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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums**** A Must Read****EXPOSED: DONALD TRUMPS SHAM POPULISM
Kevin McCarthy, the Republican House Majority Leader, went on Sean Hannitys show on Thursday night and tried to talk up the awful health-care bill that his party had just rushed through two committees. His message was aimed at the ultra-conservative groups, such as the Freedom Caucus and Heritage Action for America, that have come out strongly against the proposed legislation. McCarthy didnt try to claim that the bill would make health care more affordable or widely available. Instead, he defended its conservative bona fides, twice pointing out that it would repeal all the taxes that were introduced under the Affordable Care Acttaxes that mainly hit the one per cent.
Hannity, who is one of President Trumps biggest boosters, didnt hide his loyalties or his concern about the political firestorm that the bill has set off. This has to work: there is no option here, he said at one point. Later, he warned, As soon as it passes, you own it.
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Going back to late-nineteenth-century Germany, many of the most successful authoritarian populists have expanded the social safety net. Otto von Bismarck, the first Chancellor, introduced health insurance, accident insurance, and old-age pensions. The actual complaint of the worker is the insecurity of his existence, he said in 1884. He is unsure if he will always have work, he is unsure if he will always be healthy, and he can predict that he will reach old age and be unable to work.
During the twentieth century, Argentinas Juan Perón, Malaysias Tunku Abdul Rahman, and Singapores Lee Kuan Yew were among the authoritarian leaders who followed Bismarcks example. Today, if you look at the election platform of Marine Le Pen, the leader of the French National Front, you see something similar. Like Trump, Le Pen is a nativist, a protectionist, and an Islamophobe. But she is not proposing to dismantle any of the many social benefits that the French state provides. Rather, she says she will expand child-support payments and reduce the retirement age to sixty.
Trump, on the other hand, has little to offer ordinary Americans except protectionist rhetoric and anti-immigrant measures. Before moving to gut Obamacare, he at least could have tried to bolster his populist credentials by passing a job-creating infrastructure bill or a middle-class tax cut. Instead, hes staked his Presidency on a proposal that would hurt many of his supporters, slash Medicaid, undermine the finances of Medicare, and benefit the donor class. Thats not populism: its the reverse of it. And it might be a political disaster in the making.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/exposed-donald-trumps-sham-populism
Hannity, who is one of President Trumps biggest boosters, didnt hide his loyalties or his concern about the political firestorm that the bill has set off. This has to work: there is no option here, he said at one point. Later, he warned, As soon as it passes, you own it.
...
Going back to late-nineteenth-century Germany, many of the most successful authoritarian populists have expanded the social safety net. Otto von Bismarck, the first Chancellor, introduced health insurance, accident insurance, and old-age pensions. The actual complaint of the worker is the insecurity of his existence, he said in 1884. He is unsure if he will always have work, he is unsure if he will always be healthy, and he can predict that he will reach old age and be unable to work.
During the twentieth century, Argentinas Juan Perón, Malaysias Tunku Abdul Rahman, and Singapores Lee Kuan Yew were among the authoritarian leaders who followed Bismarcks example. Today, if you look at the election platform of Marine Le Pen, the leader of the French National Front, you see something similar. Like Trump, Le Pen is a nativist, a protectionist, and an Islamophobe. But she is not proposing to dismantle any of the many social benefits that the French state provides. Rather, she says she will expand child-support payments and reduce the retirement age to sixty.
Trump, on the other hand, has little to offer ordinary Americans except protectionist rhetoric and anti-immigrant measures. Before moving to gut Obamacare, he at least could have tried to bolster his populist credentials by passing a job-creating infrastructure bill or a middle-class tax cut. Instead, hes staked his Presidency on a proposal that would hurt many of his supporters, slash Medicaid, undermine the finances of Medicare, and benefit the donor class. Thats not populism: its the reverse of it. And it might be a political disaster in the making.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/exposed-donald-trumps-sham-populism
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**** A Must Read****EXPOSED: DONALD TRUMPS SHAM POPULISM (Original Post)
DemocratSinceBirth
Mar 2017
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Interviews on NPR with these trump voters reveal a total misunderstanding
The_Casual_Observer
Mar 2017
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The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)1. Trumps supporters are too dumb to know what he's doing.
I sometimes think trump is too dumb to know what he is doing too.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,711 posts)2. It's National Socialism without the Socialism.
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)3. Interviews on NPR with these trump voters reveal a total misunderstanding
Of the facts and reality of this situation. They say that trump is doing stuff, like nobody else has ever done for them. Trump has done nothing but run up the stock market on the wish that he will deliver all sorts of shit.
He will deliver to the USA what he delived to. Atlantic City.