Donald Trump has been made the central character in U.S. politics around whom everything revolves. But whether he wins or loses, the imperial status quo will be unchanged, says Caitlin Johnstone.
Former President Donald Trump addressing The Believers Summit at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, in July. (Gage Skidmore, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0)
By Caitlin Johnstone
CaitlinJohnstone.com.au
Listen to Tim Foley reading this article.
There’s a fuzz-brained narrative going around “MAGA” circles right now that if re-elected, Donald Trump is going to appoint Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to the position of C.I.A. director.
This narrative has been extrapolated from some very vague comments made by Donald Trump Jr on a conservative podcast last week.
It’s hilarious that anyone thinks this will happen, and it says so much about how perpetually gullible and confused Trump supporters are.
Trump’s C.I.A. directors have been Mike “We lied, we cheated, we stole” Pompeo and torture fetishist “Bloody Gina” Haspel, and they think he’s going to suddenly give the job to RFK Jr? Come on. Trump isn’t going to drain the swamp. Trump is the swamp.
To this day, even after watching four years of evidence to the contrary, Trump supporters still believe he’s going to end the wars, drain the swamp, and take the fight to the Deep State. They believe he’ll be fighting the Deep State even after:
- he imprisoned Julian Assange. They believe he’ll be ending the wars even after he
- ramped up Cold War aggressions against Russia;
- killed tens of thousands of Venezuelans with starvation sanctions;
- vetoed attempts to save Yemen from U.S.-backed genocide;
- worked to foment civil war in Iran using starvation sanctions and C.I.A. ops with the stated goal of effecting regime change;
- came inches from starting a full-scale war with Iran with by assassinating General Qassem Soleimani;
- occupied Syrian oil fields with the goal of preventing Syria’s reconstruction;
- greatly increased the number of troops in the Middle East and elsewhere;
- greatly increased the number of bombs dropped per day from the previous administration,
- killing record numbers of civilians, and
- reduced military accountability for those airstrikes.
- armed Ukraine against Russia over Obama’s legitimate objections.
They believe he’ll drain the swamp after he packed his cabinet full of neocon swamp monsters like John Bolton and Elliott Abrams.
In case you needed another reason to vote for democracy; RFK Jr., could be Trump’s CIA director: https://t.co/hegmhYB82t
— Frank Figliuzzi (@FrankFigliuzzi1) August 23, 2024
Rightists who are discontented with the American political status quo have been herded into supporting a politician who embodies that status quo as much as any other president, wrongly thinking they are waging a battle against the establishment by doing so.
And this is mirrored on the other side of the imaginary partisan divide in U.S. politics, with people making entire identities out of despising Donald Trump and acting like this makes them brave revolutionaries.
When Trump was first elected I had hope that the Democrats who’d fallen asleep at the wheel under Barack Obama’s administration would become politically engaged again and start criticizing the evils of the U.S. empire like they did during the Bush years.
But what actually happened was that while Democrats did start paying attention to politics again, they were corralled like livestock by the mass media into opposing things that had no relation to the actual realities of the U.S. empire and how it functions in the world.
Instead of focusing on Trump’s many depravities listed above, Democrats wound up spending years shrieking about a completely fake conspiracy theory that the executive branch of the U.S. government had been taken over by the Kremlin, only to lose interest and pretend nothing happened after the Mueller investigation failed to indict a single American over any involvement with Russia.
They spent all their political energy freaking out about Trump’s mean tweets and how rude he was to members of the press, while ignoring or even praising his administration’s reckless warmongering and tyranny around the world.
So Trump has been made the central figure in U.S. politics around whom everything revolves, and whether the election is won by those who support him or those who oppose him, the imperial status quo is guaranteed to remain unchanged.
As Americans become more and more discontented with the abusive nature of their nation’s government, a man has shown up who leads both Democrats and Republicans to believe that the best way to stick it to the man is to take a highly emotional position either for him or against him.
When really whether he wins or loses couldn’t matter less to those with real power.
Trump sucks all the oxygen out of the room for real discourse about real things. Under President Joe Biden at least we’ve been seeing some real opposition to real things like the U.S.-backed atrocities in Gaza, but under Trump it was four years of both mainstream political factions screaming about made-up nonsense under the delusion that they were fighting the power.
And that’s all mainstream electoral politics ever is in the U.S. empire: a fake, decoy revolution staged for the public every few years so that they don’t have a real one. A symbolic ceremony where the public pretends to cast the abusive status quo into the sea so they feel like the battle against their oppressors has been won.
And then their oppressors just keep right on oppressing them.
Every few years the public gets to choose between two reliable lackeys of the oligarchic empire, and then all of the evils of that empire get pinned upon the winner. The public then directs their rage at the lackey rather than the actual power structure which has been oppressing them, after which they have another election to rid themselves of the scoundrel once and for all.
They hug, they cry, they celebrate, and the oppression machine continues completely uninterrupted.
As Gore Vidal once said:
“It doesn’t actually make any difference whether the President is Republican or Democrat. The genius of the American ruling class is that it has been able to make the people think that they have had something to do with the electing of presidents for 200 years when they’ve had absolutely nothing to say about the candidates or the policies or the way the country is run. A very small group controls just about everything.”
That small group is the plutocratic class whose legalized bribery and propaganda machine has immense influence over U.S. politics, as well as the imperial war machine and special interest groups with whom the plutocratic class is allied.
It is necessary to form coalitions of support within that power cluster if one wants to become president in the managed democracy that is the United States, and no part of that power cluster is going to support a president who won’t reliably advance the interests of the oligarchic empire.
Pro-Israel megadonor Miriam Adelson brags about how Trump let Israel do whatever they want at a “Stop Antisemitism” golf club event pic.twitter.com/bx4zNosf7u
— HOT SPOT (@HotSpotHotSpot) August 16, 2024
From this point of view, the oligarchic power cluster is essentially running its own employees against each other and having them promise to end the injustices which are inextricably baked into the oligarchic empire.
Americans live in a totalitarian state whose most important elections are rigged from top to bottom, and they’re fed news stories about Evil Dictators in other countries rigging their elections to remain in power.
Politicians cannot change the status quo to one which benefits ordinary people instead of their oligarchic owners, because the oligarchic empire is built upon the need for endless war, poverty and oppression.
You cannot have a unipolar global empire without using violent force (and the threat of it) to uphold that world order, and you cannot have a plutocracy without ensuring that a few rulers have far more wealth control than the rank-and-file citizenry.
For this reason, even politicians who run on relatively progressive-sounding platforms are themselves a part of the fake decoy revolution unless they demand a complete dismantling of oligarchy and empire.
The politicians who present themselves as progressives in America today offer only light opposition to some aspects of empire and oligarchy, in effect merely supporting an oligarchic empire that gives Americans healthcare.
Since keeping Americans poor, busy and propagandized is an essential dynamic in the hub of a globe-spanning oligarchic empire, this is a nonsensical position; the oligarchs don’t want ordinary Americans to have money to burn on campaign donations and free time to research what’s really going on in their world, because then they might meddle in the gears of empire.
A power structure built upon economic injustice will never permit economic justice.
The door to meaningful change in America via electoral politics has been closed, locked, bolted, welded shut, and barricaded with a metric ton of solid steel.
The only thing that can cause an end to the oppression and exploitation is an end to the oligarchic empire, and the only thing that can cause the end of the oligarchic empire is direct action by the American people: mass-scale activism, national strikes, and civil disobedience the likes of which the nation has never before seen, in sufficient numbers to bring down the plutocratic institutions which maintain the status quo.
The problem is that this will never happen as long as Americans are being successfully propagandized into being content with their fake decoy revolutions. There is a zero percent chance of electoral politics leading to an end of the empire, but a concerted effort to spread awareness by those who understand what’s going on just might.
All positive changes in human behavior are always preceded by an expansion of awareness, whether you’re talking about awareness of the consequences of one’s addiction leading to their getting sober or an expansion of awareness of the injustices of racism leading to racial justice laws.
Making people aware that the mass media are lying to us about what’s real, aware of the horrors of war, aware of the underlying dynamics of the economic injustice which is grinding Americans into the dirt, that can lead to a chain reaction which sees the collective using the power of its numbers to shrug off the chains of oppression as easily as you remove a heavy coat on a warm day.
What’s needed is for the people to awaken to the truth. An entire empire is built upon a pair of closed eyelids.
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The idea that 325 million Americans could come up on their own with a presidential candidate best qualified to lead the nation is absurd. Of course voters are manipulated by the information they receive, and offered only the few candidates who have been put forward by those who have devoted their lives to acquiring political power. This merely describes how a mass society can be organized to function at all. Ours functions badly, you may say, compared to an imagined ideal society (though even your ideal and mine may differ considerably) but not as badly as many of those that exist elsewhere. Let’s fix what we can, and try to keep it from getting worse, but this great big world will never enjoy a government or a social structure that will embody complete freedom and justice. One freedom competes with another, and there’s never enough justice to go around.
8.27.24: “Democracy as Theater in Which Trump & Harris Play the Villains.” TY, Caitlin Johnstone & Tim Foley;
AND, the Divided $tates of Corporate America’s Consumers are chillin’ @ the intersection of “Sink or Swim,” in “Demockracy’s” River of $eduction’s shallow waters. “They” say “Consumers drive re$ults.” IF, that’s true, the DSCA’s Beast’s “got” an Election to $ell, You!”
For Example, “Exhibit A-Z:” IMO, “Balancing the Bull-$h*t,” aka November’s 2024 Ballot, it’s black & white:
…1) A Green Check is an alternative vote cast for anyone, independent of the duopoly, i.e., the $nake w/two (2) heads;
… 2) A Red Check “flashing!!!” Blue is an S.O.S., “STOP!” Itsa vote cast for “Code Blue.” No Matter, Whom,” i.e., Harris-Walz is a Biden-Harris, redux. Itsa “Same Oligarchy SHEnanigans,” S.O.S., “Keep America Dumb!”
… 3) A Red Check “flashing!!!” Orange is a hard “STOP!” From sea to shining sea, “Color It RED!” IMO, many, many, many “Votes” will be cast to “Make America Great Again!” “Make America Healthy!!!” Imo, Trump-Vance “got” people & technological bandwidth.
… 4) A Yellow Check reminds everyone, “There are three (3) things, worth having, in this world, “Courage. Common Sense. Caution.” For example, “DON’T, VOTE!” peace-out! “B A I L.” Onward & Upwards!!! Ciao
Two parties locked in mortal combat for power to run the war or criticize the other party running the permanent wars. The profit motive motives require flip flopping all the time disguised by culture wars of emotional good and evil doers over domestic rights.
The war machine is running the war machinery for permanent profits. It is the western world of merged religious Roman and Viking heavenly empires aiming for full spectrum dominance in warfare technology taking all of the world resources just for power.
Well Caitlin, much of what you post is correct although you did slip up on Syria as Trump attempted to take the troops out and was thwarted and it was Trump who negotiated the Afghanistan withdrawal.
As for his appointments, I agree with you that his appointments, especially Pompeo and Bolton, were beyond troubling.
The coup that hurt Trump was the FBI taking out General Flynn who would have provided Trump a solid roadmap. That is why Obama and company framed Gen Flynn. Nauseating.
Before the election Trump promised, if elected, he would release the JFK assassination files and introduce legislation for term limits. Neither happened and he revealed to his friend, Judge Napolitano, that he attempted it but was prevented.
So much Presidential powers
But here’s the rub…
First off, The job of US President is a difficult one and Trump was never allowed to devote unimpeded attention to learn the ropes much less to govern as a significant amount of his time was spent rebutting the 24/7 propaganda of Russia-gate and then the evidence free impeachments.
Secondly, he was surrounded by a treasonous staff… one reporter noted that files would be taken off his desk in the mornings. He fired a General, after learning he lied to him to get Trump to bomb Syria.
It is difficult to assess, if he prevails, what Trump will be able to accomplish in 2nd term. One can only judge a person by their actions… thus far RFK Jr, Tulsi Gabbard are very good choices…
The downside is Trump’s positive rhetoric concerning Israel. Again, one has to pause and think, what would happen if Trump criticized Israel? We all know the answer… and so does Trump
It is criminal that AIPAC has not been forced to abide by the FARA law and register as a foreign agent. That would be one step to getting back on track.
We appreciate your insights Ms Caitlin… kudos to you
You write as though Ms. Johnstone’s critique of the American Empire favored Trump, when the truth is that she sees him as just another toady of the nameless “oligarchical power structure” that rules America and the world. What she favors is direct revolutionary action. She writes: “the only thing that can cause the end of the oligarchic empire is direct action by the American people: mass-scale activism, national strikes, and civil disobedience the likes of which the nation has never before seen, in sufficient numbers to bring down the plutocratic institutions which maintain the status quo.”
This sounds to me like disorder on a scale that would result only in an anarchy leading to the rise of warlords and eventually to an out-and-out dictatorship. Meanwhile, other powerful countries, such as China, would step in to try to replace U.S. hegemony with their own. This might result in something like Orwell’s prediction of a world ruled by three super-powers: Oceania, Eurasia, and East Asia. That sounds even worse than what we have now – unless you like power and were among the privileged few.
Thank you Caitlin, If I was President you would be in my cabinet. Clearly the current political battle is once again doing nothing to promote a brighter future. I agree with you…we need direct mass action from the American People to bring attention to “the core of things”.
It is “the core of things” that needs to be brought into focus and determined. This is a monumental task… as we all seem to have our own list of core issues. Mathematically we need to find the lowest common denominator of our plethora of problems…and work from there. We need to be brutally honest as to the function and purpose of our lives in the spectrum of all living organisms. We need to examine our “core beliefs”. Our current political/media system is not capable of thinking (or imagining) this way. That is why WE THE PEOPLE must do it for ourselves.
I love you Caitlin! You have such a way with words and your thoughts are so succinct!
To gather any momentum against empire we the people would need to open not only our eyes but our ears, our hearts, our brains. To stop the madness that is our current world, we the people would need to stop enabling these oligarchs – but I don’t know if I have enough faith in the human race to ever see that happening. It’s as if most Americans love being oppressed victims instead of realizing they are just being manipulated to do what empire wants them to do.
Yet another accurate political assessment from Mrs. Johnstone.
Unfortunately, I believe what she describes requires a multi-layered thought process to comprehend – an invaluable process that allows us an ability to understand things that happen around us in greater depth which, due to a very longstanding committed policy of eugenics as a form of population management amongst elites, has practically been eradicated in the masses residing in ‘Five-Eye’ societies thanks, in no small part, to the introduction(beginning in America in 1980) of excito-toxic chemical ‘additives’ in all but the most expensive of foodstuffs. Additives that, incidentally, had already been found to cause generational reductions in IQ in mice around the latter part of the 1940’s, by Israeli scientists:
“Freider and Grimm did a study in Israel where they
fed pregnant mice an excitotoxin. The offspring had
normal learning for simple things but exhibited
severe impairment when tested for complex tasks.
Study of their brains disclosed the neurotrasmitter
acetyl choline was 80 % reduced and continued to be
reduced during the whole childhood of the animal.
These findings in mice suggest that profound
changes occur in the brain chemistry of children
that are exposed to exitotoxins during fetal
development.”
– Dr James A. Howenstine, A Physician’s Guide to
Natural Health Products That Work
Platopus has apparently absorbed levels of exitotoxins that have impaired his ability to spell “platypus.”
Versus writing it off as absurd, Caitlin’s link also shows RFK jr’s possibilities as positions with the FDA and CDC. These are more plausible. But the Dems are busy with the “weird” narrative at this time, and it would be easy to forget RFK jr’s work in his study The Real Antony Fauci.
Aside from Kennedy’s views on Israel, which are supportive, we should remember this work as a vaccine skeptic is a study utilizing numerous medical and scientific experts investigating the Covid epoch and its dubious underpinnings and seriousness. RFK writes in the role of reporter on these experts. During this time, Trump’s last year in office, various experts from Stanford also expressed their reservations, one of them being Dr. Scott Atlas. Trump allowed Atlas to voice alternative views on what was happening. Thus to put RFK jr in an administrative oversight position, if not the CIA, is somewhat plausible.
We’re still left with the essence of Trump egoism, with Caitlin’s list a good indication of the man’s incompetence. Add to it his current stance on Israel, “finish the job,” and Vance’s view that Iran needs a solid “punch.” All this indicates war with Iran might be one of Trump’s ideas for the upcoming, to follow on with his idiotic assassination of Soleimani.
What I have to say of course does not matter, but the entire shit show between both parties makes me convinced we need a third party and maybe a fourth party. Trust neither. Never will. My memory works and remembers the promises, undelivered by the democrats.
The democrats have so disgusted me over Gaza, Israel, and genocide is like a non starter. But what does a Trump offer? More of the same? ‘ Probably.
Who to vote for when there are no good choices except Jill Stein. She would not be effective in a swamp of corporate, AIPAC, and other interests controlling our government for the benefit of the few. The Majority of Americans have no sway, have reps who do not represent them. Our country is in dire straits if what I said is true.
A woman in Maine tried running against Susan Collins, the latter being supported by many Democrats. I loved what Lisa Savage said when crap media asked her what experience she had: “I have no experience taking corporate money.” Any human with a conscience would make a better representative than those we have.
The last president to buck the power structure had his head blown off in plain sight on a clear blue sky day.
The presidency to Trump is the holy (unholy) grail to him. He may have gloated in taking credit for the items Caitlin listed but he no more made those decisions than I did. Oh, but that’s conspiracy talk! The dumbest man to occupy the White House in my lifetime is G W Bush, hands down, and arguably the most criminal. He is about to be challenged for that distinction by Kamala Harris, provided more election hocus pocus. There is no better description of this election than a “shit show”. Just sit and think about how much money is spent on this, wasted on this, while the recipients of this cash make the masses dumber and dumber. Blowback is coming, it’s unavoidable.
I quit subscribing to Caitlin after the Trump assassination attempt. Because she minimized it, sounding like a Democrat. I’m sad to read in this article the same leftist mantra of “ruling elite bad, Trump bad”. I would encourage Caitlin to step outside of her comfort zone and ask herself why Trump was almost killed. How can the ruling elite be a monolith?
Caitlin constantly chides against black/white thinking, but she seems unable to concede that there is a revolutionary energy in MAGA that is potentially far more effective than a few leftist substack writers leading 4 internet socialists to a change in government.
I want a government of action that fights for working families, and for that we need to be practical and consider all gray areas of government, including who in the ruling elite does not appreciate the endless war machine that is bankrupting the country. Yes, there are billionaires whose fortunes depend on Americans having a decent standard of living.
thanks Rachel…it seems the deep state is much happier with Democrats ruling the country…the NeoCons happy to be consulted by MSM in the hands of the Dems….RFKJr knows what happened to his father and uncle….why wouldn’t want a role at least in declassifying the documents of Presi Kennedy and his father….the recent attempt on Trump’s life and the weaponization of the Justice Dept…..seems obvious what is going on….I worked on the campaign of Robert Kennedy and am glad his son is speaking truth yes to power…
On behalf of the “4 internet socialists”
“Yes, there are billionaires whose fortunes depend on Americans having a decent standard of living.”
You mean managers? The people who hire and fire “having a decent standard of living.”? 35 years, all I saw them do was calc 401K and schedule their next vacations.
Just so we are on the same page, here’s one 33 seconds in:
(h**ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnNjjAit-eY)
having lunch after laying off 15,000 people.
Good for you, Rachel. I agree.
It’s not just being “successfully propagandized.” It’s not merely a passive receptiveness or unawareness. There is a deep fear deliberately being shut out of conscious acknowledgement. Because if aware, what then? The cost of dissent is job loss and blacklisting, fatal to any American not among the very powerful and very wealthy.
So then denial becomes a strategy for survival. Especially for families with children. Clever conformity brings access to well paid jobs, a large house in a good neighborhood. Never look at what endless expansion is doing to environments. Believe that you deserve what you have and more. Vote for whatever sounds most like they will help you keep what’s yours. Or vote for whatever sounds most like they will help you get to a comfortable situation. Never consider the common good or any meaning to life other than accumulation; that raises too much inner dissonance.
Just remember: hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil. Not as moral practices, but as ways of remaining unaware, of denying the evidence of your own senses. The only way something like “vote for the lesser of two evils” could ever make sense.
Why anyone would not want to be a “MAGA” make America great again, confuses me. Caitlin, like most egotistical writers, likes to place anyone who thinks a President has a few good ideas, as someone who agrees with all. I was glad to hear some of the historical points she pointed out that she disagrees. But anyone that takes over a bad staff (including and especially the republicans) has to work through many transitions to get the right people up to speed. Remember the facts. Obama was spying on the President before he was elected. Bush, Cheney and the war machine were already forming an alliance with Democrats (the Lincoln project) to get him out right after election. After his swearing in, the Senate hosts a lunch. Watch it if you can, it was broadcast on PBS. Hilary Clinton was skulking around back of room and Trump graciously complimented her. Nobody said anything about this. Minnesota went through this when the electorate voted in the wrestler. I believe Trump is only one I have seen in this lifetime who can put our nation on the right path (not him alone, but all our checks and balances.. including press). This article along with most in mainstream just are about as deep as my sauté pan. Give me real choices and we may not be talking about the Trumper.
Caitlin writes an entire article, and you not only ignore it, you feel compelled to make an innocent reader like me read your comment.
“The only thing that can cause an end to the oppression and exploitation is an end to the oligarchic empire, and the only thing that can cause the end of the oligarchic empire is direct action by the American people:”
Your choices are:
“mass-scale activism, national strikes, and civil disobedience”
Very good comment. Thank you.
“Why anyone would not want to be a “MAGA” make America great again, confuses me.”
Hitler and Mussolini were all about wanting to make their respective countries “great again”. Perhaps you better be careful about what you think you want.
Make America great “again” implies that it was once great but had lost its greatness. When is that time that you regard America as having been “great”. And exactly how, in what way, do you consider that America was “great”.
CJ makes some great points, no doubt.
The only thing she misses is that there’s clearly a segment of our ruling class that’s tied into our mainstream media who despise Trump and run biased media material against him. Run a Google search on Trump, 90% of the stories are negative; run a Google search on Kamala, most of the stories are generally positive or at least neutral.
I’m no Trump supporter, but TDS is a real paradigm for anyone to observe who happens to have their eyes open. Hence, the Big Bad Trumpenstein at least in some way somehow threatens some aspect of the status quo arrangement for a certain branch of our elite.
I happen to think it’s his stance on immigration that’s ultimately at the core of things.
A flank of our parasitic financial oligarchy clearly favors unfettered immigration. They feel more safe and secure in a multicultural diverse nation and also of course reap great profits due to the low wages the influx of labor brings. This portion of our ruling class fears any sort of even mild nationalism; and in a paranoid way, they see it as the second coming of the Third Reich, except here in 21st Century America.
I think the difference between their backers are “at the core of things”
“Trump sits at the center of a diverse coalition of interests, facing opposition from the highest levels of American capital. His backers include fracking companies, long-standing competitors with the big four super major oil companies. They also include individuals tied to military contractors and weapons manufacturers like Betsy DeVos, his billionaire secretary of education. Bernie Marcus, the owner of Home Depot, strongly backs Trump, as does Nevada real-estate giant Sheldon [Miriam] Adelson.”
-Caleb Maupin
Kamala Harris & the Future of America p.38
“While Trump’s faction focuses on increasing its own short term profits, the “globalist” [Kamala Harris] faction that Trump decries focuses on maintaining stability while gradually implementing long term goals. Pouring billions of dollars into research and social engineering, the upper faction of US capital favors gradually and carefully reducing living standards, eliminating anti-imperialist governments around the world, transitioning to a more open global economy, normalizing police state repression in everyday life, and reducing the human population.”
-Ibid p.39
The Dems (Obama-Biden) had plenty of time to get the USA on the right track (12 years of the past 16) and they blew it on bailing out banks and bribery schemes in Ukraine, and creating a border crisis that impacts “sanctuary cities” and other communities, plus we are spendingn a huge percentage of the GDP, such as it is, on servicing TRILLIONS in debt.
And they blame Trump for the mess the USA is in. All they have is “Trump.”
Trump has made a couple of smart moves, bringing RFK Jr. and Tulsi on board—although I am horrified by both Trump and RFK on Israel/Gaza. Unfortunatley, the Dems of course are no better.
But they are also into censorship (see latest: letter from Zuckerberg to Jim Jordan), jab totalitarianism, woke idiocy, climate non-science, and other bad stuff that is worse than the Trump menu.
Signed,
A longtime Democrat, now unenrolled
What a difference between the two candidates and the two parties, though mostly this site ignores it. Why? I ask.
I agree with what you said including this:
… being “horrified at both Trump and RFK on Israel/Gaza.”.
Maupin’s listing of the coalition of elites supporting Trump doesn’t explain why he gets such harsh treatment from our mass media. The interest groups Maupin mentions would still make one scratch their head as to why at least 80% of the press coverage of Trump tends to be negative.
I do watch TV, sometimes with teeth gritted even the “news.” Fracking companies and weapons manufacturers do not put ads on TV, Big Pharma and Big Ag do.
The ethno-state is clearly behind the mass immigration plaguing the west. They are determined to create as much chaos as possible and this is one of the many ways to do so. This is the only reason I can think of that they don’t openly support Trump as he wants to put a halt to this craziness. I am not anti-immigrant and we need to stop persecuting the countries they are coming from.