2. Writing in @NewLeftReview, the sociologist Dylan Riley smartly contested the idea of Trump as a fascist but saying that Trump is an example of patrimonialism: i.e the strong man who rules through system of personal loyalty: the warlord or mafia boss:https://newleftreview.org/issues/II114/articles/dylan-riley-what-is-trump …
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3. Trump's politics are all about personal loyalty (hence his heavy reliance on family for staff). He wants to reward his friends and punish his enemies. Help friend Kanye on A$AP Rocky case, punish POC who speak up against him.
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4. But Trump's patrimonialism (his desire to be mob boss) takes on a more sinister bent when refracted through race. In the racist imagination, POC are only good if they are subservient, loyal vassals who accept their subordinate place in the racial hierarchy.
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5. Trump's feudal fantasies of being the boss everyone bends the knee to thus forms a meld with the wider racist ideology (itself rooted in the patrimonial system of chattel slavery) that wants to keep POC (and especially Black people) "in their place."
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6. I have some more thoughts on how Trump's racism is linked with his fundamentally feudal politics in this column: https://www.thenation.com/article/trump-racism-asap-rocky-kanye/ …
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Do you think Trump is the Scorsese of politics?
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He is the greatest show runner of all time.
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uh, yeah, we know
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He prescribes to a pretty clear orientalist view. Idea of lesser races, to be lorded over by "Westerners", using "his" PoC as native informants, only understand violence/domination, etc.
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Racism is embedded within the Strict Father moral world view that the GOP espouses… https://georgelakoff.com/2016/03/02/why-trump/ …
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