Trumpism and Ryanism

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National Review :

Trumpism and Ryanism

by Ramesh Ponnuru December 5, 2016, Issue

 

Toward a synthesis better than either Donald Trump’s first appointments as president-elect were a mixed bag for Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. Reince Priebus, a longtime Ryan ally from Wisconsin who headed the Republican National Committee, will be Trump’s White House chief of staff. Steve Bannon, a financial executive and publisher who has vowed to destroy Ryan, will be a top White House counselor to Trump.

 

Trump and Ryan will be, respectively, the most powerful and second-most powerful elected officials in the United States, and their relationship will do a lot to determine the future of the Trump administration, the Republican party, and the country.

 

As is well known, the two of them do not see eye to eye on several issues. Ryan made his name advocating reforms of Social Security and Medicare that would rein in their growth. Trump says he wants to protect those programs from any cuts. Ryan is a free trader. Trump says he favors free trade, but favors tearing up existing free-trade agreements and imposing tariffs to keep companies from moving jobs abroad: which is to say that he does not actually support free trade.

 

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Instead of Chasing Fake Nazis in the GOP, Maybe the Democrats Should Root Out Their Own?

By Brother Bob 2 Comments Sun, Nov, 20th, 2016

 

We now see what the Democratic Party’s play book is going to be with the Trump administration. There has been a meltdown over Trump’s appointment of Steve Bannon as his Chief Strategist and Legal Counsel. Apparently having an affiliation with a news source that the Radical Left doesn’t like is proof that you’re an Anti-Semite White Supremacist.

 

But is he? First off, PJ Media’s David P.

Goldman weigh in:

All the existential rage of the defeated and humiliated elites is now focused against Steve Bannon — the architect of Trump’s victory, the media genius who won the battle with less than a fifth of the financial resources at Hillary Clinton’s disposal.

 

I know Steve Bannon, and have had several long discussions with him about politics. Steve is fervently pro-Israel, and it is utterly ridiculous to suggest that he is anti-Semitic.

 

Other observant Jews who know Bannon — for example, Joel Pollak — attest to his support for Israel and his friendship for the Jewish people.

 

I have to admit that Breitbart’s web site is nowhere near what it was when Andrew was still alive. But anti-Semitic? More from Goldman:

 

http://www.floppingaces.net/2016/11/20/instead-of-chasing-fake-nazis-in-the-gop-maybe-the-democrats-should-root-out-their-own/