Donald Trump

[ChicagoBlue]

Very possibly - all around the western world we are seeing rw populists springing up just has we have done throughout history when times are hard.

The pandemic, and the blame, certainly generated a certain amount of RW hatred towards the left, but the US economy is doing just fine. In fact, having been reared on zero % Interest rates since 2009, we have finally achieved some actual normalcy…which is NOT 1% mortgages, 0.1% bank savings rates, and free money, but 4% interest rates, 5% mortgages and 3% savings rates…all coupled with historically low unemployment.

Everything can be spun, and I regularly engage is a Right vs Left joust with a soybean trader friend of mine. However, even with smart guys like him, his prejudice for Dems in general, and a black female Dem running for President, in particular, have him spouting RWNJ talking points. It’s beyond silly, ridiculous and scary how absolutely stupid, gullible and blind some people are in this country.

But, perhaps the scariest thing of all is that every major news outlet in the country openly speaks about the persistent lies spewed by Trump and how his main points of attack are simply FALSE…but the Cult doesn’t care. They have the “alternate facts” Kellyanne Conway described years ago, and they swallow them, hook, line and sinker, and repeat them ad nauseum!

Early voting starts in my IL village next Monday and I plan to vote as early as possible and then turn the lies off.

I am genuinely fearful for what 2028 America will look like if Trump gets elected. If Trump gets elected with a Senate majority and a House majority, I’m fearful for what 2025 America will look like…and Trump will get the chance to seat TWO MORE Heritage Foundation/Federalist Society SCOTUS Justices, so we will be fucked for the rest of my natural life!

 

[KS55]

California soft on crime policies to blame for that.

The legacy of a communist att.gen?

 

[TonyM]

I'm not sure some people can grasp that by not liking him twice as much their vote against him isn't any more significant. He is absolutely a symptom of 'silly American politics'. Trump is not the issue, he's just a savvy opportunist adept at mobilising rw fears. Trump is not the problem, the problem is that a huge chunk of the US electorate think he's a good idea.
Like the oxygen, heat, fuel fire triangle you need to take something away to put the fire out. I think the 'trump triangle' consists of right wing ideas, economic hard times, liberal hatred outrage (to create polarisation and a sense of persecution). Imho take any one of those away and trump goes away - good luck trying to stamp out rw ideas/resentments and fix the blue collar economy.

You are dead right. Trump went into politics to take advantage of the crazy state of the USA.

To make America less crazy would take a gazillion dollars and a generation or 2 or 3.

Trump just going away would be a great start.

(Who knows though....the next one could be worse. At least Trump is genuinely funny.)

 

[Vic]

Very possibly - all around the western world we are seeing rw populists springing up just has we have done throughout history when times are hard.

Times aren't that hard. It's not the 1920s. Something else is going on.

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

You are dead right. Trump went into politics to take advantage of the crazy state of the USA.

To make America less crazy would take a gazillion dollars and a generation or 2 or 3.

Trump just going away would be a great start.

(Who knows though....the next one could be worse. At least Trump is genuinely funny.)

It's hard to imagine the maga base uniting around any one figure post Trump. Its so cult like that the only people who come close to having perceived power and influence, other than Trump, are the absolute boot lickers. Take the proximity to Trump away and they have nothing.

If you assume Trump loses this election and dies in the next 4 years the GOP could pick anyone. The field for the next candidate could be 100 strong. Mostly Trump imitators, but the seasoned politicians would have a big edge. Maybe someone from the family, Don Jnr? But I don't see it, I don't think they have that same ability to drive wide support. So it's wide open.

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

Times aren't that hard. It's not the 1920s. Something else is going on.

Social media has given a voice and credibility to idiots that would in times gone have just been ignored. It allows the likes of MTG to get elected and dump ass politics starts to take hold.

 

[TonyM]

It's hard to imagine the maga base uniting around any one figure post Trump. Its so cult like that the only people who come close to having perceived power and influence, other than Trump, are the absolute boot lickers. Take the proximity to Trump away and they have nothing.

If you assume Trump loses this election and dies in the next 4 years the GOP could pick anyone. The field for the next candidate could be 100 strong. Mostly Trump imitators, but the seasoned politicians would have a big edge. Maybe someone from the family, Don Jnr? But I don't see it, I don't think they have that same ability to drive wide support. So it's wide open.

I don't think it's just the Trump family that have a shot at being the next Trump. It could be any evangelist that no one knows about yet. More fool the supreme-leader-wannabies if they don't try to take advantage of America right now. It is ripe.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Times aren't that hard. It's not the 1920s. Something else is going on.

AIUI real incomes for most people have stagnated or gone down for many years.

This is as bad as any period in recorded hsitory.

It's not as dramatic as the great depression, but actually more significant.

see for example

Reality Check: Is pay growing at its worst rate since the Napoleonic Wars?

Reality Check examines the claim that real-wage growth is at its worst since the 18th Century.

www.bbc.co.uk

Other costs, notably housing, have also risen, so it's likely people have actually felt even worse off than this implies.

(These are UK figures, but I think it also applies across most of the Western world)

In other words, it's the economy, stupid.

 

[r.soleofsalford]

The pandemic, and the blame, certainly generated a certain amount of RW hatred towards the left, but the US economy is doing just fine. In fact, having been reared on zero % Interest rates since 2009, we have finally achieved some actual normalcy…which is NOT 1% mortgages, 0.1% bank savings rates, and free money, but 4% interest rates, 5% mortgages and 3% savings rates…all coupled with historically low unemployment.

Everything can be spun, and I regularly engage is a Right vs Left joust with a soybean trader friend of mine. However, even with smart guys like him, his prejudice for Dems in general, and a black female Dem running for President, in particular, have him spouting RWNJ talking points. It’s beyond silly, ridiculous and scary how absolutely stupid, gullible and blind some people are in this country.

But, perhaps the scariest thing of all is that every major news outlet in the country openly speaks about the persistent lies spewed by Trump and how his main points of attack are simply FALSE…but the Cult doesn’t care. They have the “alternate facts” Kellyanne Conway described years ago, and they swallow them, hook, line and sinker, and repeat them ad nauseum!

Early voting starts in my IL village next Monday and I plan to vote as early as possible and then turn the lies off.

I am genuinely fearful for what 2028 America will look like if Trump gets elected. If Trump gets elected with a Senate majority and a House majority, I’m fearful for what 2025 America will look like…and Trump will get the chance to seat TWO MORE Heritage Foundation/Federalist Society SCOTUS Justices, so we will be fucked for the rest of my natural life!

I fear for America but I also fear for the world if that crazed **** Trump gets into power.

Politicians aren’t my favourite kind of people at the best of times but Trump is a special kind of **** followed and supported by cunts.

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

I don't think it's just the Trump family that have a shot at being the next Trump. It could be any evangelist that no one knows about yet. More fool the supreme-leader-wannabies if they don't try to take advantage of America right now. It is ripe.

True. But in a huge field how do they stand out. If there's 20+ of them then Niki Hayley takes an immediate lead with around 20%. But the maga base will never take to someone who was at one point very anti Trump.

Same with a Ted Cruz type. Maga people tolerate these politicians, they don't support them.