Trump is not a Fascist
“Trump is a fascist, Trump and Pence are illegitimate” — that’s the chant the Revcom group led as about 250 people just swarmed the entrance of the “Deploraball” — a posh reception for Trump supporters about half a mile from the White House. — Paul Mason
We’re transferring power back to the people. — President Donald Trump
Calling Trump a Fascist, is to devalue the term.
No, he is not a Fascist. He may have the support of right wing nutters, but that does not make Trump a Fascist.
Supporters of Trump seem to split into two divergent groups.
When the media interviews Trump supporters, they come across as stupid and ignorant. Whether that is typical or they seek these people out, it is impossible to say. Maybe a reflection of poor educational standards in the US.
What also comes across, these are the working poor. These are the people who have suffered under neo-Liberalism. These are the people who suffered under Bill Clinton, who never recovered under George W Bush or Barack Obama. These are the people who lost their homes when sold dodgy mortgages, and then saw Barack Obama bail out the banks. These are the people who lost their jobs, saw their factories crumble to dust, the steel mills rust, when Bill Clinton signed Nafta and their jobs relocated across the border to Mexico.
These are the group who are going to see they were led up the garden path when the see wealth transferred to the rich. They are already suffering with the loss of Obama care.
The other group, are evil men Trump has appointed. They want to drill for more oil, dig out more coal, drive a cart and horses through environmental protection and labour rights.
Across the world on Inauguration Day, mass protest, banner drops on bridges.
In the UK alone, banner drops on bridges across the Thames in London and on bridges across the country.
What will happen to civil rights and the right to protest?
At least three states are proposing legislation to criminalise protest. In North Dakota they wish to legalise running over protesters.
In Ferguson, and other cities where we have seen police brutality, the police are bragging they voted for Trump.
It is one thing for Trump to ban the media from his press briefings when he was a private citizen. Quite another to ban when he is President. Once President, he is a public servant. The media are there to question, not that they do a very good job when they are owned and controlled by the second group that support Trump.
He must also divest all his business interests. Handing to his family to run is not acceptable.
Paul Mason:
In truth, neither Trump nor the cops are fascists. But the kleptocrats who, by this afternoon, will rule America do not need fascism. Fascism was a tool to smash the organised working class in Europe when it was strong.
What the new oligarchy of Trumpsylvania needs is simply to seize control of the institutions of democracy and use them for illiberal purposes. For these purposes these institutions have been pre-eviscerated during the Bush and Obama years.
And for a role model Trump has not only Vladimir Putin but Tayyip Erdogan, President Sisi of Egypt, Binyamin Netanyahu and — presuming he’s even heard of him — Hungary’s Victor Orban.
Trump’s appointees spent the day dodging questions and logic on Capitol Hill, while the transition team briefed that the incoming president is to privatise giant tracts of land, the public broadcasting authority, scrap the National Endowment for the Arts and cut a ton of welfare, legal aid and education programmes.
All these assets, or the spaces newly created by abolition, will be shovelled into the hands of Trump’s friends and associates. That’s the nature of kleptocracy.
Trump is an oligarch. Spoils of victory being handed out to cronies.
Democrats should stop whinging that they lost the election and blaming everyone but themselves. They lost because Obama failed to deliver. They lost because they had a bad candidate. They lost because of Democrat corruption. They lost because Trump tapped into the mood of the people.
We should also be deeply concerned by the Deep State smear campaign against Trump. Eisenhower warned of the military-industrial complex.
Trump won the election, he is not an illegitimate President, get over it.
The opposition to should be to bad policies he tries to push through.
The uneducated, working poor, will quickly change their tune when they see Trump does not deliver for them.
What will they do when they see the spoils of victory being carried off?
The likely outcome is a rise in homegrown terrorism. Not the Muslim Islamist variety, the angry, gun-totting nutters in their military fatigues, who play their end of the world scenarios out in the hills.
How do we wipe Islamic terrorism of the face of the earth?
What does Put America First mean?
The most prosperous era the world has seen was post-WWII when the US did not put America First, they put Europe First, because they realised that would benefit everyone.
What does Make America Great mean?
Why can America not be any different to any other country?
US bases across the world. These countries pay tribute to the US in the form of servicing the debt and holding reserves in dollars.
Apple iPhones are manufactured by Foxconn in China, Foxconn subsidised by the Chinese government.
Maybe Trump will surprise us all. But it will be a big surprise if he does.
Few expect him to make the four years. Either he will be Impeached or Assassinated.
The Trump Inauguration speech had more in common with that of a Third World Demagogue addressing his supporters.
Transferring power back to the people?
No, the people must take back the power.
The people must kick out all the useless Democrat politicians at all levels and replace with ordinary people who will act for the people, not vested interests.
At local level, ordinary citizens must look to Spain, follow the examples of Madrid, Barcelona and A Coruña, seize control of Town Halls, kick out the politicians, then network with other citizen-controlled Town Halls.
To invest in jobs and people, build open coops, then network those coops.
