Trump is Stranger than Fiction

[matthew cissell]

A somewhat anodyne prediction from my view.

Robert Paxton, a renown scholar on fascism, has stated in an interview
that: “Making the country great again” sounds exactly like the fascist
movements. Concern about national decline, that was one of the most
prominent emotional states evoked in fascist discourse, and Trump is using
that full-blast, quite illegitimately, because the country isn’t in serious
decline, but he’s able to persuade them that it is. That is a fascist
stroke." (
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/interrogation/2016/02/is_donald_trump_a_fascist_an_expert_on_fascism_weighs_in.html
)

     He will curry his cult of personality, but when he fails to undo the
deindustrializatioin of the Rust Belt created by Reagan's policies in the
1980's (in fact his economic policies are likely to serve a small few and
harm the broader economy) and the jobs do not materialize for the angry
white masses -what will he do? We know - he will look for the enemy in
those global banking elites (jews) and those that are not "true" americans.
That's potentially anyone that is not Trump. He will be looking to keep his
"movement" riled up until the next elections so that they can carry him
over to the next four.

  We are in a time of frail kings and leaders (May in the UK, Rajoy in
Spain and Trump on his way in the US) and weak kings bouy themselves up in
ways that Barak Obama never had to.

Winter will be long. Be strong my friends. Get out your Woody Guthrie
albums.

mc otis

On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 9:21 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Prediction: in less than 2 years Trump will fuck things up so badly that
> people will be outraged, and Congress will be turned over to Dems. Then
> Trump will become a hugely unpopular lame duck, and will have all his
> vetoes overturned for his last two years as Democrats undo all his damage.
>
> I wish...
>
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