The ogre so many among the wannabe intellectual, arty, academic, liberal and student circles love to hate, is back, brought back by the working class who those first mentioned look down upon as second-rate citizens. Those who conceive themselves to be of higher class, entitled to make the rules for all others have received a mighty shock. They believed they were in an unassailable position to perpetually govern those they regard as rather ‘ignorant’ and uncouth who they think were in fact born to serve them while knowing their place. They believed their rightful role was to govern, to discipline, control and punish those beneath them, keeping them from straying. This was the role envisioned by the so-called great and good for themselves, the intellectuals, academics and all the other high-flown and entitled liberal elites and they expected all lesser mortals to be content with this, for them convenient, status quo.
The ‘great unwashed’ horde were supposed to be quiet and consume the rightful edits, narratives and agendas from those who ‘know better’, to accept their wars, to fight their wars when necessary and to applaud their wars through the vehicle of legacy news media. All that is now totally undermined with the rise of those ‘Unwashed’ hordes, adamant they will be hears and that their loud-mouthed and aggressive mouthpiece will be their agent of revolution, tearing apart that entitled and conceited liberal consensus. We won’t support your wars anymore and less and less of the poorer in this society will fight them either! At least for four years. The new and by the liberal class unexpected, unwanted and EXTREMELY unwelcome new Trump years.
Though Trump will be in office, will he be in power? Will he this time deliver on his promises? Will that swamp that he totally failed to drain and which remains as bog-ridden as ever? Will he once again be overwhelmed by ‘The Blob’, the permanent residents of the U.S. deep state who love nothing more than to see the USA at war? Will he TRULY engage Russia this time round or will he once again only APPEAR to do so while figuratively applying the knife to Russia’s back as he did last time? In 2016 he overrode Obama’s decision to forbid the Kiev regime lethal weaponry and without any doubt caused the deaths of a great many Russians who would ot have died otherwise, in doing so. Will his instinct to do what is best for HIM override all other priorities? Will his instinct to ‘MAKE TRUMP GREAT AGAIN’ blind him to what might make the world once again more peaceful?
Clearly Trump will embark once again on an expanded economic war against China. In doing so he will attempt what he recently claimed he would do, tear Russia and China apart. Can there be any doubt that his warm words toward Vladimir Putin and Russia will be seen to be mere semantic shoe-shuffling when compared to his dedication to weakening and splitting those two allies apart? Trump may think he is amazing and has the power to effect great change but we must hope he concentrates on the enormous woes of his own country before trying to inflict them on others, namely on the BRICS nations and specifically upon Russia and China. On Ukraine he talks big, but what can he deliver? It must be strongly suspected that his campaign trail rhetoric, designed merely to strike a powerful pose will find the actuality quite impenetrable and intractable. No easy solution will come from some simplistic, unrealistic and woefully naive banging of Russian and Ukrainian heads together. Neither will threats work, especially not against Russia. Of all bets on Ukraine, telling Zelensky that the U.S. cupboard is now bare as far as he is concerned is the very best of them. No more handouts. Tell the Ukrainian beggars they can now go wanting, see what the paupers of Europe can offer, or better still, get the best deal you can from Russia that it is still willing to offer.
He’s back. He appears stronger than ever. But will a newfound wisdom and humility be seen due to his years in the political wilderness. Will humiliation have taught him some of that vital ingredient, the humility that can come from eating the worst of crow? We have to hope so, because bravado and mouthing off won’t cut it any more if it ever did. And asking neocons to come protect you won’t either. The stupidity of that first term in taking on ideological monsters such as John Bolton, Mike Pompeo and their ilk was about as wrongheaded as it gets. With this second chance there is at least the merest possibility that truly great things can be achieved. They won’t be achieved however by setting the USA against the BRICS and the idea of a multipolar world however. Take that avenue and you walk down a cul-de-sac Donald, a road to the various wars, economic or otherwise, that the entire planet is thoroughly sick of. Beware that pugilistic stance you love so much. In some humility, walk on and see what true good you can do… for ALL of us.
What will it be this time Donald…?
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