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UPDATED (7/26): The Trump Revolution: The Donald’s Creative Destruction Deconstructed Reviewed

Constitution, Donald Trump, Ilana Mercer, libertarianism, Paleolibertarianism

Some worthies review “The Trump Revolution: The Donald’s Creative Destruction Deconstructed”:

“Trump indeed has proven to be a force of nature. Yet so too is Ilana Mercer. … The Trump Revolution [is] the first libertarian defense of the Trump Process. Mercer, being as much an enemy of neoconservative Republicans as she is of leftist Democrats, treats audiences of all political persuasions to a work that is above suspicion. The Trump Revolution is especially suited for libertarian and conservative-leaning Trump skeptics. Mercer, a paleolibertarian—i.e. a libertarian who doesn’t live in a pseudo-Platonic dream world of abstractions—is as concrete as can be within her opening statement, appropriately subtitled: ‘Welcome to the Post-Constitutional Jungle.’ As Mercer reminds us, in a post-Constitutional jungle, ‘a liberty-lover’s best hope is to see the legacy of the dictator who went before overturned for a period of time.’ Over the span of 252 pages, with an astuteness that escapes most contemporary popular writers whose partisanship binds them to stock phrases and crusty categories, Mercer reveals once more her originality as an analyst to ‘deconstruct’ how Trump has waged a campaign against sacred cows … ‘progressive’ and ‘conservative’ alike.—JACK KERWICK, Ph.D., ethicist, political philosopher, columnist at Townhall.com & FrontPage Magazine, author, The American Offensive: Dispatches from the Front.

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“Mercer is no fan of Obama or The ‘W’ who came before him, but she thinks that ‘Trump is likely the best Americans can hope for.’ She’s ‘not necessarily for the policies of Trump, but for the process of Trump.’ This, in itself, is the most interesting of her arguments in a well-constructed book of essays that builds the case for that process. … [I]t is a testament to Mercer’s muscular writing and clever reasoning that I was able to read her book in a single sitting. That is a compliment in and of itself.—CHRIS MATTHEW SCIABARRA, Ph.D., author of Total Freedom: Toward A Dialectical Libertarianism and many more.

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In ‘The Trump Revolution,’ Mercer gets at precisely what I would like people to understand relative to the Trump phenom. ‘Donald J. Trump is smashing an enmeshed political spoils system to bits,’ she writes, and indeed, this system and the necrotizing societal parasites who benefit from it deserve, in the moral sense, to be smashed, and must be neutralized … Perhaps it is the scary-smart Mercer’s status as a non-conservative ideologue, or as a non-native to America, that made her uniquely qualified to write this book.—ERIK RUSH, syndicated columnist, author of Negrophilia: From Slave Block to Pedestal-America’s Racial Obsession.

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“The Trump Revolution offers a blistering attack on the pseudo-conservative credentials of Donald Trump’s ‘conservative’ opponents. In this pungently written study, paleolibertarian commentator Ilana Mercer stresses the close connection between the rise of the populist Right in the US and the clumsy behavior of neoconservative mediocrities.”—PAUL GOTTFRIED, retired professor of Humanities, Elizabethtown College, PA, author of After Liberalism, Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt, The Strange Death of Marxism, Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America. (VDARE.com.)

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The Trump Revolution is still (July 26) #1 in Books in the ‘Anarchy’ category that follows from > Politics & Social Sciences > Politics & Government > Ideologies & Doctrines on Amazon. Well of course. Its central thesis is that, for liberty lovers this is it. We’ve reached the end of the road. The best we can hope for is for someone to smash the system; “action and counteraction, force and counterforce in the service of liberty …”

Anarchy July 26, 2016

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Trump Owes Loyalty To Melania, Not To Pipsqueak Plagiarizer. Fire Her.

Donald Trump, English, Ethics, Etiquette, Media, Morality

Donald Trump landed in Cleveland with Mike Pence at his side. The candidate thanked family members by name for their contribution and/or speeches on his behalf, so far. He did not mention his wife Melania by name, a woman who did a spectacular job and to whom an enormous dissever has been done by a staff member who should be fired.

If a class act such as Corey Lewandowski, a man so eloquent in his loyalty to Trump, was escorted out of Trump Tower like a criminal—so too should a two-bit plagiarizer.

As the consummate writer who is wedded to her prose, I detest plagiarizers. I detest people so low as to refuse to acknowledge their sources, or place these apart from the main text in quotation marks.

Invalid here is the tit-for-tat argument that the foul Dems do it, too, and the media utter not a squeak when liberal lie and cheat. That’s no justification; it’s a non sequitur.

All writers should make a big fuss over plagiarism and settle down only when the plagiarizer is dealt what’s coming to her.

RELATED: “Fareed Zakaria Plagiarizer.”

Trump Book Warns About Trump’s Piss-Poor Speech Writers

Barack Obama, Donald Trump

Poor, wonderful Melania Trump was tripped up by an incompetent, crooked, Trump campaign speech writer. An entire paragraph from this lovely lady’s speech, at the Republican National Convention, was lifted almost word-for-word from Michelle Obama’s 2008 DNC speech.

“From a young age, my parents impressed on me the values that you work hard for what you want in life: that your word is your bond and you do what you say and keep your promise; that you treat people with respect,” Melania Trump said. “They taught and showed me values and morals in their daily life.”
The first lady made similar remarks in 2008, saying both she and then-Sen. Barack Obama learned those same values when they were growing up.
“And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values: that you work hard for what you want in life; that your word is your bond and you do what you say you’re going to do; that you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them, and even if you don’t agree with them,” Michelle Obama said according to a transcript from CNN. [Via The Hill]

This unraveling, if it is one, began with Donald Trump listening to family, likely against his own better judgment, and letting dynamo Corey Lewandowski go. Then came The Pence Compromise.

“The Trump Revolution: The Donald’s Creative Destruction Deconstructed” points out the need for Trump to “tap” the likes of “Old-Right conservatives” like the “scrappy, always brilliant populist Patrick J. Buchanan, who was Trump before Trump,” as well as “Ann Coulter,” who “writes pellucid prose.” (AND knows how to use Lexisnexis.)

Prof. Tom DiLorenzo thinks “Mercer would make a good speech writer in a Trump administration.”

What a disservice to Melania. (More.)

UPDATED (7/19): FACEBOOK THREAD.