Trump’s Backwards (and Backward) World View.

I date my political awakening to sometime at the end of this past March, when I suddenly thought, “Say wh-a-a-a-t? Is this Trump guy for real? Surely not!” Up until that point I had taken very little interest in politics.

Now, looking back to the 2012 election, I have to admit deep regret over not getting involved with that one and, specifically, not getting out and supporting Mitt Romney, an honorable, honest, decent man who got royally slammed for telling the truth about Russia. (I actually, just now, had to go back and look up to see who got Colorado’s nine electoral votes; Barack Obama did. And he got 332 electoral votes total to Romney’s 206, winning over 51% of the popular vote to Romney’s 47%. Pretty decisive, I’d say. But still! I could have gotten a little more involved as a citizen. I just thought, ‘Meh. Romney’s kind of boring and bland,and there’s no way Obama is going to lose as the incumbent and as such a charismatic figure.’ I did vote for Romney, you understand.)

Well, even though Romney didn’t get the Secretary of State pick (not that there was any real chance of that, ever, unless Mitt climbed the stairs of Trump Tower on his knees, which, to his real and lasting credit, he refused to do), his prognostications about Russia have been justified, big time.

Takeaway from the following article by Fareed Zakaria, who writes laudable foreign-policy articles for the Washington Post:

It’s ironic that Mitt Romney has been passed over for secretary of state just as his key foreign policy judgment is being vindicated. Romney famously said in 2012 that Russia was the United States’ “No. 1 geopolitical foe.” President Obama mocked the claim, and others — myself included — thought it was an exaggeration. We were wrong; Romney was right. (emphasis mine)

Read the entire article here:

“Vladimir Putin wants a new world order. Why would Donald Trump help him?”