I’ve posted several times about the misuse of political labels and the unfortunate effects of that language misuse. It is especially misleading to call MAGA and Trump “conservative.” They are the antithesis of genuine conservatism, and the ranks of the Never Trumpers are filled with pundits and political figures who are conservative, just not neo-Nazis.
If you need any confirmation of that assertion, read this recent column by George Will.
I almost never find myself in agreement with Will. I not only disagree with a majority of his policy prescriptions, I’m put off by the arrogance and pomposity of much of his writing. That said, when a Republican administration has lost George Will, they’ve lost any connection to intellectually respectable conservatism.
Will doesn’t pull any punches. His first sentence is: ” Secretary Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement.” And he proceeds from there. After repeating the facts that have emerged, he writes that “the killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself. As the recent “peace plan” for Ukraine demonstrated.”
Will then turns to the “peace” proposal that Trump demanded Ukraine accept, noting Rubio’s initial confession that the proposal had been delivered to an American official by Russia–and that he told members of the Senate that the proposal didn’t represent America’s peace plan. Mere hours later, he reversed himself, taking to social media to assert that the United States had “authored” the plan.
Two weeks ago, the chief of staff of the French army said: “We have the know-how, and we have the economic and demographic strength to dissuade the regime in Moscow. What we are lacking … is the spirit which accepts that we will have to suffer if we are to protect what we are. If our country wavers because it is not ready to lose its children … or to suffer economically because the priority has to be military production, then we are indeed at risk.”
Putin has surely savored the French recoil from these words. And he has noticed that, concerning Ukraine and the attacks on boats near Venezuela, the Trump administration cannot keep its stories straight. This probably is for reasons Sir Walter Scott understood: “Oh, what a tangled web we weave,/ when first we practise to deceive!” Americans are the deceived.
If there was any doubt of the accuracy of Will’s analysis, publication of the 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) should confirm it. As Heather Cox Richardson has written, it represents a dramatic retreat from the foreign policy goals the U.S. has embraced since World War II.
After a brief introduction touting what it claims are the administration’s great successes, the document begins by announcing the U.S. will back away from the global engagements that underpin the rules-based international order that the World War II Allies put in place after that war to prevent another world war. The authors of the document claim that the system of institutions like the United Nations, alliances like the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and free trade between nations that established a series of rules for foreign engagement and a web of shared interests around the globe has been bad for the U.S. because it undermined “the character of our nation.”
And the document makes it very clear what this administration believes is the true “character of our nation.”
Their vision of “our country’s inherent greatness and decency,” requires “the restoration and reinvigoration of American spiritual and cultural health,” “an America that cherishes its past glories and its heroes, and that looks forward to a new golden age,” and “growing numbers of strong, traditional families that raise healthy children.”
Observers referred to the document as National Security Council Report (NSC) 88 and noted that it could have been written in just 14 words. White supremacists use 88 to refer to Adolf Hitler and “fourteen words” to refer to a popular white supremacist slogan…
The document is a White supremacist manifesto. It rejects immigration, denounces “the disastrous ‘climate change’ and ‘Net Zero’ ideologies” that it claims have harmed Europe, threatened the United States, and operated to subsidize our adversaries. It further distances the U.S. from NATO.
The upshot is that the document “reorients the U.S. away from traditional European allies toward Russia.” It characterizes Europe’s current course as one leading to “civilizational erasure” and calls for reassertion of “Western identity,” (by which it clearly means White.)
It may be the most shameful document produced by this “Immoral slum” of an administration.
Below I have copied the definition of Fascism from the Cambridge web site:
“fascism
noun [ U ] politics (also Fascism)
us /ˈfæʃ.ɪ.zəm/ uk /ˈfæʃ.ɪ.zəm/
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a political system based on a very powerful leader, state control, and being extremely proud of country and race, and in which political opposition is not allowed”
If that is not the definition of the Trump administration and “An Immoral Slum Of An Administration”, especially the fact that “…political opposition is not allowed”, then please explain what we are watching daily as he is turning this nation into one of his “shithole countries” by following the definition of Fascism.
He has brought that ugly terminology back to his public rants and asking why intelligent, rational, democracy based nations are not rushing here. Will they respond to his plea? His rants yesterday and bragging about undergoing additional cognitive tests are being run, as if that is something to be proud of, we are in a war to survive till the end of his first year in this second presidential/kingship/dictatorship term.
Personally, I am deeply concerned about lasting till the end of 2025 with what I have already lost of my health care and the cost of prescriptions and over-the-counter products.
And the GOP has all at once turned in its moral fiber, its backbone and its patriotism for the illusion of power. Many others beside myself have warned about Republicans for years on this and other blogs and news outlets. These people are TOTALLY beholden to the corporate money that wrote P-2025. You want to know where the immoral slum is? It resides with the Republican, corporate-funded wasteland of weak minds.
Correct: Republicans are NOT conservative in any way. Agility: The did a backflip into total corruption and fascism without blinking. We’ve also talked about the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society who have build the tenements in this slum.
Marx was right. Capitalism, left to its own devices without controls and restrictions will destroy itself from within. Guess which political entity wants less restrictions on their abilities to make money, pay lower taxes and ignore everything else. Yep. The slumlords of America: The GOP!
Words like “conservative” and “peace” have succumbed to Orwellian doublespeak. 2+2=5
The NSS is the logical consequence of a party in moral, intellectual, and ethical bankruptcy. No one should be surprised.
where we left the world after WW2, is now sounding like stallin after that war. homeland,breed children,so called religious value,a police state,KGB etc. we had the worlds workforce and rebuilt much of it.we were respected because of our generosity,and compassion. though we want to relight the past with the indignaties of past history,we still thank those who served to protect,not invade for gain,or subject a country to a ransom for providing. if the democracy of europe is not protected,then we all fail. putin is laughing his ass off at our keystone cop governement. is this what we get when we elect who the party demands we elect? lawyers and physcopaths whos only goal today is to provide to the billionaire class so they may finally take over this country. (meta just cut of info on abortions and gay stuff) The Orwellian nation must provide eh? money has finally become the vote,the politician uses words to deny anything, complete saturation of media has covered the need to knows. theres a ongoing behind the curtian cult of the billionaire class, its a civil society its building. the billionaires want to see our nation as a full authortarian regiem. and its begun. northern calif, the Honduran island of roatan. where the billionaires seem to be putting together thier shangri la. and its study to keep Ameicans in line. but then again,Honduras is in the immediate cross hairs of trumps need for a base. relasing the drug president hernandez and a dirtect threat to its people via their nation TV/radio, social medias to elect its right wing lackey. trump needs ground to install a base. and Honduras is target one. trump kills people on allege drug boats, while pardoning a 440 ton cocaine convicted president. ya gotta wonder if the republican congress here isnt guilty of treason and dereliction of duty of our laws and constitution. they are blantantly supporting a take over by the tech bros and anyone else they need to feed their authoritarian playbook. theirs a whole wold of criminal acts where the billiinaires are flaunting its power. its matched by governements that have used its wealth like the saudis to secure America as an,now investment,latter possible part of our government. say dollars. if we have a vote in November 26
we better be fully engaged to walk it thru. otherwise i see the people being iced for just legally voting. those interment camps are just that,for anyone..
thenerdreich.com..
theres some mind benders here. as we all follow many of the ongoing chapters of the trump regiem. heres further talk of behind the billionaire ideals.
The NSS doesn’t embrace Russia because we are focusing on the Western Hemisphere. It tells Europe to work with Russia because Russia is part of Eastern Europe. The document now states that Russia and China aren’t military adversaries but economic adversaries.
The US acknowledges it has been defeated in Ukraine. Remember, Nuland and Kagan thought they could use Ukraine and march right into Moscow and deliver regime change. We got our asses handed to us and NATO. Sadly, the European “leaders” won’t accept defeat. They are delusional and believe that if they focus harder and sacrifice European men and women in Ukraine, they can beat back Russia. As I said, delusional.
And yes, Stephen Miller and Vance believe Western Europe is experiencing “civilizational erasure.” They claim that the influx of Muslims will soon erase generational WASPs. As more and more men and women with Islamic faith enter politics, Miller believes they will become adversaries.
If you ask Musk’s X, it has exploded with calls for Trump and the US to be labeled “traitors.” However, they must realize who started the proxy war with Russia, and the victors get to name the spoils. Zelenskyy is not in a position to demand anything.
However, if you are offended by the wording in the NSS, wait until you read the leaked memorandum sent to the FBI by AG Pam Bondi, basically naming “political opposition” to Trump, in any form, as “domestic terrorists.” I’ve embedded the entire memo as a PDF. It’s quite a document!! 😉
https://muncievoice.com/37727/bondis-domestic-terrorism-memo-to-fbi/
There is nothing conservative about this administration.
MONEY & BIG EXPENSIVE stuff.
& POWER without any kind of OPPOSISION.
Smoke and mirrors! Pretty, twisted, sound bites meaning “We have the power, and screw you!”
No Administration in history has managed to turn The White House into a cesspool while children weep in the playtime of the Epstein Elite.