Comments on: The Meaning of Antebellum Politics in America vis-a-vis the Current Collapse of The Republic. https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/02/15/the-meaning-of-antebellum-politics-in-america-vis-a-vis-the-current-collapse-of-the-republic/ Fri, 17 Feb 2017 12:31:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Redstart https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/02/15/the-meaning-of-antebellum-politics-in-america-vis-a-vis-the-current-collapse-of-the-republic/#comment-457763 Fri, 17 Feb 2017 12:31:30 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23707#comment-457763 Greg – You might also want to read “Henry Clay, the Essential American”, by David & Jeanne Heidler. As a member of both houses of Congress, including being Speaker of the House, and Sec of State under John Quincy Adams, Clay was right in the thick of it in terms of being a politician in a time when our country was expanding and becoming increasingly divided over “the slave dilemma”. His terms in gov’t lead right up to the decade before the Civil War – which of course was fought to stop the practice of humans owning other humans as property.

]]> By: Brainstorms https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/02/15/the-meaning-of-antebellum-politics-in-america-vis-a-vis-the-current-collapse-of-the-republic/#comment-457762 Wed, 15 Feb 2017 23:59:39 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23707#comment-457762 Yes. Sociopathy. And psychopathy.

]]> By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/02/15/the-meaning-of-antebellum-politics-in-america-vis-a-vis-the-current-collapse-of-the-republic/#comment-457761 Wed, 15 Feb 2017 22:37:08 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23707#comment-457761

… character that had been forged by experiences that raised him above his more privileged and accomplished rivals. He won because he possessed an extraordinary ability to put himself in the place of other men, to experience what they were feeling, to understand their motives and desires.

I can’t think of a politician in Trump’s circles, or on the leadership of the right in general, that have this characteristic. Any ideas?

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