“The Dangers of Hillary Clinton”

Es ist sehr leicht, einen negativen Artikel über Donald Trump zu finden. Es ist seltener, dass sich eine der seriösen Zeitungen kritisch mit Hillary Clinton auseinandersetzt. Insofern fand ich diesen Kommentar in der New York Times interessant. Mal etwas anderes bei bto.

  • “A vote for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, the Clinton campaign has suggested in broad ways and subtle ones, isn’t just a vote for a Democrat over a Republican: It’s a vote for safety over risk, steady competence over boastful recklessness, psychological stability in the White House over ungovernable passions.”
  • “The perils of a Trump presidency are as distinctive as the candidate himself, and a vote for Trump makes a long list of worst cases — the Western alliance system’s unraveling, a cycle of domestic radicalization, an accidental economic meltdown, a civilian-military crisis — more likely than with any normal administration.”
  • “The dangers of a Hillary Clinton presidency are more familiar than Trump’s authoritarian unknowns, because we live with them in our politics already. They’re the dangers of elite groupthink, of Beltway power worship, of a cult of presidential action in the service of dubious ideals. They’re the dangers of a recklessness and radicalism that doesn’t recognize itself as either, because it’s convinced that if an idea is mainstream and commonplace among the great and good then it cannot possibly be folly.”
  • “Almost every crisis that has come upon the West in the last 15 years has its roots in this establishmentarian type of folly. The Iraq War, (…), was actually the work of a bipartisan interventionist consensus, pushed hard by George W. Bush but embraced as well by a large slice of center-left opinion that included Tony Blair and more than half of Senate Democrats.”
  • “Likewise the financial crisis: Whether you blame financial-services deregulation or happy-go-lucky housing policy (or both), the policies that helped inflate and pop the bubble were embraced by both wings of the political establishment.”
  • “Likewise with the euro, the European common currency, a terrible idea that only cranks and Little Englanders dared oppose until the Great Recession exposed it as a potentially economy-sinking folly.”
  • “Likewise with Angela Merkel’s grand and reckless open-borders gesture just last year: She was the heroine of a thousand profiles even as she delivered her continent to polarization and violence.”
  • “One can look at Trump himself and see too much danger of still-deeper disaster, too much temperamental risk and moral turpitude, to be an acceptable alternative to this blunder-ridden status quo … while also looking at Hillary Clinton and seeing a woman whose record embodies the tendencies that gave rise to Trumpism in the first place.”
  • “She was for the Iraq War when everyone was for it, against the surge when everyone had given up on Iraq, and then an unchastened liberal hawk again in Libya just a few short years later.”
  • “She was a Russia dove when the media mocked Mitt Romney for being a Russia hawk; now she’s a Russia hawk along with everyone else in Washington in a moment that might require de-escalation.”
  • “She cites Merkel as a model leader, she’s surrounded by a bipartisan foreign policy cadre that’s eager for a Details To Be Determined escalation in Syria, and she seems — like her Goldman Sachs audiences — intent on sailing serenely above the storm of nationalism rather than reconsidering any of the assumptions of her class.”
  • “So she is unlikely to do anything that the cosmopolitan capitals of Europe and America would consider obviously radical or dangerous or dumb.”

“But in those cases where the cosmopolitan position isn’t necessarily reasonable or safe, in those instances where the Western elite can go half-mad without realizing it, Hillary Clinton shows every sign of being just as ready to march into folly as her peers.”

bto: Damit ist es ein Problem, gerade weil die Unzufriedenheit zunimmt.

-> New York Times: “The Dangers of Hillary Clinton”, 22. Oktober 2016

Kommentare (2) HINWEIS: DIE KOMMENTARE MEINER LESERINNEN UND LESER WIDERSPIEGELN NICHT ZWANGSLÄUFIG DIE MEINUNG VON BTO.
  1. Moser Roth
    Moser Roth sagte:

    Da es in den Zusammenhang wieder passt (sollte Trump gewinnen, gehen die Märkte wohl in die Knie…), wollte ich meine Antwort auf Ihre Antwort unter einem Ihrer anderen Beiträge nochmals wiederholen:
    „Danke für die Antwort.
    Wieso nennen Sie diese Aufbesserungsstrategie nicht als Teil ihrer „Grand Strategy“? Wenn Sie dies als zu kompliziert für WiWo oder Cicero Leser halten, könnten Sie eventuell für die interessierten Leser Ihres Blogs die von Ihnen genutzten Optionsstrategien in einem Blog-Eintrag erläutern?
    Wann nutzen Sie welchen Approach mit wie viel Abstand. Nicht unbedingt auf spezifische Transaktionen bezogen (wobei diese natürlich als anschauliche Beispiele dienen können), sondern eher die „großen Linien“ basierend auf Ihren Einschätzungen und Ihren in diesem Bereich bisher gemachten Erfahrungen.“

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