The New Yorker. Down WIth Elites BOOKS Rousseau in the Age of Trump and Brexit by Pankaj Mishra

The article begins, "I love the POORLY educated," Donald Trump said during a victory speech in February....It is interesting that he chooses "poorly" educated...those who have not received a good education, in order to be able to be enabled, empowered, to know their rights, to make comparisons, to read, to listen smartly and make up their own minds.  Of course, he has fertile ground for planting the seeds he wants in their minds: racism, fear of the foreigner, fear of our borderers, the Mexicans( so far has he attacked the Canadians)....he tells people in coal mining towns that shut down in th 1950's that he is going to open them and see they have employment again; is he introducing fracking to them? Is he stock raving mad?  He says he knows how to win:  set up false hopes in "poorly educated" minds...in minds without hope...in minds who cannot see that Donald Trump only wants office to buy America,  -- look his daughter has already bought up Donna Karen during the campaign...just a sneak peak.   The facts show he has many business failures, but he manages to profit and his employees suffer.

I will write more later...I do not want to spend any more time thinking about Rousseau or Trump, right now.

 Sorry, but not much about Rousseau in this entry.  I guess I would just as soon not know all his details. He is not a favorite of mine, anyway, but the points were relevant...to the indictment of Trump and our society. 

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