Trump — Is Totalitarianism the Endgame?
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Accelerated globalisation powered the wholesale transfer of Western manufacturing, and the re-orientation of global logistics to China, leading to the de-industrialisation of the West, and the West’s trade-deficits with China today.
The resulting rust belt in the U.S. delivered economically disenfranchised workers who fuelled the rage that blindsided the establishment and delivered Trump the US presidency. Each day, Trump delivers to that rage.
However, while outrage seems to be the point in the short-term, is Trump leveraging that voter base to reach the presidency — a platform from which Totalitarianism could be the endgame.
Trump has suggested that the disabled are just an economic burden and should just die — a life not worth living — the same idea Hitler had.
Apparently, Trump made these comments at a May 2020 meeting in the Oval Office in the presence of his nephew Fred Trump 111 who recorded the details in his forthcoming book. Trump’s attitudes to disabilities surfaced several years earlier, at a Colorado event, during his 2016 presidential campaign, when he mocked the reporter Serge Kovaleski, who has a disability called arthrogryposis — Trump mimicking the reporter’s disability.
