| Trump the
Great
By Paul Craig
Roberts
November 27,
2016 "Information
Clearing House"
- Liberals, progressives, and the left-wing (to the
extent that one still exists) are aligning with the
corrupt oligarchy against president-elect Trump and the
American people.
They are busy
at work trying to generate hysteria over Trump’s
“authoritarian personality and followers.” In other
words, the message is: here come the fascists.
Liberals and
progressives wailed and whined about “an all white male
cabinet,” only to be made fools by Trump’s appointment
of a black male and two women, one a minority and one a
Trump critic.
The oligarchs
are organizing their liberal progressive front groups to
disrupt Trump’s inauguration in an effort to continue
the attempt to delegitimize Trump the way the paid
Maidan protesters were used in Kiev to delegitimize the
elected Ukrainian government.
To the extent
any of the Trump protesters are sincere and not merely
paid tools of oligarchs, such as George Soros, military
and financial interests, and global capitalists, they
should consider that false claims and unjustified
criticism can cause Trump and his supporters to close
their ears to all criticism and make it easier
for neoconservatives to influence Trump by offering
support.
At this point
we don’t know what a Trump government is going to do. If
he sells out the people, he won’t be reelected. If he is
defeated by the oligarchy, the people will become more
radical.
We do not know
how Washington insiders appointed to the government will
behave inside a Trump presidency. Unless they are
ideologues like the neoconservatives or agents of
powerful interests, insiders survive by going along with
the current. If the current changes under Trump, so will
the insiders.
Trump got
elected because flyover America has had all it can take
from the self-dealing oligarchy. The vast bullk of
America has seen its economic prospects and that of
children and grandchildren decline for a quarter
century. The states Hillary carried are limited to the
liberal enclaves and oligarchy’s stomping grounds on the
NE and West coasts and in Colorado and New Mexico, where
effete wealthy liberals have located because of the
scenary. If you look at the red/blue electoral map,
geographically speaking Hillary’s support is very
limited.
We know that
Hillary is an agent for the One Percent. The Clintons
$120 million personal wealth and $1.6 billion personal
foundation are proof that the Clintons are
bought-and-paid-for. We know that Hillary is responsible
for the destruction of Libya and of much of Syria and
for the overthrow of the democratically elected
government in Ukraine. We know that the Clinton regime’s
sanctions on Iraq resulted in the deaths of 500,000
children. These are war crimes and crimes against
humanity. We know Hillary used government office for
private gain. We know she violated national security
laws without being held accountable. What we don’t know
is why groups that allegedly are
liberal-progressive-leftwing are such fervent supporters
of Hillary.
One possible
answer is that these groups are mere fronts for vested
interests and are devoid of any sincere motives.
Another
possible answer is that these groups believe that the
important issues are not jobs for Americans and avoiding
war with nuclear powers, but transgender, homosexual and
illegal alien rights.
Another
possible answer is that these groups are uninformed and
stupid.
What these
protesters see as a threat in Trump’s strong and willful
personality is actually a virtue. A cipher like Obama
has no more ability to stand up to the oligarchy than a
disengaged George W. Bush so easily stage-managed by
Dick Cheney. Nothing less than an authoritarian style
and personality is a match for the well-entrenched
ruling oligarchy and willful neoconservatives. If Trump
were a shrinking violet, the electorate would have
ignored him.
Trump did not
purchase his presidency with the offer of handouts to
blacks, the poor generally, teachers unions, farmers,
abortion rights for women, etc. Trump was elected
because he said: “Those who control the levers of power
in Washington and the global special interests they
partner with, don’t have your good in mind. It’s a
global power structure that is responsible for the
economic decisions that have robbed our working class,
stripped our country of its wealth and put that money
into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and
political entities. The only thing that can stop this
corrupt machine is you.”
It has been a
long time since the electorate heard this kind of talk
from someone seeking public office. Trump’s words are
what Americans were waiting to hear.
As willful as
Trump is, he is only one person. The oligarchy are many.
As impressive
as Trump’s billion dollars is, the oligarchs have
trillions.
Congress being
in Republican hands will spare Trump partisan
obstruction, but Congress remains in the hands of
interest groups.
As powerful as
the office of the president can be, without unity in
government changes from the top don’t occur, especially
if the president is at odds with the military with
regard to the alleged threat posed by Russia and China.
Trump says he wants peace with the nuclear powers. The
military/security complex needs an enemy for its budget.
It is
absolutely necessary that a lid be put on tensions
between nuclear powers and that economic opportunity
reappears for the American people. Trump is not
positioned to benefit from war and jobs offshoring. The
only sensible strategy is to support him on these issues
and to hold his feet to the fire.
As for the
immigration issue, the Obama Justice (sic) Department
has just worsened the picture with its ruling that
American police departments cannot discriminate against
non-citizens by only hiring citizens as officers. Now
that US citizens face arrest in their own country by
non-citizens, the resentment of immigrants will
increase. Clearly it is nonsensical to devalue American
citizenship in this way. Clearly it is sensible to put a
lid on immigration until the US economy is again able to
create jobs capable of sustaining an independent
existence.
If Trump can
defeat the oligarchy and save America, he can go down in
history as Trump the Great. I think that this prospect
appeals to Trump more than more wealth. Instead of
trying to tear him down in advance, he should be
supported. With Trump’s determination and the people’s
support, change from the top down is possible.
Otherwise, change has to come from the bottom up, and
that means an awful lot of blood in the streets.
Dr. Paul Craig
Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall
Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week,
Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He
has had many university appointments. His internet
columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts'
latest books are
The Failure of
Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the
West,
How America Was
Lost,
and
The
Neoconservative Threat to World Order. |
