[MENTION=3085]Red[/MENTION]
Sorry I've been unable to address your comments lately. I thought I should actually read Snyder's piece you referenced. And I still haven't done that.
Of course I was guessing, well, assuming, from your comments some time ago regarding your association with some SW native American individuals whom you referred to as influential in your world view particularly regarding very ancient peoples of that area, that you might have done some stuff like say a sweat lodge fellowship or other "spiritual" experiences from that local culture. I really don't know much about it, never been very interested in the native American traditions. I was from my youth a fairly modern sort of scientific, analytical sort of person who considered the ancients mere superstitious fakirs.... Lately, oh say in the past ten years, on the suspicion that my mother in law might be right about being a Cherokee, indulged in a number of CD productions on native americans and their history. The mil looks like she could be somehow a native American of some degree, but the allegation has been factually rebutted by the family genealogist. Who knows, maybe he's wrong.
More recently, I have been reviewing some Mormon "defenders of the faith" who have hatched up a whole lot of CDs on their "heartland model" including a lot of material on the mound builders or Hopewell culture. Some "conspiracy theorists" decrying John Wesley Powell allege there's ruins hidden in the Grand Canyon that nobody is being allowed to examine, and other such stuff. John Wesley Powell, apparently, was born in Palmyra, New York the son of Methodist minister who was one of first on task to destroy Joseph Smith's claims, who together with a friend from the same place and time who became influential as a official of the Smithsonian, have been burying all kinds of stuff people have found (or made) that would indicate some influence during the 600 BC- 400AD period of the Hebrews, including the ancient Cherokee writing system which some have correlated to an ancient block form of Hebrew.....
Well, anyway, I think anyone who correlates Trump with nationalism or any other sort of definable system of views, has got to be a wild-eyed conspiracy theorist, orders of magnitude beyond mere defenders of the Mormon faith.
Trump is just too smart to lock down on ideological systems. He just doesn't care about anything but making government more sensible somehow, in his view. He doesn't care about the CFR. He knows who they are and he's willing to make any deal he can to get their help on something he somehow thinks will work better. He doesn't care about the Constitution, but he'll try to placate those who talk about it just enough to get them on board with some practical plan to make stuff work better. Clearly, he thinks Obama and Hillary are alright people, just too stupid to see good solutions to practical problems. That's his only beef with anyone.
When he's done his term(s), he'll look back and point to stuff he did that made a difference, but he'll go back to building other stuff. He really doesn't care about the Presidency. He doesn't care to fight "globalism" except to make better deals for America. He's no more complicated than that.