Category Archives: Politics

“Pure democracy … have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property.”

The Atlantic: The Electoral College Was Meant to Stop Men Like Trump From Being President. “The founders envisioned electors as people who could prevent an irresponsible demagogue from taking office.” By Peter Beinart, November 21, 2016.

“Donald Trump has changed the way I view American government. Before this year, I would have considered Hamilton’s demand for independent-minded electors who could prevent candidates with “talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity“ from winning the presidency to be antiquated and retrograde. Now I think the framers were prescient and I was naïve. Eighteen months ago, I could never have imagined President Donald Trump. Now I’m grateful that, two hundred and twenty-seven years ago, they did.”

Writing Chancellor Angela Merkel

Die Zeit: Ms. Merkel, you’ve got mail. “Ever since Donald Trump’s victory, many people around the world have high expectations of the German chancellor. Tyler Brûlé, Agnesa Kleina and John le Carré have written her an email.” December 2, 2016.

Die Zeit: Das sollten Sie wissen, Frau Merkel. “Seit Donald Trumps Sieg erwarten Menschen in aller Welt viel von der Bundeskanzlerin. Auch Tyler Brûlé, Agnese Kleina und John le Carré haben ihr eine E-Mail geschrieben.”

Diese E-Mails sind nur drei von vielen, die im Zeit-Magazin vom 2. Dezember 2016 veröffentlicht wurden.

“From Russia, with love.”

The Washington Post: Secret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump win White House.

“The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system, according to officials briefed on the matter.”

Chicago Tribune: Member of Putin’s party: ‘United Russia won the elections in America’.

“Russia’s government denies that it tampered in the U.S. election or even took sides. But now that the results are in, members of President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party aren’t holding back.

“It turns out that United Russia won the elections in America,” Viktor Nazarov, the governor of Omsk, Russia, declared in a radio interview.

Long before Donald Trump was on the radar of American voters, Russia had deep interests in the outcome of elections around the world. But 2016 presented a unique window.

Motivated by years of crippling economic sanctions and decades of post-Soviet setbacks, the Russians were keener than ever to pounce; the race for the White House, plagued by party infighting and scandal, was easy bait.”

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