Don't look to Trump to predict the coming storm. He's the distraction...

[Locut0s]

Look to the thugs he's choosing to put in power. They are the ones who are going to do the bulk of the damage. Trump is an unpredictable child like buffoon and yes he could accidentally incite a global crisis, wars. But the nation is paying too much attention to him because he's entertaining if nothing else. The people he has chosen for his cabinet however are much more predictable. Here we can draw some genuinely accurate educated guesses for what we have in store for us. And that is Reaganism on steroids. The dismantling of The New Deal. An attempt to return America to industrial revolution era labour standards when the wealthy were literally mini emperor's.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Trump is the new version of the

four P.M. kiddy show on TV. Just a Puppet.

[Hortensis]

2. Absolutely. Religious vandals allied with economic

vandals to destroy our nation as we know it. They'd make us into the world's largest banana republic if they could, but it's likely they'd blow us all up before then. A whole lot of these people are sure we're battling ISIS for god in the end times anyway.

[Solly Mack]

4. That really does sum them up.

Religious vandals allied with economic vandals

And Bannon mixes both and calls it "enlightened capitalism". Capitalism coupled with the spiritual and moral foundations of Christianity.

[Hortensis]

5. "Enlightened capitalism." The man isn't a bigot, though.

Seriously, he's just part of a huge trend and about as "grass roots" as the Tea Party movement: The fusion of a philosophy of the virtue of greed and worldly success with Christian doctrine, the latter energizing passionate cannon fodder for the wealth accumulators, of course.

My own post apparently summed up my dystopian mood today. Maybe too much time spent reading post-election foreign affairs prognostications.

[Solly Mack]

6. He first thought Palin was his Trump.

Someone to carry his banner. Funny, yes - but I can see how he would think that. She did fit his ideal, and would still do so if McCain had won the presidency.

You're right about the prosperity aspect of his politics. He's even said as job creators (the wealthy) hold a certain obligation. He could have used the term noblesse oblige but he'd find that too secualr, too elitist. And the man dearly hates what he views as secular. People like me.

He swings libertarian but pretends otherwise. He says he hates Ryan yet embraces much of the Ryan/Koch brothers nexus of how the world should be. Specifically, the economy.

I do think he is a bigot. You can't be that cocksure of your brand of religion being the superior one without embracing bigotry - even if you only use other forms of bigotry to boost your cause and don't so much buy into the brand. Once the damage is done, intentions have a way of no longer mattering.

He's a self-admitted nationalist who defines nationalism as love of a western Judeo-Christian nation. He is a Reagan fan who wants a leader that causes people to feel good - like Reagan did (I'm told) - even when those feelings don't match the reality.

I was around for Reagan and he never made me feel good about anything.

He doesn't approve of Putin in general, but thinks Putin is on the frontline in protecting "our" western Judeo-Christian way of life.

Your cartoon cuddles me in its ironic embrace. The grin came, then was quickly wiped away by the gnarl of self-doubt.

I keep a dystopian mood. Someone once called me "Eeyore". I remain flattered.

[CanonRay]

3. All this shit makes me glad I'm old

I won't live to see the worst of it. I feel bad for anyone under 50. You are fucked.