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I've seen some posts today pointing some interesting things. While Trump is terribly racist and fascist, there are white supremacists and Nazis for whom he does not go far enough. There are far-right kooks who think Trump is not far enough right. Some pointed out he is too much of a capitalist to go that far, that in looking out for his bottom line, he avoids too much extremism because he'd start losing money.

On the other hand, he seems to have no financial goal for the country. Constantly flipping tariffs on and off, switching "buckets." Making propositions that any businessman would know is completely unrealistic. He has no idea how to be a capitalist either, it seems! So is he completely directionless? He just kinda goes wherever feels good to him at the moment? Is he possibly in some kind of cognitive decline, unable to make reasonable decisions, but since his base worships him no one can take the reins from him?

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[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I think he really is just trying to line the pocket of his and his kind. Probably combined with cognitive decline meaning he's having a harder time hiding it.

[–] Lamprey@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm in the hes trying to rug pool the American economy boat lol.

He's just super fucking cynical, grew up rich in the greediest generation. He's just doing a financial fraud publicly because he knows he'll get away with it. He's not ideological about the right wing stuff (social at least of course he's a capitalist), he just wants to make money

Now is that also scary? yeah he's a fucking psychopath. No scruples no convictions, will kill for money if that's the easier path forward for scamming

[–] fox@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

He's a white supremacist and spends money furthering white supremacy, so there's that

[–] Lamprey@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

He is in effect but it's not quite the same as a John Birch society guy or their ilk. He's a white supremacist in the way robber barons were.

It's splitting hairs, I know, but there is a difference

[–] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

At least it's an ethos

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