Trumpocracy:
The Corruption of the American Republic – David Frum – (Harper)
The clues that lead to insight into author David Frum’s
thinking about the Presidency of Donald J. Trump aren’t a few stray breadcrumbs
spread occasionally along the path through the book; instead Frum lays out a
full blown bakeries worth of crumbs that make it clear exactly where he
bitterly stands as an establishment, Never Trumper.
This is about what you’d expect from a so-called “conservative”
who naturally earns praise from liberals, not because they actually respect his
position, but more so because he like they, is against pretty much everything
the President has done or will potentially do while in office.
Frum tries, but fails to make the case that somehow
Trump is a danger to the Republic. Here’s the problem with Frum’s establishment
tantrum and liberals thoughts on Trump Presidency; Donald Trump had less to do
with his election victory than Frum’s much vaunted, establishment approach to
governing. In a very real sense it was Frum and his ilk that created the Donald
Trump victory.
So while he jumps up and down waving his arms about the
potential damage to the “system” being done by Trump, it is that “system” that
pushed Americans to vote for Trump. Frum and friends seem to forget that the
American people, the voters, know clearly the differences between right and
wrong and when they saw Hillary Clinton and her band of cronies continue to
screw the American people for their own self-enrichment, they got fed up with
being dealt the short end of the stick, and Trump became their solution to the
problem.
