{"id":282691,"date":"2016-12-05T04:44:01","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T03:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/anatomy-of-a-nationalist\/"},"modified":"2016-12-05T04:44:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T03:44:01","slug":"anatomy-of-a-nationalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/anatomy-of-a-nationalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Anatomy of a Nationalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_88796\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88796\" src=\"http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2016\/12\/23418926494_8e31afc07b_z.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Marc Nozell | CC BY 2.0\" width=\"510\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2016\/12\/23418926494_8e31afc07b_z.jpg 510w, http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2016\/12\/23418926494_8e31afc07b_z-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">Photo by Marc Nozell | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em><br \/>County Dublin, Ireland.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One of Donald Trump\u2019s stated priorities is to preserve American culture, yet he told <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/minutes\/133566\/donald-trump-doesnt-read-books\">New Republic<\/a> he only skims \u2018passages, areas, chapters\u2019 and otherwise \u2018doesn\u2019t have the time\u2019 to read. His ignorance of the American art world\u2019s growing multiculturalism makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>The 1987 book Trump purportedly authored, <em>The Art of the Deal<\/em>, was actually ghost-written by Tony Schwartz, who came to regret his role as Dr Frankenstein in popularising Trump\u2019s incarnation of the American Dream. Afterwards, Schwartz said he preferred the title, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/oct\/30\/donald-trump-tony-schwartz-art-of-the-deal-out-of-control\">The Sociopath<\/a>, considering the staggeringly dangerous, primarily self-aggrandising protagonist, who\u2019s likely to trigger nuclear war and introduce press censorship and martial law. Though well remunerated, the deplorable experience of working on the book spurred Schwartz to reassess his own values and switch career. The election result dismayed him.<\/p>\n<p>Trump convinced media outlets including CNN of his ongoing <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2015\/08\/28\/politics\/donald-trump-church-member\/\">church attendance<\/a> as a Presbyterian Protestant. He said he regularly attended the Marble Collegiate Church of the Reformed Church denomination. It shares location on Fifth Avenue in New York with Trump\u2019s HQ in his fifty-eight story tower. Founded in 1628, its most famous preacher, self-help movement pioneer who wrote <em>The Power of Positive Thinking<\/em>, Dr Norman Vincent Peale, presided for half a century till 1984. Trump claimed he saw him and was impressed.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2016\/12\/02\/anatomy-of-a-nationalist\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Marc Nozell | CC BY 2.0 County Dublin, Ireland. One of Donald Trump\u2019s stated priorities is to preserve American culture, yet he told New Republic he only skims \u2018passages, areas, chapters\u2019 and otherwise \u2018doesn\u2019t have the time\u2019 to read. His ignorance of the American art world\u2019s growing multiculturalism makes sense. The 1987 book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-282691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}