Comments by "William Innes" (@williaminnes6635) on "Who Will Win America's Next Civil War?" video.

  1. My instinct is that the decisive reason why foreigners tended to take a lower view of Trump was that the Trump tax plan targeted Americans who wanted to follow the live, work, and invest abroad lifestyle - be it as simple as drawing dividends to pay the rent on an apartment in Thailand or off the beaten path in Mexico, or summering in Austria or Peru and wintering in the Caymans - and outside of America, these are intuitively disproportionately the Americans one meets.
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  2. Stalin in my view doesn't fit neatly as a left winger but as more of an archpragmatist working from the baseline of Russian culture and Leninist revolution. Stalinism forsook worldwide revolution, invited in foreign investors to achieve the necessary levels of capital and entrepreneurship to achieve its Five Year Plans, and in the wake of Barbarossa, allowed the Red Army to take up the iconography of its Tsarist predecessor. Stalin is rejected by more ivory tower style orthodox communists - Marxist fundamentalists, in other words - as well as by socialists who view the core of their movement as the reduction of societies world wide to grease stains beneath their jack boots. From the perspective that the left is antimarket and the right is antileft - I can't recall the original person who argued it that way - and in the context of the European rather than the English-speaking political spectrum - stakeholder rather than shareholder capitalism - there is a case to describe Hitler as right wing, but if one accepts the Hitler's Circle of Evil thesis, he was a fringe figure for decades to whom the public only turned with the increase in world interest rates in the wake of the Great Depression, which made it impossible for America to continue to refinance the Weimar Republic's inheritance from the Kaiser as cheaply as it had over the 1920s. There is also an argument that the idea that Stalinism is left wing and Hitlerism right wing stems from arguments made by Stalin and Stalinists to distance themselves from criticism from Trotskyists.
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  3. On the web poll driven map that displays countries reported majority motivation by guilt, shame, or fear; Malaysia comes up as a guilt-driven society.
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  4.  @azariyelvarro6271  I would question whether America First actually was all that bad for non-elite foreigners who didn't cater to American investors.
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