Who’s at the wheel? Anybody?
As much press and blame and… praise?… as Trump gets, many of us know that he’s as much puppet as string puller, and there’s more going on than just a vindictive man child usurping power and reaping the benefits of his title.
Surely we cannot leave out JD Vance, Stephen Miller, Kevin Roberts, Russell Vought, Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel, and the rest of the filthy rich who have skin in this game of power consolidation and political favoritism and sham Christianity. And let’s not forget all the enablers at Fox News and OANN and the rest—the farm system for more than a few who serve in this administration.
Plenty of words and theories get thrown around, when it comes to putting a label on what we’re witnessing—fascism, authoritarianism, dictatorship, throwback Naziism, amateur hour—a gaggle of losers pining for the days when men were men, women were pretty faces and baby factories, and white people enjoyed their undeserved status as masters of destiny. And there was always someone to pick on, to blame for one thing or another.
Weakness masquerading as strength, incompetence running rampant, a President tilting the playing field and challenging everything that has made America a true experiment in self-rule.
It’s not that Trump thinks his way has merits and benefits for the citizenry. He doesn’t have a way, or a plan, other than self-enrichment and revenge. It’s more that others are telling him what they want and what they think best fits their vision for a country run top down by zealous capitalists and out-of-touch “visionaries.”
People who are on their way to Mars, while many more are just trying to put food on the table, or grasping for ways to validate their existence.
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