How “4th Generation Warfare” helps to explain the rise of Donald Trump salon.com/2016/07/05/how… what it reveals about Donald Trump’s connections to the most extreme elements of the American right-wing.
We also know from George Lakoff that the family model of the right-wing is the strict father model which is based on authority, obedience, discipline, and punishment. This is consistent with the extreme rightward turn of the Republican Party.
right-wing populism is based upon prejudice, bigotry, racism, demonization, scapegoating, and conspiracy theories aimed at the governing elite. Trump has used all of these devices and psychological weapons to vanquish his political rivals and to arouse rage in his supporters
Those who follow me here on twitter, are familiar with Heubeck and the Four Immoral Principles of Dominionism👇 
Heubeck, in "Paul Weyrich's Training Manual" goes onto write👇 This is, essentially, a good definition of 4th Generation Warfare.
In his article "The Next Conservatism" traditionalright.com/the-next-conse…, Lind wrote "Trump’s views on avoidable foreign wars, free trade, political correctness and a number of other subjects have much in common with The Next Conservatism". 👇Lind with Trump, book in hand.
Looking at the timeline, this is the point in time where #ShadowNetwork author @anelsona notes how Ralph Reed and Tony Perkins joined forces to make candidate Donald Trump acceptable to evangelical voters.
At a meeting of the Faith & Freedom Coalition, Ralph Reed introduced Trump to the crowd. As noted in #ShadowNetwork (p.198) Trump noted how he had just put his list of goals together "just the other night for this meeting." After his meeting with William S. Lind? His goals👇
The list of judges came from a meeting Trump had a month earlier with CNP member Leonard Leo from the Federalist Society. Trump later said "I'm getting names. The Federalist people. Some very good people. The Heritage Foundation". #ShadowNetwork h/t @anelsona
@anelsona When it was time to draw up the Republican platform, Council for National Policy (#CNP) members were in prominent positions to influence the platform. As noted in #ShadowNetwork "One striking element of the...platform debate was the lack of intervention by the Trump campaign."
#CNP "fundamentalists reconciled Trump's character with their goals by defining him not as a man of god but as an instrument...his wrecking ball...They knew that the majority of Americans rejected their social platform--BUT IT WAS NEVER ABOUT MAJORITY RULE..."👇#ShadowNetwork
