sent 11/29/2017 (major and long) Tomgram: Rajan Menon, How Trump Will Betray His Base: Twenty-First-Century American Populism, Or Putting Your Mouth Where Your Money Isn’t

(major and long) Tomgram: Rajan Menon, "How Trump Will Betray His Base": "Twenty-First-Century American Populism, Or Putting Your Mouth Where Your Money Isn’t," TomDispatch, November 28, 2017.  Rajan Menon is the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of International Relations at the Powell School, City College of New York, and Senior Research Fellow at Columbia University’s Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. He is the author, most recently, of The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention.(March 2016)*

As always, the feature article starts below the introduction by Tom Engelhardt.  The article covers many important topics of dt's broken silly promises such as global competition and public education.  It includes toward the end intelligent discussion of the current tax reform (i.e. cost of living increase) proposal.

love to you and your family,

Larry Scott
* The book by Prof. Menon is unrelated to the article.  In connection with the book by Prof. Menon, you might also want to think of Yale Cognitive Psychology Professor Paul Bloom.  He has a new book out since I wrote of him: Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion (December 2016)  I have read Amazon reviews of both books.