Wonder if the Arch-authoritarian Racist Idiot Donald Trump will Make it to 2020? by Paul Street

Good read, highly recommended.  Here’s an excerpt:

Trump smells too much of neo-fascism – a clownish and highly venal version, to be sure – for the tastes and needs of the U.S, ruling class. He’s not how the American wealth and power elite rolls. If the U.S. is “fascist,” its fascism cooks on a low flame and small burner. It exhibits a distinctly “inverted” (demobilized and neoliberal, plutocratic, “market”-mediated and corporate-managed) form of the disease. To say this, however is not to praise to the contemporary U.S., with its vicious, eco-cidal ruling class and its reigning sociopathic institutions. Under the “inverted totalitarianism” (U.S. political scientist Sheldon Wolin’s term) that is 21st century America’s “corporate-managed democracy” (Wolin again), many of the basic objectives of fascism – the defeat of unions and the working class, the degradation of democracy, the enforcement of hierarchy and savage inequality, racial subordination, the marginalization of the Left, racial divide and rule, militarization of society, and permanent arms and war economy – are achieved without the discomfort and uncertainly imposed by barking dictators, and marching, torch-carrying brown-shirts.

From a psychological point of view, Trump’s resignation from office is possible and perhaps even likely. As detailed in this fine editorial, “the Clockwork Orangutan” has alienated so many potential allies that his circle of defenders has shrunk to the point of exposing the bare emotional walls surrounding his megalomania. For such power-hungry individuals, that prospect is simply unbearable. When Trump finally realizes that he can’t have his own way, he’ll look for the nearest exit.

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