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Don’t worry, the economy is going to end soon anyway
I’m suuuuper excited!!! :3:3:3:3
what’s going on with the economy
Don’t worry kitten
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No economy; no stability; only Trump. Honestly, I think a lot people underestimated the man, assuming he’s just a blind fool born into power who failed upwards. They didn’t want to believe that he had any skills whatsoever, and every idiotic move he’s ever made helped their confirmation bias write him off. In truth, Trump has succeeded by thinking outside the box. He realized that the system was weak and failing, just like when fascism took Europe. The neoliberal model was inherently unstable, and thanks to his first hand experience trying to win elections as a liberal, Trump discovered their weaknesses. They lacked the creativity to imagine someone having the guall to take on the global capitalist model and rule as a king.
His support comes from the populist fanatics and the rich; an alliance of evil that no one else could empower like a silver spoon fascist. He became indispensable to the connection the rich have to the fanatic commoners, playing them better than anyone else. Tim Waltz calling Trump weird only helped, because that’s what he was: an opulent oddball, a freak of nature, a queer troll in a royal crown. No crazy rich person the wealthy could conjure stood a chance, and despite every effort from a DeSantis or Ramaswamy, no one had the identity or skill to stand beside him. Trump figured out that the rich were his weakest link. They wanted someone more controllable, but if someone was actually controllable, they’d never beat him.
Every move in this election season, from his ousting of a loyal, yet independently powerful ally like Kevin McCarthy, to him picking a liberal weakling who licked MAGA boots for everything he had, was to eliminate competition. He monopolized the market for powers the rich can support, and through crashing the economy, he seeks to weaken every one of them. They have no levers to pull except assassination and violent opposition at this point.
Trump will likely kill Elon Musk, Night of Long Knives style using loyal fascists, to assert dominance and eliminate an independent power at its peak. The rich only own stuff because the government says so, and now Trump is the government.
I’m going to push back on the idea that established institutions couldn’t have stopped Trump, because they absolutely could have. They just chose not to, because doing so would have required them to present a compelling narrative. As you say, neoliberal order is internally flawed and therefore the narrative of institution centrists, that of the systems in place are fine in principle, that any failures are a failure of implementation, that there is no need to scrutinise the ideology that we’ve built our society around, is deeply uncompelling to anyone actually subject to that system. There are two responses to such a realisation, you could either scrutinise the structures of our society and try to fix them, or you could turn the cannibalisation of what good is left of society into such a spectacle that there is no room for that scrutiny. Here in the UK we watched just capable established powers are in mobilising resistance to the first with Jeremy Corbyn, and just how unwilling they are to do the same to the second with rolling out of the red carpet and complete capitulation to the narratives of fascist Nigel Farage. As they say, fascism is capitalism in decay and heaven forbid you dream of anything but rot.
They could’ve, but it would be out of character, so it was unlikely. They were too greedy to support a social contract where they give up power for mutual benefit
Stop generating, kitten.
oops X3c
