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Trump is a charismatic authoritarian bully, an inveterate lying narcissist, with a man-child mentality. He’s totally unfit to lead, but he will and does appeal to those who like far-right politics, populism, and dislike the social changes posed by feminism, lgbtq rights, multiculturalism, etc.
Trump appeals to those who like strong, right-wing leaders who dislike experts, ignore facts, and who like to work on gut feelings backed up by an ability to work a (dim) crowd into a frenzy with tub-thumping preaching/speeches, populist rhetoric and slogans. He’s a sort of Francisco Franco for the 21st century, and his appeal to JL is guaranteed.
In the 20-teens there was a fashion for this kind of leader (see also Johnson and Farage), largely due to austerity and the ways in which people were persuaded to blame immigration and the EU, rather than the right-wing leaders and their lack of economic control.
Had Trump been a man of the left, he’d (rightly) have been crucified by the right-wing media long ago. It’s only down to press bias that Trump, Farage and Johnson have prospered.
Personally, I see a nightmarish orange person with a rat-clown face whose trousers end up around his ankles every time he speaks.
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They have been massively short on constructive policy ideas for a long long time and some political commentators say it can be traced back to Reagan. When it comes to conspiracy theories and culture wars they are the masters in both those but the Republican Party is a complete shadow of its former self, I feel sorry for the American public being pushed from pillar to post with this constant crap from the American political right, such a sad reflection on a major country which can assert such power on the world stage.
Very true IA – nobody on the political right now talks about the ‘unacceptable face of capitalism’. That’s because the Tories and Republicans have repositioned themselves as far-right parties where the rules don’t matter and anything goes. There’s been a total collapse in controls for corruption, malfeasance, and truth-telling. Awfulness has become normalised on bothe sides of the Atlantic.
In fact, if it weren’t for its obscene wealth, you could almost classify the US as a 3rd world country, with its stupid guns, loathsome churches, unbridled capitalism in league with right-wing media, and the consequent extensive poverty, social division and violent crime.
Meanwhile, the right talks about too much political correctness! Too many rights for this, rights for that, and how it’s all wrong. They said the same when slavery was abolished and again with civil rights.
Fact is, that a society as violent, misogynist, racist and unequal as America clearly doesn’t have enough PC. And those who ignore or deny it, are complicit in it. They keep it going, and ensure it won’t change. Quite how the political right and their conscience manage this really does beggar belief – whether Christian, Atheist or Jedi!
Oh, and in sum, very dim Les.
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One worrying aspect is the support for Putin from the far right of conservative political parties, not so much here but certainly in America and other countries. Very similar to their support for Hitler pre war. Of course there was even support for Hitler here pre war.
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Given that Trump’s moronic speeches are some of the worst I can think of, yes.
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You implied that Palestinians understandably turn to Hamas due to Israeli action. I was countering that with the supposition that Israelis would take a hardline stance against Hamas in a similar manner, so this can’t really be used as an excuse. It just continues the cycle of violence.
Israel has a lot of problems, especially right now with Netanyahu (solidarity with the protests), but the idea that Hamas crimes can be excused as a reaction to Israel is nonsense, as is Israel as an apartheid rogue state. Palestinians have fewer voting rights in Gaza than Israel. Hamas rules with an iron grip and imprison dissidents; they torture them too. They control women and kill gays. This would still happen if Israel didn’t exist.
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