The other candidates cringed before the billionaire blowhard. Asked directly about Trump's racist diatribe against Mexican immigrants, in which he called them rapists and criminals, Ohio Governor John Kasich praised him for "hitting a nerve in this country."
Not one candidate criticized Trump for attempting to buy the election. That is because they are all dependent on billionaires no less reactionary, bigoted and ignorant to finance their own campaigns.
It would have been more fitting if Fox News, instead of putting the names of the candidates on cards in front of their podiums, had put the names of the billionaires who are bankrolling them. Instead of Ted Cruz, for example, hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer; instead of Marco Rubio, auto mega-dealer Norman Braman; instead of Scott Walker, TD Ameritrade boss Joe Ricketts, and so on.
The Cleveland debate presented the spectacle of a ruling elite that has lost its head and is incapable even of addressing, let alone resolving, the social and economic crisis gripping the country. American capitalist politics is spiraling out of control.
The Republicans' Democratic rivals offer nothing different in substance, although they seek to cover their political nakedness with populist rhetoric about defending "ordinary Americans" and the "middle class."
Leon Trotsky once wrote that Nazi propaganda reduced political thought to the level of "the dog's bark and the pig's grunt." Something similar is happening in the disintegrating capitalist political system of the United States.
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