Ann Coulter is Having Buyer's Remorse Over Trump

[Fenton Lum]

You were warned, Annie. Too little too late now. I said last year this guy would harm the Republican Party for years to come. Should have nominated Kasich.

Ann Coulter Is Worried The ‘Trump-Haters Were Right’

And yet...this is what she actually said...

In an interview Sunday with The Daily Caller, Coulter let it be known she still has hope in the Trump presidency,

That's called clinging to hope despite your doubts

Once he gets the wall under way she will be fine.

Nieto's check arrive yet?

 

[Fenton Lum]

We would have had the same shyte with whoever "won", Don is merely a symptom, he ain't the problem.

"Forget the firing of James Comey. Forget the paralysis in Congress. Forget the idiocy of a press that covers our descent into tyranny as if it were a sports contest between corporate Republicans and corporate Democrats or a reality show starring our maniacal president and the idiots that surround him. Forget the noise. The crisis we face is not embodied in the public images of the politicians that run our dysfunctional government. The crisis we face is the result of a four-decade-long, slow-motion corporate coup that has rendered the citizen impotent, left us without any authentic democratic institutions and allowed corporate and military power to become omnipotent. This crisis has spawned a corrupt electoral system of legalized bribery and empowered those public figures that master the arts of entertainment and artifice. And if we do not overthrow the neoliberal, corporate forces that have destroyed our democracy we will continue to vomit up more monstrosities as dangerous as Donald Trump. Trump is the symptom, not the disease."

Trump Is the Symptom, Not the Disease: Chris Hedges

Don is merely a symptom, he ain't the problem.

Well, I agree with this much of what you posted.

Apparently Hedges is okay with corporate Republicans "winning" the coup.

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If that's how you took it you would do well to look further into his past and writing, you could not be further from what he's on about; it is clearly the entire system.

 

[Norman]

You were warned, Annie. Too little too late now. I said last year this guy would harm the Republican Party for years to come. Should have nominated Kasich.

Ann Coulter Is Worried The ‘Trump-Haters Were Right’

Only a liberal would be dumb enough to think that she is abandoning Trump. You see in the adult land, where not many leftists exist, people can agree to disagree on some issues and yet remain part of the club. It's as if... some people didn't live in an echo-chamber.

 

[usmbguest5318]

We would have had the same shyte with whoever "won", Don is merely a symptom, he ain't the problem.

"Forget the firing of James Comey. Forget the paralysis in Congress. Forget the idiocy of a press that covers our descent into tyranny as if it were a sports contest between corporate Republicans and corporate Democrats or a reality show starring our maniacal president and the idiots that surround him. Forget the noise. The crisis we face is not embodied in the public images of the politicians that run our dysfunctional government. The crisis we face is the result of a four-decade-long, slow-motion corporate coup that has rendered the citizen impotent, left us without any authentic democratic institutions and allowed corporate and military power to become omnipotent. This crisis has spawned a corrupt electoral system of legalized bribery and empowered those public figures that master the arts of entertainment and artifice. And if we do not overthrow the neoliberal, corporate forces that have destroyed our democracy we will continue to vomit up more monstrosities as dangerous as Donald Trump. Trump is the symptom, not the disease."

Trump Is the Symptom, Not the Disease: Chris Hedges

Don is merely a symptom, he ain't the problem.

Well, I agree with this much of what you posted.

Apparently Hedges is okay with corporate Republicans "winning" the coup.

...contest between corporate Republicans and corporate Democrats...The crisis we face is the result of a four-decade-long, slow-motion corporate coup...if we do not overthrow the neoliberal, corporate forces...​

If one sees danger in a corporate coup, does it really matter whether the corporate usurpers are liberal or conservative? No matter their specific-issue politics, corporate interests have one controlling goal: profit maximization. Achieving that goal will always come at the expense of individuals and entities who, for whatever reason, are poor competitors.

Apparently Hedges is okay with corporate Republicans "winning" the coup.

That is not what Hedges is saying. He is not choosing sides. "Neoliberal" does not denote a new type of democrat. It's an economic philosophy that has adherents from both sides of the aisle.

"Neoliberal" does not denote a new type of democrat. It's an economic philosophy that has adherents from both sides of the aisle.

Perhaps you're referring to Harvey's definition of the term?

Neoliberalism is in the first instance a theory of political economic practices that proposes that human well-being can best be advanced by liberating individual entrepreneurial freedoms and skills within an institutional framework characterized by strong private property rights, free markets and free trade. The role of the state is to create and preserve an institutional framework appropriate to such practices. The state has to guarantee, for example, the quality and integrity of money. It must also set up those military, defence, police and legal structures and functions required to secure private property rights and to guarantee, by force if need be, the proper functioning of markets. Furthermore, if markets do not exist (in areas such as land, water, education, health care, social security, or environmental pollution) then they must be created, by state action if necessary. But beyond these tasks the state should not venture. State interventions in markets (once created) must be kept to a bare minimum because, according to the theory, the state cannot possibly possess enough information to second-guess market signals (prices) and because powerful interest groups will inevitably distort and bias state interventions (particularly in democracies) for their own benefit.
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If so, surely you see how the policy advocations of the respective major parties align and don't with that definition? From a policy making perspective, it's quite clear, from the recent AHCA squabbles among House, in which party are found the preponderance of individuals who matter and who also espouse neoliberal economics, which, despite it being a "new" term, at its heart is little other than a name for "as laissez faire as can be made to happen."

David Harvey's definition is fine. Obviously he sees the philosophy as being much more pervasive than your narrow glimpse at a single issue might delineate. And more in line with Hedges' beliefs.

Furthermore, the advocates of the neoliberal way now occupy positions of considerable influence in education (the universities and many ‘think tanks’), in the media, in corporate boardrooms and financial institutions, in key state institutions (treasury departments, the central banks), and also in those international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization (WTO) that regulate global finance and trade. Neoliberalism has, in short, become hegemonic as a mode of discourse. It has pervasive effects on ways of thought to the point where it has become incorporated into the common-sense way many of us interpret, live in, and understand the world.

http://www.cmecc.com/uploads/课本和论文/[9][大卫哈维].David.Harvey.(2005).A.Brief.History.of.Neoliberalism.pdf

David Harvey's definition is fine. Obviously he sees the philosophy as being much more pervasive than your narrow glimpse at a single issue might delineate.

My remark from before had nothing to do with how "much more" or less the concept be. Rather it has to do with the predominant political affiliation of the U.S. policy makers who embrace it.

BTW, the WBG, IMF and WTO are not units of the U.S. government.