01-06-2017, 01:09 AM
Donald Trump will have used populism to achieve power and then impose (with the support of the Republican majorities of both Houses of Congress, majorities that will not end until at least 2020, to bring about a reactionary social order, one in which no human suffering is in excess so long as it enriches and indulges economic elites responsible only to themselves. Such is not fascist in itself; that is how the Gilded Age was in the American North, and that is how the Jim Crow South operated. Both social orders (and they both existed in America as late as 1930) were democracy for a few.
Berlusconi had no chance to transform Italy into the Corporate State that became impossible after the defeat of the original Italian fascism because of Constitutional safeguards that the British and American s imposed upon a liberated Italy. Constitutional safeguards against a demagogue who sells out the masses to a reactionary Congress and the lobbyists who truly control Congress are fully inadequate in the United States.
The Republican Party is more using Donald Trump than Donald Trump is using the Republican Party.
Berlusconi had no chance to transform Italy into the Corporate State that became impossible after the defeat of the original Italian fascism because of Constitutional safeguards that the British and American s imposed upon a liberated Italy. Constitutional safeguards against a demagogue who sells out the masses to a reactionary Congress and the lobbyists who truly control Congress are fully inadequate in the United States.
The Republican Party is more using Donald Trump than Donald Trump is using the Republican Party.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.