downwithtyranny | Biden is the candidate of the elites, of almost everyone who counts
in America. For them, Trump is an aberration, a mole that must be
removed.
If that isn't obvious, it should be — the evidence is everywhere, from
all the non-Fox news sources, to the behavior most of our public
figures, even to the behavior of a great many Republican leaders.
Given this as context, let's look at the possibility of a "descent into
Trump-led totalitarianism" during and immediately following the next
election. In short, will Trump seize power, dictator-like, to win and
rule like Mussolini?
This is the Big Fear in Democratic eyes, the one we've been hearing
about, week after week after week. It's possible, of course. But
consider:
1. Trump doesn't have the backing of the military; they've made that
perfectly clear. Without the military, the only possible coup will have to come from the courts.
2. Trump may have the instincts of a dictator, but he doesn't have the skills or the desire to put in the work. Frankly,
if he really wanted to be a dictator, he'd be one already.
He's an egocentric, relatively mindless, easily distracted, lazy,
unbright narcissist whose monomania is simply himself — the incoming
adoration he basks in minute-to-minute; the minute-to-minute state of
his pleasure; the joy he takes in disrupting any room he's in before he
leaves it.
Sure he's a person like the rest of us in many ways — he's functional,
or his kids would put him away — and he has a feral understanding of
interpersonal dominance.
But he does wake up each day asking, "How can I be more like Mussolini?"
It doesn't seem so. From all appearances, instead he wakes up asking,
"How can I enjoy myself today? Where's my fun going to come from? Let's
start with a couple hours of Fox, and see where things go from there."
3. Finally, as noted above, Trump is not the candidate of the
oligarchy, of the American hegemonic state and most of its "private"
organs like CNN and the mainstream press.
Biden is their candidate, and it's been obvious since forever.
The oligarchy wants Trump gone, and wants it badly. The
military wants him gone,
the CIA wants him gone, the press wants him gone, the diplomatic
service wants him gone, and most of the billionaires want him gone. Yes,
some are neutral and a few, like Sheldon Adelson, are rabid supporters,
but most of the rest — CEOs of Google, Apple, military and security
companies like Raytheon and Boeing, and any business doing business in
China — are truly set against him.
Bankers are perhaps agnostic about his election, but if they have
pro-Trump preferences they can easily surrender them. After all, the
bankers will make bundles either way. Same with the energy giants. Biden
is talking a decent climate-change game, but his
actions send messages everyone understands: "Fossil fuel profits are safe in my administration."
The risk that the Democratic Party will disrupt the Establishment game
has been dispatched. They kicked Sanders and his people off the
Interstate months ago. Let them complain; it's back roads for all of
them now. As an alternative to Trump, the Party now offers a new Ronald
Reagan, their sleepy iteration anyway, and they're begging Reagan voters
to vote for him.
