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Nexus X HumectressBy Keith Preston
It increasingly looks to me like the Deep State, with the assent of the ruling class generally, is trying to pull a coup against Trump similar to the Chilean coup of 1974, with Trump assuming the role of Salvador Allende and Hillary perhaps ironically assuming the role of Augusto Pinochet.
I always thought something like that would probably happen if a maverick candidate was ever elected President. Trump is not nearly as maverick as some other figures might be (for example, if someone from like Ron Paul, Jill Stein, Eugene Puryear, Kshama Sawant, Darrell Castle, Louis Farrakhan or David Duke were elected), but, like a mafia godfather, the imperialist overlords apparently tolerate not even a smidgen of real dissent or disobedience.
Given that I consider Trump to have been, all things considered, the more progressive of the two major candidates, the Pinochet-Allende analogy fits well there as well. The current efforts to undermine Trump’s election are a CIA-sponsored right-wing coup engineered on behalf of the American ruling class against a comparably liberal nationalist who is being accused of serving as a tool of the Russians. Just like Allende, Arbenz, Mossadegh, Sukarno, and so many others. Only this time it’s a domestic rather than foreign coup.
https://ia802300.us.archive.org/…/Killing%20Hope%20How%20Pr…
Trump is a “liberal” only when compared to the normal Republicans and the Hilllaryites. As I have said in other posts, the regular Republicans are ultra-hawks comparable to Israel’s Likud Party on foreign policy, and hold reactionary plutocratic views on economics similar to what you would find among the right-wing parties in El Salvador and Honduras. Trump strikes me as an old-fashioned Nixon-Rockefeller moderate Republican, with some old fashioned Mondale-Gephardt labor protectionist ideas on trade. While he uses George Wallace like popuilst rhetoric at times (which Nixon also appropriated), Trump is clearly a social liberal who has no problem with gay marriage and transgender bathrooms.
He is “liberal” in the sense of at least giving lip service to the idea of reducing poverty and unemployment as opposed to the “Let them eat cake” attitude of the normal Republicans and the Hillaryites. He is liberal in the sense of apparently favoring a Nixon-like detente relationship with Russia and China, as opposed to the neocon and Hillaryite idea of encircling Russia with NATO and military bases in Central Asia, antagonizing China in the South China seas, and overthrowing Middle Eastern governments that reject the Washington Consensus.
Ironically, it was the Nixon administration that was behind the Chilean coup in 1974. Now the Deep State wants a coup against Trump because another Nixon would be too liberal for their tastes. That shows how far things have fallen in recent decades. The US has gone from being a centrist liberal democracy to being a right-wing oligarchy.
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‘He is liberal in the sense of apparently favoring a Nixon-like detente relationship with Russia and China, as opposed to the neocon and Hillaryite idea of encircling Russia with NATO and military bases in Central Asia, antagonizing China in the South China seas, and overthrowing Middle Eastern governments that reject the Washington Consensus.’
It’s still baffling to me how many people I know who voted for Hillary and don’t know anything about her foreign policy, or deny it when pressed.
“It’s still baffling to me how many people I know who voted for Hillary and don’t know anything about her foreign policy, or deny it when pressed.”
My experience has generally been that Hillary fans don’t care about foreign policy, and that’s been the general trend among liberals and leftists generally in recent years. The antiwar Left virtually disappeared during the Obama years. Recall that Bernie Sanders barely even talked about foreign policy during his campaign. Hillary is essentially a neocon on foreign policy, or might as well be. Even on the far Left, foreign policy is at most just another laundry list issue along with transgender restrooms, gay marriage, cultural appropriation, bicycle paths, etc etc etc.