"Trump's opposition to 'regime change' and 'nation building' is not pro-peace but rather, opposed to undue contact with the 'lesser races.'"
But the consolidated ruling class has a problem with Trump, and have set their covert operations dogs on a sitting president of the United States. Essentially, they have decided to sacrifice the credibility and legitimacy of the bourgeois state in order to effectuate regime change in Washington -- or, at least, to neuter the Trump presidency until the next election. What is amazing about this crisis, is that the ruling class, itself, is undermining the institutions that have served the rich so well since the birth of the Republic. The destabilization of the U.S. bourgeois state is a project, not of the Kremlin, but of multinational and finance capital headquartered in the U.S.
When the Lords of Capital conclude that they cannot rule in the old ways, we can be certain that the crisis is profound. The institutional Humpty Dumptys of bourgeois electoral rule -- the grandeur of the White House, the credibility of the press, the security of voting systems, the mystique of the secret services -- can never be restored; not after the mob defenestration of a president. The bourgeoisie have leaped into the abyss, like Wile E. Coyote.
The corporate media have no political life of their own, representing only the views of the conglomerates that own them. But, most of their writers and reporters share the social sensibilities of upper income folks that we used to call "liberal," or even "left-liberal." In order for the next level of fascism to smoothly take root, it must have at least the initial assent of this strata. The fake progressive is personified by James Wolcott, whose recent article in Vanity Fair slimes the "alt-left" -- publications like Counterpunch, Jacobin, and even Dr. Cornel West, the public intellectual -- as having some kind of "kinship" with the "alt-right," since both "alts" criticize Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Wolcott, whose prose reads like bad breath, is glad that the spooks have come out of the shadows to prepare the gallows for the billionaire from Queens. "If the Deep State can rid us of the blighted presidency of Donald Trump," Wolcott writes, "all I can say is 'Go, State, go.'"
To which I say, "Power to the People -- Death to the Fascist Pigs."
BAR executive editor Glen Ford can be contacted at Glen.Ford@BlackAgendaReport.com(Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).
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