Q drop re: Enlightenment/Revolution
DJT + Rousseau?
Pointing out conspirators?
Gen. Allen? Gen. Mattis?
>>9469167 (pb) → refers to Enlightenment and French Revolution
Donald Trump: “I love the pooly educated”
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/02/24/donald-trump-nevada-poorly-educated/80860078/
DJT: “I love the pooly educated”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's “denunciations of intellectuals”
His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau
“HOW ROUSSEAU PREDICTED TRUMP” – The New Yorker Published: August 1, 2016
the Enlightenment forged by Voltaire, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, and others—seems to have reached a turbulent anticlimax in a worldwide revolt against cosmopolitan modernity.
Rousseau launched a counterrevolution. The word “finance,” he said, is “a slave’s word,” and the secret workings of financial systems are a “means of making pilferers and traitors, and of putting freedom and the public good upon the auction block.”
Rousseau thrived on his loathing of metropolitan vanity, his distrust of technocrats and of international trade, and his advocacy of traditional mores.
In Rousseau’s view, the newly emergent intellectual and technocratic class did little more than provide literary and moral cover for the powerful and the unjust.
Rousseau: turned down opportunities to enhance his wealth, refusing royal patronage
Rousseau’s ideal society was Sparta. Small, austere, self-sufficient, fiercely patriotic, and defiantly un-cosmopolitan
http://www.southwillard.com/news/ow-rousseau-predicted-trump/
Enlightenment: CONSPIRATOR term/code?
John Allen, a former four-star Marine general and current president of the Brookings Institution, a D.C. think tank, wrote an op-ed for [Foreign Policy] Thursday morning excoriating Trump
"So mark your calendars — this could be the beginning of the change of American democracy not to illiberalism, but to enlightenment," he said. "But it will have to come from the bottom up. For at the White House, there is no one home." – June, 2020
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-military-tensions-george-floyd
Qanon: a movement united in mass rejection of reason, objectivity, and other Enlightenment values. – May 21, 2020
https://www.wgbh.org/news/commentary/2020/05/21/conspiracy-nation-trump-biden-election-2020
Opinion | The Masked Versus the Unmasked - The New York Times
“History, science, truth, the Enlightenment are under siege” - May 5, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/opinion/coronavirus-democracy.html
“Dr.” is Enlightened, Vulnerable, and Frail: “dependent on a fragile Earth in the cold, dark emptiness of the cosmos” – Dec [23], 2019
But Patriots are in the Cult of Trump?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-pacific-heart/201912/the-cult-trump
Mattis: “I don't think that the values that grew out of the Enlightenment are something that simply exist in isolation and don't need to be defended” – Jan. 19, 2018
https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/1420042/remarks-by-secretary-mattis-on-the-national-defense-strategy/
Sadly, America is no longer “enlightened.” King Trump is a mix of Mad King George III and France’s imperious and vainglorious Louis XIV (”I am the state”), but without George’s or Louis’s interest in science and wider forms of knowledge. – March 7, 2017, Retired Lieutenant Colonel (USAF)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-madness-of-king-trump_b_58bf3882e4b070e55af9e8ed
Gen. Allen's op-ed (above, June 2020) written for Foreign Policy. Article below also from Foreign Policy:
"Donald Trump’s Assault on the Enlightenment" – Jan. 26, 2017
https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/01/26/donald-trumps-assault-on-the-enlightenment-nea-neh-funding-cuts/