It wasn’t only knuckle-draggers and far-right racists that embraced his shameless, ruthless glorification of materialism
It remains to be seen if, come November, the country will say, “You’re fired!” to Donald Trump and if the Bolton book will be a factor. But the fact that he rose to the presidency at all is, fundamentally, a grim reflection on the real, core values – such as they are – of millions of Americans.
You can be sure it wasn’t only knuckle-draggers and far-right racists that resonated with and embraced his shameless, ruthless glorification of materialism and the acquisition of wealth by even ruthless means.
Perhaps his running for the presidency, as a Republican, was a cynical calculation as to how to best sell himself to voters, some of whom may have viewed him as an acceptable option to the dismal prospect of an early nuclear incineration under a Hillary Clinton presidency.
Playing to their strangely low expectations, Trump’s thrown a few bones to placate his followers…while destroying the environment, international agreements and allowing the wealthy to get even wealthier.
The public welfare is a secondary consideration to Trump’s own, fooling those who saw him as the embodiment of everything they thought they wanted to become, and unwilling to see the consequences of – once again – having chosen slogans over substance, in the grand American tradition.
His supporters preferred to not see that this power-hungry emperor had no clothes and would gladly take theirs, without hesitation.
The epitome of the detached, acquisitive, narcissistic, short-sighted “leader”, Trump is a man without empathy and real regard for others, who continues to feed and fund the war machine, while remaining clueless and in denial about the COVID-19 pandemic.
Among Trump’s most rabid supporters, are the deluded, easily misled people who espouse QAnonsense and see their hero as the antidote to the devilish Deep State. They don’t realize they’ve been fooled by an old ruse, where two factions of essentially the same entity – two puppets manipulated by the same greedy puppeteer – fight for the prize which, in this scenario, is power above all else.
It should also be no surprise that, rather than making the country great again, it’s more likely that he’s complicit – in ways seen and unseen -in paving the way, as:
28. Speculators will bring about a global financial and economic crisis of such proportions as has never before been seen, so that the whole financial economy falls into terrible straits, and also very much trouble and great scarcity of commodities occurs.
And even for the most mega-MAGA supporters, the same, inescapable destiny awaits, as an unavoidable consequence of Trump’s policies, and the long history of the relentless pursuit of wealth for its own sake, by him and others like him:
29. Even in the USA, the people will be dispossessed as a consequence of the global financial crisis, which shall become a pretext for deploying the military and police forces against the angry and partly also heavily armed population.
In the end, Trump may exemplify that old saying, “Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it”, which also goes for those who, dreaming of being his apprentice, so uncritically embraced his shameless, ruthless glorification of materialism.
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