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TRUMP’S A PREVIEW OF ADMINISTRATIVE INCOMPETENCE: PART TWO (OF THREE)
During the 2016 Presidential campaign, even the Secret Service couldn’t protect Donald Trump from the notoriety of his handpicked supporters. From August to November, 2016, the manager of Trump’s...
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TRUMP’S PREVIEW OF ADMINISTRATIVE INCOMPETENCE: PART THREE (END)
In late July, 2016, Donald Trump’s new spokeswoman, Katrina Pierson, accepted an impossible mission that even “Mission: Impossible’s” Jim Phelps would have turned down: Convince Americans that Barack...
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PRESIDENTS: THE LOVED, THE FEARED, THE HATED—PART ONE (OF THREE)
It’s probably the most-quoted passage of Niccolo Machiavelli’s infamous book, The Prince: “From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved than feared, or feared more than loved. The...
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PRESIDENTS: THE LOVED, THE FEARED, THE HATED—PART TWO (OF THREE)
Is it better to be loved or feared? That was the question Florentine statesman Niccolo Machiavelli raised more than 500 years ago. Presidents have struggled to answer this question—and have come to...
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PRESIDENTS: THE LOVED, THE FEARED, THE HATED—PART THREE (END)
American Presidents—like politicians everywhere—strive to be loved. There are two reasons for this. First, even the vilest dictators want to believe they are good people—and thus rewarded by the love...
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MACHIAVELLI: TRUMP AS A PRINCE? GET REAL!
No shortage of pundits have sized up Donald Trump–first as a Presidential candidate, and now as the nation’s 45th President. But how does Trump measure up in the estimate of Niccolo Machiavelli, the...
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WORDS ARE WEAPONS: PART ONE (OF TWO)
In 1996, Newt Gingrich, then Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, wrote a memo that encouraged Republicans to “speak like Newt.” Entitled “Language: A Key Mechanism of Control,” it urged...
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WORDS ARE WEAPONS: PART TWO (END)
Words are weapons—or can be, if used properly. Republicans learned this truth after World War II. Richard Nixon became a United States Senator by attacking Helen Gahagen Douglas as “the Pink Lady.”...
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DONALD TRUMP: “TROOPS FOR SALE–TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER!”
Since the end of the Cold War, the American military and Intelligence communities have grown increasingly dependent on private contractors. In his 2007 bestseller, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the...
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MACHIAVELLI: STUPID LEADERS CANNOT BE WISELY ADVISED
“There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth. But when every one can tell you the truth, you lose...
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RELIGION AS MUZAK
According to Wikipedia: “Christianity is the most adhered to religion in the United States, with 65% of polled American adults identifying themselves as Christian in 2019.” The United States has the...
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THE MAYOR AND MACHIAVELLI
Ask the average person, “What do you think of Niccolo Machiavelli?” and he’s likely to say: “The devil.” In fact, “The Old Nick” became an English term used to describe Satan and slander Machiavelli...
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FUHRERS AND THEIR GENERALS
On September 3, a blockbuster story appeared in The Atlantic magazine under the headline: “Trump: Americans Who Died in War are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers'”. The story opened: “When President Donald Trump...
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MACHIAVELLI’S ADVICE ON HOW JOE BIDEN CAN PREVAIL
On December 8, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Missouri United States Senator Roy Blunt joined House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy in blocking a resolution asserting that Joe...
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NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI TO DONALD TRUMP: YOU’RE NO PRINCE
No shortage of pundits have sized up Donald Trump–first as a Presidential candidate, and then as the nation’s 45th President. But how does Trump measure up in the estimate of Niccolo Machiavelli, the...
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MACHIAVELLI SIZES UP TRUMP
No shortage of pundits have sized up Donald Trump—first as a Presidential candidate, and now as the nation’s 45th President. But how does Trump measure up in the estimate of Niccolo Machiavelli, the...
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THE RICH–AND THEIR EVILS–ARE WITH YOU ALWAYS
In November, 2017, President Donald Trump and a Republican-dominated House and Senate rammed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 through Congress. It became law on December 22, 2017. The law: Ignored...
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PRESIDENTS: THE LOVED, THE FEARED AND THE IGNORED: PART ONE (OF THREE)
In 1513, Niccolo Machiavelli, the father of political science, wrote his infamous book, The Prince. This may well be its most-quoted part: “From this arises the question whether it is better to be...
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PRESIDENTS: THE LOVED, THE FEARED AND THE IGNORED: PART TWO (OF THREE)
Is it better to be loved or feared? That was the question Florentine statesman Niccolo Machiavelli raised more than 500 years ago. Presidents have struggled to answer this question—and have come to...
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PRESIDENTS: THE LOVED, THE FEARED AND THE IGNORED: PART THREE (END)
American Presidents—like politicians everywhere–strive to be loved. There are two primary reasons for this. First, even the vilest dictators want to believe they are virtuous—and that their goodness is...
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