Sunday, October 27, 2024

On Donald Trump

People tend to say a lot of things about Donald Trump, people call him fascist or authoritarian. Claim he would destroy democracy and liberties. Implement some loony Project 2025, drink blood of Christian babes and who knows what else.

I watched a few videos of him and came to a drastically different conclusion. Not only he is neither of the above, but he also hardly even right-wing. Most of his political positions and opinions are syncretic and opportunistic. He has no clear ideological bend and just supports variety of stuff popular with vastly different people on the net. On the other hand, he does not oppose anything that can actually jeopardize his popularity. For example, he vetoed any Republican repeal of Obamacare until it was watered down to just cancellation of universal mandate, after that he finally signed it and took credit for repealing Obamacare. He even consistently uses blue as his personal electoral color. 

One thing that works for Trump electorally is that he speaks in ambiguous ways to give people benefit of the doubt on what he actually means by that. That gives his detractors opportunity to make a mountain out of anthill. These however mostly backfire against Trump opponents as his supporters can cross check that with what he actually said and know that anti-Trump camp just blatantly lie, while actual extremists are more likely to vote Trump after hearing Dems accuse him of crazy stuff. Thus, a Teflon Donald continues to fly high in politics due to his careful wording of things that make vastly different people think he supports what they want.


Trump's success makes other radical right wingers like Tony Abbot think that they can do the same thing. However, they do not imitate the actual Trump but rather the slander, left wing makes up about him. Their political positions and polices are actually right wing and not syncretic like those of Trump. Because of that they will never be able to become a second Trump.

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