Come and hear what i have to say. I thought i would begin with the 2012 election and im sure you are aware come after that election, many people proclaimed the death of modern american conservatism. One commentator said the titanic is sinking, referring to american conservatism. Another observe the conservative arguments we heard in this election are going to be relics in museums very shortly. Lots of people said conservatism really its message and its methods if it was ever going to win an election again. Its still being debated today. I noticed in this mornings wall street journal scott walker has a piece about what he needs to do to be relevant. His thought is they dont need to give up their principles, they need to be stronger on their principles and people are looking for that kind of leadership. In this book, we talk about this in the public in the final chapter of this book. My coauthor and i talked about the future of conservatism in the last chapter. But we begin elsewhere and
A situation where some of them have been accused of misusing their offices in terms of the. Of those offices so and so forth. To trump state a promise to drain the swamp if you will i dont think you drained it i think you moved it into the white house so it ingrain a swamp and does move didnt. I think every politician has probably abused their office. Why dont we totally drain the swamp playing up. Why are we the people more actively involved. Major contributions so far has to completely devalue the idea of regulatory oversight. Department of education or scott pruitt. These people who are essentially trying to dismantle gun. Im an oversight from within the e. P. A. Is regulators people that have jumps on hundreds of thousands and then you add to it smudges live gambits like the tax cut like this recent Bank Lobbyist impartial repeal of the dot frank act theyve been on their wish list for ages the stuff of thousands tens of thousands of lobbyist essentially are writing the legislation
Good morning and welcome to this Commonwealth Club online program. I am Gloria Duffey president and ceo of the Commonwealth Fund and was honored to serve as the Deputy Assistant secretary of defense in the 1990s. Peer are many issues today surrounding National Defense in our military and to the military be used to quell domestic unrest such as the recent protests and should the u. S. Be terminating many of our arms control treaties and contemplating resuming nuclear testing. Should the names of Confederate Military leaders be removed from u. S. Military bases and their statues be removed from our public places. To address these questions and many more today we will have a unique conversation between two recent secretary of defense, doctor robert gates and general james mattis. The bipartisan secretary of defense secretary robert gates served under president george w. Bush and barack obama. He is the author of a new book exercise of power american failures, successes and a new path forw
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Theyve got their little click theyve got their thing. They dont care about anything else. And it doesnt matter democrat republican theyre all the same theyre all im sorry to use that language but. Theyre in there for one thing theyre in there to get elected. The reason Donald Trumps in there is because hes a celebrity or he did this or he did that he is in there because he is not one of them and we are so frustrated. We had to vote him in if donald trump goes away well find another trump believe me well find another one the people dreamed this couch the people built this country at its the people who are making America Great again. The clintons and the obamas all all they talked about families and children and justice and so on maintained these rights for corporations promoted the right of their companies to do whatever they want to around the world in a strange way it was those who might oppose trump right now. Who set the stage for him to be elected it was the very policies that hold