(The Dow Jones Industrial Average, daily – still creeping higher after concerted cooing by assorted central bankers)

“Germany is a disaster right now,” says Donald J. Trump A lot of Europeans would agree with him. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-door refugee policy is leading to widespread discontent. Her political position is “becoming weaker,” says the Financial Times. Why?

Because she represents the spirit of a different age. Once the most popular leader in Europe, if not the world, Ms. Merkel is now the Lady for Whom Time Stopped. She is an anachronism from a more optimistic era, when people believed in free trade, democratic government, and ever-rising prosperity.

(Angela Merkel: out of touch, out of style… Photo credit: Markus Schreiber / AP)

Now, the zeitgeist has changed. Ms. Merkel is out of style and out of step. In Britain, France, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Hungary, and the U.S., the candidates getting the most enthusiastic support are those who urge closing borders, restricting trade, and looking to protect themselves from all that is threatening, different, or new.

Forget free trade! Forget freedom of travel! Stop immigration… especially of the Muslims and Mexicans! Build a wall! Torture your enemies! Stop trying to expand the empire!

Empire’s Destiny

Gone is the brave optimism of the 1980s (remember “Morning in America”?)… and the bumptious corruption of the 1990s (remember Monica Lewinsky?). Now, we are old, tired, fearful, cowardly, and cranky. We want a strong leader to protect us – one who promises to take us back… to make us strong again… to make us young again.

Here at the Diary, we do not believe the “Great Man” theory of history. Look closely at the great men of history… and they don’t look so great. They are just as flawed as the rest of us – bumbling along from victory to disaster, with little real insight into what they are really doing or what role in history they are playing.

But a democracy must find a leader to express its soul. Unwittingly, he moves the country in the direction it was going anyway. Then, unaware of his limits, he goes too far. Marcus Licinius Crassus (the richest man in Roman history) attacked the Parthians… and died at Carrhae. Napoleon had Europe at his feet… and invaded Russia. Japan rolled over Southeast Asia… and bombed Pearl Harbor.

The battle of Carrhae (53 BC) cost Rome seven legions plus one Marcus Licinius Crassus, member of the first triumvirate and the richest man in Rome.

We all breathe in and breathe out. Economies. Markets. Societies and human beings. Now, after at least a generation of globalism, imperial expansion, and EZ money, the world is ready to exhale.

Trump may be fulfilling the empire’s destiny… helping us retreat from promises that can’t be kept, delusions that can’t be financed, and commitments that never should have been made.

Butterfly on a Wall

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Source: Why Trump Triumphs

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