Who and what created Trump?

[hay rick]

Retired journalist Bohdan Hodiak is creating a four part series of videos on this topic. The first in his series is "The Reagan Revoltion."

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[zentrum]

1. Thank you so much for the info.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. He is a sociopath, has always been a sociopath and he was born in 46. Daddy was a white supremacist.

[usaf-vet]

3. At least this installment of this four part series is worth watching. Especially for those of us..

..... who were to busy raising families in the 1980s to follow politics.

[usaf-vet]

4. Now I'm looking forward to the next three installments.

[Boho774]

11. To find all installments : go to YT and type in Bohdan Hodiak

My first You Tube videos and I screwed up on keywords. But the easy way to find all videos is go to You Tube and type in Bohdan Hodiak in the search line.

[usaf-vet]

12. I have passed them on to friends. Might I ask what your birth nationality was. Your name and a.....

..... slight accent raised the question for me. Thanks again. I have finished the first two and found the rest.

American schools IMHO made a serious mistake (maybe intended given where we are) when they stop teaching Civics classes. I graduated in the mid-1960s and still fall back to those lessons.

I have a friend who became a U.S.Citizen by studying and passing the required tests. I would put his knowledge of how the country should work up against any MAGA hat wearer.

Hands down we failed when we stop requiring Civics classes.

[panfluteman]

5. There Are Sooo Many Candidates for Who, or What, to Point the Finger of Blame at

There are a couple of things that are clear:
1) The Trump phenomenon did not arise out of nothing, it did not come out of nowhere.
2) Rather than any single person or factor getting the blame, it was probably due to a confluence or constellation of many different factors all converging in the right manner and sequence.

Definitely, Reagan was HUGEly influential, and can be pointed to as the person / presidential administration that got the ball rolling in the Trumpian direction. And it wasn't Reagan alone; he had a large number of like minded supporters and enablers, as does Trump. As I like to see it, the full insidiousness and irresponsibility of the changes that Reagan brought about could not be seen clearly way back then, primarily because America was so abundantly wealthy, and the economic reserves we had were still so strong. But the seeds of all the ugly trends that would later coalesce into Trumpism in their crudest and ugliest form were sown in the Reagan era - or at least the most seminal and important ones.

I am interested to watch the next three installments. What makes this so fascinating is that it is a broad historical study of the forces and mechanisms by which countries and civilizations rise and fall. America may be on its way out as the world's dominant superpower, and maybe that's not really such a bad thing. Perhaps the US will find a way to distinguish itself and leave its mark on the world in other ways after its reign as the world's superpower is over - and that may still be tremendously worthwhile and rewarding. I suppose that Atlas can't hold the whole world on his shoulders forever.

In spite of all the horror of the current Trumpian crisis in the immediate present, Trump could ultimately be the catalyst for changes the likes of which no American can fully foresee at present. Our country could well change dramatically in ways that no one can yet predict. This should not be construed as an approval of what Trump is doing, by any means, but maybe an acknowledgement that every dark cloud has a silver lining. Even the darkest catastrophe can clear the way for other, better things to come.

[Boho774]

6. Why and What Created Trump

Thanks for your comments. I made a mistake in posting losing key words. So only way viewers can easily see the videos is going to You Tube and typing in: Bohdan Hodiak on YT search line. I promise you the other three videos are more interesting than the Reagan one. Two is Newt Gingrich and the Politics of Attrition. 3) Ayn Rand and the Virtue of Selfishness. 4) Lewis Powell Jr., and the Gaslighting of America. Because of my error/ignorance I have to depend on word of mouth and people mentioning this on Facebook, Twitter, etc. If enough people view You Tune will put it on its home page where browsers will see it. I promise the other videos are worth wathing. Bohdan Hodiak

[angstlessk]

7. I cannot find part 4?

Lewis Powell Jr., and the Gaslighting of America.

The first 3 were great...It would be nice to see all four put into an audio book

[Boho774]

8. Part Four out by Oct 7

Thank You My problem is You Tube has not put the videos on its Home Page. Only way to find them is to go to YT to Search and type in Bohdan Hodiak. So please post on Facebook, give thumbs up, tell friends. Then YT will post it. I think Part 4 will be my best.

[angstlessk]

9. Thanks, looking forward

Sorry, I don't do You Tube or Twitter....

[usaf-vet]

13. Agreed!

[Boho774]

10. How find all 4 parts of Who and What Created Trump

These are my first You Tube videos and I screwed up in posting keywords. So the easy way to find all of them is go to You Tube, go to Search line and type in Bohdan Hodiak.

If you like them please mention on Facebook, tell friends. If enough people view then You Tube will put it on its Home Page and browsers will see it.
It is not enough to know how awful Trump is. We need to know how he was made possible. Victory!

[appalachiablue]

14. Thanks for a fine series on American decline. More on Steven Brill:

'Tailspin,' an autopsy of the American dream. A conversation with Tailspin author Steven Brill, Vox, March 12, 2019.

Over the past 50 years, lots of things have changed in the United States. Here are a few examples.

1) A child’s chance of earning more than his or her parents has plummeted from 90 to 50 percent.

2) Earnings by the top 1 percent of Americans nearly tripled, while middle-class wages have been basically frozen for four decades, adjusting for inflation.

3.) Self-inflicted deaths — from opioid use and other drug addictions — are at record highs.

4) Nearly one in five children in the US are now at risk of going hungry.

5) Among the 35 richest countries in the world, the US now has the highest infant mortality rate and the lowest life expectancy.

These facts, and many others, are cataloged in a new book by Steven Brill about America’s gradual decline over the last half-century. Brill has been writing about class warfare in the US since 2011, and the picture he paints is as depressing as it is persuasive.

The book argues the people with the most advantages in the American economy have used that privilege to catapult themselves ahead of everyone else, and then rigged the system — to cement their position at the top, and leave the less fortunate behind.

I spoke to Brill about how this came to pass, why the American dream has vanished, and what it will take to undo the damage that’s been done. A lightly edited transcript of our conversation follows.

Sean Illing
I read this book as an autopsy of the “American dream.” What happened? Who or what broke the country?

Steven Brill
There isn’t one villain or one pivotal moment, but there really were several different things that started happening at the same time, and they fed off each other...

https://www.vox.com/2018/6/28/17469080/american-dream-steven-brill-inequality-poverty-tailspin