'Bernie' Is Not Seeking Our Party's Nomination For President

[The Magistrate]

67. A Good Point, Ma'am

I would say that in my view Trump represents a sort of 'alternative establishment, both within the Republican party and the plutocratic class in general. The Republican party was controlled by persons who whipped up yahoos to a froth, but with no other purpose than to have mass support for legislators and a President who would strip regulations and reduce taxes. There was no intent of actually doing much of anything the yahoos wanted done passionately. They have lost control, they have 'called up that which they cannot put down', and the result is Trump, who embodies what has long been growing within the Republican party, a sort of fresh 'Establishment' of genuine, dyed in the wool and elected to office yahoos, who have an honest claim to take charge of the Republican party, since they are the bulk of its minor officials, and appeal strongly to its dedicated bloc of voters. Within the plutocratic classes, Trump represents a faction defiantly without culture or manners or the slightest sense of noblesse oblige --- things have traditionally served as at least some check on the behavior of those elevated so high government itself generally cannot touch them.



"The poor object to being misgoverned. The rich object to being governed at all."






"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."