From the lead: "Like Berlusconi, Trump exploits the backwardness of the average boob tube addict who tends to think in the sort of crude terms we associate with reality TV programs like Trump’s 'The Apprentice'."
That is commentary from an elitist armchair. Trump speaks to the real economic pain of millions - then he offers jingoism to hint at imperialist revival, while he provides cover for the domination of corporate capital within the U.S. It is awful to blame people who are deeply wound up trying to deal with their plight. They don't have time to read pedantic summaries of old Leon nor to try and unravel the involuted sarcasm that passes for thought from an upper west side keyboard. And whether or not Trump heralds fascism soon is not the question. He has already exhibited and intensified the decline of the U.S. bourgeois polity. The question is how that shifts tasks for socialists. http:/www.hollowcolossus.com _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
