Read Trump's books then you know.

That is the opposite of what he has said. He has been railing against companies who leave as an anti-American bad "deal", threatening to punish them for leaving. He wants a "wall" all right -- a new Berliln Wall to keep people from escaping the punishment.

That article is filled with generalities, with nothing about his background that is under attack. The left is all-out manufacturing a climate of hysteria against him. Propaganda is flying but there is no objective assessment of his actual record. The ARI analysis summarily rejecting him seems to be based on what is spread in the NYT and NPR, with no detailed knowledge of what he did, good or bad, or what has been invented and spread.

There is plenty to pay attention to right now as various interests jockey for positions as political appointee in his administration. Not just the cabinet but the thousands more who actually run the agencies. What is set up now is crucially important to how the government will be run. The president does not personally involve himself with the vast majority of policies and decisions that impact people every day through agency and bureaucratic decisions. The left, including the viros, know this very well and already engaged in massive pressure group warfare to block good appointments.

When Polonius asks Hamlet what he is reading, Hamlet turns the book around to Polonius and says, "Words, words, words." He tells the truth yet tells him nothing. Sound familiar?
Good old Willie The Shake - has "words" for every occasion.
By the way, you're welcome.

My take on his statements on businesses leaving the country seemed to be blaming big government, high coporate taxes, onerous regulations, etc. for driving the corporations out of the country.

And continue to do so. Saw somewhere that the conservative organizations had their applications for whatever status rejected just recently.

As Trump has not taken the oath of office as yet, nor begun to implement his agenda, I will wait to see what transpires once he is in the oval office.
For now, all prognostications(?) are simply words, nothing more, nothing less.
Thanks, Herb, for stating my thoughts regarding all this fearmongering from the left, and others.

Wow! Exactly my thoughts. And Oblamo seems to have such a cavalier attitude toward it all. Which makes me think the "protests" are all part of the plan for him to stay in office. And the dims along with him.

Exactly Susanne. This was a binary choice and it was not even close.

Dictatorship? Didn't they read the news - Clinton DIDN'T win...

Thank you! :-)

ewv, you are very clear-minded.

I do not disagree that Trump is not principled. However, his temporary stewardship will probably restore the economy and maintain the 2nd amendment. If he is successful, it will seriously blunt the totalitarian progressives' trend. They aim not for a dictatorship, but for an even stronger oligarchy.

With respect to what he will do individually, I suspect the most is embarrass the US at a dinner or speech. With respect to running the country, the rest of his staff will do that.

Trump will probably not make good on his promises of really being anti-establishment and dismantling DC, but dictator he is not. Obama or Hillary are far more unilateral.

A real problem with government power is that once one gets it, they don't want to give it back.

I was going to write $50, but I thought that might be too pretentious. In any case I liked your post.

Stopping the worst of them doesn't mean that the trend isn't still down. The Trump idolatry from the beginning was out of frustration with the establishment but had no positive principles, and neither does Trump. Remember all the discussions here about Trump's anti-intellectual Pragmatism? His substitution of "deals" for political principles? His loutish bullying, inability to maintain focus on the election, and ardent support of eminent domain? We saw at the beginning of the primaries that the Trump idolatry was a frightening willingness to follow the 'man on the white horse' without regard for ideas.

Agreed ... I just went to the article and skimmed it and reached the same conclusion.

I have not been following ARI for a few years and appreciate what you have shared in terms of the views of Dr. Ghade / ARI. Thank you.

Only $10 bucks? I'm sorry, I'll try to do better next time. LOL

At first I didn't finish reading the entire article because my impression became "Trumpaphobic tripe". However, since this is an ARI article I figured I must have missed something profound and restarted at the top. I didn't miss anything. It's long winded Trumpaphobic tripe I didn't finish reading the second time, either, and now I don't care who the author is or where it was published. I notice a number of posters herein have already taken the author to task with the same thoughts as mine so I needn't bother doing it again.

I guess I was thinking of the media and chattering classes in general. But all good points. I am done with them after this.

Yep, definitely not his art.

Who views them as THE authority? There is a difference between AN authority and THE authority. I have read, collected and memorized enough AR to be an authority. I have, however known only one person who could be called THE authority, but he's dead. ARI has what I used to call Randoidism. They have overanalyzed her work to the point where they have dehumanized her This leads to a tendancy where if they deem the person to hold more than a certain amount of views (never made clear) contrary to Objectivism, that often makes them an enemy.

I was referring to New Elbonia. The American version. Adams is a brilliant cartoonist who beleives in doing affirmatives in order to achieve his dreams. I pointed out that it wasn't his art but his wit that made him successful.

Yes, and THAT is the "tell-tale", of this article.

This could have come from the butt-hurt Team Hillary.