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Michael Kinsely: For close to a year, and especially since his election as president, people have been trying to figure out Trumps political principles: What does he stand for, how will he act as president? Various theories have been advanced
But now that weve seen a bit of him in action, it seems that Trump actually does have a recognizable agenda that explains how he simultaneously can pander to big business generally while strong-arming (the words of a Post editorial Friday) an air conditioning manufacturer to save a few hundred jobs for a while. Or how he can make nice with the authoritarian Vladimir Putin while making bellicose foreign policy noises in general. Or how he can blithely upset with a phone call the absurdly delicate balance of our relations with China and Taiwan. All this seemingly erratic behavior can be explained if not justified by thinking of Trump as a fascist. Not in the sense of an all-purpose bad guy, but in the sense of somebody who sincerely believes that the toxic combination of strong government and strong corporations should run the nation and the world. He spent his previous career negotiating with the government on behalf of corporations; now he has switched teams. But its the same game.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/donald-trump-is-actually-a-fascist/2016/12/09/e193a2b6-bd77-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-d%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.11e6b280cf38
https://politicalwire.com/2016/12/10/donald-trump-fascist/
MADem
(135,425 posts)government and corporations, and marry them together. He doesn't want to "negotiate" any more, he wants to dictate the terms from a position of power.
Someone needs to tell him that if he wants to model Hitler and the Nazis, he needs to start taking his methamphetamines on a regular basis--the entire regime was high as kites. It's one of the reasons they were regarded as "invincible" -- that meth kept 'em cranking like crazy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/books/high-on-hitler-and-meth-book-says-nazis-were-fueled-by-drugs.html?_r=0
2naSalit
(86,076 posts)the don likes his whiff but he like the coca kind.
pressbox69
(2,252 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)You can't spell Donald Trump without T U R D......