Why Fuhrer Trump is Poised to Defeat the Resistance

The Resistance to Trump is as weak and timid as it was during the presidency of Joe Biden when, despite several prosecutions, Trump was never nailed for January 6, 2021.

By

David Gottfried

Trump is a truly hideous president, but he may very well get re-elected. (Presidential elections will be held, as generally expected, in 2028. Whether they will have any semblance of fairness is another question entirely.)

You may think I am unduly pessimistic, but hasn’t Trump survived almost every confrontation that would, we thought, be his demise. In the 2016 race, when headlines screamed that he counseled “grabbing women by the pussy,” we thought that the Jerry Falwell camp would desert him, and Clinton would win. In October 2016, when he tweeted at 3, 4 and at 5 AM in the morning that a beauty contestant was a fat pig, some of us thought he had the behavioral traits of amphetamine and cocaine abusers and was too sick and psychically decrepit to win.

When it was disclosed that Paul Manaforte, his campaign manager in 2016, had gotten millions of dollars from Russia and that Russia gave him this money surrepticiously (Instead of sending him checks, Russia paid Paul Manaforte’s creditors, such as people who sold Manaforte homes and clothing stores.), and when it was disclosed that Trump’s first national security advisor was a de facto Russian agent and that half a dozen of his close aides, include the wily Jared Kushner, had lied to the FBI about their contacts with Russia, we thought it was an open and shut case: Trump is a Russian agent, asset and let’s not beat around the bush: A traitor.

However, Trump prevailed over all of these revelations and then he floated – like Jesus allegedly walking on water – over January 6. Even though it was absolutely clear that he had engineered and ordered the demolition of our democracy by a mob insurrection, the shmuck was elected President again.

I suppose our situation is a bit like Germany in 1939. At that time, people were amazed at the shit Hitler had gotten away with. And yet his most monstrous crimes had not yet been committed. Similarly, we are amazed that Trump has thumbed his nose at the most cherished features of American Democracy. But alas, we ain’t seen nothing yet. We have not seen what ills he will revel in while ruling after plainly having spit in the eye of the law.

Although Trump’s policies have been anti-American and pro-Putin (Ukraine), anti-economic growth (Tariffs), ante-diluvian (He fires and dumps on scientists the way Joe Mc Carthy used to harass suspected Communists), and anti-due process (He disobeys court orders and boots innocent people, without any court hearings or judicial review, out of the country and consigns them to torture in foreign “prisons”) the left, as usual, summons all sorts of sundry and provocative arguments instead of concentrating on its strongest arguments as to why Trump must be banished from politics.

We should Stress the greatest demerits against Trump and disregard attenuated and equivocal arguments.

The Stock Market has revisited neither 1929 nor 1987

Recently, some people had the idea that something akin to the Wall Street Crash of 29 just transpired, and they are citing recent tepid market corrections to claim that Hoovervilles are just around the corner. When it becomes clear that these corrections aren’t debacles, people will conclude that the “establishment” or the “deep state” has a predilection to create damning news stories to sink Trump’s presidency.

The Market has declined under Trump. On a couple of days, the Dow lost close to 4 percent of its value, and histrionic talking heads can’t decide whether that augured Armageddon or the storming of the Bastille. Apparently amnesiacs are well-represented among political scientists and economists because the news-casting Casandras don’t recall that in the fall of 1987, in the span of one day, the Dow lost almost one-third of its value; the next day, the median FMV for one bedroom apartments in Manhattan fell by 25 percent and trading on IBM was halted for a considerable length of time because not a single buyer for IBM could be found in the United States.

At the time of the 1987 crash, Republican Ronald Reagan was president. A staunch defender of the imagined sanctity of private enterprise who eschewed any federal involvement in the economy, Reagan knew that it was time to ignore his inane ideology, and he sent his minions to Wall Street with instructions to buy every debt instrument in sight thereby infusing billions and staving off a depression. One year later, in 1988, George Bush, and his Ken Doll lobotomized running mate, Dan Quayle, won 40 states out of 50. In 2008 and 2009, the market collapsed, and the Dow was down to the low 6000’s at its Nadir, March 2009. On one strange day in 2009, it lost several thousand points, or about 20 percent of its value, in less than an hour; most of the loss was swiftly recovered.

By the end of the Obama presidency, when Trump was elected by claiming that Obama cursed us with socialism and economic decline, the Dow had almost tripled in value (On November 1, 2016, a few days before Hillary was defeated, the Dow stood at 18,142.42)

So much for the notion that breadlines and mass hunger is upon us, and the polity is poised for Socialist revolution.

Trump has not hemorrhaged support

Similarly, the anti-Trump camp joyously reports that his approval rating is low, noting that it hovers at around 41 percent. However, during his first term, Trump’s approval rating almost never exceeded 44 percent. (Incidentally, Richard Nixon’s approval rating was in the low 40’s throughout 1971, but he won 49 out of 50 states in 1972.)

Trump’s approval rating has hardly declined even though he has been worse, both psychologically and politically, than ever, i.e., he is crazier than ever and crueler than ever.

Soon after taking office, he exhibited two traits that have perhaps never before existed within the brain of one perverse politico.

In his ineffable madness, Donald Trump has exhibited the megalomania and rapaciousness of Adolf Hitler along with the inane, infantile antics of Bozo the Clown.

When he summarily said that the United States should take Panama, Canada and Greenland, he relayed a ravenous, Caesarian streak for more and more territory that recalled Hitler.

However, when he said he wanted to take those countries, those innocent countries which have friendly relations with the United States, he seemed as ridiculous and as unschooled as a second-grade child who will treat the Pentagon’s armaments as his personal stache of paper airplanes. (And given Pete Hegseth’s predilection to invite outsiders into supposedly secret military conversations, it appears as if the nation is being run by kiddies from the Peanuts Cartoon Series, as they seem to behave like a gaggle of slow-witted children who think they are grown-ups.)

Truthfully, his threat to start goosestepping over the frozen wastes of Greenland reminds me of a comic movie, the name of which I can’t recall, in which a small, poor nation declares war on the United States, immediately surrenders and then makes a mint by applying for foreign aid. ` If Trump were not real, his Presidency would be like a not very hot script lying around Hollywood.

In any event, even though Trump, in just the opening scenes of ACT 1 of his second term, has been sick enough and stupid enough to A) claim Greenland, Canada and Panama, B) change his mind on Tariffs on several occasions, repeatedly imposing tariffs, and then pausing the implementation of tariffs, and then imposing and pausing them all over again, appearing indecisive, confused and flustered, C) to express so much hostility to government and science that he has even fired doctors who are on the lookout for the entry of extremely deadly infectious diseases into the United States, including Ebola and D) has made it clear that he believes he is free to break the law as he intends to run again in 2028, his decline in popularity has been very slight.

His psychic tentacles have dug in deep into the vulnerable depths of his flocks’ mushy minds. The Trump “volk” are as deluded as Germans, penniless and starving in 1945 but still praising Der Fuhrer for having built the “autobahn.”

Trump’s Minority Status Will Not Preclude his Continued Control of American Government because Political Minorites, when sufficiently violent, ardent and adamantine, will always defeat the Majority of a Nation when that Majority is too peaceful and indecisive

Also, Trump’s minority status does not mean he cannot take over the nation and stay in power when his term expires.

Political movements will triumph over a nation that for the most part hates those movements when the adherents to such political movements are extremely aggressive, adamant and absolutist in making their demands and will back up their demands with violence.

Hitler’s best electoral showing stood at about 37 percent, but his minority of Germany was able to take over Germany because it fought without mercy. Trump only had several thousand rioters at Washington on January 6, 2021, and he did not stop the transition of power, but he almost did. Similarly, although the term “BOL” IN Bolshevik means majority as the hardline revolutionists in Russia’s socialist movement constituted the majority in their socialist party, in the Russian nation as a whole the great mass of Russians did not know anything about Marxism let alone agree with it.

However, the Nazis took over Germany, the Bolsheviks took over Russia and Trump almost took over the nation on January 6, 2021 because these groups were resolute, organically opposed to compromise, and quite willing to commit murder to advance their objectives.

Unfortunately, in this country the bad guys always fight harder than the good guys. During the four years of the Biden administration, vast numbers of progressive, liberal lawyers, including the United States Justice Dept. and the attorney generals of several different states, all prosecuted Trump. And they all fell flat on their face. (When the law seems like such an awkward, apish dunce, Fascism is enormously boosted.)

The masculine protest phenomenon has put combative and combustible factions in power throughout the world, and Trump has been riding a wave of male rage that might be invincible.

Daniel Bell, in “The End of Ideology,” (1960), said that political movements, and particularly insurgent political movements, had a leg up, or a distinct advantage, when they benefited from a dynamic known as the “masculine protest phenomenon.”

The masculine protest phenomenon is a phenomenon in which a male, or a group of males, behave in an aggressive, confrontational manner to combat feelings and fears of effeminacy or homosexuality.

Daniel Bell argued that the masculine protest phenomenon was a subtle but decisive motive force in the demolition of Tzarist autocracy. Of course, the great masses of peasants knew nothing of the psychosexual behavior of the Tzarist court and could not have been swayed by feelings regarding the sexuality of their monarch or his decadent Court.

However, many students, soldiers and intellectuals in moderately close proximity to the Tzarist Court were, supposedly, sickened by the Russian nobility’s effeteness, incompetence, fixation with the finery and fancy accoutrements of being a noble, and general air of decrepitude --- and, more specifically, a sort of decrepitude befitting an aging dowager empress.

The men of the Russian Court, cossetted in silks and satins and without the slightest measure of stress and strain in their silly, pointless lives, seemed vaguely effeminate to the soldiers and students. While the poverty of Russia, and the Tzarist government’s hideous prosecution of the recent war with Japan and World War One ¹

gave the Bolsheviks the rationale for toppling the Tzarist regime, the contempt for the effete and effeminate Russian Court provided the “elan vital” for the Bolshevik insurrection.

Similarly, the male protest phenomenon was very much in evidence in the Cuban revolution. Fidel was bearded, hairy, loud and bespoke ferocious male arrogance. Indeed, Castro’s machismo dynamic was so apparent that even his adversaries challenged Fidel psychosexually.

According to Theodore H While, in the 1960 presidential campaign, Lyndon Johnson delighted Southern audiences by telling them how he would discipline Fidel Castro, telling them that first he was going to spank him, then he was going to give him a bath, and finally he was going to shave Castro.

Furthermore, leftist energy in the arts has often been fueled by the Masculine Protest phenomena, and this is evident in the social realist canvases of tough, hard workers laboring under the Latin American sun in Orozco or Diego Rivera or imprisoned in industrial tombs in the cinematic triumphs of Fritz Lang.

In the United States, the male protest phenomenon was very pronounced in rock n roll, and the angry demands for more sexual action and liberty seemed congruent to and positively correlated with the youth movement’s demand to terminate the draft and let men fuck with abandon.

However, today the male protest phenomenon, if it is at all present in today’s politics, is corralling people to flock to the Trumpian right. I am not saying that this is good. I am certainly not saying that it vindicates any of Trump’s positions or prejudices. I am stating it as simply a matter of fact.

Although Democrats benefited from a very strong female gender gap for Kamala Harris, unfortunately Trump benefited from an even larger male gender gap in his favor. While Hillary Clinton in her characteristically smug fashion may call these men deplorables (Can we at least agree that the women who cheered when Lorena Bobbit cut off her husband’s penis and threw it in a field was also, at the very least, deplorable), certain facts tenaciously remind one, again and again, that contemporary America is a bit of an Amazonian witch with respect to men:

College enrollments are almost 60 percent female, but feminists and educators, like a broken record, bemoan the supposed special suffering borne by women. In schools, male students who have been accused of harassing female students can be thrown out of school by a disciplinary process that denies male students the right to question his accuser. Female students, essentially, are given carte blanche to make up any sordid story their frustrated sexuality can fabricate and to use that story to consign a man to life without a college degree and permanently lowered and curtailed earning potential.

Being Bourgeois means not Getting one’s hands dirty, and the prim professionals who hate Trump will not have the balls to fight the way the Trumpian Rabble will Fight

Since the dawn of modern political history, at around the time of the French Revolution, the left was king in the slums, and the right got its support from the pampered precincts of privilege.

However, nowadays wealthier, better educated, more contented and privileged people tend to the left, and poorer people often gravitate toward the right.

Wealthier people have more to lose. They have homes, summer homes, stocks and bonds. If they were to get in hot water, politically or legally, their entitlement to their property might be tarnished. Poor people, by contrast, and as any good Marxist might remind you, have nothing to lose but their chains. To a comfortable, somnolescent rich liberal getting up off of his ass and fighting in the streets is a terrifying proposition. Any sort of striking change will fill him with paralyzing fear.

To the Trump voter, to the man or woman limping through life being laughed at by liberal social betters, the status quo is so miserable that any sort of change, even if it means bullets and bombs and the loss of one’s life, seems preferable. Therefore, they are more willing to take risks to effectuate dramatic and bloody change.

Yes, the Trumpers know that this nation was founded upon a belief in freedom, upon a belief in fair play and on the same damn humane verities that have been the pride of Western Civilization since the enlightenment. However, they believe the system is rigged. Yes, we have a legal system that supposedly rewards truth, but there are so many ways to punch holes in this legal system, and its appears that rats’ teeth have been gnawing away at foundation of American law.

Indeed, if progressives doubt the weaknesses of our legal system, they need only look at the case of the United States v. Donald Trump. Our supposedly great and flawless legal system let Trump, a man as guilty as sheer sin, off for January 6 and many more transgressions.

Yes, our legal system mouths all the right, glowing words, but it is as honeycombed with loopholes and mines and improvised explosive devices as the Normandy Beaches and the roads leading to Baghdad.

Accordingly, many Trumpers – and a growing number of Americans – long for something more dispositive, honest and faster than a dastardly legal process that camouflages rank thievery with the mincing minuets of 18^th century Jeffersonian liberalism. They – and maybe we – want to smash heads in.

The Anti-Trump Demonstrations will be wholly ineffective because they do not inconvenience Trump or his allies

Demonstrations ideally have the snap, crackle and pop of quasi military conflicts, but the anti-Trump demonstrators give us the timid sound effects of a breakfast cereal which touted that when one poured milk on its special corn flakes one would hear a symphony of snap, crackle and pop.

Many news outlets have been telling us, incessantly, that there have been many fierce and vocal demonstrations against Trump. These demonstrations are cited to give us the idea that a fierce and potent opposition is waiting in the wings, chomping at the bit, ready to storm the seat of power like the Barbarian hordes ready to roar into Rome.

However, Demonstrations are not effective unless they disturb, or at lease inconvenience, their opponents, the rulers in charge. If you want to demonstrate to shout down the despicable policies of your President, you must, at the very least, make some sort of trouble for your President, such as block traffic, shut down airports, block the transport of weaponry, etc.

However. today’s anti-Trump demonstrators are as orderly and as well behaved as young ladies at a finishing school. They do not block anything. They do not stop anything. No one is arrested as no one is ever the least bit disagreeable.

In truth, many people with a sufficiently slavish temperament can learn to live with fascism quite nicely. For example, although the Nazi occupation was a nightmare for Jews, labor activists, leftists, and the Roma people (gypsies), for the ordinary, compliant, cowardly moral dwarf, the occupation, in Western Europe prior to 1943, was often easily tolerated. I expect that many Americans, who imagine themselves erstwhile defenders of liberty, freedom of conscience, and our most stellar platitudes praising the good, the true and the beautiful, will learn to be compliant mice under the reign of Fuhrer Trump.

1. In both the Russo-Japanese War of 1905 and World War One, Russian soldiers had minimal training, minimal armaments and minimal food, clothing and shelter. The Russian aristocracy felt it needn’t spend too much time training its troops because the immense size of the Russian armies would eventually grind an opponent into the dust. Of course, when its troops had no training and limited munitions (In some battles, in World War One, some Russian troops were sent to fight the Germans without any guns.) Russian casualties have usually been enormous. Oddly and disgustingly enough, Russia still seems to have a hidebound disregard for its own troops as their casualties have been enormous, and their training has been minimal, in the current conflict with Ukraine.