Trumpism/The Right: The Establishment for people who say they don't like the Establishment
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It's the status quo for people who say they don't like the status quo.
It's the system for people who say they don't like the system.
They don't actually scrap or abolish anything. Did Trump say "Don't worry about my audits... because I'm abolishing the dollar"? Wouldn't that have been the biggest anti-"elitist" move anyone could have done ever?
Didn't Trump just pick career politicians like Elliott Abrams or Elaine Chao instead of say, I dunno, pick random names out of a hat to serve in his administration?
Why don't Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene start their own party instead of being tied with the whims of Mitch McConnell?
You see, it's like one of those telephone psychics, they say something vague and generic about someone's father who had a name starting with 'F' and him saying something important and there will always be someone who says "YES! My father was named Frederick! And he told me to buy a house on the east side! You must be the real deal!" They say things that "shaking things up" and it appeals to so many people; the people who are genuinely jilted, the people who don't like the parties in charge, and yes, the people who are upset that the government now has people of colors, genders, and religions they don't like in it now. All united in that.
It's like nobody stops to think that the "establishment", the "status quo", the "deep state", or whatever you call it could actually co-opt anti-establishment rhetoric and cliches, sell the slogans for 5 bucks a pop, and get them into office. That they could become the "things" in the "need to shake things up".
Bookmark this thread because in 2022 and 2024, we'll see "shake things up" and "need an outsider" all over again, and we need things like this to counter that.
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