Trump is Stranger than Fiction

[David Morris]

Grasping at unicorn tails, I agree.  But Trump's "charm" has a very short
shelf life.  He won by rage, but that game isn't sustainable.  God help us
as he tries to keep generating that anger, but it will grow old fast.
He can't do stadium press conferences.  He is already shutting out the
press. And when all the yahoos that hare Obamacare but are alive because of
it, despite their glaring ignorance, find themselves falling into a
pre-existing graves, they might finally wake up.

David Morris

On Thursday, November 10, 2016, 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.s
>
> 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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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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