The WSWS Trotsks are addicted to trying the old opportunistic entryism tactic despite consistently becoming corrupted by CIA type libdemcap slogans. As soon as you bite the “Trump is an aberration” bait you’re instantly poisoned to think that some Democrat election victory is an improvement, somehow, vaguely. The whole idea of Trump exceptionalism is that Trump isn’t simply an uncouth, unpolished manager of western capitalism but otherwise exactly the same type of functionary but somehow different and worse as if multiple Trumps don’t control both parties as a class regardless of more polished public facing career politicians who aren’t as obnoxious as him. Basically politics on the level of liberal bougie aesthetics and what is palatable to some affluent urban elite. Some polished rabid interventionist like Obama or the Clintons is fine to them.
Trump should be seen as even more characteristic of the system itself, capitalism-imperialism without PR clothes, randomly opportunistic, chaotic, populist etc otherwise the trap of post-Trump “return to respectable capitalist normalcy” springs automatically.
Unfortunately as long as these views dominate then most energy is getting siphoned into the Democrat “humane imperialism/capitalism” scam, nobody will have to enforce dictatorships because there’s no organized interstate working class movement to threaten the system itself (only low level resistance to ICE and the intention to vote Dems next time) and more polished bougie liberal approved candidates will return. Same thing that happened after the 99% thing when Bernie acted as the bait for the same type of electoral politics scam.
Basically middle class bougie liberals are implicitly framing this as social class semantics, as class shame about internationally being represented by some pro-redneck populist that makes them look lower class (existential level problem for liberal social capital, can’t look bad through associations with uncultured bougies but a military-industrial complex puppet politician with 5 PhDs is perfectly desirable).
It’s lowkey a type of stress over making the real workings of the system too obvious and ruining manufactured consent so why the hell do the Trotsks also feed into this instead of framing Trump as an absolutely typical bourgeois overlord that is finally not hidden behind the PR curtain of professional politicians? They’re all exactly like that in function. Not to mention that the entire mainline discourse about Trump is great man theory of history in its most extreme.
The WSWS Trotsks are addicted to trying the old opportunistic entryism tactic despite consistently becoming corrupted by CIA type libdemcap slogans. As soon as you bite the “Trump is an aberration” bait you’re instantly poisoned to think that some Democrat election victory is an improvement, somehow, vaguely. The whole idea of Trump exceptionalism is that Trump isn’t simply an uncouth, unpolished manager of western capitalism but otherwise exactly the same type of functionary but somehow different and worse as if multiple Trumps don’t control both parties as a class regardless of more polished public facing career politicians who aren’t as obnoxious as him. Basically politics on the level of liberal bougie aesthetics and what is palatable to some affluent urban elite. Some polished rabid interventionist like Obama or the Clintons is fine to them.
Trump should be seen as even more characteristic of the system itself, capitalism-imperialism without PR clothes, randomly opportunistic, chaotic, populist etc otherwise the trap of post-Trump “return to respectable capitalist normalcy” springs automatically.
Unfortunately as long as these views dominate then most energy is getting siphoned into the Democrat “humane imperialism/capitalism” scam, nobody will have to enforce dictatorships because there’s no organized interstate working class movement to threaten the system itself (only low level resistance to ICE and the intention to vote Dems next time) and more polished bougie liberal approved candidates will return. Same thing that happened after the 99% thing when Bernie acted as the bait for the same type of electoral politics scam.
Basically middle class bougie liberals are implicitly framing this as social class semantics, as class shame about internationally being represented by some pro-redneck populist that makes them look lower class (existential level problem for liberal social capital, can’t look bad through associations with uncultured bougies but a military-industrial complex puppet politician with 5 PhDs is perfectly desirable).
It’s lowkey a type of stress over making the real workings of the system too obvious and ruining manufactured consent so why the hell do the Trotsks also feed into this instead of framing Trump as an absolutely typical bourgeois overlord that is finally not hidden behind the PR curtain of professional politicians? They’re all exactly like that in function. Not to mention that the entire mainline discourse about Trump is great man theory of history in its most extreme.