Authoritarianism: The political science that explains Trump 

+Alexander Braatz Not trying to be picky but since you’re from Germany. It's read not reed

+randomguy5990 haha!thanks Man! I am glad you reed my comment!

***** LOL , I read your comment

+randomguy5990 #sarcasm You made my day!

+Alexander Braatz Jetzt will du ihn aber verarschen. :D / Now you're just trying to mess with him. :D

Anti trump is worse

+HermosaBeachJoe how ?

+HermosaBeachJoe you're still here for another 10 minutes? What kind of psycho you are?

+HermosaBeachJoe "Whataboutism" Just vote that fat, fascist pig into office, the rest of the world will laugh about you (rightfully)

Pokoirl YaSe going to Trump rallies and being aggressive and violent to innocent people is OK with you?

I’m curious; are you from the United States @Kaylen?

@@BornaDjavdan not really with all that fraud votes

@@angelflores2924 even if you took those votes away biden still wins 😂

I´m still thinking if our President (Mexico) is in this category, but i´m not sure...

@@angelflores2924 dude get over it, there has never been major election fraud in the United States before, why would they risk the whole nations system and pride just for election fraud. Stop a sore loser and take the L and your name seems Hispanic why tf would you support trump?

He probably just did that to get the media back on him instead of John Lewis’s Funeral.

I feel like Trump's suggestions that the election will be the most rigged in history are dangerous, since they are inviting America's enemies (China, Russia, etc.) to interfere in the election

Unkown Coder True. It’s just Trump’s narcissism. However, we should be careful the direction this country goes in towards the future... The federal system has always been pretty right leaning. Now it’s much more so (look up the Overton Window).

He did that to prove himself that he isn’t gonna tamper with the election.

Fast forward from these comments and now the USPS is getting slow, and has a Trump donor as postmaster general.

I hope trump is sponsored by Hillshire Farms, he's practically advertising Lil smokies everytime he talks, god knows he can't talk without putting his hand up

+Crazy Hellary FUNNY

Hopefully he will get in 😀

Something else must be small, I guarantee there's nothing wrong.

+Jamesjajohn Trump 2016!

MrCupCakeNinja truest thing I've ever heard

MrCupCakeNinja Yeah and stupid people that just thinks "Hey! Hes pretty fun. LETS GO VOTE FOR HIMn WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?! HAHAHAHAHA!!!" :/

he's memed his way to the top.

Hotass bih memed from the bottom now he's here😂

Russia helped

yes

The real life scarecrow: the American left

@@potatoe5652 racist

@@bennzyc thats not what racist means

@@jaden-rs9vt making fun of someone for their skin color is racist.

Even worse?

John Legler a joke to the rest of the world...

@@user-xd4sk4pk7h apparently not since right wing leaders continue to win elections around the world. That looks more like people are trying to follow our lead right now.

@@dinkelburg22 oh God no

@@notaturnip545 India and Australia have been lead by right wing leaders for the last couple years, and have been doing very good. Sound familiar?

Trump is a wealthy businessman, not really an outsider.

+Darren Katomski Who's a outsider in this race now? Don''t say bernie because he has no chance

TheColonialKickass There are none. Bernie is not necessarily an outsider either.

I honestly don't see what Trump supporters see in him...

:ToggleSwitch:​ But when he gets asked the question about how will he possibly enforce his so called "policies" he just doesn't reply. And his tax returns? Nixon released his tax returns when he was being audited so it makes people raise the question; "what is he hiding?" I honestly can not and do not see him as our president. Yes he is good with money due to him being a businessman but he has no experience in the area of politics. A majority of Americans may not trust the government and Donald Trump is quite the patriot that symbolizes this. What he doesn't symbolize is exactly what we want. Not the other way around. He needs to understand that a president is not the person calling the shots. It's the Senate. He could attempt to make his policies into one of our laws but Congress can veto it. Trump would be a part of the three branches of government, not the one ruling. 

Not the kookiest thing I’ve heard. Billionaire Populist, who is internet’s canidate.

“was an political science” outstanding grammar

Yeah vox is almost right in this video

@@randomdude9135 curious how they missed the mark

​@@seanshameless0 it's not Authoritarianism, it's the man of lawlessness.

@@Adven4U1 well no lawlessness and authoritarianism can co-exist just look at the brown shirts in weimar Germany

@@seanshameless0 Adolf Hitler was a man of lawlessness too. 'where the carcass is, there the vultures will gather." Rome is the lake of fire and brimstone- that's the "second death." America is about to go through it and be "reborn."

That show was awesome, untill it switched from politicians to criminals... I just don't get why. I understand that House of Cards was modeled after "Macbeth", but geez!

@@wojciechmuras553 didnt all politician actually a criminal?

The Marxist left has never attained any political cloud in the U.S. what are you talking about?

CanalOmega It has a lot of traction in the universities tho

+Javier Gomez At the universities... okay, but that is a completely different conversation.

+CanalOmega Not really that far from "never attained any political cloud in the U.S.". It's all over our media, our news, our entertainment, our ads, and all over social media. These regressives are infecting almost every liberal aspect of our socio-political aspects of life.

+CanalOmega No it's not. Where do you think politicians come from?

Tyranny of the imbeciles !

wisdom of crowds.. you mean mob rule?

Democracy has its own problems, that's one of them.

Except the right is driven by reason and rational thinking... hence perhaps the greatest economy America has ever seen

True in the materialize country good people are diminishing.

Emperor Palpatine LAW AND ORDER

Says the dictatorial emperor of the galaxy

Anakin Skywalker come on young skywalker, that was a long time ago in a galaxy far far away...

Why are republicans this ignorant

And you know a think or two about authoritarianism don't you chancellor? Or should I call you, Darth Sidious.

Elon Musk's forms the rebelion

@@egosbucketofcontent4312 Trump will build a fully armed and operational border wall

So that's the true agenda behind Trump's 'space marines' (or whatever they're called)!

@@AGNOSTIC_incomprehensibleXIV the space force

Then gets thrown off a balcony by Darth Barron.

Martin Speed I knew I wasn't the only one who made the connection :) thanks for the link. America is going to hell :)

That's the worst comparison. Do you think Germany was dragged through turmoil as a result of capitalism? Germany was paying for reparations without even having fixed itself first, a problem which is not at all linked to its economic philosophy. Soon after the war West Germany and later Germany as a whole has become and continues to be a beacon of capitalism. The moderate right has been on the rise in western societies economically speaking for a long time. This has nothing to do with fascism, which is in fact mostly contradictory to right wing economics as it's largely socialist in its economics. At the same time western countries have become more left socially. It's more complicated than purely left *or* right and 'capitalism bad, socialism good!'. Simplifying the issue to justify your own politics is just pointing blame around.

Hitler took Germany out of a recession which is more than what Obama accomplished. Lmfao

+spookrockcity that is actually exactly what Obama did, and guess what? He did it without killing 3 million people.

spookrockcity Obama did so much good for the US but for some reason people like you constantly undermine that. The fact that you rather praise Hitler over Obama gives me an idea of the type of person you are and why you can't see what Obama has done for the US

Use your own mind and do as I say.

Yea :p

Vote 4 Donald chump

+David McGhee Dont believe the Lies of Liberal Biased Anti-Trump Media Propaganda. Listen to Trump speeches and Interviews fully and decide for yourselves.

+Neil LeFrancis Oh wow you really got him with that! It's funny bc u mispelled his last name!! LOL (ON PURPOSE HAHAHA THE MADMAN) lol trump? more like chump XDDD lol haahahhahaha CHUMP :DDD

The rest of the world: As if we’re going to put up with that.

If there’s even one more Trump, you little right wing guys are dead meat.

Sadly you can see this type of authoritarianism becoming popular around the world as well.

We already have one in Brazil; he is called "Bolsonaro"

HAIL TRUMP!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Me

Yup

The coup succeded, the democrats rigged the election

@@nooblord1233 Haha source on that?

@@ShnoogleMan source on what? All you have to do is look at joe biden, who would vote for that guy? He should be in the hospital, not running for president, how did he even beat bernie in the primaries?

And now they're not.

+Fire Man Those last two words are unnecessary.

+verdatum Long before Obama and Hillary were against it though....

Once upon a time, Trump was a Democrat. I'm not kidding. Look it up.

You are an idiot.

No, you're an idiot.

Why didn't I listen?

Thank you

Tanks for the warning dude...

Absolutely wrong.

Rt Rt absolutely right.

They were right

Rt Rt tell me why they were wrong, because they’re right

@@RtRt-qh9hq because Rt Rt is "right" as in right wing... And you know how right they always are... They'll commit a genoside just to own the libs

Oh yes

You mean staged. Hints why they silenced him and I'm not even a trump supporter

@@jesusgeek7680 you are a Trump supporter

@@isd4154 lol far from it.

@@jesusgeek7680 just admit it because I already know

You do know that every modern Occidental Constituion implies limitations of personal freedom in order to achieve social security, right? Every modern State which bases its existence on Constitutions, laws and other rules limits the liberty of its citizens. Maybe you're looking for something different. I'd say the problem is the amplitude, the intensity with which the State limits the freedom of its citizens. Too much freedom brings chaos and insecurity. Too much captivity/restrictions prevent dynamism, growth, happiness and well being. In my opinion, States should regulate such intensity according to the present political, social, economic and international situation. Doing such a thing in a correct manner is a hard task and it's not easy for anyone. This might explain why some leaders act in an exaggerated way. Trump isn't necessarily doing good or bad, but he's the outcome of a value crisis.

@@judgeady2391 "How much liberty do the people deserve". That's what your trying to determine. The answer is More. The answer is always more, with one caveat: liberty needs order as much as it needs chaos.

Tell that to the social media companies who are censoring people's speech for "safety" reasons.

I disagree.

I don’t think you know what you’re talking about, given you’re just quoting someone else

+WojekSiren Bless Trump 2016

+WojekSiren Gold* Emperor.

+WojekSiren Trump is the one who will bring balance to the Force.

I find your lack of faith disturbing. Faith in our country, faith in our people, and faith in our soon be leader. Soon the galaxy will be great again!

Yes, all hail the Dark Lord Sauron!

@@konstantynglushko8726 не смешно

@@konstantynglushko8726 Really.? I think you tell me fibs!

umm yeah how do we do that lol

Zavy how about now?

oh no. I've seen the history of Canada and racism, and it's just as, or probably worse than Us racism. (I'm not Canadian, i just wondered why)

hahaha good one

In other situations he was authoritarian, you know

@@mzadro7 example?

Trump is a person that advocates personal freedoms, the exact opposite of what should be considered authoritarian, if there's a party that's more closer to authoritarianism it's the democrats. this is a very vox video to make, those who aren't aware of the definitions of these terms will just believe it's true. The "distrusts outsiders and social change" is a very minor and insignificant aspect of an authoritarian, just because someone "distrusts outsiders" they don't qualify as authoritarian.

@@keshavleitan7800 ummm Desantis and that survey law for college professors and students? A violation of the fourteenth amendment?

Stein: Cons. Crazy SJW lefty.

as a European I say being lefty is a good thing. especially when your main choices is right and far right policies

The one that publicly supported gun rights-- that's who I'm voting for. Also, the one that hasn't killed 33 people and wasn't involved in Whitewater.

Chris Read I'm pretty certain Trump hasn't killed 33 people or been involved in the Whitewater scandal.

manictiger well he is an idiot who managed to lose 1 billion in casinos!!! Like wtf. How can you lose an investment in casinos ??? Also, he shouldn't be facing charges for Trump "university" anytime soon. Also Hillary didn't directly kill anyone. Because with your logic you have killed many ppl with drones in the middle East for not protesting or paying attention what that other right wing idiot is doing in the white House. The ppl killed are completely innocent. And such actions empower the terrorists' groups since they can now spread that Americans simply hate Muslims and want all of them dead.

+Padraic loingsigh Hillary Clinton is not an Authoritarian. She's a liar. But not an authoritarian.

no, there is a debate. I am debating it. Authoritarian means strongman tactics to sway the fearful. Hillary does not use authoritarian tactics, she just lies based on what sticks.

+kraamerXmich everybody supported the patriot act. well...except for 62 democrats, 3 republicans and an independent in congress...and one democrat in the Senate...but as far as history is going to be concerned: everybody supported the patriot act.

+Avalon Run she's an authoritarian, she represents prisons for profit, modern day slavery.

+kraamerXmich lol to people who can't bother looking a term up on Google before typing a bunch of weak ignorant opinions of what a word means. comical.

You think trump isnt?

@@potatopotatobuy239 a Twitter war, for sure We salute you for your service, president Trump

Even Hitler and Mussolini fought in wars. Trump is a cheap knockoff.

Yeah when he sold out the America troops for his life...

@K T man, could you please fix your grammar first? I would appreciate it.

@Domagoj Čović hey, just wanted to let you know that liberals are pretty much the opposite of authoritarians. if you've been told this you may have to rethink your view of them. liberals typically want more freedoms and independence, and if you've watched the video the evidence is in which political party voted for Trump and who did not. not trying to fight with you here. genuinely trying to help.

Inkter P no they don't. Liberals want more goverment which leads to less freedom

@@Nick-ve1kg lIbErAlS wAnT mOrE GoVeRnMeNt wHiCh LeAdS tO lESs FrEeDoM

@@inkterp5322 You are mixing up Libertarians and Liberals. Libertarians want more independence and liberals want new change in the government.

WolfPlayer Both Liberals and Libertarians want more social freedoms, while Authoritarians want fewer social freedoms. The difference between a liberal and a libertarian is that liberals are economically left leaning, believing that socialism or communism leads to greater economic equality leading to more individual freedom, while libertarians are economically right leaning, believing that capitalism leads to greater economic growth overall, which will start with the wealthy and “trickle down” to the poor. The libertarian ideal is known as “trickle down economics” and is also used widely by the Conservative party, who are on the lesser side of the authoritarian right. Tl;dr: look up a political compass.

I would say most of the authoritarians in the country are leftwing control freaks. They want opposing opinions to be silenced. They want opposing persons to be removed. They are militantly defensive of their new establishment.

the video did an ok job of showing that it is many conservative politicians making a shift to appeal to authoritarians, rather than the other way around.

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You didn't watch the video and learn what "Authoritarian" actually means, did you?

+boredom2go Trump literally wants to silence journalists that say things he doesn't like. Left wing does not go that far. Most of the authoritarians support Trump.

@Edward Sallow Trump is never going be reelected if people use their brains

@Edward Sallow Yo Bubba...haven't you seen what's going on all around you? This year, Trump is going DOWN!!!

@@jle434 How do you feel about Trump now after 2 years?

@@vincentdemidio7902 You still want Trump to go down in politics?

@@anothernamlesscommenter352 Why not? He is nameless, so he should be classless!

What ab the past 4 years of riots from antifa and blm? Oh right we "ignore" those

@@Butiguessilovememore I am not pro-riot, not sure what riots you're talking about.

@@doodookaka youre def asleep. Not surprised. All liberal ideologues are.

@@miguelpanty You can't even spell right. How are we supposed to take you seriously?

@@Butiguessilovememore An attack on a *FEDERAL BUILDING* Is worse than a petty "riot". Go back to school

true

+Maverick Sounds tough, too bad it doesn't mean a thing

Exactly.

Nice I wrote something very similar. I wrote that "Social Justice Warriors and Political Correctness created an atmosphere for someone like Donald Trump to succeed."

Thank you!!!

+Adam Dolce Do you think she gets paid the same for half as good a job?

+Adam Dolce No, shes bashing trump, with facts

Ayy LMAO I don't like trump but most of her graphs didn't have y axis labeled and when she was comparing people, there was only a 6 percent difference. A 6 percent difference isn't enough to draw a conclusion

Adam Dolce thats your only criticism of the video? what about the rest? I have seen vox come with articles etc supporting the right wing before

Ayy LMAO that's not true. Give me a link

He'll shoot for a third term, or impose martial law to suspend elections, or some other tactic to remain in power beyond his term limits. At least that's what I think.

@@nicktrice4921 A lot of people thought Obama was going to do something like that. Honestly at this point, I wouldn't be surprised by anything.

GrindKing 0mega - If he’s voted out in 2020, I doubt he’ll leave peacefully. He’ll just repeat his old lines, It’s a hoax, a witch-hunt, there were millions of people voting illegally! I can’t see him giving him any kind of departing speech.

@@barbwire3507 dems been doing whitchhunts since day one. your hate will get you.

@@barbwire3507 nah. Dems are projecting again. They should move on from the 2016 elections.

I highly doubt

He's going to aggressively make deals and compromise with opposition like an authoritarian! HOW DARE HE?!! Next thing you're going to tell me is that he's going to open up peace talks and utilize the UN in conflict management rather than needless intervention, like Hitler.... if his name wasn't Hitler and he had a bunch of friends who were liberal and minorities and no hint of pan nationalism.

Pardon?

Trump is not authoritarian? Consider... 1) Stating Mexico WILL pay for the wall rather than first entering any discussions let alone negotiations. 2) By law, each deportation must be preceded by due process. Trump's mass deportation proposal would violate existing laws. 3) Barring entry to this country based on religion violates the First Amendment. 4) Advocating 'waterboarding and worse' violates many U.S. and international laws we are signatures to, including the Geneva convention. 5) Advocating the killing of families of terrorists violates international laws we are signatures to, including the Geneva convention. 6) Some of our trade agreements have a term period. Trump advocates unilaterally breaking these agreements. 7) A measure of authoritarianism is being punitive towards opponents. Trump's childish, derogatory name calling of every opponent, suggesting protestors be punched in the face and carried out on stretchers is the polar opposite of reasoned debate and respect for alternative views. His comments about McCain and the disabled reporter were inexcusable. 8) In an interview with Ivanka Trump, she respectfully described the way her father runs the business as 'there's him and then there's everybody else', along with other comments suggestive of a very dominant style. It may work and you may rightfully support it. But it IS an authoritarian style.

Gregory Parrott oh his rhetorical style is authoritarian but his actions are more in line with a compromiser. He did reach out to Lindsey Graham and sat down with Paul Ryan. An authoritarian would have kept steamrolling rather than talking.

Are you saying his actions will contradict what he has repeatedly and emphatically told his supporters? Boy, will his supporters be pissed. As for 'reaching out', he has to if he stands any chance of winning. He also stands to gain hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign money held by the Republican committee should he win their endorsement.

Velvet Dawn everyone: “it’s facetious” you: no, it’s not

Bush already did that, trump just brings out the very core of republican.

+thisnotjesus very true

The lot of you liberals

Asher H ?

+Kyle Nelson Okeefe is a British last name...

To be fair, their sample pool was extremely small when compared to the entirety of voters

+LarlemMagic You obviously haven't into stats. From what I learned it has to be 99.***% in order to say that X not only corelates with Y but they are inherently linked. While its not enough to say "Trumpets support authoritarianism" it should make you think twice. Because all that is left is to get more polls from organizations like political instead of this random company vox hired and a college student who did 2 polls. (2 polls, no wonder its not enough to be over 50%) So yeah, we aren't sure if Trump is the devil just yet but all it takes is 2 or 3 actual detectives (not Jr. boy scouts) to figure out where the tail leads to.

+Jose Mendoza I am with you there man, and it will be a strange journey to see where this party will lead us if they win. I not a fan of either candidate, but if majority dictates outcome I have no choice but to buckle up and strap in for the ride. Maybe one day true progressives not Democrats or Republicans will get a turn to steer.

Joe Lopez your right. such is a republic.

the right thing to do

Seriously that's not normal

Frank H John Miller told me.

+Jack Heathen hahaha

+Frank H Remember, the Dems use this constantly, threatening Blacks with Republicans. Of course, this isn't considered authoritarian, even though it seems to fit the same definition. BUT, when republicans do it, it's called authoritarian. I'm pleased with how succinct this post is, lol.

+David Lowery They did say there have always been authoritanians in both parties over the years and there still are, but currently, the GOP is promising what authoritarians want, so they are going to that party more and more. This does not mean there are not authoritarians among the democrats and it does not mean all republicans are authoritarians. The only thing this is saying is that the only factor that predicts support for Trump consistently is testing positively in the authoritarianims test. That is fact that was tested and the test was repeated successfully and you can repeat it again if you doubt it.

If you don't laugh, you cry 😂😭

That's David Icke lol

+Jacob Bentley LoL

.... So he's going to light everything on fire and dance on the rooftop like Nero did?

***** The Republicans are gonna love him for that

McCain's a tool and should've been put out to pasture long ago.

Rip

matt kramer S

traitors like mccain don’t count

Better than people who were defeated before they started service, especially by bone spurs.

20,230 more more Americans who need a proper education.

proper education? Hmm, interesting. You mean propaganda and not science. Yea, do you know this sentence: The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters? I guess No as many others. You got Internet, a such wonderful tool to gain knowledge from every corner of the world and what did you do? You look just for crap in this ocean of information. Damn you all, you don`t deserve to live.

***** And what good features does DT have?

Or maybe they did not like the video. We would never know.

Attention ... the commentary depicts "Social Security" as an "entitlement" incorrectly ... Social Security is an "earned benefit" no one is "entitled" to receive SS retirement income unless they contributed to the fund during their work life as required by law ...

I don't think that's the case, as it's looking pretty likely Trump will lose in 2020, and Republicans will want to avoid electing another person like him in fear of losing. But if it was, the US would break up pretty quickly, perhaps as early as Trump's second term.

@Katherine Yu : what I'll change from my original post is that since the election was so close, including minimized GOP losses in the Senate, and slight gain in the House, Trumpism is unfortunately not dead. I think liberals should at least start the discussion about secession for the not-too-distant future.

Nixon was afraid (literally) of the people. Back then we protested against wrongs. The Vietnam war, civil rights, etc. Chris Hedges tells of a time when the White House was surrounded by tour busses in order to keep protesters at bay. Nixon told Johnson he was afraid they would be killed. He passed a lot of laws (bills) as did Johnson out of fear. Mr Hedges says this is what the American people have lost. Instead of our government fearing it"s people, we now are in fear of our government. A bad place to be for any productive civil change. They now rub their misdeeds in our face as if to say "what you gonna do about it?" Nixon resigned for Watergate. Now we watch, as a should-be convicted felon, who's crimes make Watergate look like a college prank, is likely to become our next president. They are trying to divide and conquer, and until we can join together ( whites, people of color, Christians, Muslims, police, etc., etc., etc.) and once again put the fear back into them (They work for us) we will get nothing but what the Central Bank feels we deserve. By the way, Nixon took us off the gold standard also. Sorry for the rant! I truly thought things were going to change for the better 7 1/2 years ago. I'm bitter. Check out Chris Hedges. He now has a show on RT

the Chase scene yes, I agree , there are a lot of reasons to dislike Nixon, but he was not a segregationist, as this video suggests.

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the Chase scene I don't see how Nixon passed any bills out of fear, you do understand that Congress passes bills, not the president? he only signs then into law after being passed by Congress. .

I agree totally with what you said. People don't protest anymore. Too many people have just a horrible attitude toward voting in general. Some people have literally told me "ITs a corrupt system and by even voting your validating it"......I mean come on. Only one thing though I tend to be very sceptical of RT, thats Russia Today. That channel is a channel published by the Russian government for foreigners. I've watched a few of the historical documentaries on RT and they seem like revisionist history.

Sounds good to me, tbh. We must have law and order

Antonym: Trump

revpgesqredux Unpronounceable Definition: A trumpee Behaviors: Watching videos and commenting without an open mind. This man was not making a political statement, he was clearing up a discussion point that you had previously brought up and I responded to.

lily 714 I’m pretty sure there’s a lot of evidence to show Trump loves the US and it’s people

@@brandonproductions8401 Nothing shows that trump loves the American people than proposing a budget that cuts trillions of dollars in Medicaid , Medicare, and Social Security, which would leave million sod Americans uninsured, but Trump sure does love the American people, right?

nobody likes her. Just the lesser of the two evils

How mature

they're both terrible choices for different reasons. Vote for whoever you agree with at www.isidewith.com #feelthejohnson

Cirralisis I always vote libertarian. Not this year #DNCleaks

Senator .SmellyPants Vote for whoever you side with after taking the quiz and learning about the issues.

Deadass read this man

Wow. The accuracy of cult creation explained

Cinqmil Donald trump is not a philosopher. He's a sophist.

Kyle Reaves You are correct in stating Trump is not a philosopher! He is not, however you are incorrectly identifying his form of rhetoric or his rhetorical socio reasoning style as "sophic", of which I am trusting your usage to be the negative connotational implication as essentially condensed to that of he being a "blow hard", and not the Socratesian era meaning someone who is scientifically inclined toward thought, knowledge and reason. Trump consistently demonstrates a surprising trait we do not often see in any world leader, and yes, Trump now qualifies as a world leader. It would surprise many to realize or more appropriately, "come to the realization" Trump is living, not acting out, but living ethos, pathos and logos. My point is: Trumps approach appeal to iterate his political concepts to a mass audience is raw, but not so raw that he is not understandable. Even more surprising is Trump is an "egalitarian"! Yes you read this correctly. Trump is not only egalitarian, he is also classic libertarian de pensee et d'spirit. Mr. Obama on the other hand routinely demonstrates classic characteristics leaning toward mild to less lenient sophism as he continually rails on and on in his public addressing issues as self serving and attempting to build confidence in his audience in his failed attempts at disguising worn out communistic dogma for enlightened thought on mission for equality by attempting to champion the underdog. Trump is who he appears to be as he acknowledges his shortcomings and owns up to his indiscretions. Obama on the other hand is one of many, many undefinable flowers from the garden of good and evil. Naturally Obama is attracted to those who fulfill his requirement for indulgence in self-gratification, esteem building and living blind to the eye of which is reality.

u should take shrooms and reread what you wrote hahahah jesus man get a grip

Shawn Brown - Leaving aside your dubious comparison to Obama, I see two glaring problems with your philosophical analysis of Trump. First, you claim that “Trump is living, not acting out, but living, logos, pathos, and ethos”. Only one of those is true. Trump is the truest embodiment of Socratic pathos (emotion/impulse) that I have ever seen in an adult. He has very little, if any, grasp of the moderating logos (logic/forethought) and certainly none of the balance required of ethos (morality/character) that Socrates considered ideal. Secondly, you say that “Trump acknowledges his shortcomings and owns up to his indiscretions.” This contention is patently absurd, since it should be obvious to even the most casual observer that one of Trump’s most infuriating flaws is his shocking inability to accept responsibility for any of his mistakes, constantly passing blame on to others, or attempting to minimize his errors. I think the reason that some people might think that Trump “is who he appears to be”, and be attracted to this, is that they see Trump’s complete lack of shame, and confuse that with earnestness or honesty. Trump might seem to be a “straight talker” because he will never, ever back down from anything he says, no matter how verifiably wrong it may be, thus leaving an initial impression that he is forthright, simply because he can lie without the pangs of guilt that cause most people to back off on statements they know are untrue. Whereas other politicians might train themselves to suppress their conscience or justify untruths, Trump is entirely without conscience, so there is nothing to suppress.

Any 5th grader today knows more than Plato ever did...

Vito Corleone How is it so that Trump is both what the Republican party has been pushing for and that he is reviled by nearly all establishment GOP figures?

+TheGerogero A member of The New World Order said it's makes no difference who they vote for, we own both parties.

+TheGerogero He is reviled because he is a moron and a clown. The GOP wants someone with his views who is not so dangerously inept and doesn't make the party and country look like a joke. Trump is a guy who currently has a wrestler profile on WWE's website and got famous with reality tv. It would make the country look like a joke to have him in charge.

+TheGerogero Define "Regressive".

WvkingLp O_o

explain

@@TrumpCantRead Go read "Authority: The Most Misunderstood Idea In America" by Eugene Kennedy & Sara C. Charles, M.D.

I think you don't understand what they want and they don't understand you. They want the same rights as anyone else -- for everyone else. That's not anti-white, unless you're against giving them the same rights. I do agree that they've shoved their culture war down the throats of those who disagree with them, with great glee, and they've earned a lot of scorn they deserve.

David Goorevitch the person you just replied to tossed his credibility out the window with those 2 statements

Heil Trump

I think the American people saw the open border policies of the European Union at a time before our elections took place. There was one candidate that wanted to follow the EU and there was another one who didn't. Call it fear or whatever you want but the amount of Islamic terrorism in Europe due to their open borders were happening once a month. The contrast was clear. The vote for Trump was easy. The European politicians were not defending the safety of their countryman but rather be politically correct for fear of backlash and inability to get reelected. The federal government is responsible for protecting it's citizens and that is why BREXIT happened. That is why Trump got elected. That is why nationalism is rising because globalization only benefits global investors, multi national corporations and the ruling class. All while forgetting who put them all in power, the peasants.

Trump isn't the cause, he is a symptom of much larger problems in America; ignorance, a declining middle class, and racism.

+Lucas Acevedo what part of the video do you find untrue?

+Lucas Acevedo They're just reporting facts. None of it is untrue or false

+Ava B Bias is usually expressed, not with untruths, but with half truths. Your question is based on the presupposition that for the video to be biased part of it must be untrue. This indicates either that you are not familiar with how bias is usually expressed or are aware of how bias is usually expressed and are being intentionally dishonest.

+studentofsmith So if you focuses on one person, then it is biased?

Ricron I would say that I have no idea how you got that from my post but I strongly suspect you are merely attempting to straw man my position, you're just doing such a bad job of it that your comment reads more like a non sequitur.

omg yes!😂

Nailed it!

Don’t forget narcissistic word salad

or orange tan

you might not "think" that but data proves you wrong

+Chorp Squatch Assume away. Your walking away from this with the opinion that this was objective is just proof that propaganda works. But I'm the dumb one.

Yea people who are liberal in their disposition are truly the most authoritarian. This is propoganda. Leftists want to control your guns, your speech, call your religion ignorant, and tell you what food you can eat and what car you can drive. Sounds pretty authoritative to me.

+alienfetusllc Well said. :)

So true----unlike the Right who just want to control your sex life, your ability to choose when it comes to abortion, who you can marry and force you to kowtow to their religion. And I see by your comment that you think that criticizing religion is a bad thing. Yes indeed we must never question religious beliefs no matter how stupid they are. Oh one more thing--no is it telling you what food to eat or what car to buy. You are just being advised as to what is healthy and unhealthy, economical and non-economical.

I'm growing stronger

Definitely not just “frustrated in defeat” as we can see now lol

Had us in the first half, not gonna lie

Over something like independence. It's more to test if they are being more controlling. A parent that isn't overbearing and controlling would want their kid to be independent. A person who more values having control over them would want them to respect their elders (them being included in the group of elders) over being independent. It's a flawed survey, but what you drew from it was also flawed. It's similar intent, not the same intent.

@@gregbannana5366 hard to correlate

yeah... duh

You think this is good material . LMFAO. Vox is a bullshit Soros medium.

+SAbertooth Turtle Don't forget the Illuminati support!!

Chumba Wumba Precisely that gives us more authority on the topic.

Then as you didn't prevent it in yours, your perspective is also useless.

May I remind you that the last dictatorship in Argentina, and the last wave of dictatorships in South America, where aprox. 80 thousand people were tortured and killed, had financial and logistic support from the U.S.?

Timothy Dingman due to the fact the seemingly a majority of people that age are conservatives who refuse to realize America needs to change to stay on top of the world like they always say america should then sadly yes

I don't know if America needs to "stay on top of the world" unless, by that, yo u mean stay competitive.

Well, the under 30 population overwhelmingly voted against Trump, so in about 34 years the U.S. should be overwhelmingly that way.

Yes.

Yes, and in fact, the 55 and up white, non college educated voters who overwhelmingly supported Trump and all his hate are dying off every day, and at a pretty good clip. I am southern, white, working class and rural and know those people well. They eat too much Hardee's, they have high rates of smoking, alcoholism, and only exercise if their job entails physical labor. Watch 2018. The Republicans are facing a bloodbath. 2020 will be worse for them. The racist, fearful, hateful and superstitious conservative movement is finished and they know it. That's why they rammed through the tax give away despite the inevitable hit at the polls. If you're going to lose anyway...why not grab what you can, while you can? They should be rounded up and sent to Antarctica.

Trump the goat

what do you mean by strict parenting? Unsupportive and shut down your child's curiosity is a good thing huh?

+nicky g squaaad it's good to have national pride, but the world is becoming smaller and more connected, that is the future.. it is unavoidable..

+Ultros Tako but if the world is becoming smaller and more connected. then that means sooner or later an overall world wide system and culture will form. if we give up on our national pride now then it won't be our mostly tolerant western culture that takes hold. it will be cultures like china or islam that takes hold. and we don't want that now do we.

+nicky g squaaad Oh look, another lackey connecting their self-esteem to lockstep nationalism. "BUT MUH HERITAGE"

+Kang5030 go cry about it

"BUT MUH HERITAGE" But the foundation of our culture which we have worked tirelessly to build for centuries could be wiped out by a influx of another culture, leading to both the death of humans, and the death of western civilization as we know it.

"excitements" GG

+William Flores-Jones experiments* sorry autocorrect

Why?

+VerifiedNews ...how exactly are Christians and whites being discriminated against?

+Cody Fields you haven't heard all the news about white Christians being persecuted and discriminated against?? well, that might be due to it only existing in the heads of troglodytes. who knows what nonexistent societal ill they'll conjur up next. I hope it's as good as their belief that folks on food stamps are eating steak and lobster every night...

I don't remember that police were indiscriminately shooting whites...

+Al-Arab Police aren't indiscriminately shooting other races, either. Most of the shootings are justifiable, and everytime some 'gentle giant' gets his brain splattered over the road, courts find out he is the aggressor.

when is it okay to discriminate against whites? discrimination is bad no matter who you are doing it to.

He did what now?

Magswitch his lackey tampered with the post office

Jay Torres y’all say that with no proof😂😂the judge is still waiting for trump to provide any statistics or analyses

+Timothy Roper Clearly you've never lived in an actual authoritarian state. You can find those things problematic, but by god proper authoritarianism is a damn sight different.

+Timothy Roper So in your world it's OK to deny services to blacks and Mexicans without government reminding you that we live in 2016? Where do you live? 1955 Montgomery, Alabama?

+lohphat go to a muslim bakery and request a full blown rainbow lgbt love cake. see how far you get. until then stop whinging about civil rights, which are not in any danger. its called false dichotomy with a bit of fear mongering sprinkled in.

Johnny Bombardak And I'd take them to court too. Buh bye Fox News drone.

lohphat Well we don't know if he's racist or not as Islam is a religion, and not a race. And his point, whatever the motivations behind it, is relatively sound. I'm sure some fully Muslim-owned and staffed bakeries would do it, but I wouldn't guess the same proportion as Christian or Hindu or Sikh-owned and staffed ones.

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Authoritya 👌

Oh god I know right

The next guy will be worse, not better. Problem is voting for Biden very likely won't solve the problem or prevent it. The real change is: get money out of politics and properly fund the media. That's gonna be really hard to do

@Kanishk P S . Yes that last sentence was scary. Trump comes across as a joke, a big spoilt child , but because he doesn't know what he's doing or saying , he's unpredictable which makes him scary. He'd be quite happy to build a wall around the whole of America if he had the chance instead of building bridges, but then he'd also be the type that if riled enough end up pushing the red button just to prove he was right all along & sod the consequences!!! The unpredictable ones are in my opinion the scariest .

@@autohmae let's hope getting Trump out & voting for Biden that it may make some kind of change, as let's face it, Trump needs to go anyway as he's not listening to anyone else, he's too busy basking in his own glory . So he really needs to go.

So are your likes.

Well said.

Yep, and if you watch "Polygon \ Vox Founders present Blogging as Propaganda Plan at Microsoft in 2006" their presentation from 2006, still here on youtube, you can see their purpose plain. I started off default blue as well, as does everyone else in my state, but I grew out of the easy assumptions and unearned smug superiority of the left. And yes, its fun to watch as the left defends China's "state capitalism" with a straight face.

You're not alone.

@Piano God ...tell that to the 'dissidents' in HongKong...

Perhaps you should listen again because it doesn't sound like you understood the video at all. The authoritarianism they're talking about refers to characteristics of people, voters, who respond to particular leadership styles, particularly when they feel threatened.

like what authoritarianism does Vox or the left support?

@@idkwhatnametochoose6197 I am too lazy to go back to the video after 5 years but I'm fairly confident to say that I was wrong. That old post doesn't represent my attitude anymore and I'm fairly embarrassed by it.

“To anger a conservative, lie to him, to anger a liberal, tell him the truth.” -Theodore Roosevelt.

authoritarians are found by psychologist to be irrationals , have compartimented ideas, problem with the truth. They don't like the Truth, they like a "truth" that appeals to their rigid mind.

curbstomp4jesus Glad you pointed that bullshit out. Theodore Roosevelt aligned closely with the values of the modern day Democratic party.

Wow, I didn't even realize this video was old... it could have been made yesterday. Everything in it still rings true in 2020 or maybe even worse somehow.

Law and order is nothing new, it's a common trend among many American presidents. Americans like it, there's a reason they got elected

@Cissle YT I wish the protestors would just go home and campaign for Biden instead. All they're doing right now is helping him by providing a screen for bad actors to create violence and mayhem for trump. Resume the protests after he's gone if necessary, when he's not around to use you for his fear campaign.

Oh, those 5 million forged and double-entered ballots? Pay no attention to them.

@@JodyBruchon I will keep an open mind on this, I assure you. Would you be so kind as to present me with absolutely any evidence that is not circumstantial on this matter. I will listen to you with an open head, I promise.