Why US liberals refuse to acknowledge that Trump is a homegrown dictator

 

From Tocqueville to today, the real danger lies not in Trump's vulgarity but in the tyranny masked as democracy - built on illusion, repression, and majority rule without dissent

Liberal imperialists, who would have been delighted with either Joe Biden or Kamala Harris as president in the last US election, are now up in arms, mourning the global embarrassment Donald Trump has caused them on the pages of The New York Times and beyond.

Trump is too obvious, too crass, too vulgar an imperialist. Their first instinct is to disown him as an anomaly. He looks like a Latin American dictator, an African despot, an Oriental tyrant, or a Russian czar.

He is cast as the American version of Erdogan, Putin, Sisi, Xi - anything, anywhere, so long as it seems far from the US of A. He cannot possibly be American. Except he is - more than any of them - representing 77,284,118 Americans just like him, who eagerly rushed to vote him into power.

This is a bizarre intellectual malady on full display in the US, where badly defeated and demoralised liberals refuse to acknowledge that Trump is a 100 percent American phenomenon. 

He is a homegrown dictator with unabashed fascistic proclivities, barely able to contain his urges, and surrounded by equally 100 percent American sycophants - worse than any clown or court jester ever conjured from their Orientalist imagination.

Just summon your courage and look at his cabinet: doormat lickspittles, competing in barefaced sycophancy.

This is all American. "Made in America." It is not an import. They are making America great again!

Without owning up to Trump as a homegrown crook with a crown on his head, this country will never have a snowball's chance in hell of disentangling itself from this murderous mess.  (more...)

Why US liberals refuse to acknowledge that Trump is a homegrown dictator