VOL. 120 - NO. 30 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, JULY 22, 2016 $.35 A COPY Where the Election Stands by Lee H. Hamilton The next few weeks in politics the Republican primaries College, Clinton faces her own are a little like the All-Star by tackling the anger and diffi cult equation: It is extremely break in baseball. With the discontent that course through hard for a political party to win Republican and Democratic this year’s electorate. His talk a third consecutive term in national conventions upon us, about a broken system and the White House. It happened it’s a good time to step back his emphatic, brash style 28 years ago, when George and assess this year’s election. appeal to a lot of people. His H.W. Bush succeeded Ronald Which carries bad news for both ability to dominate news Reagan. The last candidate parties. coverage without spending before that was Franklin The Republicans face a steep much on advertising has been Roosevelt, in 1940. electoral challenge. If Hillary extraordinary. And even though The British vote on Brexit is Clinton carries Florida (where he’s passed through a diffi- a reminder that resentments polling shows a very close race) cult period for his campaign, and anger can fly under the plus the District of Columbia the polls have grown quite radar. And Washington, where and the 19 states that have close. there’s money everywhere you voted Democratic in each of the On the other hand, the turn, is a ripe target for “take- last six presidential elections, Republican Party is splintered our-country-back” populism. she wins. Hillary Clinton and off its game. Its leaders Donald Trump The anti-establishment, anti- Yet victory for Donald Trump are having a difficult time Washington mood captured is hardly out of the question. among non-white voters. He’ll with a Trump candidacy. A not usher in a new generation of by both Sanders and Trump He’ll have to retain the support also need to hope that any sizable number of GOP stars national Democratic leadership. should make both parties he already has from white third-party candidates take are finding excuses not to And while Clinton’s path to uneasy. voters — especially working- more votes away from Clinton attend the convention, which the presidency may be wider But then, so should the class whites in swing states — than from him. is remarkable. Conventions are than Trump’s, that doesn’t course of this election, which and try to make some inroads Trump floated through where parties fi re up the faith- mean she’s a strong candidate has put a premium on sound ful and gird for the general — at least, not for this and fury at the cost of true election; to fi nd elected offi cials particular year. She’s put out engagement with the issues staying away is clearly a carefully thought-through, even confronting the country. On problem. And any revolt at impressive, position papers on that score, we all lose. News Briefs the convention will be messy a wide variety of current issues by Sal Giarratani — though fortunately for the that get very little attention in Lee Hamilton is a Senior GOP, the months from August the press. At a moment when Advisor for the Indiana to November are an eternity in voters clearly want change, she University Center on Language of Liberalism Meaningless politics. appears to favor incrementalism Representative Government; Let’s see. Our country is cracking at the seams in Yet the Democrats should as the way to get things done in a Distinguished Scholar, a racial divide that continues to grow. We are facing take no comfort from this state Washington. IU School of Global and the bad old days of the 1950s once again, and when of affairs. For starters, below And despite the FBI’s decision International Studies; and a it comes to street protests, it is looking like 1968, too. the presidential level, the party that it wouldn’t bring criminal Professor of Practice, IU School Liberals in power, government, media, and business is struggling. Since 2008, charges on her handling of of Public and Environmental haven’t got a clue how to solve anything, so all they do Democrats have lost 69 seats in emails when she was Secretary Affairs. He was a member of the is spout meaningless gabble and pretend things are the U.S. House, 13 Senate seats, of State, the issue is clearly U.S. House of Representatives getting better because of them. 12 governorships, and over 900 dogging her. She went into for 34 years. When it comes to radical jihadists using the entire seats in state legislatures. this election facing a lot of For information about our world as its soft target, liberals are talking about more Nor do they have much of a voters who simply didn’t trust educational resources and diplomacy while tractor trailer trucks are being used bench. The two most prominent her, and that has only gotten programs, visit our website like a bowling ball, and innocent folk their ten-pins. Democrats this year, Clinton worse. In politics, you cannot at www.centeroncongress. We have a president who has been in over his head and Sen. Bernie Sanders, are talk someone into trusting you org. “Like” us on Facebook at since DAY ONE. He was ill-prepared for everything that both senior citizens: Clinton — you have to earn it, inch by “Indiana University Center on would come down his pike. He takes as much credit as is 68, Sanders, 74. Despite inch. Representative Government,” possible by putting the blame on everyone else. President Obama’s relative Moreover, if Trump faces and share our postings with If Hillary gets elected, it will be more of the same youth, his years in offi ce did tough arithmetic in the Electoral your friends. except worse. She has been in politics since her Gold- water days as a teen. She has been in Washington since Watergate. She has been in White House politics since Bubba beat Bush #1 in 1992. She has been Secretary of the State for President Obama, but we don’t want to go there, right? If she gets elected, it will be a Third Obama Term and our democratic republic will be in jeopardy. Trump is far from the best candidate running, but the alternative seems so much worse. Think about it. Think about it an awful lot. Speaking of Meaningless Stuff Elizabeth Warren is certainly on the warpath with the Trump-Pence ticket. The world is burning up with radical jihadists and America is burning in a growing racial divide and all our senior U.S. senator can do is tweet how awful the Republicans are. I think Mike (Continued on Page 14) THE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE HAS MOVED TO 343 CHELSEA ST., DAY SQUARE, EAST BOSTON This offi ce is open on Tuesdays from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM and Thursdays from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM, for the convenience of our East Boston and North Shore clients and contributors Call 617-227-8929 for more information PAGE 2 POST-GAZETTE, JULY 22, 2016 Res Publica by David Trumbull Making America Make Again Donald Trump is right that if tion of wearing apparel. Accord- THE ROMAN BASILICA we are to restore the American ing to the American Apparel and economy and create jobs, we Footwear Association, 97% of History claims that in the will need to stop making dumb the apparel and footwear con- Year 312, the Emperor Con- trade deals and we need to sumed in the U.S. is imported. stantine was engaged in battle manufacture more of the things If one looks at apparel alone, at the Milvian Bridge in Rome, we consume. Make America about 95% is imported. But that when he had a vision of the great by making America make number is overall and varies cross which appeared in the things. from product to product. In the bright midday sky. Along with However — and this is one case of men’s business attire, this vision there appeared a of the things that concerns me the very category of apparel that legend written in Greek, “By about Mr. Trump — as in many Trump imports, there is signifi - this sign, thou shall conquer.” His subsequent victory moved cases, Trump understands the cant U.S. production. Constantine to eventually stop big picture, but is fuzzy on the As I explained in the news- th the persecutions and adopt details. On May 8 , on one of paper article, the topic of U.S. The Basilica was a com- entrance doors at the front, or Christianity as the religion of the Sunday morning politics textile and apparel manufactur- mercial exchange and a hall long side, and not on the ends. the empire. The Christians were and current events television ing is much more complex than of justice. Much of it served The Roman Basilica was then permitted to occupy some programs, ABC’s This Week, Mr. Trump presented. Take as inspiration for the design of destined to become one of the of the temples, baths, and ba- George Stephanopoulos asked for example, Brooks Brothers’ courtrooms up to the present most important of all of the silicas for the practice of their Trump why he doesn’t lead by American-made clothing, most day. The building was usually structures that they built and religion. example and have his Trump of it cannot be labeled simply, rectangular in plan, and twice a direct link between Pagan In time they settled on the Collection of men’s business “Made in U.S.A.” That’s because as long as it was wide, with a Rome and Christian Rome.