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Trump – with his admiration of dictators, unabashed racism and sexism, ignorance regarding the issues, and mercurial temperament – stands at the top of this list.
Because Spain and France defaulted so much in the early modern period, and because Greece, from the moment of its political birth in 1830, was a chronic or serial defaulter, some assume that national temperament somehow imbues countries with a proclivity to default.
Of course, some cynics say that the Chinese possess neither the sophistication nor the temperament to be innovators.
True, his temperament and management style have been an issue in domestic politics, and partly explain the tumultuous leadership changes that have given Australians five different prime ministers in the last nine years.
The chosen tools may sometimes strain our liberal temperament.
Simply put, “Trump lacks the temperament to be President.”
Asked later about his impressions of the new president, Holmes famously quipped: “second-class intellect; first-class temperament.”
Or, as Holmes might say, Trump has been disqualified by his second-class temperament.
Fortunately, they seemed to have a temperament closer to Colin Powell’s than to either Than Shwe or Maung Aye , the two closed military minds who have cut off Myanmar from the world.
We think of the organization in which we work as if it was a person with rights, obligations, values, reputation, and temperament, on whose behalf managers regard themselves as acting.
With the honorable exception of George H.W. Bush, who had the requisite knowledge, intelligence, temperament, and values to serve, the last time a fully qualified Republican was inaugurated was in 1957.
No one denies that Richard Nixon had the knowledge and intelligence to be president; but most people will admit that his temperament and values left something to be desired.
Still, Reagan’s temperament and values (generally speaking) were well suited to the presidency.
As Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes reputedly quipped after meeting Franklin D. Roosevelt: “Second-class intellect, but first-class temperament.”
While image consultants and acting ability can mask a candidate’s character, an integrated life over time is the best basis to judge the authenticity of the next president’s temperament and how he will govern.
With his blustery and reckless style, Trump seems to lack the knowledge, wisdom, and temperament needed to execute the steady stewardship that today’s world requires.
Worse, resolving it will require a temperament and clarity of thought that has become increasingly rare at a time when leaders must be seen to emote, rather than to reason their way to wise choices.
So far, the two candidates seem to be focusing less on policy alternatives and more on their opponent’s character flaws: the Clinton campaign describes Trump as lacking the appropriate temperament, knowledge, and experience to be president, and the Trump campaign portrays Clinton as a corrupt political opportunist.
For me, the choice is simple – and not only because I am, by temperament and history, a Democrat.
But the CDU/CSU and the SPD need to do more than merely extend the previous government, which was too parochial in outlook and temperament.
But nothing in his temperament suggests as much.
The question was how to package elites’ interest in free-market capitalism with the provincial temperament of a parochial constituency.
What distinguishes Donald Trump from his predecessors is not just his temperament and generalized ignorance, but also his approach to policymaking.
With the departure of the Trump administration’s foremost court intellectual, liberals may be tempted to maintain the strategic tack they took during the presidential campaign, when they criticized Donald Trump mainly for his temperament, not his ideas, and by implication characterized his followers on the same basis.
Given his temperament, however, that hardly seems likely.
But it will remain so only if he does not get carried away by his own temperament.
In the case of Iran, the 1953 coup eroded the Shah’s domestic legitimacy and, along with his repressive temperament and insensitivity to demands for greater social justice, planted the seeds of the 1979 Revolution.
But debates are a poor indicator of a presidency: they test likeability, cleverness, and a vision, but they reveal little about candidates’ temperament, judgment, curiosity, wisdom, and diplomatic skill.
Many Israeli voters of Russian descent dream of an “Israeli Putin,” or a strong ruler with an authoritarian temperament – and “Bibi” probably is the most qualified.
In August 2016, 50 primarily Republican former national security officials argued that Trump’s personal temperament would make him unfit to be president.
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