Trump is Stranger than Fiction

[Jamie McKittrick]

Here's a song to cheer everyone up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqiblXFlZuk

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 9:00 AM, matthew cissell <mccissell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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