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Originally Posted by Charlie Southerland
Trump is no different than anyone else.
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I couldn't disagree more, Charlie. That's exactly the point: this really is different, it's a different order of dangerous than we've had with various administrations. Bannon's a symbol of that (though far from being the only perpetrator), and the hateful rhetoric spewing from Trump's mouth or his Twitter feed is the daily reminder. As many conservatives have said, Trump is not really a conservative. He insults even the best among conservatives--McCain for instance. Why would you overlook that or let it slide? I urge you to set aside ordinary conservative expectations/politics to look at this squarely for what is developing before our very eyes: an attempted hijacking and betrayal of U.S. democratic (note the small 'd') values.
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I only know Pound through his poems, his Cantos. I like his trimeters. I don't want to know his politics. He's dead.
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I have mixed feelings about Pound. I like some of his poetry, find much of it dull or self-indulgent, but overall I think he made a significant contribution to poetic idiom. The politics unfortunately do run through some of the
Cantos as well.