Wen Susan Glasser
Former editor of the US Foreign Policy magazine
Michael Anton has many titles, "one of the outstanding conservative scholars who provide theoretical support for Trump", and his work is also known as the source code of Trumpism. ".
During the 2016 US presidential election, Michael Anton wrote a number of political booklets anonymously, inciting people to vote for Trump. In his own words, both parties are responsible for the failed foreign policy and the grim domestic situation. Only by pushing Trump to the presidency can we destroy this deteriorating but still arrogant system to awaken the American cliff. He wrote, "This election is like the flight No. 93 (United Airlines Flight 93 was one of the four passenger planes that were hijacked in the September 11th incident. Due to the resistance of passengers and air service personnel, the flight eventually crashed without crashing into the terrorists. "The goal - observer net note"", this era is extremely dangerous, the American people have no choice but to unite under the banner of Trump anti-institution, to launch an assault on the aircraft cockpit, even if it is braving to make the aircraft The risk of crashing.
Now Anton writes that the article is no longer anonymous, and acknowledges that the above-mentioned impassioned words are out of their own hands. Under the appointment of Trump, he entered the National Security Council for strategic comMU niCAT ions. The former instigators are now decision makers, and Anton is vying for President Trump to fight for the right to speak at the forefront of ideological struggle.
In the past few weeks, the situation has been a bit confusing. In response to a chemical weapon attack on Syrian civilians, Trump fired axe-type cruise missiles against Syrian government forces, and Republican neoconservatives and Democratic human rights groups that Obama hoped to disillusionate were all applauded. The US-Russia relationship is getting more and more tense; the repair of the wall at the US-Mexico border is no longer frequently mentioned; and for NATO, Trump has changed its name and no longer calls it "outdated." In the increasingly brutal internal struggle of the White House, the Wall Street faction that believes in pragmatism is gradually gaining momentum.
Is President Trump still the one who holds the "US priority" in the campaign? Or was it the one who left the United States away from the mire of the Middle East, made good relations with the Russian strongman Putin, called China a currency manipulator and abolished the trade agreement? In other words, does Trump himself agree with the set of "Trumpism" that Anton and others have explained? The answer given by Anton is yes.
US POLITICO website April 17 article: "Machiavelli will also agree with Trump"
Not long ago, Anton said in an interview with the global version of the POLITICO website that his academic icon, Niccol Machiavelli (Italian political thinker and historian, one of the main founders of modern political thought). Among the thinkers, he was the first to clearly get rid of the shackles of theology and ethics, and opened up the path to independent discipline for political science and jurisprudence. He advocated the supremacy of the state and the state power as the basis of the law. His masterpiece "The Monarch" The main discussion is that the rule of the monarch, the conditions and skills of the monarch, how to seize and consolidate the political power, etc. - observers will also agree with Trump's "keep-them-guessing" (keep-them-guessing) Characteristics of foreign policy. "The only predictable aspect of Trump's foreign policy is his unpredictability of the world's display," Anton said in his conversation. "Trump makes the enemy and competitors feel overwhelmed and off-court (offBA lance) And he himself is happy."
Anton revealed that he attended a series of meetings held by Trump for air strikes against Syria. The photo shows that on the day of the bombing of Syria, he himself happened to be in the Mar-a-Lago.
Anton believes that American foreign policy commentators (he once scornfully referred to these people as "fathers" in the field of national security to supervise the two parties in the national security field - the original note) over-interpreted a series of diplomats in the early days of Trump's presidency. Action, mistakenly used as a signal to change the US policy, but this is not the case. Anton said that Trump's series of actions actually showed his flexibility in trading and the tough attitude to deal with the challenge, which was what he promised during the campaign. In the eyes of Trump, the Obama administration’s world leadership is very “weak†and urgently needs to be strengthened.
What is the bottom line? Anton said that Trump "does not intend to use the US military power to promote the regime change in Syria, which is exactly the same as what he said during the election, and he does not only refer to Syria, but also to other countries." Anton told me that the president is also eager to reconcile with Russia. Although Trump’s recent words are quite fierce for Russia’s support for Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, he believes that Trump can interact with Putin. it is good.
"People misunderstood the president's campaign speech. During the election, he never said that he would never use the US military power under any circumstances. In fact, he meant the opposite. He made it clear that it is in the national interest. Next, I am willing to use the US military power. The recent missile attack on Syria is an example that he believes is in line with national interests," Anton said. "Many people have heard that this attack on Syria is quite unexpected. Some people support it. People object. Support or not, I will not comment, but many people are surprised - I have to say, maybe it is. But I am not surprised. I don't understand why so many people feel this attack. accident".
When Anton first started writing articles in an unnamed niche magazine to support Trump, he had not seen the grumpy billionaire before, and he felt like a new asset management giant in New York. BlackRock, Inc. (also known as Black Rock Group, the largest listed investment management group in the US - Observer's Note) has a stable Republican who supports such a clearly deciding candidate. Take a lot of risk. "In the mainstream Republican community, supporting Trump is easy to be marginalized, not to mention intellectuals, even if he is a conservative intellectual," Anton said.
Publius Decius Mus is the name of an ancient Roman general who died in the war and is also the pen name of Anton. He wrote many controversial names with this name. The article, and spread quickly. Donald Trump’s chief strategist and White House populist leader Steve Bannon commented on Anton’s anonymous Flight 93 last year: “The publication of this article is a groundbreaking moment. (a seminal moment), Trumpism really has its own theoretical foundation from this moment."
Anton once described Trump’s behavior as “Thomas Paine (Anglo-American American thinker, writer, political activist, theoretician, revolutionary, radical democrat, and during the American Revolutionary War he wrote a powerful The widely circulated pamphlet "Common Sense" has greatly inspired the independence of the North American people - the savage bark of the observers. This metaphor is highly controversial. In our dialogue, he said this wording. It is to highlight a male image that attempts to subvert the system. "My point of view is always that the bipartisan ruling system has become rigid in some way into an essentially one-party system. The political parties behind the names of people are changing, but their ideology is unchanged, and the elections are also changing. The government was not. The then candidate, now US President Donald Trump, was the first person to really change the system, which is why even within the party he is in, there are so many people who oppose him because Compared with other people in the party, he is really different."
But other current commentators, conservatives and liberals, constantly mention that Anton is naming new isolationism, combating immigration and authoritarianism, and even hiding a little anti-Semitism in the process of helping Trump campaign. . Shortly after he went to the White House, he found himself being rejected by the Weekly Standard for writing Flight 93. He said that he would continue to stick to his position in the article and disdain those comments that were contrary to his article. "I don't care what I write, there are people who blame me, many conservatives who thought I was good, or at least didn't hate me." I don’t really like me now." Anton said that he also clearly foresees some reaction. He chose Desius as the pseudonym, partly because this person and Machiavelli have something in common. Machiavelli is "because of the amazing speech." And was crowned with a notoriety."
Now that Anton is in the noisy White House, it is no longer possible to cause such controversy. Bannon’s suit is notoriously often full of folds, and Anton’s dress is much more sophisticated. He told me that the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is the most dressed in the White House. A delicate and decent one, he always wears a narrow tie. Anton even wrote a book about the relationship between Machiavelli and fashion. He really supports Trump and is also a professional wine connoisseur. He is intertwined with a less common vocabulary like "tautological", and when he explains his pseudonym he will introduce the Battle of Vesuvius in a lengthy manner, and he is better known. It was written for the Claremont Review of Books, not on CNN.
In the interview, Anton modestly said that his current new job is a "speaker", but the post is a good name, and his predecessor, the Democrat Ben Rhodes, has the same job title. He used to assemble an expansive foreign policy portfolio when he was in office, and he was also able to "mind melding" with Obama at the same time. In the interview, I asked that the White House policy seems to have been extended by the predecessor. What role will he be as a strategic communication officer? He did not give a positive response to this, but the interview gave us a rare glimpse of the internal situation of the National Security Council, where the former national security adviser Michael Flynn resigned after 24 days of inauguration, in the history of this post. The shortest one.
Nikoro Machiavelli, one of the main founders of Italian political thinkers and historians and modern political thoughts (data map)
I asked Anton, is Trump's White House really like inside the TV series "Game of Thrones", the staff rushed to face the news in current affairs news reports, no one knows if they will be The next person who lost the trust of the president. "No," Anton said. "At least this kind of thing rarely happens. You can't see or hear these things. We don't talk about them." It has been reported that Bannon was removed from the position of chief of the National Security Council because of a large number of complaints. He said that he was only a political adviser to the president and could not be a national security adviser because he was excluded. For this statement, Anton said that it is also exaggerated: "He still attends the meeting and is still an important consultant."
However, he believes that the new national security adviser, HRMcMaster, does “consist the entire department with his own personal colorâ€. In the past, Flynn always held a plenary session, and used hand-written index cards to solicit feedback, so that employees felt that they were suffering from crowding, and now employees' emotions are alleviating.
Anton studied at the conservative Claremont Research University in California. Later in his early career, he wrote for the speech at George W. Bush's National Security Council, when he supported the Iraq war. This makes him regret now. So I asked him, what is the difference between the two men's White House?
Trump "is more free-spirited and exciting, probably because I can really feel the change here." Anton said: "There is a possibility that the system will be reorganized here, and history is being rewritten. Although the Bush administration has created some history, I have a hunch that now history will be rewritten in an unprecedented way." .
At the end of the interview, we talked about Machiavelli. Anton was extremely adored and even fascinated by him. He even called him "Nick" affectionately.
"I think Machiavelli will appreciate President Trump's unpredictability. I am sure he will appreciate President Trump's practice of putting his citizens first. He will appreciate the president's lowercase republican spirit (small r-republican spirit). )", Anton said.
But he also knows that it is dangerous to say this. As early as hundreds of years ago, Trump’s early morning tweet caused by anger was not yet happening, and Machiavelli was known for his intelligent words that touched emotions. He used anger as a weapon to rationalize the tyrant's rule, leaving a notoriety for 500 years. "So I said that he might be happy with some of President Trump's practices, but I don't want anyone to interpret this as: tyrannical Machiavelli - Shakespeare is so called in his work Richard III. His - is the one I think will agree with President Trump's approach."
What Anton said about Machiavelli, he hurriedly added that it was the "wise man" Machiavelli, the humanitarian and instigator who "revived Western philosophy in the 16th century." This is a very subtle point of view, so subtle that I don't even believe that President Trump himself can patiently listen to his explanation.
But it must be said that Machiavelli's well-known and concise quotes have been circulating for centuries, and this long-term historical position is what our undisputed president and his cabinet members long for.
(Young Observer He Yujie translated from the April 17th US POLITICO website, Observer Network Ma Li translation)
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