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Trumpism: The Ideology
Submitted by Jeffrey Tucker via Liberty.me,
It’s not too interesting to say that Donald Trump is a nationalist and aspiring despot who is manipulating bourgeois resentment, nativism, and ignorance to feed his power lust. It’s uninteresting because it is obviously true. It’s so true that stating it sounds more like an observation than a criticism.
I just heard Trump speak live. It was an awesome experience, like an interwar séance of once-powerful dictators who inspired multitudes, drove countries into the ground, and died grim deaths.
His speech at FreedomFest lasted a full hour, and I consider myself fortunate for having heard it. It was a magnificent exposure to an ideology that is very much present in American life, though hardly acknowledged. It lives mostly hidden in dark corners, and we don’t even have a name for it. You bump into it at neighborhood barbecues, at Thanksgiving dinner when Uncle Harry has the floor, at the hardware store when two old friends in line to checkout mutter about the state of the country.
The ideology is a 21st century version of right fascism — one of the most politically successful ideological strains of 20th century politics. Though hardly anyone talks about it today, we really should. It is still real. It exists. It is distinct. It is not going away. Trump has tapped into it, absorbing unto his own political ambitions every conceivable bourgeois resentment: race, class, sex, religion, economic. You would have to be hopelessly ignorant of modern history not to see the outlines and where they end up.
For now, Trump seems more like comedy than reality. I want to laugh about what he said, like reading a comic-book version of Franco, Mussolini, or Hitler. And truly I did laugh, as when he denounced the existence of tech support in India that serves American companies (“how can it be cheaper to call people there than here?” — as if he still thinks that long-distance charges apply).
Let’s hope this laughter doesn’t turn to tears.
As an aside, I mean no criticism of FreedomFest’s organizer Mark Skousen in allowing Trump to speak at this largely libertarian gathering. Mark invited every Republican candidate to address the 2,200-plus crowd. Only two accepted. Moreover, Mark is a very savvy businessman himself, and this conference operates on a for-profit basis. He does not have the luxury of giving the microphone to only people who pass the libertarian litmus test. His goal is to put on display the ideas that matter in our time and assess them by the standards of true liberty.
In my view, it was a brilliant decision to let him speak. Lovers of freedom need to confront the views of a man with views like this. What’s more, of all the speeches I heard at FreedomFest, I learned more from this one than any other. I heard, for the first time in my life, what a modern iteration of a consistently statist but non-leftist outlook on politics sounds and feels like in our own time. And I watched as most of the audience undulated between delight and disgust — with perhaps only 10% actually cheering his descent into vituperative anti-intellectualism. That was gratifying.
As of this writing, Trump is leading in the polls in the Republican field. He is hated by the media, which is a plus for the hoi polloi in the GOP. He says things he should not, which is also a plus for his supporters. He is brilliant at making belligerent noises rather than having worked out policy plans. He knows that real people don’t care about the details; they only want a strongman who shares their values. He makes fun of the intellectuals, of course, as all populists must do. Along with this penchant, Trump encourages a kind of nihilistic throwing out of rationality in favor of a trust in his own genius. And people respond, as we can see.
So, what does Trump actually believe? He does have a philosophy, though it takes a bit of insight and historical understanding to discern it. Of course race baiting is essential to the ideology, and there was plenty of that. When a Hispanic man asked a question, Trump interrupted him and asked if he had been sent by the Mexican government. He took it a step further, dividing blacks from Hispanics by inviting a black man to the microphone to tell how his own son was killed by an illegal immigrant.
Because Trump is the only one who speaks this way, he can count on support from the darkest elements of American life. He doesn’t need to actually advocate racial homogeneity, call for a whites-only sign to be hung at immigration control, or push for expulsion or extermination of undesirables. Because such views are verboten, he has the field alone, and he can count on the support of those who think that way by making the right noises.
Trump also tosses little bones to the Christian Right, enough to allow them to believe that he represents their interests. Yes, it’s implausible and hilarious. But the crowd who looks for this is easily won with winks and nudges, and those he did give. At the speech I heard, he railed against ISIS and its war against Christians, pointing out further than he is a Presbyterian and thus personally affected every time ISIS beheads a Christian. This entire section of his speech was structured to rally the nationalist Christian strain that was the bulwark of support for the last four Republican presidents.
But as much as racialist and religious resentment is part of his rhetorical apparatus, it is not his core. His core is about business, his own business and his acumen thereof. He is living proof that being a successful capitalist is no predictor of one’s appreciation for an actual free market (stealing not trading is more his style). It only implies a love of money and a longing for the power that comes with it. Trump has both.
What do capitalists on his level do? They beat the competition. What does he believe he should do as president? Beat the competition, which means other countries, which means wage a trade war. If you listen to him, you would suppose that the U.S. is in some sort of massive, epochal struggle for supremacy with China, India, Malaysia, and, pretty much everyone else in the world.
It takes a bit to figure out what the heck he could mean. He speaks of the United States as if it were one thing, one single firm. A business. “We” are in competition with “them,” as if the U.S. were IBM competing against Samsung, Apple, or Dell. “We” are not 300 million people pursuing unique dreams and ideas, with special tastes or interests, cooperating with people around the world to build prosperity. “We” are doing one thing, and that is being part of one business.
In effect, he believes that he is running to be the CEO of the country — not just of the government (as Ross Perot once believed) but of the entire country. In this capacity, he believes that he will make deals with other countries that cause the U.S. to come out on top, whatever that could mean. He conjures up visions of himself or one of his associates sitting across the table from some Indian or Chinese leader and making wild demands that they will buy such and such amount of product else “we” won’t buy their product.
Yes, it’s bizarre. As Nick Gillespie said, he has a tenuous grasp on reality. Trade theory from hundreds of years plays no role in his thinking at all. To him, America is a homogenous unit, no different from his own business enterprise. With his run for president, he is really making a takeover bid, not just for another company to own but for an entire country to manage from the top down, under his proven and brilliant record of business negotiation, acquisition, and management.
You see why the whole speech came across as bizarre? It was. And yet, maybe it was not. In the 18th century, there is a trade theory called mercantilism that posited something similar: ship the goods out and keep the money in. It builds up industrial cartels that live at the expense of the consumer. In the 19th century, this penchant for industrial protectionism and mercantilism became guild socialism, which mutated later into fascism and then into Nazism. You can read Mises to find out more on how this works.
What’s distinct about Trumpism, and the tradition of thought it represents, is that it is non-leftist in its cultural and political outlook and yet still totalitarian in the sense that it seeks total control of society and economy and places no limits on state power. The left has long waged war on bourgeois institutions like family, church, and property. In contrast, right fascism has made its peace with all three. It (very wisely) seeks political strategies that call on the organic matter of the social structure and inspire masses of people to rally around the nation as a personified ideal in history, under the leadership of a great and highly accomplished man.
Trump believes himself to be that man.
He sounds fresh, exciting, even thrilling, like a man with a plan and a complete disregard for the existing establishment and all its weakness and corruption. This is how strongmen take over countries. They say some true things, boldly, and conjure up visions of national greatness under their leadership. They’ve got the flags, the music, the hype, the hysteria, the resources, and they work to extract that thing in many people that seeks heroes and momentous struggles in which they can prove their greatness.
Think of Commodus (161-192 AD) in his war against the corrupt Roman senate. His ascension to power came with the promise of renewed Rome. What he brought was inflation, stagnation, and suffering. Historians have usually dated the fall of Rome from his leadership. Or, if you prefer pop culture, think of Bane, the would-be dictator of Gotham in Batman, who promises an end to democratic corruption, weakness, and loss of civic pride. He sought a revolution against the prevailing elites in order to gain total power unto himself.
These people are all the same. They are populists. Oh how they love the people, and how they hate the establishment. They defy all civic conventions. Their ideology is somewhat organic to the nation, not a wacky import like socialism. They promise greatness. They have an obsession with the problem of trade and mercantilist belligerence as the only solution. They have zero conception of the social order as a complex and extended ordering of individual plans, one that functions through freedom and individual rights.
This is a dark history and I seriously doubt that Trump himself is aware of it. Instead, he just makes it up as he goes along, speaking from his gut. This penchant has always served him well. It cannot serve a whole nation well. Indeed, the very prospect is terrifying, and not just for the immigrant groups and imports he has chosen to scapegoat for all the country’s problems. It’s a disaster in waiting for everyone.
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People who weren't captured were probably people who purposely shit their pants and were declared a psycho etc., or got some kind of deferrment to avoid the draft. Since they avoided any harm whatsoever, they avoided ever being captured.
And that fits Donald Trump's reasoning to the tee.
Donald Trump avoids any obligations. He declares bankruptcy when he fails instead of owning up to his obligations.
He would make a great fucking president. He believes in avoiding everything, never paying his bills, firing everybody else so he can live like a king, and running out when the bills are due.
So you fuckers just go ahead vote for his honorable ass!
By "right fascism", you mean "Fascism", right? There is leftist totalitarianism, but Fascism is a creature of the right.
Lenin understood this:
‘The political structure... of monopoly capitalism’, Lenin wrote in 1916, ‘is the change from democracy to political reaction.’ [1] Corresponding, though not directly, immediately or mechanically, to the transition from free capitalist competition ('Manchester capitalism’) to monopoly capitalism dominated by the big trusts and banks, is the trend away from classical liberalism and parliamentary democracy towards authoritarian, extra-parliamentary, militarist, Bonapartist or even fascist forms of rule. Lenin, who made this observation six full years before Mussolini’s ‘March on Rome’, had grasped more clearly than any other contemporary workers’ leader the political implications for the international labour movement of the imperialist era ushered in by the war of 1914. And it is the only methodological approach which enables us to discover how and why certain ideological and philosophical trends which began to emerge in the middle and late nineteenth century subsequently crystallised and fused together in the formation of fascist movements in the three main nations of continental Europe – Italy, France and Germany.
The same collectivist formula fits both fascism and socialism. In his brilliant work, The Road Ahead, John T. Flynn states:
Zygmund Dobbs writes: "To the unsophisticated socialist follower the statement by a fascist that Keynesism 'is pure Fascist premises' must come as a shock. However, history proves this to be true. Keynes’ socialist ideas have been studied and adopted in turn by Soviet Russia, Fascist Italy, Peron’s Argentina, Nehru’s India, Tito’s Yugoslavia and the State of Israel… “
As to how “the Keynesian formula fits all totalitarianism…
http://www.keynesatharvard.org/book/KeynesatHarvard-ch07.html
Exactly wrong. Fascism is a form of socialism. Everybody joins in for the greater good. That National SOCIALIST WORKERS Party was Fascist. Do you see the capitalized words? They called themselves socialists because that is what they were.
Fascism is socialism, the idea that "government knows best", if you were truly right wing then you would be like Ron Paul, who believes in person liberty before state compulsion.
The term far-right is used for groups that believe that a strong government that tells the people how to spend its money is best, whether they are nationalist or ideologues is irrelevant, they are socialists at heart and all socialists are totalitarians.
I call it TRuuump phenomenon, an illusion, non-existing in real world, a MSM media construct as fake as his toupee and botoxed face and plastic former doll-wife. Something or nothing not to talk about and strain out jaw muscle since there is no meaning in it.
Only boycott has any political weight or visible expression in this corrupt system. Let them be elected by 10% of population then we could claim that their illegitimacy to rule and demand their departure from political realm. And neither Trump nor well-mannered Greens make any difference if they run or not.
As Stalin once said. It is not important who's being elected or
who votes for who.
What matters is who is counting the votes (Bush-Gore 2000,Bush-Kerry 2004). We should be counting votes if we want to win. We could have easily and cheaply electronic ALTERNATIVE election for alternative programs and ALTERNATIVE candidates (that never run for office and are unaffiliated with any political formation) who would commit to execute those political programs that can truly represent our political aspiration as a nation. Elections, followed all web practically no cost campaign on YouTube or elsewhere, protected via secure block chain technology guaranteeing accuracy since everyone would be able to check whether his/her vote was counted up. At minimum it could be media event where Americans can voice they vision of America instead of sheeple fest.
The only choice we have for today is absolute boycott of elections as 150 millions of true American patriots are already doing and election after election vastly outnumbering electoral zombies of the American Oligarch Party in their inhumane march into poling/feeding stations to get their rotten meat and in the process to validate murder and mayhem done in our names.
For those who still think they can organize and win "their" election. Here is a gem. The fallacy of this sort of democracy is nowhere better illustrated than in case of Italy where for over 30 years after WWII Italian communist party alone or communist/socialist coalition WON EVERY SINGLE NATIONAL ELECTION and was never asked by president to form government resulting in 39 minority governments all under watchful eye of American protectors of democracy and US navy.
What we’re dealing with here is an autocratic system disguised as democratic chaos, fake uncertainty or illusion of chance and propaganda of opportunity for all. As you see we might even win, one shot in a billion, in "their" elections but we would never get to rule without blood spilled in the streets.
@Scatha - agreed, the 'elections' are fraud. Just look at Odumbo suppossedly getting 100% of multiple precincts. Like winning the fucking powerball 3 times in one day.
I look at it like an appointment. I am going to find ways to be more vocal in my boycotting of these fraudulent elections, as time goes on. It's not worth it to get worked up about. We have the people in charge, that the richest 20 people on earth, want to be in charge. That's it. Whatever the Saudis and Soroses tell us. Plus or minus a few untraceable billion dollars that will, as before, make all the problems go away, regardless of election laws, rules, etc.
But, we can thank the public schools for concentrating the public on Islam, masturbation, and other wonderful topics instead of trivial topics like mathematical literacy. The dumbmassess don't know the diff between 51%, 90%, 2/3, 99.%, or 99.999%. Reap what ya sow, Amurikuh.
Jeffrey Tucker
is
a liberal socialist collectivist propagandist.
Yeah, as soon as I saw his articles defending private property rights, condemning socialism and promoting Bastiat I knew he was a commie. Those commies and their free markets will destroy us all unless The Donald can stop them. Thanks for the tip.
He created the first commercial service of online book distribution that published entirely in the commons (The Laissez Faire Club) and he was an early innovator in online distribution of literature during his tenure as builder and editor of Mises.org.
But oddly, is also frequently on Huffpo live.
This is the second time this dishonest hit piece has been run by ZH, the first time with some nodding intro by Kreiger.
Do the Tylers not know they are running the same thing twice or that it got comprehensively panned the first time.
If you are desperate to run hit pieces on Trump, at least give us some variety in them.
Zerohedge prides itself on being anti establishment and Trump has the establishment bat shit crazy! It's fucking awesome, the media is in full panic mode. The Donald is doing something right and I'm quite certain that something is what America desperately needs.
If the media feared Trump they simply wouldn't mention him. You don't know how the game works, do you?
shill
Is that an NRA sticker for your logo? You are aware of Trump's generally pro-gun control stance, correct?
Looking forward to Trump getting elected, then using the resources and authority of the US government to show that Obama's academic record was the pits, and his birth certificate was indeed a forgery so he was unable to hold the position of US president, so every piece of legislation he signed and every executive decision was in fact null.
Can you imagine the simultaneous explosion of leftist heads.
Of course the fear that Trump might indeed do this is part of what is propelling the leftist and RINO animosity towards him.
@ Bazza -- ha ha, yeah that'd be something to behold. I like the fact that Trump has so damn much money, that the media and libtards MUST at least pretend to listen to him. As they and the Graham-type phony-cons squirm.
Actually I would dearly LOVE to see Trump go at it with McShame, Grahmnasty, Bitch McConnell, or the Hildebeast especially.
Vote Trump, the lesser of three evils. Perhaps we can get him to shave his head. Didn't hurt Jesse Ventura.
Trump is the punishment to be inflicted on the pseudo libertarian and republibtard politicians who are bankster bitches and neocon whores.
Is Trump the panacea, hardly. But the Trump phenomena is their punishment for hypocrisy.
+1
Well said, William.
Yes, WB. I remember when the Nov elections passed. The replicans won, the first thing they did prior to christmas was hand over a blank check to Wall St. to cover their future deriv losses. Hypocrisy, indeed.
Trumpism? Portraying The Donald as representative of a large swath of the country who are therefore obviously right-wing totalitarian nut cases, also knuckle-draggin' bible-totin' gun-luvin' neanderthals? Where you from, boy? Yo mama know you be writin' this kind of shit?
Just an fyi - this ain't just your garden variety country bumpkins on board with this clown... It's in the big blue states too - I live here and I'm witnessing it daily!...
Trump is the poison in the well. He'll speak every right wing extreme position to poison anyone further right than Jeb or whatever Neocon puppet that's ready to go for show time. I bet you there were quite a few late night phone calls from republican establishment types, a tap on the shoulder for help.
Qui bono? Both parties. Trump floats name recognition for at least a few more years for his little "projects" and establishment types can rest assured that no surprise candidate will captivate their base by offending the lauded future middle class voting block, Hispanics.
Trump is fighting collectivism.
We are not collectivists.
He's fighting a media monopoly too.
The article is pure unadulterated horseshit. Blah blah blah
If Trump has a role, it's probably to get Hitlery elected. 5 million new Hispanic voters put off by his pointing out of immigration failure. Who's that 5 mill gonna vote for?
Trump is a stalkin horse for Hitlery. Oh look... a whole article dedicated to him!
Sir Trumpalot on his stalkin horse. You're gonna get shafted, either way.
Jeff, glad you understand "free Trade"..tell me about it's benefits to us tax slaves in usa..millions not looking for work since nafta. standards of living falling across america, with all your free trade deals..too bad you are paid to not notice.
The Donald's got something for everybody.
He is an "aspiring despot who is manipulating bourgeois resentment, nativism, and ignorance to feed his power lust."
So, let me understand this. You are saying that there is absolutely NO difference between him and either Clinton or Bush. Is that correct?
Excellent accurate observations - very well written!
Bush couldn't have done it better.
for fucks sake
Excellent accurate observations - very well written..:).....concise too.
If you might be looking for my viewpoint... You ain
t gonna get it, too stupid.
I guess my question about Trump is why he inspires this sort of horeshit hitpiece article?
What is there about Hitlery or Jebbie, likely winners/selectees, that is more to these peoples liking than Trump?
I guess we do love our status quo, despite denials to the contrary. We get bullshit about his bankruptcies, draft dodging, etc., but our most beloved first black president William Jefferson Clinton not only dodged the draft but said he LOATHED the militarty. W was in the TANG, supposedly, and Hitlery and Jebbie certainly never served. He's gone bankrupt, or his corporations have more accurately, so the fuck what? We are seeing NATIONS go bankrupt (or coming to realize they are at least) and they are all run by these fucking status quo candidates.
Just be a little fucking consistent in criticisms is all I ask.
Rule #1. Don't vote. It only encourages them.
Rule #2. Any questions, refer to Rule #1.
If you can't follow these simple rules, just man up and admit that you've joined "Vote Club".
Oh, and if you haven't figured it out by now, your vote means shit.
USSR had Stalin to count the votes, USA has Diebold.
So, where does the Donald stand on some things, ZH'rs? Does he differ from TPTB choices we've been handed?
1st, 2nd, 4th, 10th, 13th, 16th amendments?
AIPAC?
NSA?
CIA?
the FED?
EPA?
I'm sure ya'll can add to the list.
It doesn't matter where a Presidential candidate stands, what matters is what he does, once elected.
Man! it drives some segments of the economy batshit crazy to have that cheap labor cut off from Mexico, the nation be damned!
I personally date the fall of the Roman Empire from Constantine and Justinian, not Commodus.
As for America...
Trumpward, look! The land is bright!
That's odd, because the fall of the Roman Empire occurred, not under any of those Emperors, but clearly, it was under Theodosius I, also known as Theodosius the Great, who was Roman Emperor from 379 to 395. Theodosius was the last emperor to rule over both the eastern and the western halves of the Roman Empire.
Without question, that was the fall of the Roman Empire.
On the contrary, it was Justinian's ill-fated attempt to reconquer the Western part that fatally and forever weakened the Empire both financially and militarily.
Constantine of course was responsible for the Christian conversion, to which Gibbon ascribed the fall, together with 'immoderate greatness' -- Barbarians didn't really come into it, as they well assimilated themselves.
The establishment of Constantinople itself betrayed a deplorable lack of focus, imo. The Greeks still think of themselves as 'Romanoi' to this day, poor sods.
"it was Justinian's ill-fated attempt to reconquer the Western part"
Did you read what you wrote before using that as a case for the Roman Empire NOT falling under Theodosius 1?
The shear fact that the Eastern and Western Empires were never succesfully rejoined after Theodosius speaks for itself!
Or are you making an attempt at redefining what the FALL of an Empire is?
And as for Constantine- it wasn't he that converted to Christianity- rather, he converted "christianity" to his own means.
Christianity vs "christianity"- note the difference.
@ quasi_verbatim
"I personally date the fall of the Roman Empire from Constantine and Justinian, not Commodus."
Rome was a lost cause after the end of the Republic. Its failure was a certainty, and the likes of Hadrian knew it, so he bought it as much time as possible by strengthening the borders, and settling retired Military in farms close to it (it wasn't just Hadrian's Wall). If Hadrian had been as smart as John Locke, humanity could have been on the Moon well before 1,000 AD, and that isn't to say Hadrian wasn't smart..
The events that resulted in "Et tu Brutus?" should have saved the Republic but didn't. Once power was thrown onto the table to be grabbed, it was grabbed, and couldn't be restored to the Republic, because all the factions wanted it at the expense of everybody else (Divide & Rule really is playing Russian Roulette with all chambers loaded). That power then usually ended up in the hands of the worst of the worst. The assumption of the despotic tyranny of Divine Right, the lawless State where "The Law is what 'we' say it is", with Emperors thinking they were living gods (to the extent it was the death penalty to take JC's name in vain - that was the god Julius Caesar by the way), just ended up being encapsulated in that abomination of a Code of Law, Justinian's Precepts, that every tyrant and despot has tried to reintroduce since, and which continues to plague Europe to this very day.
All lawless States inevitably fail (given the rarity of a benign Dictator, with one that failure can take a while, but fail it will, because even benign Dictators are at the mercy of the power grab and the assassination plot, which is why they tend to ultimately go mad with paranoia, and often get bumped off by their closest bodyguards for having completely lost the plot). That failure is usually catastrophic, and usually accompanied by great bloodshed, as the tyrants and all that assisted and supported them, get butchered. Such failures can, and frequently have, ended civilisations, as people turn their backs on the corruption and criminality, and just walk away from it.
The Psychopaths always think THEY are going to be the ONE that becomes King of the Hill, but only one ever does, and the rest get bumped off, for the competition they are. When you look at this list of Roman Emperors, it should send the message that we must never allow ourselves to be trapped in this destructive cycle of lawless States, ever again:
http://www.tribunesandtriumphs.org/roman-empire/list-of-roman-emperors.htm
"In questions of power then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." Thomas Jefferson
Anything Jeffrey Tucker says is horseshit. Fake libertarian shill.
I love the Donald as a fellow klown
Trump is just there to clown around and be a distraction. America is going to be in martial law before next election .You are stuck with Obama. Billary can be VICE pres....
when Obama was running he was being compared to hitler also, but Trump wouldnt even have a chance if Obama hadnt been the disaster that he is. my how are standards have fallen into the ditch. and who knows maybe its a guy like Trump who will turn out to be the real "hitler." i cant stand obama and never voted for him but Trump bulldosed an old woman's house using imminent domain to build a parking lot. do you think he gives a rats ass about the little guy?
TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP!
BADASS BADASS BADASS BADASS BADASS!
Western market reforms were imposed on Russia that bought chaos, created the oligarchs and left the majority with next to nothing.
The majority now had the Western freedom to do what they wanted but didn't have the money to do anything at all (even eat in a lot of cases).
The Russians had been shown the hollowness of Western freedoms if you have no money and the grass is no longer greener on the other side of the fence.
Putin bought an end to the chaos and restored order.
Putin now has approval ratings of over 80% something most Western leaders can only dream of.
America has created a majority who have the freedom to do what they want but the money to do very little.
The Western freedoms have become insignificant.
Trump could be their answer.
Nationalism appeals to those who have nothing (or little).
The appeal of a great nation just like it used to be.
America now is not that dissimilar to Germany after the Weimar republic.
The masses have been shat on and they want their old nation back and something to believe in.
To the majority anything is better than more Wall Street politicians.
It is hardly surprising Austrian aristocrats dreamt of ideas that worked in their own self-interest.
These ideas also work for other wealthy individuals but sadly not for the masses.
Hayek and von Mises talk of a rich mans freedom to spend his money as he chooses.
To the poor this does not apply.
Utter drivel article, fascism is a strain of socialism, the melding of state and private business. Trump is not though advocating more state spending, so whatever he is, he is not a fascist.
Way too many chicken little blogs screaming fascism at this person or that person without any idea what it really means.
funny that this article says he gives no details.... obviously this writer has not been listening... he has given more details than ANY of the other candidates on either side with regards to immigration, both legal and illegal.... budgets, spending, taxes and healthcare have come out of his mouth with details...
just incredible.
This article tells me that the writer is right in step with the MSM and is terrified of Trump.....
to be honest, I don't understand WHY they are so afraid of him!!
Both the Rep and Dem candidates are selected and controlled by Big Business who finance their election campaigns, the same big business that controls the media....along comes Trump who is financing himself....and they are terrified, the word has gone out to the media do everything to discredit him until the voters believe he is an alien who has come to take over the earth and only voting for their candidate will save the earth from an alien invasion.
It is hilarious, I don't like him, never have but I would vote for him just to upset the corporations who run America, if you ever hated corporations, oddly enough the head of a corporation in Ttrump would be your vote, and anyhow no matter how much of a nutter he turned out to be, could he really be worse that Hitlery?
America is so fucked right now and its people so utterly deluded by decades of lies, kermit the frog would be top of the republican or democratic nomination.
The question is in a presidential race how would you vote trump or kermit
You left out Miss Piggy (very aged) for the Dems.
It would be difficult to tell Kermit apart from past presidents, they all had a hand up their ass controlling them.
and who did you vote for in the last few elections?
HmmmMMM?????
Trump, useful idiot, supported by coin from the dem camp to split the republican camp. Been done before. George Wallace springs to mind. See how it worked out for him. Taken out by the republicans. Face it, the cunt is going to win and the shit will continue. Does anyone see any way out? Anyone? (tumbleweeds)
userful idiot?
Really? REALLY?????
This article is RIPE....
Who (of any of the candidates) have details? You could replace Trumps name in this article with ANY on either side and it would be relevant!
What a fucking weak hit job!!!
Trump is "scary" so vote Hitlery. Where are the hit pieces on all the other candidates republican and democrat? Is there not ten thousand tons of actual/factual dirt that could be brough up against Hitlery? Jeb?
Trump is an 'antithesis' chesspiece being moved into place to act as a release valve to growing cognizance and consequent anger by the populace of ever increasingly bad trade deals, evisceration of the middle class and unchecked illegal immigration and represents a faux populist archtype on the Right, to counter Bernie Sanders' faux populist antithesis archtype on the Left. Both Trump and Sanders will then eventually throw their support to Bush and Clinton respectively forming a 'synthesis'.
Of course I could be wrong and if Trump does not win the Republican nomination he could form the 'Plutocrat Party' and lobby the Commission on Presidential debates for inclusion. Their motto would be: "Of the wealthy, by the wealthy, and for the wealthy."
Williambanzai can design the new Party logo.
Trump speaks the truth that everyone with a brain knows--- that our ountry is being invaded, and both Rs and Ds are abetting that invasion purposely, and our birthright is being given away to anyone who swims across the border. He is also the magnet for the crazies, and those crazies are going to be the ones that the "media" focuses on, to make any idea that the invasion is occuring seem like lunacy and racism. Just wait till he starts talking about the birth certificate, or Obama's non existent past, then the "media" will really bear the fangs, and the Donald and his "crazy" supporters will be made to look like racist Hillbillies so they can all be flushed down the drain at once. That is the plan, and the Donald is in on it. He helped Obama with the Birth Certificate issue, bringing the issue to the forefront so that the fake could be scuttled to the back room, Bin Laden "killed", and the question "settled" ("It's settled science", "it's the law of the land, get over it," "see, it's on the internet"). Trump slinked away then and he will slink away again. He is the escape valve for the anger of the general populace, and he is meant to keep that anger from getting to the hanging politicians from lamposts stage. That is his role-- controlled opposition. The bankers control him as much as anyone.
Relax y'all, the squid has a plan.
What gives Americans of white European descent the audacity to hear out a candidate that offers them any hope that their interests in a country that they built might be protected?
How dare they!
There are so many stereotypic falsehoods in this article that it is hard to know where to begin. The good news is that from the perspective of someone seeking the truth, as defined in contrast to what was stated, it is truly a target rich environment. I apologize in advance to the reader, because the corollary of this is that my post will probably be longer than I would like by necessity.
Before I proceed, let me make clear that my post is not a blanket defense of the man, Donald Trump. I have highlighted in my previous posts, a number of concerns that I have about him. He may benefit indirectly from my comments, but my comments are directed at the author’s invention of a new “ism” that suites his and increasingly the country’s delusional tendencies to a tee - “Trumpism”.
In order for me to collapse my response as much as possible, I would like to highlight three quotations from this article, which I will address individually.
“It’s not too interesting to say that Donald Trump is a nationalist and aspiring despot who is manipulating bourgeois resentment, nativism, and ignorance to feed his power lust. It’s uninteresting because it is obviously true. It’s so true that stating it sounds more like an observation than a criticism.”
This sounds like a Bolshevik manifesto. If it is so uninteresting, than why have you based the entire premise of your article on it? The truth is, that Donald Trump’s comments have struck a nerve in this country, and it irks you that he dares to give peoples of white European descent (who you define as “bourgeois nativists”) any hope that the systematic genocide that they are be subjected to in this country will ever relent. Is it just a rounding error that those “bourgeois nativists” that you deride pay all the taxes and support all the largess that types like you feed upon? So I guess that means that it is Donald’s “power lust”, not the “power lust” of the cabalist forces that are perpetrating this genocide that is the problem. NOW I get it.
You know, given the awareness that is growing daily in the public mind about the abuse of power by the cabal in this country over the last 100+ years, a summary of which is provided below:a. Formed the Federal Reserve
b. Established the Frankfurt School in America
c. Created and promulgated Boasian Anthropology
d. Promoted all the major wars of the 20th and 21st centuries
e. Created and managed major communist revolutions
f. Systematically falsified history (e.g. the Holohoax)
g. Instigated and/or facilitated numerous false flag operations against the US
h. Engineered mass third world immigration into our country
i. Socially engineered the lowering of white birth rates below replacement levels
j. Created or promoted socially destructive ideologies (feminism, gay rights, etc.)
k. Advocated the criminalization of free speech (hate speech laws)
l. Promoted and/or financed destructive vices (substance abuse, pornography, materialism, etc.) either directly or through control of the media
You might want to take a lower profile, at least on that issue.“In the 19th century, this penchant for industrial protectionism and mercantilism became guild socialism, which mutated later into fascism and then into Nazism.”
I knew I could count on you to redefine, like a good cabalist should, any movement, observation or trend that you don’t like as “a progression to Nazism” – as if you truly understood the National Socialist party in the first place. Do you even hear yourself anymore? These “thin end of the wedge” rants are getting so old now, that as a propagandistic tactician I would think that you would be worried about them getting stale.
Just out of curiosity, has it ever occurred to you that one of the reasons our economy is suffering may be that other countries (e.g. China) may be engaging in industrial protectionism? Gee, I guess they must be on their way to becoming Nazi’s too. No, what really bothers you is that the grand cabalist designs for globalization won’t work if the host (America) starts to figure out what the parasite (the cabal) is up to – and begins to institute policies that counteract it. Instituting basic protections of American industry would allow the host to come up for air long enough that the parasite might lose control. We can’t have that.“This is a dark history and I seriously doubt that Trump himself is aware of it. Instead, he just makes it up as he goes along, speaking from his gut. This penchant has always served him well. It cannot serve a whole nation well. Indeed, the very prospect is terrifying, and not just for the immigrant groups and imports he has chosen to scapegoat for all the country’s problems. It’s a disaster in waiting for everyone.”
It is a dark history all right, and it is terrifying, but not for the reasons you site. It is a history that has been darkened by falsification, distortion and outright lies by the cabalist controlled media to further the interests of the cabal. It is terrifying because by continuing to believe the false Hollywood version of history that you promulgate, we will never learn the truth that can set us free. My reservations about Donald Trump have to do with his possible associations with the cabal and its motives, not what he says, that you characterize as “Trumpism”.In contrast to the article's conclusion, I don't think it is "a disaster in waiting for everyone". I think it is the beginning of a long overdue awakening, an awaking that does not depend on one man, any more than any other idea does whose time has come.
I know that this post is now getting lengthy, and out of respect for the reader I have relegated the discussion of an important piece of history, that I have posted in the past, to the end.
I think that the short discussion of history attached below is again relevant, because this article again engages in subterfuge about German history and “power lust” and its comparison to the situation that exists in modern day America. Unfortunately, there are similarities, just not the ones that the cabal would have us believe. Here is that post:-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Tyler, in order for me to even comment on this article, we need to get some historical facts straight about Nazi (a term invented by their opponents, and never used by them to refer to themselves) Germany.
I am assuming, that by Nazi Germany, you mean the National Socialist party in Germany, that was duly elected by the people of Germany between WW I and WW II, largely in response to the oppressive conditions in Germany that resulted from the imposition of WW I reparations as a part of the Versailles treaty (formulated by the cabal, and imposed on them by the US and our allies).
After WW I, and prior to the emergence of National Socialism, Germany was destitute. Its infrastructure was in a shambles, and its people were completely demoralized - like much of Europe, only worse. Additionally, Germany was being forced to pay enormous reparation payments to the allies as a result of a world war (WW I) which it did not initiate (this is a complex topic, but further objective research will support this). The cabal was engaged in abusive tactics that robbed and oppressed the German people prior to WW I and between the wars. In that sense there are some economic and social similarities between the predicament of the people in the US now and the German people between the wars - although conditions were an order of magnitude worse in Germany.
As the German people began to become more aware of these abuses by the cabal (also similar to conditions in the US now, as our people are becoming more aware of these abuses) they began to rebel against them. The cabal sensed this change in demeanor and became more vociferous in their actions against the German people and in their pronouncements against Germany - to the point where in 1933 worldwide Jewry declared war on Germany by demanding that Germany's goods be boycotted on a worldwide basis (this is documented in main stream printed media at the time and not refuted by Jewish sources). The closest analogies to the current US situation in this regard is the undermining of the US manufacturing base (by exporting it overseas) and the resultant job losses, and the abuse of the banking, media and political systems (all of which have been largely orchestrated by the cabal and which are almost universally recognized at this point – as they were in Germany).
That is essentially where the similarities between Germany in the 1930's and the US at present ends. In other words we have the same cabalist enemy now that Germany had then and we have become aware of it.
For the most part National Socialists supported the indigenous people of Germany (i.e. The Germans). There was no mass immigration of foreigners, there was no persecution of the indigenous German people in favor of a multi-culturist elite, as is happening to the indigenous European peoples in the US and other countries of predominantly European origin. Also, the leaders of the National Socialist party were not members of the cabal, as they were in Russia. So in this sense, the tyranny that you describe in our country is more analogous to the Bolsheviks in Russia than the National Socialists in Germany.
You also greatly exaggerate the militarism of National Socialist Germany as wielded against the German people. The average German, while subjected to more disciplined policies than might be appropriate in less troubled times, was much more free than, for example the Russians were under Bolshevism (lead by the cabal) at the time. The German people openly supported National Socialism, not out of fear of their government, but out of gratitude for the successes (both economic and social) that the party provided for the people. Do you honestly mean to imply that the people in the US now feel this way about our government? Really?
Tyler, I think I understand where you were trying to go with this article – and I agree that it is important to protect our civil liberties from encroachment by an overbearing central government. However, I think you are comparing the US with a Hollywood version of what the cabal would like National Socialism to have been, because it supports their distorted version of history – in order to make your point.
Frankly, if you look at what the German people actually thought of National Socialism at the time, it is nothing like what our people think of our government now.
Shouldn’t what the people actually think of their own government be the true test of tyranny?
@I think it is the beginning of a long overdue awakening, an awaking that does not depend on one man, any more than any other idea does whose time has come.
Yes. The size of the problem needs to be identified. Whatever is happening at this point in political discourse is small compared with people's beginning awareness that millions of Americans are opposed to open-door Mexican immigration. That’s important to learn right now, to get this issue up and running (it’s a long time before election). And Trump’s remarks are doing just that.
In commenting on your article: Magnificent.
To echo JR's comment on your post: MAGNIFICENT!
Ever wonder why Christianity was put in the dustbin in America? Well the same folks are in charge here in the USSA as where this happened:
3 Suspects Arrested in Israel after arson at site of-Jesus' miracle The Irish Independent:
I love watching Trump jam his foot in his mouth via his ass.
Between Yellen. Billary bitchez or Trump, the Donald gets my vote
nObody who gets any traction in the public forum is ever acting independently or speaking as an individual. It's all rigged, the fix is in and there is nothing anybody can do about it because only people with money, guns & lawyers have any independence of word or deed. Everybody else is chow for their meatgrinder and there is no such thing as God or Hope or The End of Time. This escalating misery only gets worse--forever--and Donald Trump is another rich-ass shill whose only purpose is to keep as many people as possible distracted.
QUESTION: Has Donald Trump made an evil life of promoting Marxist Communism & Socialism? ANSWER: No he has not. Donald Trump is jamming a sharp stick into the greedy eyes of Marxists who have been running the table in the U.S.A. since LBJ's Great Society speech May 1964. Fat Cat Trump gets up on his hind legs and starts shootin' off his mouth and what? Suddenly Donald Trump is vilified by the Left AND the Right--making it plain as day that the non-stop noise & violence of media-driven Left\Right propaganda is the real problem, not Trump.
"The wickedness of a people is great indeed when the most notorious sinners are men of renown among them. Things are bad when bad men are not only honoured notwithstanding their wickedness, but honoured for their wickedness, and the vilest men exalted. Wickedness is then great when great men are wicked." ~Matthew Henry
When I read today's version of the same propaganda that ruled the airwaves in the 1960's, I think of a poem I first read as a sophmore in high school (1962). I wonder what high school sophmores are reading this week at P.S. 110?
"Ozymandias" by P.B. Shelley.
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear --
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.'
Trump...the new________.
if Donald can get the democratic nomination
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He can win the whole thing.
While I don't believe that I agree with many if not most of The Donald's policies, he has hit a nerve with the people. He speaks out on the issues that the man in the street knows are the problems with the country. The people are sick and tired of all the politicians ignoring the real issues. These are the people that John McCain calls the crazies. Well the crazies didn't vote for the last 2 Republican candidates for president because they refuse to address their concerns. The same will happen again in 2016 if they nominate another "moderate" who fails to speak out for their views.
I anticipated reading ideas in this article that would diminish the positive feelings I have about what Trump is saying and about what his policies miight be. On the contrary, what I read did the opposite. Throwing around terms like "fascism" were offputting and undocumented. The Donald is not my first, second or third choice for president, but he is addressing the concerns that the people of this country have. Unless another candidate can do the same the Republicans have little chance of generating the kind of support they need to win in 2016.
fascism is not right. Fascism is a flavor of socialism. Right wing is small central government, non-statist.
The idea of right-wing fascism is one of the most important lies perpetrated during the last 70 years. People must not be allowed to wonder why all the massacres, torture, and economic destruction of the modern age is a franchise of the left.
Stupid fucking author...
Trump isn't manipulating public resentment he's tapping into the chasm created by Obamaism the last 8 years. The chasm desperately needs to be addressed by someone who can address it politically before it causes a civil war. As Trump rises in the polls he will pull other polys in his direction and there will be soe push back against the captured media propaganda.
This isn't rocket surgery. Trump is just an opening act, something to get the human cattle jazzed for the election season since Jeb and Hillary are as charasmatic as a loaf of bread. He'll be told to endorse Jeb after his "unusally disappointing" showing in the Iowa/NH warm-ups and then step down in exchange for a VP or SoS position.
'What Commodus bought was inflation, stagnation and suffering'.
So, no different to now and existing conditions then.
And Trump hasn't been in charge?
Trump should have pointed out how John had no problem going after the Air Farce, but chose not to go after the IRS because he agreed with it.
Trump is breaking a decade of political correctness log jam - it's funny to watch happen.
Republicans are owned by the same group that owns the Demonrats. The TRIBE.
We are told OVER and OVER and OVER again that race is just a "social construct" and Whites fall all over themselves trying to prove they are not "racist". We are told there is no such thing as race, seriously.
Well the KING HAS NO CLOTHES, there I've said it:
Obama collecting personal data for a secret race database July 18, 2015
Howell Raines, former head editor of the New York Times, who lost his job over the Jayson Blair fraud. Writing in the Times Sunday July 12.
The Dream World of the Southern Republicans
"Read my lips"; "Middle Class Tax Cut"; "No Nation Building"; "No Tax Increase under 250K"
Every Pres since at least Reagan has done *the exact opposite* of whatever he most fervently and specifically promised
(not to mention, followed the exact same overall program as all the others independent of party)
so if what Trump is saying sounds bad to you, maybe that means its really good.
Power lust? And the others? Boy Scouts and choir boys?
What crap.
"He sounds fresh, exciting, even thrilling, like a man with a plan and ..."
This is how you start the third-to-last paragraph of your article, and it should be required reading for every kid in America. This is how terrible things begin.
The border *is* a mess. Christians *are* under attack to deny their Faith. Trump is tapping into real, legitimate frustration.
The sin is that other candidates - ones that don't have Trump's wicked intentions - were too afraid to make the good points, for fear that they would be tarred with the evil ones.
The one thing that Trump isn't is a coward. He has brass, and the same can't be said for any other candidate on either side of the aisle. That's what makes him "thrilling."
And it's scary.
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Thanks for a very useful post Jeffrey. What you mean by "populism" however could use more thought.
Populism comes in two major categories, right populism and left or labor populism. Both draw on the anger of regular people at their rulers and establishment to build a movement.
The former, the populism of the 1890's, was inclusive and largely rational. The latter, which emerged in the late 1890's through WWI, combined resentment of the bankers and top ruling class with racism. C. Van Woodward, a North Carolina Historian, in his book The Strange Career of Jim Crow, describes how this "right populism" was used to split the movement and drive a wedge between "native" white and black, hispanic and immigrant working people. (And ironically between "native" white Americans and actual native Americans.)
The addition of anti-Semitism to the mix in Europe served the double function of isolating the Jewish working people who produced many of the leaders of the left, and of providing a surrogate target for resentment and anger at those at the top. Many of the super-rich - including some wealthy Jews - helped fund it as a kind of back-fire. This version of populism thus could be considered "anti-populism".
The two strands of populism emerging in te US 2016 race are represented by Donald Trump on the one hand and Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren on the other. They are in competition for the same constituents, and I am seeing this on the streets every day where just a month ago Bernie had a clear field. Many people who would have listened and engaged last month jump right to Donald Trump now. It is perhaps not an accident that Trump jumped into the race just as Bernie has been closing in on Hillary in the New Hampshire and Iowa polls - and the tactic of media silence is failing.
We see in these comments how many ZH readers, who really should know better, find it easy to identify with Trump. And will I fear find themselves on the wrong side of the barricaides when the SHTF.
TALK IS CHEAP. THE SHIT THAT IS SPOKEN BEFORE ELECTIONS IS OFTEN DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED TO WHAT GOES ON AFTER THE ELECTIONS. OBAMA MADE SOME NICE SPEECHES BEFORE ELECTED.NEED I SAY MORE.
TRUMP IS TOUCHING ON SOME SENSITIVE ISSUES. ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS A BIG DEAL. NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED. KIND OF WEIRD IT HAS GONE ON THIS FAR.
I DONT THINK TRUMP WILL DO ANYTHING SPECIAL. HES TALKING A BIG GAME. IM NOT SEEING ANYTHING SPECIAL. WHEN HE STARTS TALKING ABOUT CENTRAL BANKING AND THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF HOW THINGS ARE IN THE WORLD I WILL TAKE INTEREST.
HE BETTER NOT PULL OUT SOMEWHERE DOWN THE LINE AND HAND OVER TO BUSH.
THE DEMS ARE GETTING EXCITED ABOUT THEIR 'NEW HOPE' BERNIE SANDERS. I DOUBT HE WILL WIN THE DEMOCRAT SEAT. IF HE ACTUALLY BECAME THE POTUS, I WOULD BE CONCERNED ABOUT HIS TAX POLICIES BUT THAT IS ANOTHER STORY. HE IS NOT THE NEW HOPE PROGRESSIVES BELIEVE HIM TO BE.
CLINTON WILL BE THE NEXT POTUS 2016, IMO.
TO THINK THAT SOMEONE LIKE RON PAUL COULD HAVE BEEN THE POTUS AT ONE STAGE. I DONT THINK AMERICANS ( NOT LIMITED TO ) HAVE THE BRAINS TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IS GOING ON BY THEMSELVES. YOU WILL BE GIVEN YOUR NEXT POTUS. THEY WILL BOW TO THE CFR AND ALL THE REST. THE AGENDA WILL BE FOLLOWED.
HOW MANY FUCKUPS CAN AMERICA TAKE BEFORE IT BREAKS.
EVEN THOUGH I THERE ARE NO CANDIDATES THAT I WOULD FULLY ENDORSE, ON PAPER I WOULD GO WITH RAND PAUL.. CANT KNOW FOR SURE HOW THINGS WOULD GO AND HOW TRUSTWORTHY PEOPLE ARE UNTIL THEY ARE IN OFFICE AND HAVE POSITION TO MAKE CHANGE. AFTER THEY HAVE SPENT THEIR POLITICAL CAPITAL, A FRESH FACE PUT ON THE MENU. AND THE WHEEL GOES ROUND AND ROUND.
BE HIGHLY SKEPTICAL OF THE POPULISTS, DEMAGOGUES, PUPPETS, AND WHAT HAVE YOU. ESPECIALLY THE ONES LIKE HITLARY CLINTON AND BUSH FUCK.
Trump for President!!!
Because he has a magic wand right? He will make things right! He said he would make America great again! Honesty and fortitude are two things I struggle to find in the average person, let alone the next FUCKING POTUS!
Please summarize why you would vote Trump in a simple paragraph.
Trump seems like the usual narcissistic fuck that would love to be in office as far as I am concerned.
Coming soon to a theater near you, "Ideocracy II', with Trump as president.
Hillary as POTUS, Bernie as Vice POTUS.
Hillary is empire. She is definitely no rebel figther.
Bernie could never run as her second. How could he play second fiddle to someone whose top ten donors include Goldman Sachs, CitiGroup, JPMorgan, BoA and Monsanto? That woud end up discrediting everything he's ever stood for.
Please, Bernie, don't even think about it!
Bernie is not the 'new hope'. I hope you know this already
The Bernie Sanders predicament: Where do you fit all those people?
All of Bernie's campaign signs have a little blurb at the bottom that says...
"Bernie Sanders... NOT the billionaire".
Bernie repeats it over and over, all the time...
"The question is, if you raise the issues that are on the hearts and minds of the American people, if you try to put together a movement that says we have got to stand together as a people and say that this capitol, this beautiful capitol, our country, belong to all of us, and not the billionaire class, that's not raising an issue, that's winning elections," he said. "That's where the American people are."
I just kept having this bad feeling about Trumps daughter. The Jews hate Trump and I
kept thinking they would push her to try and stop him.
get this:
“We observe the Sabbath,” Trump said. “From Friday to Saturday we don’t do anything but hang out with one another. We don’t make phone calls.”
The subject of her conversion, which Trump, 33, admits she has preferred to keep out of the public eye, came up during a meeting with reporter Jonathan Van Meter in the Trump SoHo hotel. As waiters brought over food, Trump noted, “We don’t eat meat… or, well, we keep kosher.”
The mother of two then went on to speak more about life after her 2009 conversion, a move she made because husband Kushner’s family are Orthodox Jews, but has since been kept discreet. Trump’s father, Donald, is a Presbyterian Christian.
“I just feel like it’s such an intimate thing for us,” said Trump, who is reported to have taken the moniker “Yael,” a popular Jewish women’s name. Yael was an Old Testament woman who, according to the story from Judges 5:24-27, killed enemy general Sisera by driving a tent peg though his head, enabling the Israelites to gain victory in a war.
If the best you can do, is to try to convince us that Trump == Hitler, maybe it's time to check that you're current on your meds.
PS - if you think that all those illegals came here to breath the free air of libertarianism, I have more news for you.
Trumpism: The ideology
bluster:
Talking in a loud, aggressive, or indignant way with little effect. "You threaten and bluster, but won't carry it through"
synonyms:rant,rave,thunder,bellow,sound off; loud, aggressive, or indignant talk with little effect. "His threats contained a measure of bluster"
synonyms:ranting,thundering,hectoring,bullying;
bombast, bravado,bumptiousness, braggadocio "His bluster turned to cooperation"
Franco, Mussolini, Hitler, even Commodus, and a dreaded "nationalist" too! Wow, what a bad guy Donald Trump must be! Of course, Tucker doesn't say much to support his case. He just reads Trump's mind and tells us what's in it and where it must lead.
So basically, Trump's brand of potential fascism is worse that today's brand of actual fascism. Hmmm.
Yes, anyone who stands up to the Marxo-Facists is definitely a Facsist and must be destroyed.