Whatever fascist authoritarian policies Trump might introduce have only been made possible by the authoritarian powers enabled and maintained and used and expanded by the Democratic Party over decades of bipartisan anti-democratic policy. Remember that the post-9/11 "Patriot Act" was built on J. R. Biden's "Anti-Terrorism" legislation. The surveillance state, the transfer of military weapons to local police forces, the incarceration state, torture, extra-judicial killings ("targetted assassinations" or "murder") have all been embraced by Democrats as well as Republicans.
Trump, the man, is the perfect embodiment of the US-American zeitgeist. As was Biden. As was Harris. Trump represents the ageing, blustering, racist, patriarchal, deluded, boorish, bluster over substance, that is the current de-industrialized, super-corrupt, financialized, socipathic greedhead USA. Crumblin' Joe Biden likewise. Kamala Harris was a truly empty vessel.
In that video Greenwald shows how Kamala Harris kept to friendly, light, celebrity interviewers like Stephen Colbert. But when Colbert asked her for the substance of one of her signature campaign messages about how people want "change" she was momentarily stunned and subsequently was only capable of babbling about how she wasn't the same person as Biden and, more importantly, she wasn't Trump.
Here's another Greenwald video about the same topic:
Think about how empty-headed and stupid and shallow you have to be to have repeated a platitude for the biggest job you're ever going to try to get and having absolutely nothing to say when asked what you mean by it! So empty, lazy, entitled, delusional, to imagine that it's up to other people to project their own meanings onto the sounds you make with your mouth!
Trump is a vain, bigoted, demented, narcissistic, sexist, racist scumbag. He is all about himself. In the crudest way possible. His daughter Ivanka is an attractive young woman. He likes to fuck attractive young women. Therefore, it stands to reason (in his diseased brain) that he should want to fuck his daughter. That's the level that Donald Trump operates on. I believe that he will direct an attack on the FBI and the CIA who conspired against him with that "Russiagate" crap. He might pull-back from the "forever wars" because he realizes his victory, and his popularity in general, is based on the loyalty of the isolationist right-wing. But there will always be a struggle between that influence and the zionist billionaires who have also assisted him.
He'll strengthen the anti-choice fanatics in their crusade against women's bodily autonomy, he'll harass immigrants (especially Muslims and the Chinese), he's going to be terrible on China, he's going to be terrible on global warming.
But if you look honestly, the Democrats had no plans on the abortion issue other than to use the Republican threat as something to raise political donations from. Obama deported more immigrants than Trump did. Biden maintained many of Trump's immigration policies. The Democrats took the lead in antagonizing China. Obama and Biden both bragged about their contributions to increased fossil fuels extraction.
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