The War for America's Soul by Sebastian Gorka

Author:Sebastian Gorka
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Published: 2019-10-07T16:00:00+00:00

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Now to our second observer of the radical Left and the Trump Effect. Lord Black, or Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, is one of a dying breed. Born in Canada, Conrad Black epitomizes a bygone era, one populated by truly larger-than-life characters, incredibly successful men who could make fortunes in business, whilst discoursing on the finer details of the history of Western Civilization and penning biographies of American presidents.

Lord Black is a legendary figure in the media world as well, having at one time or another owned the Chicago Sun-Times, the UK’s Daily Telegraph, the Spectator, the Jerusalem Post, and Canada’s National Post. At the same time, he has suffered at the hands of an overzealous American prosecutor, just as President Trump did during the Mueller investigation. In Lord Black’s case, however, he fell victim to said prosecutor, eventually serving time in jail for an alleged crime that President Trump pardoned him for shortly after I interviewed him. Now read what a businessman, media mogul, and historian has to say about the challenges that you, I, and the president face.

GORKA: Lord Black, you are a very successful businessman in the world of finance, but also a historian, a man of letters who’s written incredibly successful books on Roosevelt and Nixon. Not only that, you are uniquely positioned as a businessman and historian to write living history, because you have actually negotiated with Donald Trump the businessman.

BLACK: Oh indeed. That was twenty years ago. And that was how I first knew him, in a business context.

GORKA: So this gives you a unique perspective, a perspective that has led you in your most recent book, Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other, to describe our president as a “popular tribune,” which doesn’t very much fit into modern Judeo-Christian Western politics. That phrase harkens back to maybe the age of the Founding Fathers or back to the original Roman Republic. What do you mean by popular tribune?

BLACK: By that I mean he represents the authentic voice of a widespread sentiment among average people—and that is, on its face, very surprising for a man who is, by a wide margin, the wealthiest man ever to be the president of the United States. But to a degree, you could say the same thing about Franklin D. Roosevelt, except that he made no pretense about being an average person anyway and was clearly quite satisfied to be a very patrician figure, with an elegant and educated accent. Donald Trump has an “outer borough” accent, though you can tell that he is an educated man, even if his detractors pretend that you cannot and that he isn’t.

But he does rather sound like a middle-class, or even working-class person much of the time. He is authentic, and as with Roosevelt, you can’t tell where he came from. As you’ve kindly said, I wrote a book about Franklin D. Roosevelt, and no one could ever figure out how he had the genius of knowing where public opinion was at all times, but he did.

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