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| Alger Hiss (center), Soviet GRU agent, State Department official, and the first General Secretaryof the United Nations |
Over on what we think of as the right side of the political spectrum, critiques of Donald Trump often include laments and/or teeth-gnashings over his "splitting the Republican Party," and/or his "not being a conservative." Free Beacon editor Matthew Continetti approaches this same and, to him, alarming territory with an eye on whether Trump's candidacy portends a historic shift in the GOP as we have known it in recent decades.
He writes:
It’s possible we are at the beginning of another political recalibration
based on national identity.
Already center-right parties in Japan and Russia and Israel have lurched in a nationalist direction. And where
nationalists do not enjoy outright control, as in Hungary and Poland, they split the center-right coalition, as in France, the
U.K., and Germany.
The tendency in Washington is not to take Donald Trump seriously. To
describe him as a clown, as someone who will drop out, as someone whose beliefs
are non-ideological. I believe that to dismiss him is a mistake. Since
declaring his candidacy in June, Trump has been consistent on issues of
immigration and trade and security. He
has not deviated from building a wall on the southern border, slapping tariffs
on imports, criticizing the 2003 Iraq war, praising Vladimir Putin, describing
Ukraine as Germany’s problem not ours, and saying Middle East peace depends on
Israeli concessions. ......To Read More.......
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