Have you not noticed that Trump ran on a fairly socialist platform?
I am not sure what you mean by that. As far as I could see, he ran mostly on fanning fear and resentment. Fear of murderous, Mexican and Muslim/ISIS rapists and moochers, resentment of foreigners who somehow are both undeserving lazy buns who don't pay taxes but who come here to get lots bennies and who also somehow take jobs that ought to go to Americans (despite their laziness), so they are responsible for unemployment/underemployment and low wages.
His critique and analysis makes no sense whatsoever. But it didn't matter to his followers. They were just happy to hear a ray of hope thrown their way. I suppose you are calling his tariff proposals "socialist", but aside from the fact that it isn't clear to me that he will get them through Congress, plenty of countries that call themselves capitalist also have tariffs of one sort or another (including of course the US; well, to the extent that there actually are capitalist countries, anyway; I don't think there are any in the sense in which "movement conservatives" mean it; in fact, there probably have never been, but never mind details like that).
What passes for Trump's platform is a mish-mosh of contradictory things (I can't even call them ideas) that he threw out to please his audience at the time. He learned from advertising/marketing that it doesn't really matter what you say, you just have to associate the thing you are trying to sell (in this case, it was himself) with good feelings, laughter, and positive thoughts. If you do that enough, you'll make the sale. Everything else is just noise. Including "platform" proposals. |
