Trumpism: The Ideology…” The ideology is a 21st century version of right fascism”
by Jeffrey Tucker via Liberty.me
ZeroHedge.com
07/18/2015
It’s not too interesting to say that Donald Trump is a nationalist and aspiring despot who is manipulating bourgeois resentment, nativism, and ignorance to feed his power lust. It’s uninteresting because it is obviously true. It’s so true that stating it sounds more like an observation than a criticism. However, ‘Trumpism’ is an ideology that is very much present in American life, though hardly acknowledged. It lives mostly hidden in dark corners, and we don’t even have a name for it. You bump into it at neighborhood barbecues, at Thanksgiving dinner when Uncle Harry has the floor, at the hardware store when two old friends in line to checkout mutter about the state of the country. The ideology is a 21st century version of right fascism – one of the most politically successful ideological strains of 20th century politics. Though hardly anyone talks about it today, we really should.
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