Is Trump Morphing into Bush on Foreign Policy and Civil Liberty Issues? By Dr. Joseph Sansone

To the extent presidents are merely pawns of the Deep State, they all morph into each other. From Dr. Joseph Sansone at josephsansone.substack.com:

The Trump administration is apparently adopting a foreign policy that is much more aggressive than advertised when campaigning. Candidate Trump reminded voters that he had not started any new wars in his first term and suggested that he would cut the Pentagon Budget in half.

The reality is that Trump has just proposed the first trillion-dollar DOD budget and in March started a bombing campaign in Yemen. Trump even bragged about bombing a hundred or so people in Yemen posting the video on social media. Somewhat ghoulish….

The Trump administration is threatening bombing Iran. This could have devastating effects on the world economy and geopolitics. Fortunately, Trump did not sanction recent Israeli plans to attack Iran. In the case of Russia and Ukraine, Trump has worked to deescalate the conflict. This effort could be negated if war with Iran breaks out.

The Trump administration has continued the Biden era war on free speech and has redirected it from speech about COVID toward speech critical of Israel. The administration has branded speech critical of Israel as antisemitic speech. This is an extraordinary assault on the First Amendment.

It goes without saying that the First Amendment protects antisemitic speech as it does anti Catholic speech, or any other kind of unapproved speech. Americans have a right to hate Jews, Catholics, white people, black people, and everyone in between. They also have a right to express such hatred in nonviolent ways. The reality is that what is considered racist, sexist, bigoted speech, is much more subjective than is advertised.

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