EX-LIBERAL FRED SIEGEL SUPPORTS TRUMP - WHY?

EX-LIBERAL FRED SIEGEL SUPPORTS TRUMP - WHY?

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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, SAT. SUN OCT. 17-18, 2020 WEEKEND INTERVIEW BY TUNKU. V.

EXCERPTS - "AN EX-LIBERAL RELUCTANTLY SUPPORTS TRUMP" 

 

" Mr. Siegel, a professor emeritus at New York's Cooper Union and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, says he overcame his distaste for Mr. Trump for three reasons. First, foreign policy:

 

    "Crushing ISIS. pulling us out of the Iran nuclear deal, moving our embassy to Jerusalem, and making fools of those people who insist that the Palestine issue is at the heart of the Arab-Israeli conflict."

 

    Second, by his ability to withstand a prolonged coup attempt by the Democrats and the media," which started with the Steele dossier: "If I'm saying what I find impressive about Trump, it's that he's survived. He has and extraordinary amount of arrogance, egotism and self confidence.

 

    Mr.Siegel's third reason goes to the heart of his own political philosophy. He sees the president as a champion of "bourgeois values" under threat from the "clerisy."Mr. Siegel's word for the dominant elites who despise these values. Regards, Mr. Biden, as "captive" of this clerisy, and running mate Kamala Harris as the establishment of it. 

 

    "I don't want to see her as president," Mr. Siegel says of Sen. Harris. "I don't want a San Francisco Democrat who's likely to impose elements of the Green New Deal, which she sponsored but lied about sponsoring on television. If Biden wins, she will be president in short order. I don't know how long Biden will last."

 

    "In Mr. Siegel's view, "hard work, faith, family and autonomy," have enabled America to thrive, and Mr. Trump stands for these values, even if he doesn't always exemplify them. "The elite is largely detached from the middle class," Mr. Siegel says," The two major sources of wealth in the last 20 years have been finance and Silicon Valley. Neither of them has much connection to middle class America or Middle America." Mr. Trump is "in favor of manufacturing jobs, which are often middle-class." The president also recognizes the way in which China is a threat to the survival of middle-class life in America, directly and indirectly."

 

    Mr. Siegel takes heart from Mr. Trump's hostility to political correctness. "Wokeness is a force that undermines the middle class," he says, "and you couldn't have had wokeness without an elite concept for the values of the middle class" Middle Americans see political correctness " as a threat to the democratic republic they grew up in , where people could speak their mind." I ask Mr. Siegel to define political correctness: "The inability to speak the truth about the obvious." ....

 

George H. Kubeck, "FRED SIEGEL HIT THE NAIL COMPLETELY ON THE HEAD FOR ALL AMERICA."