By #DavidFrum of #TheAtlantic - Feb 25, 2026
Donald Trump’s #StateOfTheUnion speech appeared to be at odds with the lived experiences of everyday Americans, David Frum argues: “Every American man and woman is the leading expert in the world on how that American man and woman is doing. And they know they’re not doing well.”
The Trumpocracy rule: The main benefit of controlling a modern bureaucratic state is not the power to persecute the innocent. It is the power to protect the guilty.
-- David Frum (@davidfrum)
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Listening to Fiona Hill is like taking a master's degree in the power relations between Putin and Trump. Their personalities, their intentions, their strategies (or lack thereof) and their geopolitical visions (or lack thereof).
This excellent interview by David Frum is very enlightening.
Indigenous rights
A response to David Frum
"Indigenous rights are not obstacles. They are the reason Canada exists in the first place. They are the suppressed foundation beneath every city, railway, pipeline, subdivision, and corporate balance sheet in this country. To frame their recognition as a threat is not merely wrong — it is racist, colonial, and dangerous."
#Indigenousrights
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#davidfrum
#IndigenousTreaties
The Trumpocracy rule: The main benefit of controlling a modern bureaucratic state is not the power to persecute the innocent. It is the power to protect the guilty.
-- David Frum (@davidfrum)
The Trumpocracy rule: The main benefit of controlling a modern bureaucratic state is not the power to persecute the innocent. It is the power to protect the guilty.
-- David Frum (@davidfrum)
The benefit of controlling a modern state is less the power to persecute the innocent, more the power to protect the guilty.
-- David Frum (The Atlantic (Mar 2017))
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DavidFrum #Government #Power
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Flowers #Junkyard #Minnesota
For what it's worth, #DavidFrum strongly supports the Ontario advertisement. He thinks it's been "super successful".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHWwnol6vAE&t=351s
(In the first part of the video, he discusses the trade negotiations more generally.)
I enjoyed listening to #DavidFrum discuss the #AmericanRevolution with #KenBurns. Mr. Frum is of course well aware of the losers of the Revolution -- he has a house on Loyalist Parkway.
The Trumpocracy rule: The main benefit of controlling a modern bureaucratic state is not the power to persecute the innocent. It is the power to protect the guilty.
-- David Frum (@davidfrum)
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