Wayne Lusvardi

Russia Collusion Inquisition is French Dreyfus Affair in Reverse

The currently unfolding FBI special prosecutor investigation into the alleged collusion of Pres. Trump's 2016 presidential campaign with Russia is a replay of the Dreyfus Affair that gripped France from 1894 to 1905, only reversing the roles of opposing parties.

Trump: Stigma, Charisma or Phantasma?

Walter Russell Mead, a political historian at Bard College in New York compares Trump to a composite of presidents Andrew Jackson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan (see video "Thoughts on Trump"). What Mead sees in Trump is Jackson's fiery nationalist "anger", Roosevelt's allowing his cabinet and department heads to fight it out with him as "arbiter" and Reagan's supply-side economics.

The Frenzied Leftist Search for Trump's Essential Evil

The political Left has for quite some time been on a witch-hunt to find the essential evil of Donald Trump that would eliminate him from the presidential race in the minds of voters. Trump has repeatedly been compared to Hitler and Mussolini in an attempt to irrefutably stigmatize him. But to assess the candidates on whether they are essentially evil we need to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate uses of power.

Trump versus Class War on the American Theodicy

There has been a national discussion lately about the downward mobility of the Working Class and how the upper class has stacked the deck against them. However, we also need to understand how Trump symbolizes a threat of downward mobility to the Knowledge Class and how he is the antidote to the decimation of the American Theodicy that once maintained cohesion between the social classes.