As a nationalist, Trump is supported by the white nationalist alt-right, with the former Breitbart editor being his chief strategist. As a nationalist in the mold of Hitler, he has brought out from under the rocks the racists and bigots with his demonization of Mexicans and refugees and Muslims, used as scapegoats to displace anger onto those defenseless groups targeted for hatred, using fear as the catalyst.
Ultra-nationalism, which Trump has espoused, is the basic ideological underpinning of fascism from Hitler on. It constructs an "us vs them" conflict which can only be resolved by expelling or extermining THEM.
Globalism is the spread of oligarchic capitalism to all corners of the earth: with businesses in over 20 nations, and 95% of his workforce in slave labor nations, some held literally as slaves (Dubai, where Pakistani workers have had their passports confiscated so they cannot leave), and having vowed to bring the jobs home, not having brought one job from his own foreign enterprises home, we are no longer surprised when Trump flip-flops, contradicts himself and embraces that which he has formerly attacked to gain power (e.g. Wall St, globalism and neo-con war waging).
Trump is a nationalist because his campaign was based on the fascist appeal to the patriotism of those whose anger at the oligarchs and globalists is displaced onto the harmless and defenseless Mexican immigrants and Syrian refugees. He is a nationalist in the same sense that Hitler said he represented the "true left" as he sent the actual left of trade union leaders and socialist party leaders to Dachau to be worked to death.
Trump's clothing is made in China, Bangladeshi ,where garments workers earn $60 a month, and other nations which allow slave labor. When will he bring these jobs home?
He is a globalist because he flipped-flopped on his decision that the US was terminating its participation in NAFTA. He is a globalist because his fortune is based on cheap foreign labor.
And he must insist that no one controls him, despite reversing nearly every key position he has taken. He said NATO was "obsolete," but after talking to the NATO chiefs, he came out and said "I am a big fan of NATO."
He said the intelligence agencies were acting like Nazis in claiming his campaign had contacted the Russians after he publicly asked Russia to intervene to help him defeat Clinton. But after he talked to the intelligence agencies, he came out and said: "I am a big fan of intelligence" and he went to the CIA and told them "I love you....I am 110% behind you."
And after blasting the neo-cons for such bad policies as regime change, intervention, and Russia-bashing, he appointed as his advisors and cabinet members a crew of seasoned neo-cons and promptly escalated conflicts in Somalia, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, with threats of violence against Syria and North Korea. Now he is a globalist, after basing his campaign on being the anti-globalist. All a rational person can say is: WTF?
[Photo above: crushed garment workers in Bangladesh where Trump clothing is made, after a building collapses.]
He says "I'm the only one making the decisions" while giving the generals ("I know more than the generals") a free hand to manage conflict, escalate wars, etc, thus shifting responsibility from himself to those he has put in charge.
And, last, for a man who has lied all his life ("truthful hyperbole") and ran on the Big Lie of immigrant criminality, he says "Believe me." This is the man, we are asked to believe, who, after a botched raid allowed the target to escape but killed 9 young (beautiful) children, called the raid "a huge success."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master--that's all."
Who controls language controls ideas; who controls ideas controls people. And in Politics and the English Language, Orwell tell us that the great enemy of language is insincerity and "'If thoughts can corrupt language, language can also corrupt thoughts. ' This corruption of political discourse he found as essential to fascism and totalitarian mind control. Or as Hitler put it, repeat a lie ofen enough and people will believe it is true.
So which Donald should we believe? The one who campaigned against the "murderers" on Wall St and the evil globalists or the one who has 6 Goldman-Sachs alumni on his staff and today proudly says, "I am a globalist?"
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