The CFR's AMAZING TECHNICOLOR "Trump Presidency Confusion Psyop" - The intended confusion is happening
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Oh boy gosh... ppl are starting to acknowledge, this is one big mess of a staged chaos. ITS STAGED BY THE CFR, most don't know that yet, but they do feel something is very very very wrong. What's wrong is that its a psyop run by THE HIDDEN HAND (as Eustance Mullins defined "the hidden hand")
HERE is a LETTER TO THE EDITOR published by the NYT Monday
(Edited for length) -- When Donald Trump first announced his presidential campaign, I happened to catch one of his political rallies on C-Span. I was riveted. As early as September 2015, I wrote that Mr. Trump was "the most serious candidate in the race." Critics of the pro-Trump blog that I founded accused us of attempting to "understand Trump better than he understands himself." I hoped that was the case. I saw the decline in this country - its weak economy and frayed social fabric - and I thought Mr. Trump's willingness to move past partisan stalemates could begin a process of renewal.
* It is now clear that my optimism was ungrounded. Far from making America great again, Mr. Trump has betrayed and his actions are jeopardizing any prospect of enacting an agenda that might restore the promise of American life.
Although crude and meandering for almost all of the primary campaign, Mr. Trump eschewed strict ideologies and directly addressed themes that the more conventional candidates of both parties preferred to ignore. Rather than recite paeans to American enterprise, he acknowledged that our "information economy" has delivered little wage or productivity growth. He was willing to criticize the bipartisan consensus on trade and pointed out the devastating effects of deindustrialization felt in many communities. He forthrightly addressed the foreign policy failures of both parties, such as the debacles in Iraq and Libya, and rejected the utopian rhetoric of "democracy promotion." He talked about the issue of widening income inequality - almost unheard of for a Republican candidate - and didn't pretend that simply cutting taxes or shrinking government would solve the problem.
He criticized corporations for offshoring jobs, attacked financial-industry executives for avoiding taxes and bemoaned America's reliance on economic bubbles over the last few decades. He blasted the Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz campaigns for insincerely mouthing focus-grouped platitudes while catering to their largest donors - and he was right. Voters loved that he was willing to buck conventional wisdom and the establishment.
He flouted G.O.P. orthodoxy on entitlements, infrastructure spending and, at times, even health care and "culture war" issues like funding Planned Parenthood. His statements on immigration were often needlessly inflammatory, but he correctly diagnosed that our current system makes little sense for most Americans, as well as many immigrants, and seems designed to benefit the wealthy at the expense of working people.
* Yes, Mr. Trump's policy positions were poorly defined, but these days, most candidates' positions are. And yes, he had little support from the Republican Party leadership. But many of us thought even this might be a positive if it forced him to focus on "making deals" rather than on Washington's usual ideological posturing. He was never going to fulfill all of his over-the-top promises, but we believed that his administration might achieve some meaningful successes.
From the very start of his run, one of the most serious charges against Mr. Trump was irrational and too impulsive. Many of his supporters, myself included, managed to convince ourselves that his more outrageous comments were merely Bidenesque gaffes committed during the heat of a campaign.
* It is now clear that we were deluding ourselves. Either Mr. Trump is (secretly) sympathetic to (non useful ideologies), or he is so obtuse as to be utterly incapable of learning from his worst mistakes. Either way, he continues to prove his critics right. Those of us who supported Mr. Trump were naive to expect that he would transform himself into 'presidential' upon taking office. And our belief was that a few raw tweets were an acceptable trade-off for a successful governing agenda.
** Yet after more than 200 days in office, Mr. Trump's administration has no significant legislative accomplishments ...and no apparent plan to deliver any.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCiLdz5jg94
Nothing disastrous has occurred on the foreign policy front - yet - but the never-ending chaos within the administration hardly inspires confidence. Many senior-level appointees are still not in place, including the assistant secretaries of state, for example. And too many of those who are in office appear to be petty, clueless, and rather repulsive ideologues, who seem to spend most of their time accusing one another of being subverting. It's pathetic.
** Effectively a third-party president without a party, Mr. Trump has faced extraordinary resistance from the media, the bureaucracy and even within the Republican Party. But the administration has committed too many unforced errors and deserves most of the blame for its failures. Far from making the transformative "deals" he promised voters, his only talent appears to be creating grotesque media frenzies - just as all his critics forecast.
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