It is Time to Cut Out All Pretense, Masquerades, or Duplicitous Illusions

Donald Trump is a Fascist 

by Charles Burris

 

 

Donald Trump, by his Epstein class donors and key Zionist (Israel First) advisors, his revised cabinet appointments and his rhetorical public statements over the past year and a half year since the election, has demonstrated his true colors: he is a reactionary throwback, an old-school corporate liberal, an Ur-Progressive in the mold of Herbert Croly or Walter Lippmann of the previous century.

Such Progressives, influenced by British Fabian “Social Imperialism” and Bismarckian state socialism in Germany, believed in statist government by paternalistic “experts” or “wise men” who were above ideology. In England, these were the members of Viscount Alfred Milner’s “Kindergarten,” who fashioned the welfare-warfare state and plunged the empire into the abyss of two World Wars.

Likewise in Germany this Hegelian “ideology of no ideology” was a precursor of what later emerged as National Socialism.

At the same time, FDR was hailed in the media as a great pragmatic leader, willing to try anything to get the country back on its feet and moving again. The same rhetorical clichés are being trotted out again, now applying to Trump.

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