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Predicting The Trump Regime’s Next Moves
How so much of what Trump and his lackeys will do is obvious
The “news” media is inevitably focused on idle sensationalism because that’s the easiest way to grab eyeballs for a few monetizable moments. But as ordinary people are jostled from one context-free piece of sensationalism to the next, the big picture is lost. And so people react but do not see what’s obviously coming next. The purpose of this article is to recap briefly what the Trump regime has already done in less than a year and then we’ll look at what it will proceed to do over the coming months.
How is it possible to predict with great confidence the actions of a regime on top of which squats a creature notorious for his total imbecility and in possession of an attention-span shorter than that of a hyperactive gnat?
The answer to this question is simple: all dictators use the same playbook, either consciously or otherwise, because it has always worked and will always work. Hitler and Stalin and Mao were all blood-brothers when it came to the basics of their respective dictatorships and today Putin and Xi and Trump are no different. Ideologies may pretend otherwise, but in reality dictators always do the same things for the same reasons. The last few months have demonstrated clearly that Trump and his slithering…
