Trump's performance in the now Corona-spread White House reminds the world of Mussolini. Mussolini was the arch political actor before WW2. Beside him Hitler looked thin and frail. Hitler was a vegetarian. He wanted war but had to learn his most pompous struts in the cities from his architect, Albert Speer. From Mussolini's imperious marches to his vast office, to his insistence on keeping his palace alight into the night to prove his long hours of work, the grandiose Mussolini presented himself nothing less than a lesser God. Bar a vicious attack to create a miniature empire in Ethiopia, war was to fall on him.
Trump set up a slow motion, carefully lit and staged film, ending with the throw-away of his mask, to tell his 'fellow Americans' that, like a Superman, he felt 20 years better than before. Trump had thrown away the world's pandemic
How the hell did America get here?
The world has Trump (and his followers and imitators) because of the politics and economics that preceded him. Trump, (like Mussolini) emerged from the continual disasters that evolved out of crises and crashes in capitalism and the political leadership that emerged out of these disasters.
The relentless slow crash of industry in the US and the seemingly endless decline of the wages, of the jobs, of the housing, of social conditions over 30 and more years, were headed by political leaders that accepted, indeed promoted, the consistent rise of the super rich and the consistent failure to establish any significant reform. From Reagan to Obama, the steps were built for Trump.
At this moment millions of Americans are hoping that their majority vote, by post as well as in the ballot boxes on November 3, will be enough to stop Trump from being able to squeeze his creeps and creatures in the offices among the key States, pretending a 'victory' on the night, then confirmed by the Supreme Court's acceptance of that 'no postal votes will be allowed' after the 3rd. The US Constitution could be about to be imploded. And the truth is Biden - if he managed to get over the gate at all - will simply rehearse the tragedy that is swelling.
Millions are certainly needed. But not for Biden. They are needed, as in Belarus, on the streets, in a battle for a different society.
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