He stands as the mascot/scapegoat of the minority faction in a global power struggle.
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Replying to @ChoralsScholar @russiancosmist
No, he just lost. There isn't a minority faction, he was a challenge to the elites, now he's gone.
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Replying to @eugyppius1 @russiancosmist
He was backed by different elites. You, wadr, are simply playing a game of definitional three-card monte whereby any elite who supported Trump is not considered 'elite', and any establishment institution which supported Trump is not considered 'establishment'.
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I wouldn't say they "eased off their attacks" since they went after everything from his reputation to his legitimacy as officeholder. What did happen, though, was that the most shallow aspects of Trump's policies and rhetoric were attacked, more damaging aspects left alone.pic.twitter.com/NCJv7yl3Fe
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Replying to @ChoralsScholar @russiancosmist
I agree with more of this than you might imagine. I very much disagree that anyone in the establishment cares about the possible revolt of the dissident right or third positionists. These people have no power in the US (or anywhere)
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What might be called the 'nativist threat' is a bogeyman used to hold the American coalition of the fringes together.
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Yes, Trump alternated between giving his base what he wanted, at least rhetorically, which destabilised his presidency; and pandering to establishment positions, as a means of seeking cover and bringing some order to his position.
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It's unnecessary for everything else in that screenshot, to posit that Trump was somehow a controlled poison-pill psyop. Nobody cares about discrediting third positionists; if anything, they're eager to build them up as credible threat.
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In a way I find your approach entirely too optimistic. You're entirely right to speak of a System, and indeed it's a post-political managerial system that encompasses not only the entire political establishment, but elites in business and journalism/academia as well.
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