{"id":306912,"date":"2017-05-06T07:30:37","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T06:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/facing-reality-and-moving-forward\/"},"modified":"2017-05-06T07:30:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T06:30:37","slug":"facing-reality-and-moving-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/facing-reality-and-moving-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Facing Reality and Moving Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Normally I skip the op-ed pages of the power-worshiping <em>New York Times,<\/em> but a recent piece by R.R. Reno caught my eye. Reno, a political and religious conservative, edits <em>First Time<\/em>, a neoconservative journal.<\/p>\n<p>In his article, &#8220;Republicans Are Now the &#8216;America First&#8217; Party,&#8221; Reno contends that Donald Trump understood that unfair free trade deals, immigration, and the &#8220;broad and deep impact of globalization on America&#8217;s economy and culture&#8221; deeply vexed many voters.\u00a0These were the ominous developments that stoked Trump&#8217;s populist rhetoric. An angry backlash against the New York\/Washington establishment carried the day in key electoral states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>According to Reno, Trump&#8217;s juxtaposing of globalism and Americanism, or what Reno describes as &#8220;patriotic solidarity,&#8221; won the election for Trump. That is, enough voters strongly resented the elite, neoliberal globalists (think Clinton and Obama), believing they cared not one whit about them.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the election, the Deep State, or unelected real power, favored Hillary Clinton&#8217;s tried and tested corporate reliability. Had the Constitution allowed a third term, Barack Obama&#8217;s fervent goosing of golden goose globalism would have garnered their support. On the latter: In March, 2009, President Obama brought some dozen leading financiers to the White House. A Rogues Gallery of people responsible for the meltdown in 2008,\u00a0all of them entered the meeting with genuine trepidation. After the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/05\/facing-reality-and-moving-forward\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally I skip the op-ed pages of the power-worshiping New York Times, but a recent piece by R.R. Reno caught my eye. Reno, a political and religious conservative, edits First Time, a neoconservative journal. In his article, &#8220;Republicans Are Now the &#8216;America First&#8217; Party,&#8221; Reno contends that Donald Trump understood that unfair free trade deals, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-306912","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\/306912","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\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}