05-16-2016, 08:45 AM
Trump is no fascist - indeed, he is a Malthusian populist who has just blown out the Social Darwinists and taken over their party. As for Hillary, she has a 3 million popular vote lead over Sanders - so she almost lost to him? I think not.
And the economy is even worse than in the 1920s, in that the income and wealth inequality are even greater - and Trump wants to recreate the boom of 1926 (unemployment 1.9%) by cutting off immigration and driving wages up. As for the sectionalism: In the 1850s, we were on the brink of civil war over slavery. Now we're on the brink of civil war over wedding cakes and bathrooms! So the mid-2010s are the late 1850s on both steroids and HGH (Generations observed 1857 as the start of the Civil War Crisis, however).
And the demand for order is rising? It's plummeting - at least in the 1980s the right wasn't clamoring for abolishing the IRS altogether - which would mean at least a national sales tax, and maybe even a per-person head tax. They were content with a 28% top tax rate; even the "populist" Donald Trump would make it 25%.
And the economy is even worse than in the 1920s, in that the income and wealth inequality are even greater - and Trump wants to recreate the boom of 1926 (unemployment 1.9%) by cutting off immigration and driving wages up. As for the sectionalism: In the 1850s, we were on the brink of civil war over slavery. Now we're on the brink of civil war over wedding cakes and bathrooms! So the mid-2010s are the late 1850s on both steroids and HGH (Generations observed 1857 as the start of the Civil War Crisis, however).
And the demand for order is rising? It's plummeting - at least in the 1980s the right wasn't clamoring for abolishing the IRS altogether - which would mean at least a national sales tax, and maybe even a per-person head tax. They were content with a 28% top tax rate; even the "populist" Donald Trump would make it 25%.