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This is the first time I’ve heard anyone with serious pundit credentials say that President Trump’s anti-free trade actions have been a significant reason for the stock market boom. I think that most major investors are pro-free trade and have been pushing up the market in spite of Trump’s trade positions, not because of them.
This tired old idea that Trump is some kind of genius and that all he does is deliberate is ridiculous. He is bumbling through and (Thank God) has some good people who make the big decisions and give us deregulation and Gorsuch and tax cuts. Trump is in charge of embarrassing the country and that’s it.
I think it’s great that this podcast hosts people who are enthusiastic about the president because I understand the frustration at never hearing one’s own point of view. However, when talking about breaking eggs and making omelets, I think the pundit should consider just a wee while how it makes many people think of Lenin. Reminds me of the use of America First. Sounds good, I guess, but… maybe it’s just me who attaches phrases/idioms/slogan to associated history?
It may be. I hadn’t been aware of the history of ‘America first’ until last year. McCain’s ’08 slogan was ‘Country First,’ and we’re Americans so… It’s a very simple and quite commonly held principle. You can’t banish an idea because it was poorly used once.
I don’t associate the omelette idiom with Lenin. Did he famously use it at some point? It’s (as one would expect) French. The English language version dates back to the French Revolution.
I’d just assumed it was used by someone on the side of the revolutionaries – because of the whole Reign of Terror thing.
Nope.
Looked it up & it was a royalist (François de Charette) who was on trial and asked to account for the deaths that resulted from an uprising he sponsored. He was executed soon afterward.
I immediately remembered “Where’s the omelet?” when I heard Crowley say that. I suppose there is an omelet this time but I don’t think Trump is the chef. He’s certainly broken a lot of eggs though!
I teach history, so I’ll readily admit my mind goes immediately to the past. I’m not surprised the idiom is related to the French, but it was famously used in the early Soviet Union as well.