable of molding reality at will.

    This time, Jefferson won. For how long? Two, four, eight years? At some point, Hamilton will regain popular favor but only to lose if after a certain time. More than two centuries ago, these two giants gave sense and form to the Republic, coincidentally creating the dialectical mechanism that would permanently animate the debate over the nation’s objectives and how to achieve them. It is still alive. There is something very beautiful in that extraordinary vitality.”

    now in Spanish:

    Hamilton defendía la necesidad de un gobierno central fuerte que estimulara el comercio y la industria. Puso en marcha un banco central federal para esparcir el crédito, dado que la Constitución no lo prohibía, y propuso tarifas proteccionistas para desarrollar el aparato productivo nacional encareciendo las importaciones extranjeras. Desde nuestra perspectiva contemporánea, Hamilton era un brillante intervencionista que podía ser declarado santo patrón del actual Partido Demócrata.

    Jefferson, en cambio, desconfiaba de un gobierno central fuerte, mientras postulaba la idea de una república virtuosa, sometida al control de la sociedad y sostenida por pequeños agricultores. Pensaba que era mejor distribuir el poder entre los Estados y las entidades locales para proteger los derechos individuales del riesgo de la tiranía, su mayor terror. Al margen de su explícito rechazo al endeudamiento que tendrían que pagar las generaciones futuras por medio de impuestos, su argumento contra el gran banco federal desmontaba y revertía el razonamiento de Hamilton: como la Constitución de 1787 no autorizaba expresamente la creación de esa entidad crediticia, el gobierno no debía fundarla. Para Jefferson, los límites de la legalidad eran muy claros: el gobierno sólo podía hacer lo que la ley ordenaba; la sociedad, en cambio, podía hacer todo lo que la ley no prohibía. Eran dos ámbitos de acción e iniciativas muy diferentes. Jefferson, con toda justicia, podía ser el ángel guardián de los republicanos de nuestros días.

    De manera imprevista, la querella entre estos dos formidables estadistas se acalló momentáneamente por un violento suceso: Aaron Burr, vicepresidente de Jefferson, mató a Hamilton en un duelo a pistola, tarea que no era nada fácil, dado que el famoso economista se había batido anteriormente en veintiuna oportunidades. Los dos padres de la patria, ambos héroes de la Guerra de Independencia, habían alimentado una creciente hostilidad y mutuas maledicencias que desembocaron en un sangriento enfrentamiento, como entonces se estilaba entre caballeros agraviados. Luego Burr terminó perseguido por Jefferson, pero no por haberle quitado la vida a Hamilton, sino por una oscura conspiración que tenía ribetes separatistas, supuestamente asentada en la inmensa Louisiana que Napoleón le había vendido por una bicoca al gobierno de Jefferson como parte de su estrategia antibritánica.

    Es interesantísimo cómo los elementos esenciales de aquella polémica entre Hamilton y Jefferson conservan gran parte de su vigor original. Los republicanos, al menos teóricamente, aunque luego lo desmienten cuando ocupan la Casa Blanca, abogan por gobiernos pequeños, menos impuestos, presupuestos equilibrados, gasto limitado y cierto aislacionismo en política exterior. Los demócratas, en cambio, suelen decantarse por una enérgica acción pública, mayor presión fiscal encaminada a una redistribución más equitativa de la riqueza y, a veces, por cierta vocación intervencionista en política exterior que emana de la optimista convicción de que el gobierno federal es capaz de moldear la realidad a su antojo.

    Esta vez ganó Jefferson. ¿Por cuánto tiempo? ¿Dos, cuatro, ocho años? Hamilton, en algún momento, recobrará el favor popular, pero sólo para perderlo después de cierto tiempo. Hace más de dos siglos estos dos gigantes le dieron sentido y forma a la República creando, de paso, el mecanismo dialéctico que animaría permanentemente el debate sobre los objetivos nacionales y el modo de alcanzarlos. Todavía está vivo. Hay algo muy hermoso en esa extraordinaria vitalidad. [“©FIRMAS PRESS]

    • manuel 1 September 2020 at 2:59 pm Permalink

      Trup is a servant.

      “Servant leadership is a leadership philosophy in which the main goal of the leader is to serve. This is different from traditional leadership where the leader’s main focus is the thriving of their company or organizations. A Servant Leader shares power, puts the needs of the employees first and helps people develop and perform as highly as possible.[1] Servant leadership inverts the norm, which puts the customer service associates as a main priority. Instead of the people working to serve the leader, the leader exists to serve the people.[2] As stated by its founder, Robert K. Greenleaf, a Servant Leader should be focused on, “Do those served grow as persons? Do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants?”[3]
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_leadership#:~:text=From%20Wikipedia%2C%20the%20free%20encyclopedia,of%20their%20company%20or%20organizations.

    • manuel 1 September 2020 at 3:02 pm Permalink

      Trump is a servant.

      “Servant leadership is a leadership philosophy in which the main goal of the leader is to serve. This is different from traditional leadership where the leader’s main focus is the thriving of their company or organizations. A Servant Leader shares power, puts the needs of the employees first and helps people develop and perform as highly as possible.[1] Servant leadership inverts the norm, which puts the customer service associates as a main priority. Instead of the people working to serve the leader, the leader exists to serve the people.[2] As stated by its founder, Robert K. Greenleaf, a Servant Leader should be focused on, “Do those served grow as persons? Do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants?”[3]
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_leadership#:~:text=From%20Wikipedia%2C%20the%20free%20encyclopedia,of%20their%20company%20or%20organizations.


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