Comments on: Trump is a guy who largely agrees with leftist critiques of the mythos of American power as a force for good in the world https://www.isegoria.net/2026/02/trump-is-a-guy-who-largely-agrees-with-leftist-critiques-of-the-mythos-of-american-power-as-a-force-for-good-in-the-world/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:34:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: T. Beholder https://www.isegoria.net/2026/02/trump-is-a-guy-who-largely-agrees-with-leftist-critiques-of-the-mythos-of-american-power-as-a-force-for-good-in-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-3761840 T. Beholder Mon, 09 Feb 2026 10:04:03 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=53915#comment-3761840

Trump is a guy who largely agrees with leftist critiques of the mythos of American power as a force for good in the world

That’s not quite «A-anyone who does not accept Franklin Delano Roosevelt as their Lord and Saviour is a leftist!», but not very far.
The space between neocon choir kids and tumblrinas never was a wide uncrossable chasm both of these pretend it is.

]]> By: bruce https://www.isegoria.net/2026/02/trump-is-a-guy-who-largely-agrees-with-leftist-critiques-of-the-mythos-of-american-power-as-a-force-for-good-in-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-3761827 bruce Sat, 07 Feb 2026 16:52:11 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=53915#comment-3761827 Venezuela and Cuba are hostile regimes acting against the US. Yglesias has no loyalty to the US, so he considers US responses ‘unprovoked’.

]]> By: Bob Sykes https://www.isegoria.net/2026/02/trump-is-a-guy-who-largely-agrees-with-leftist-critiques-of-the-mythos-of-american-power-as-a-force-for-good-in-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-3761826 Bob Sykes Sat, 07 Feb 2026 13:45:51 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=53915#comment-3761826 Why does Yglesias think the war in Iraq was a success? The current government only exists because Turkish and American troops occupy key areas of the country. The “government” we keep in power would immediately disappear if we left, and it would be replaced by people hostile to us. Even it has repeatedly voted to demand we and the Turks leave. And no one in Iraq, other than the Kurdish radicals recognizes the legitimacy of the Kurdish semiautonomous region. There will be a civil war in Iraq when, or if, we leave.

Yglesias must think Serbia, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, and Gaza were successes, too.

We are “The Evi Empire,” and our brutal, terrorist reign is coming to and end.

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