{"id":56192,"date":"2017-08-02T02:28:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T02:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=56192"},"modified":"2017-08-02T03:30:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T03:30:40","slug":"trump-blowback-not-boustrophedon-but-enantiodroma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=56192","title":{"rendered":"Trump blowback — not boustrophedon but enantiodroma?"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — with a stinger from Bucky Fuller in the tail ]
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Here’s boustrophedon <\/strong>—<\/p>\n

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— since it’s harder to find a decent illustrations for enantiodromia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

Boustrophedon is the motion of an ox ploughing a field, up to the top and then back down: it’s a motif of reversal, but the farmer’s volition is the same both going up and coming back down. Enantiodromia, o the other hand, is just straight reversal as I understand it, a sudden switch of direction not caused by continuing intent, but by balance restoring itself after excess.<\/p>\n

Hence, Trump blowback<\/strong> as described in WaPo’s Behold the Trump boomerang effect<\/a> would fall in the latter category of form.<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

Fred Hiatt<\/strong> opens his piece under that title:<\/p>\n

Did your head spin when Utah\u2019s Orrin Hatch, a true conservative and the Senate\u2019s longest-serving Republican, emerged last week as the most eloquent spokesman for transgender rights? Credit the Trump boomerang effect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He carries on:<\/p>\n

Much has been said about White House dysfunction and how little President Trump has accomplished in his first six months. But that\u2019s not the whole story: In Washington and around the world, in some surprising ways, things are happening \u2014 but they are precisely the opposite of what Trump wanted and predicted when he was sworn in.<\/p>\n

The boomerang struck first in Europe. Following his election last November, and the British vote last June to leave the European Union, anti-immigrant nationalists were poised to sweep to power across the continent. \u201cIn the wake of the electoral victories of the Brexit campaign and Donald Trump, right-wing populism in the rich world has appeared unstoppable,\u201d the Economist wrote. Russian President Vladimir Putin would gain allies, the European Union would fracture.<\/p>\n

But European voters, sobered by the spectacle on view in Washington, moved the other way. In March, the Netherlands rejected an anti-immigrant party in favor of a mainstream, conservative coalition. In May, French voters spurned the Putin-loving, immigrant-bashing Marine Le Pen in favor of centrist Emmanuel Macron, who went on to win an overwhelming majority in Parliament and began trying to strengthen, not weaken, the E.U.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whom Trump belittled for having allowed so many refugees into her country, has grown steadily more popular in advance of a September election.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s more, of course, but you get the picture.<\/p>\n

Unintended consequences. <\/p>\n

There’s a huge industry that advises us to shoot for the goal — but yachtsmen know that sometimes to get places, you need to tack with the wind. And Buckminster Fuller<\/strong> said [Critical Path<\/a>, chapter titled “Self-Disciplines of Buckminster Fuller”] the most interesting effects occur in a manner that’s orthogonal to force applied:<\/p>\n

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**<\/p>\n

What a fascinating world we live in!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron — with a stinger from Bucky Fuller in the tail ] . Here’s boustrophedon — — since it’s harder to find a decent illustrations for enantiodromia. ** Boustrophedon is the motion of an ox ploughing a field, up to the top and then back down: it’s a motif of reversal, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,526,1314,1500,334,859,52,873,750,626,91,1,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-charles-cameron","category-donald-trump","category-enantiodromia","category-europe","category-form","category-france","category-germany","category-pattern-language","category-patterns","category-russia","category-uncategorized","category-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56192"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56208,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56192\/revisions\/56208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}