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lings they wouldn t be able to shut him up the new style was more like that of woody allen his characters couldn t stop talking about their emotions their resentments and needs they were self justifying as they acted out their cowardice and anger but he was a comic it was funny he wasn t putting it out as a new template for maleness donald trump now is like an unfunny woody allen well perhaps or without perhaps that s a bit too harsh and one sided but peggy noonan was substantially right when she spoke about the shifting of style from the strong silent type to the nervous and chattery one perfectly impersonated by woody allen actually americans have gone through a monumental shift of style in the last decades something that has perhaps never happened before these days the way they like seeing themselves the template they most admire as peggy noonan put it is not the one celebrated in classic mid 20th century films anymore this is the woody allen era today it s no longer about gary cooper and john wayne nor is it even about ronald reagan let s be honest ronald reagan couldn t get elected today don t you think mrs peggy noonan on the contrary only donald trump could be able to defeat hillary clinton trump won because he was the best choice and this for the simple reason that he unlike any other republican or even democratic candidate including bernie sanders tapped into the zeitgeist of the country this means among other things that what peggy noonan considers weakness lack of self control trump s not being low key and determined as well as his being whiny weepy and self pitying etc is exactly what makes him the best choice in this very time and place in terms of communication style and ways of behaving but more importantly this also means that his political views and policies or trump s right wing populism as his detractors put it are on the same wavelength as the majority of the american people that s also why paradoxically we old fashioned men who grew up with john wayne s movies and the idea that men were supposed to keep their emotions in check and not make a big deal out of everything we conservatives of today and at the same time nostalgic of the reagan era and of a past that can never return should be happy about trump s alleged weakness and flaws they are at very core of his and our success posted by s r piccoli a 12 27 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette us politics july 17 2017 trump in warsaw warsaw krasiński square july 6 2017 this is the speech mr trump should have given to introduce himself to the world at his inauguration that s how the wall street journal put it the day after the president of the united states gave his remarks to the people of poland as the white house described the speech itself in truth the remarks were directed at the people of the world and offered for the first time six months into donald trump s first term of office the core of what could become a governing philosophy that is in the wsj s own words a determined and affirmative defense of the western tradition and a far better form of nationalism than that of the inauguration address a nationalism rooted in values and beliefs such as the rule of law freedom of expression religious faith and freedom from oppressive government here are some key passages from the speech americans poles and the nations of europe value individual freedom and sovereignty we must work together to confront forces whether they come from inside or out from the south or the east that threaten over time to undermine these values and to erase the bonds of culture faith and tradition that make us who we are applause if left unchecked these forces will undermine our courage sap our spirit and weaken our will to defend ourselves and our societies but just as our adversaries and enemies of the past learned here in poland we know that these forces too are doomed to fail if we want them to fail and we do indeed want them to fail applause they are doomed not only because our alliance is strong our countries are resilient and our power is unmatched through all of that you have to say everything is true our adversaries however are doomed because we will never forget who we are and if we don t forget who are we just can t be beaten americans will never forget the nations of europe will never forget we are the fastest and the greatest community there is nothing like our community of nations the world has never known anything like our community of nations we write symphonies we pursue innovation we celebrate our ancient heroes embrace our timeless traditions and customs and always seek to explore and discover brand new frontiers we reward brilliance we strive for excellence and cherish inspiring works of art that honor god we treasure the rule of law and protect the right to free speech and free expression applause we empower women as pillars of our society and of our success we put faith and family not government and bureaucracy at the center of our lives and we debate everything we challenge everything we seek to know everything so that we can better know ourselves applause and above all we value the dignity of every human life protect the rights of every person and share the hope of every soul to live in freedom that is who we are those are the priceless ties that bind us together as nations as allies and as a civilization what we have what we inherited from our and you know this better than anybody and you see it today with this incredible group of people what we ve inherited from our ancestors has never existed to this extent before and if we fail to preserve it it will never ever exist again so we cannot fail this great community of nations has something else in common in every one of them it is the people not the powerful who have always formed the foundation of freedom and the cornerstone of our defense the people have been that foundation here in poland as they were right here in warsaw and they were the foundation from the very very beginning in america our citizens did not win freedom together did not survive horrors together did not face down evil together only to lose our freedom to a lack of pride and confidence in our values we did not and we will not we will never back down applause maybe the wsj is right maybe not in fact one could argue that the two forms of nationalism that of the inauguration speech and that of the remarks to the people of poland are somehow two faces of the same coin but this would lead us too far from the main object of this note what is certain however is that the speech is one that won t be easily forgotten nor should it and this for a number of reasons among which is the fact that unlike at least two of his predecessors in the presidency barack obama and george w bush donald trump refused to sell the americans and their western allies the false ideology according to which all peoples have the same desires all cultures are equal and all faiths teach the same things this universalism which conveys the myth of the portability of america s political and economic principles is at the heart of the biggest mistakes in u s foreign politics in the middle east and one reason why so many western policy makers and opinion leaders fell head over heels for the arab spring they saw the explosion as basically the result of a political crisis and as provoked by a thirst for political freedom but the deepest roots of the revolution were most likely socioeconomic let s not forget that for several decades the arab world has had the lowest rates of economic growth of all regions of asia and africa and the highest rates of unemployment in the world and they are not issues that can be settled with a new constitution or a mere change of president they can only be settled through a radical cultural change involving social political and economic structures something premature to say the least that s why things went wrong take egypt for instance the protest movement was initiated by opposition groups part of which were very radical but the lead was soon taken by traditional political forces such as the muslim brotherhood and the salafists unlike george w bush and his neocon advisers and in opposition to barack obama s idealistic rhetoric about foreign politics donald trump argued that what we call western values far from being universal are a centuries long and uneven process of acculturation and education in this context as david french puts it in national review judeo christian ideas have a specific value the family as a core building block of the culture has a specific value constitutional governance has a specific value they are not necessarily interchangeable with islam with alternative family arrangements or with statism thus a call to protect faith family and limited government is a call to protect the culture that has birthed freedom at home and abroad the warsaw speech also finds president trump on the trail of joseph ratzinger and the lecture on europe s crisis of culture the then cardinal gave in the convent of saint scholastica in subiaco italy on april 1 2005 the day before pope john paul ii died it was a very strong warning against the cynicism of a secularized culture that denies its own foundations by the way one might ask why the west has turned on itself and seems to be refusing to take even the most rudimentary steps to protect itself against its sworn enemies of course there are lots of reasons not just one cultural marxism ennui loss of faith in organized religion the transformation of government schools into babysitting services for subsections of the populace with severe cultural learning disabilities the marginalization of the very notion of excellence the mutation of the left into a suicide cult that wants to take the rest of us with it this kind of illness being thus indicated the antidote is also easy to prescribe the antidote to this as argued in a july 15 2016 article by michael walsh the author of the devil s pleasure palace is a return to our cultural roots including the pre christian principles of aristotle passed down via st thomas aquinas among others and the roman emperor marcus aurelius those roots are neither race nor faith specific and in fact the genius of western civilization is that its principles not conservative principles but civilizational principles have proven so successful that they resulted in the united states of america the very embodiment of those ideas which is of course why islam and its ally of convenience the left hate america so we and our cultural heritage are the refutation of every satanic principle they hold so vengefully dear western civilization has defended us for centuries isn t it about time we defended it that s exactly what president trump did with his warsaw speech of course never trumpers trump sceptics across europe and the left in general didn t like a speech in which the words civilization and west are each repeated 10 times sarah wildman at vox compared this battle cry for family for freedom for country and for god to an alt right manifesto david smith washington correspondent for the guardian wrote that the warsaw speech will be remembered not for a quotable zinger but for muddled thinking and dark nativism on the other side of the fence victor davis hanson at national review praises the speech as an implicit corrective to barack obama s cairo speech that is as the antithesis to the fallacious appeasing lecture obama preached to the egyptians on june 4 2009 whereas obama had blamed the west for many of islam s dilemmas he writes trump praised the singular history and culture of the west whereas obama listed supposed cultural achievements of islam trump rattled off examples of western exceptionalism its culture values achievements a great article indeed in warsaw trump warned the west that it s because of our prosperity technological advancement and cultural superiority that we are in great peril amid failed enemies who hate those who are more successful in sum trump s anti cairo message is that only a disciplined strong west confident in its past and sure of its present success will deter enemies appeal to neutrals and keep friends trump should not have had a need to deliver such a self evident but now rare message that he alone had the courage to state the obvious and was criticized for doing so reminds us that the corrective to our western malady is seen as the problem not the cure but the most moving passages of the address are those which explicitly recall one of the greatest speeches given in poland in the modern era it was delivered in victory square in the old city of warsaw on june 2 1979 by john paul ii the polish pope warsaw victory square june 2 1979 europe was still divided between the politically free democracies of western europe and the communist bloc john paul celebrated mass halfway through as peggy noonan tells the story in her latest column in the wall street journal the crowd began to chant we want god we want god then the pope asked the crowd what was the greatest work of god man who redeemed man christ therefore he declared christ cannot be kept out of the history of man in any part of the globe at any longitude or latitude the exclusion of christ from the history of man is an act against man the chant turned to thunder we want god it was the beginning of the end for the communist order in poland and when the day came on june 2nd 1979 and one million poles gathered around victory square for their very first mass with their polish pope that day every communist in warsaw must have known that their oppressive system would soon come crashing down applause they must have known it at the exact moment during pope john paul ii s sermon when a million polish men women and children suddenly raised their voices in a single prayer a million polish people did not ask for wealth they did not ask for privilege instead one million poles sang three simple words we want god applause in those words the polish people recalled the promise of a better future they found new courage to face down their oppressors and they found the words to declare that poland would be poland once again as i stand here today before this incredible crowd this faithful nation we can still hear those voices that echo through history their message is as true today as ever the people of poland the people of america and the people of europe still cry out we want god applause together with pope john paul ii the poles reasserted their identity as a nation devoted to god and with that powerful declaration of who you are you came to understand what to do and how to live you stood in solidarity against oppression against a lawless secret police against a cruel and wicked system that impoverished your cities and your souls and you won poland prevailed poland will always prevail applause what a great premise for an even 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