USA Policy positions of Donald Trump; let's see how many he achieves

[swingdog]

At this stage, you just have to laugh and watch a country unravel.

The thing that hasn't been picked up (that I've seen) is the perfect confluence of the Right's long march since the 1960s, working through changing appointees to institutions, ignoring and re-shaping norms and capturing state seats of power (much of it driven by an ideological obsession with a second-rate order issue: abortion), and Trump's populist rise.

The Right really do play the long game and Project 2025 is the end result. This is their moment and they can re-shape the US forever. The question will be whether they can cement on ongoing autocracy (a la Hungary) or the institutions are strong enough to recover (e.g. Poland).

The centre and left have really been blind to this long game and their naive faith in their norms and institutions is coming back to bite them. The pundits tryin g to rationalise this within their old framework of thinking are as much to blame as anyone. They've been playing by the rules while the right has been playing to win.

 

[OneGreatClub]

Right wing male influencers and podcasters have radicalised male youth.
Psyops. Simple.

 

[carltonchelsea]

I will rule with an iron fist!

Starting with yourself of course!

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

Nah read HTW’s stuff in the Israel thread

LOL I never go there but I have no doubt the whole thread is a paragon of sober analysis and dignified, respectful exchange of ideas.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

At this stage, you just have to laugh and watch a country unravel.

The thing that hasn't been picked up (that I've seen) is the perfect confluence of the Right's long march since the 1960s, working through changing appointees to institutions, ignoring and re-shaping norms and capturing state seats of power (much of it driven by an ideological obsession with a second-rate order issue: abortion), and Trump's populist rise.

The Right really do play the long game and Project 2025 is the end result. This is their moment and they can re-shape the US forever. The question will be whether they can cement on ongoing autocracy (a la Hungary) or the institutions are strong enough to recover (e.g. Poland).

The centre and left have really been blind to this long game and their naive faith in their norms and institutions is coming back to bite them. The pundits tryin g to rationalise this within their old framework of thinking are as much to blame as anyone. They've been playing by the rules while the right has been playing to win.

Could not agree more.

As a progressive, I am under no illusions about how much better the right play the long game, and have commented as such many times.

What I can’t get my head around is how they sleep at night.

Just imagine effing Johnny Howard, to give a local example.

If he’s honest with himself, he can’t deny that he made the country he led significantly less equal.

“Well, if nothing else, I turbocharged inequality” is hardly the thought you want to be having when you turn in every night.

Or do they seriously think they’ve made things better for the majority of people? LOL.

Or do they really just not give a **** and it’s all just window dressing and sugar coating for the fact they’re out to rip as much out of the common wealth for their own personal aggrandisement as they can get away with?

 

[Saint]

Right wing male influencers and podcasters have radicalised male youth.
Psyops. Simple.

They had to become disaffected first. That's the first step, and a lot easier when people are poor and poorly educated.

 

[magpie_marty]

I reckon these ridiculous nominations are just pure distraction for the news cycle while they are up to something far worse.

Good point.
Makes sense

 

[Farmer2Goggin]

A bloke simulating oral sex on a microphone is apparently presidential material

I had some crazy shit on my election Bingo card but not that .....

 

[Aussie in exile]

A bloke simulating oral sex on a microphone is apparently presidential material

Which show you how dumb them Americans are who voted for the felon.

 

[Xtreme]

Which show you how dumb bright and astute them Americans are who voted for the felon.

 

[Baldur]

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/11/g-s1-33741/trump-stephen-miller-deputy-chief-of-staff-immigration-policy-deportations

"Miller's appointment — which does not require Senate confirmation"



Stupid does not even come close.

 

[SeaOfFire]

Could not agree more.

As a progressive, I am under no illusions about how much better the right play the long game, and have commented as such many times.

What I can’t get my head around is how they sleep at night.

Just imagine effing Johnny Howard, to give a local example.

If he’s honest with himself, he can’t deny that he made the country he led significantly less equal.

“Well, if nothing else, I turbocharged inequality” is hardly the thought you want to be having when you turn in every night.

Or do they seriously think they’ve made things better for the majority of people? LOL.

Or do they really just not give a **** and it’s all just window dressing and sugar coating for the fact they’re out to rip as much out of the common wealth for their own personal aggrandisement as they can get away with?

They come from an educational environment which views poverty as a moral failing. So, if you are poor it means you have let opportunity slip through your fingers and thus have nobody to blame but yourself.

Whether they truly believe that, is unknowable - but it is what makes their position on inequality fundamentally unassailable with reason and logic. It is the same line of thinking that a woman in a short skirt is gagging for it.

By placing the responsibility on the victim rather than the perpetrator, it allows a great many difficult questions to be sidestepped or ignored. And so long as the right people and institutions are enriching themselves, you can thus be shielded from scrutiny - and therefore avoid scrutinizing your own actions.

Australia has never fully divested itself of its inherited class system - witness the private schools etc. And we lack the historical dissatisfaction to challenge it. We have always believed in convenient tropes (aussie battlers make it good, everyone can own their own home, the lucky country etc etc) and do not actively or broadly assess or discuss them - we simply accept them because it is easier to accept the status quo rather than make waves.

Australia is a nation built on self-deceit.

 

[troybe]

Autocracy incoming imminently, I think I’ll defer to Teddy’s stance on critique

 

[Aussie in exile]

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/11/g-s1-33741/trump-stephen-miller-deputy-chief-of-staff-immigration-policy-deportations

"Miller's appointment — which does not require Senate confirmation"



Stupid does not even come close.

You would have to be pretty dumb to have wanted donny to win if your undocumented in the US.

 

[Gough]

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Autocracy incoming imminently, I think I’ll defer to Teddy’s stance on critique

After January 6 he shouldn’t have been allowed anywhere near office again.

 

[SeaOfFire]

You would have to be pretty dumb to have wanted donny to win if your undocumented in the US.

Yes, thats one explanation.

Another one is that you are witnessing vast numbers of people who believe that the bad things will happen to "those others" and not themselves. That by handing the whip to the master, he will look kindly upon you and beat the other person and not you.

I suggest a visitation to the Room 101 scene in 1984.

It is only when the subject wishes the hurt and torture upon his allies (family, loved ones, close associates etc) that the tyrant knows his control is complete.

 

[magpie_marty]

After January 6 he shouldn’t have been allowed anywhere near office again.

Thanks to the Judges (Supreme Court) Throw in Cannon in Florida and not to mention Garland waiting 2 odd years to start legal proceedings.

 

[liz]

Thanks to the Judges (Supreme Court) Throw in Cannon in Florida and not to mention Garland waiting 2 odd years to start legal proceedings.

Or the Senate Republicans who bottled it when they had the chance.

 

[magpie_marty]

Or the Senate Republicans who bottled it when they had the chance.

Moscow Mitch etc great point they could gave should have ended this nut case

 

[Royces Hart]

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Autocracy incoming imminently, I think I’ll defer to Teddy’s stance on critique

Will Miller only be able to perform his role under the cover of darkness?

Surely he won’t be seen in the daylight.

 

[Satan]

Thanks to the Judges (Supreme Court) Throw in Cannon in Florida and not to mention Garland waiting 2 odd years to start legal proceedings.

Garland waited till the j6 report was out , did not want 2 investigations at once so not to pollute .the docs case was extra work for him and slowed down the washington case

 

[Satan]

Will Miller only be able to perform his role under the cover of darkness?

Surely he won’t be seen in the daylight.

Voldermort