Welcome to the podcast. My name is Douglas Wilson. This is episode 405. 4.05. So it's been a while since we've talked about Trump. Let's talk about Trump a little bit. I want to make two observations about him. And these are observations that run contrary to the established narrative that people are trying to instill in us regarding him and that people are trying to make sort of the received opinion of him.

Now, to say that these charges, that this narrative doesn't stick,

is not the same thing as saying that I think that Trump is a suave and cooth rhetorician,

or that he never tweets anything that he shouldn't or, you know, this is not that.

I'm just saying the thing, there are two things that he's being accused of that I think are just laughable on the face of it.

The first thing is that he is being accused of becoming a dictator, wanting to be a dictator, wanting to run for a third term,

although the Constitution prohibits it, wanting to erase all our liberties and so on.

He is a dictator.

Now, the problem with that, that approach, is that he is doing all kinds of things, attempting to do all kinds of things, to reduce the size and scope of government. He wants the government smaller.

A dictator, just to take a simple example, a dictator would not attempt

to eliminate the Department of Education. That's not what dictators do. A dictator would want to

eliminate all the state boards of education. That would be something a dictator would want to do.

But a dictator would not have a federal agency under his control and annihilate it.

That's not what dictators tried to aggrandize power. They tried to accumulate power. They tried to get it all in one place

so that they can do what they can to try to control it. Trump really is trying to reduce regulations.

He's trying to reduce the friction of having to engage in a particular business venture and so on.

He is trying to get the government out of a lot of

things. Now, he's not trying to get the government out of everything, but if you step back 50 paces

and look at the overall impact of what he's trying to do, he really is trying to shrink the

government. He's trying to reduce the size of it.

And that is the most undictatorial thing that you could do. That's not what dictators do.

Also, just as a side comment, if you wanted to be a dictator like Hitler, you don't do as many things on behalf of Israel.

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