President Trump's Inauguration Speech
Full text here:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/inaugural-...
The President spoke of nationalism, protectionism, and paternalism in short sentences of small words.
The theme of the Trump-Pence campaign and now the Trump Presidency has been about "rebuilding" and "making American great again." When did America stop building? When did it stop being great?
The desire to "get back what we lost" looks to a mythic past, not to a realizable future. Rebuilding roads is not building new kinds of infrastructures. I point out that in the 1930s, the WPA built roads, but that the Internet was technically possible as we had telephones, radios, teletypes, and wire photos. The Roosevelt Administration was truly conservative, not objectively progressive. So, too, here, is the goal to "regain what we lost" not to find and create new enterprises.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/inaugural-...
The President spoke of nationalism, protectionism, and paternalism in short sentences of small words.
The theme of the Trump-Pence campaign and now the Trump Presidency has been about "rebuilding" and "making American great again." When did America stop building? When did it stop being great?
The desire to "get back what we lost" looks to a mythic past, not to a realizable future. Rebuilding roads is not building new kinds of infrastructures. I point out that in the 1930s, the WPA built roads, but that the Internet was technically possible as we had telephones, radios, teletypes, and wire photos. The Roosevelt Administration was truly conservative, not objectively progressive. So, too, here, is the goal to "regain what we lost" not to find and create new enterprises.
