chapotraphouse

I still contend that Donald Trump is a fucking idiot. Therefore he has surrounded himself with sycophants instead of anyone of any intellectual value; let alone, of moral merit, or ethical principles. Because sycophants also tend to be incredibly stupid. There's not a lot "there", when it comes to Donald Trump's game plan. The Republican party is made up of opportunists and true believers in a conservative project, vehemently opposed to civil rights, as advanced from 1930s - 1973; with the culmination of Civil Rights and Roe v. Wade. And I say conservative, but it's really white supremacist, anti-communist, christo-facists. Because Conservatives operate on ideology, rather than dialectical thinking, or if they do, they are amoral and evil people, protected from their own policies – they do not give a shit. Their goals are directly opposed to equality, fairness, justice, and mercy and they ignore material conditions; therefore they are acting in extremely cruel and offensive ways. Because of how polarized society has gotten, Republicans/conservatives/racists just hang out and talk to other racists; there's not a modicum of moderating influence on them. So they are, to quote Zizek, "eating out of the trashcan of ideology" only with other members of their in-group. They are at the slop trough, thinking it a banquet. What does this mean? The previously moderating influence of both big tent parties, made of disparate interest groups allowing for disagreement and moderating output, has fallen apart with the polarization of society, and the normalizing of extremes. Most republicans will agree with each other, either genuinely or out of fear of losing their job, in-group privileges, or network. The ultimate game plan is anarcho-capitalism and libertarian ideology with a mixture of anti-immigration natalism, all shades of white supremacy, or Fascism, really. The federal government and its power is a direct byproduct of, first, the civil war and reconstruction, and – almost 80 years later – the civil rights period, which has used Federal power and its superseding of state rights to (badly) protect American citizenship.

Because we are reaching several terminal crises at the same time: political, economic, geopolitically, and environmentally. The cultivation of anti-communist (fascist) forces and their ascendancy since 1950s. The ever declining rate of profit. The decline of unipolarity and shift of global hegemony to China; Man-made global warming and climate change. The conservative project which has been steadily chipping away at American values and Federal Power has finally reached its zenith, peak Conservatism, in the form of Donald Trump. They have control of the Supreme Court, House of Rep, and the White House. They know how unpopular all of their actions are, so they've taken to this rapid flooding of the zone, violent crackdowns, and contentious and standoffish relationships with the courts, as a way to repress opposition. They are trying really hard to avoid a repeat of the resistance, trying to overwhelm and repress the populace and the institutions that can, and were, of value when forming a resistance to Donald Trump in 2016: Academia, the Press, local organizations, unions, protected federal employees, the courts, etc.

Do they believe they'll assert total control of the government? I don't think so, which is why I think the repression around the upcoming mid-term will be a true test of whatever remains of liberal values. If America makes it to 2026 mid-terms, I am 50% sure Donald Trump is going to lose the Senate and House. I am also sure he is going to test the limits of voting intimidation, voting crackdowns, federal election manipulation, and other insane maneuvers that will be so obviously crooked and corrupt, that the country will explode – if it doesn't explode this summer, I honestly don't think this shit is sustainable.

Do these people believe that they'll be able to assert total control of all government institutions by 2028? Or is it some form of fascist self destruction ritual? Because right now even the chuds are having second thoughts about their party.

The fascist, white supremacist project in America, is to have just enough government to enact brutal crackdown on progressive movements and forces within the contiguous United States. Milton Friedman, Murray Rothbard, Friedman's son, the Kochs, evangelicals, and hundreds of other conservative "thought leaders" invested in libertarian and anarcho-capitalist ideology as a way to destroy progressive, and contradictory, wing of the U.S government, which concerned itself with welfare and civil rights. Fascism is also a highly self-contradictory ideological formation, and in my own observations, and for lack of a better word, a death cult. It aims at destroying everyone it deems the other, and therefore, its believers end up also destroying themselves.