Tag: Donald Trump

  • DONALD TRUMP’S STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS AND DANGEROUS RED LINES

    DONALD TRUMP’S STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS AND DANGEROUS RED LINES

    The late Nobel Prize winner and political economist Thomas Schelling is said to have noted 2 critical things in international politics and diplomacy- “Threats when they fail and promises when they succeed.” In his recent State of the Union address I was particularly interested in what President Donald Trump had to say about U.S foreign…

  • HURRICANE TRUMP: STOPPING THIS NATURAL DISASTER

    HURRICANE TRUMP: STOPPING THIS NATURAL DISASTER

    Populism is a doctrine that appeals to the interests and conceptions, especially hopes and fears, of the general population. Political parties and politicians often use the terms “populist” and “populism” as pejoratives against their opponents. What this means is that populism is merely empathising with the majority of the public, (usually through rhetoric or “unrealistic”…