Phillips P. OBrien
Hi All,
The best single argument that I can make that Trump is not acting like a Russian agent is that he is being too blatant in his action. Agents, or so we are told, should be inconspicuous and not draw too much attention to themselves. They normally do not want to openly do the work of their controllers, lest they blow their cover. Beyond this, however, what we see in Trump is a persistent, almost pathological, drive to weaken the USA internally and externally. Any Russian agent would be hard pressed to do more. Internally he is disregarding unanimous decisions of the Supreme Court (which if allowed to stand will destroy the whole concept of the rule of law in the USA), has hobbled Congress by compelling it to give up its powers, and is trying to break the independence of America’s press and universities. Far from being “conservative” this is the most radical set of destructive policies he could follow—and it is very hard to see how the genies that he is releasing will ever be put back in their bottles
In terms of international relations he is being just a destructive to America’s world position. Under the guise of making America “great again”, he has pursued a set of policies that is weakening America’s influence, destroying the relationships on which the American century was based, and strengthening those countries which see themselves as America’s adversaries.
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