During the weekend, Donald Trump’s shock and (often) awful Cabinet nominee selection campaign produced another howler, at least from a conservative perspective.
Those five "core beliefs" Paul names don't amount to an ideology, because they don't have the coherence of an ideology. They're just a bunch of stuff. After all, this is a man who was pro-life until all of a sudden he wasn't. It's closer to the truth say he has no ideology. The comparison with Nixon is apt. The trouble with a politician's having no ideology is that you can never tell what he's going to do, and that he's driven by other, less noble things.
Thanks for this comment. I agree with almost all of it.
The one thing I would say is that sometimes having no ideology other than pragmatism can lead to an acceptable presidency. Having the wrong ideology cannot.
Those five "core beliefs" Paul names don't amount to an ideology, because they don't have the coherence of an ideology. They're just a bunch of stuff. After all, this is a man who was pro-life until all of a sudden he wasn't. It's closer to the truth say he has no ideology. The comparison with Nixon is apt. The trouble with a politician's having no ideology is that you can never tell what he's going to do, and that he's driven by other, less noble things.
Thanks for this comment. I agree with almost all of it.
The one thing I would say is that sometimes having no ideology other than pragmatism can lead to an acceptable presidency. Having the wrong ideology cannot.