The defeat of Trump might - just might - mark something else, which is the beginning of the end of the Global Hegemony of Trollism. At heart, what marks “populism” apart from the fascism is engenders is that the engine for achieving right wing dominance (with all the standard...
... hallmarks of theft, exploitation larded with persecution) is nakedly to front the enterprise with genuinely obnoxious, deeply flawed people whose defining shtick is that they really really annoy anyone seeking to thwart all that theft & persecution. Trump is a trust fund...
...daddy’s boy who, like Johnson, would benefitted enormously from even the dear of being beaten up at a bus stop aged 15. As it was, they got away with being obnoxiously selfish so much it became their whole being, fuelled by laughter from over indulgent onlookers. Shift that...
...up a few notches & you appear to have an indestructible frontman - cadres of mostly apolitical obnoxious psychopaths for whom, for the most part, behaving in the worst way imaginable s “just a joke”, & anyone who doesn’t like it is “woke”, humourless, a weak “snowflake”....
In short, the rather limited politics of teenage jocks beating up nerds, cheered on by an entourage of sidekicks. That’s all Trump, Johnson, Erdogan, Orban, Bolsinaro & the rest ultimately amount to. The true disgrace lies not with the individuals (they don’t care & don’t...
...understand) but with the vast political & media machines that put them in positions of enormous power & authority, & the allegedly serious adults operating them. For sure, give your sulky 8 year old kid a crossbow for Xmas, & see how that turns out. Now we’ll just have to...
...what gimmick the giggling Wykehamist pricks in the British Establishment come up with next to distract us from the heist. My money’s on sea lions in tutus juggling flaming hatchet while honking “Tomorrow Belongs To Me.” Have a nice day, now, y’all!
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