Thanks for translating this – It was interesting to read.
The whole interview is rife with oikophobia by both the interviewer and interviewed all the way down. The public does not agree with either of them, and that’s sometimes hard to swallow, but it is the situation we are in.
If folks see Trump as the scapegoat of the Left, this is no new occurrence, it has been in effect since shortly after his 2015 announcement and has only grown over the ensuing years. As something that has been baked in for the majority of GOP voters for at least 4 years, the idea that this is why DeSantis’s chances are reduced to nothing would pre-date the launch of DeSantis’s campaign – not emerge recently to stop the Governor. The idea that the recent indictments were not predictable and come at the end of a long string of hollow attacks against the former President is silly. Excusing the faltering DeSantis campaign with this is just not accepting that, like Gov. Walker in 2016, once on the national stage he did not impress.
Mitchell seemingly fails to grasp (I say seemingly because he has to know this as a professor) that the Republican party is realigning the balance of power between the factions that were already under the big tent of the GOP (with the addition of the working class that are defecting the Left) – it’s just not going to be his faction that will determine the direction of the party anymore. Trump can be seen as someone who has carried this into action, but in reality it has been long in the making going back to the philosophies of Goldwater, Reagan, Buchanan, Gingrich, Tea Party representatives, and many others.
I’m glad that Mitchell is “on the right” and works with great people like Woodson, but he seemingly fails to comprehend that Europe – not America – needs to fund (with their OWN money) and defend Europe, that the Cold War is over, that foreign policy from both the left and the right has been used to push wokism and profit abroad, and that being against the desires of the Global Western Elite in favor of an American-led focus on what is best for itself is laudable not something to be pelted with trite pejoratives. His vote for the future GOP candidates will be appreciated even though his input on policy will thankfully be relegated to white papers and subcommittee murmurs. The wheel of fortune turns round and round…
Thanks for translating this – It was interesting to read.
The whole interview is rife with oikophobia by both the interviewer and interviewed all the way down. The public does not agree with either of them, and that’s sometimes hard to swallow, but it is the situation we are in.
If folks see Trump as the scapegoat of the Left, this is no new occurrence, it has been in effect since shortly after his 2015 announcement and has only grown over the ensuing years. As something that has been baked in for the majority of GOP voters for at least 4 years, the idea that this is why DeSantis’s chances are reduced to nothing would pre-date the launch of DeSantis’s campaign – not emerge recently to stop the Governor. The idea that the recent indictments were not predictable and come at the end of a long string of hollow attacks against the former President is silly. Excusing the faltering DeSantis campaign with this is just not accepting that, like Gov. Walker in 2016, once on the national stage he did not impress.
Mitchell seemingly fails to grasp (I say seemingly because he has to know this as a professor) that the Republican party is realigning the balance of power between the factions that were already under the big tent of the GOP (with the addition of the working class that are defecting the Left) – it’s just not going to be his faction that will determine the direction of the party anymore. Trump can be seen as someone who has carried this into action, but in reality it has been long in the making going back to the philosophies of Goldwater, Reagan, Buchanan, Gingrich, Tea Party representatives, and many others.
I’m glad that Mitchell is “on the right” and works with great people like Woodson, but he seemingly fails to comprehend that Europe – not America – needs to fund (with their OWN money) and defend Europe, that the Cold War is over, that foreign policy from both the left and the right has been used to push wokism and profit abroad, and that being against the desires of the Global Western Elite in favor of an American-led focus on what is best for itself is laudable not something to be pelted with trite pejoratives. His vote for the future GOP candidates will be appreciated even though his input on policy will thankfully be relegated to white papers and subcommittee murmurs. The wheel of fortune turns round and round…