1. Trump's racism is often siloed off from the rest of his worldview -- treated either as a personal quirk or political opportunism. But I'd argue the racism is intimately intertwined with his strong man politics.
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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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That sounds right, in regards to his personality. So then is the fascism from people like Stephen Miller and Bannon using this to further fascist ideas and policies? Because the result of this administration is fascist.
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That NLR essay is superb...good stuff. As Jeet suggests, I think, it does underplay the centrality of a racist rhetoric against immigrants and African-Americans.
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NOPE. this is ahistorical AF. USA has all the "requirements" to be categorized as a fascist SOCIETY solidly founded on genocide & racism. for so called "Leftists" to go into verborrheic rationalizations to avoid dealing with the R & G words *IS* a symptom of said acculturation
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Many fascist movements were patrimonial! The Metaxas dictatorship in Greece, for example.
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To be a fascist you have to have an ideology.
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A caudillo...things I hear out of mouths of GOP and some Dems are the same I heard as a journalist in Latin America from middle class supporters of caudillismo and military rule. That’s pretty much where we are except US racism is more virulent
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