It’s true. That’s why I think you don’t necessarily have to be charismatic if we do have elections. I don’t think J. D. Vance is capable of leading the Trump train. But if we do have elections again, and there isn’t some sort of martial law — some sort of Insurrection Act being utilized in one of these cities that Donald Trump decides to besiege and then decides we’re not going to have elections or something — we don’t really have anything that’s going to hold him back. I guess we have the courts, but the highest court is completely captive to Trump’s interests. And I guess the same question remains: it’s the order of capital. Is fascism going to present itself as a mechanism of stability once again for our capital owners?
So far it does seem like that. And you see the market reaction to Trump’s belligerent behavior, or what we perceive as belligerent behavior, when he says he is going to invade Greenland. And then Europe says, “Oh, we’re going to divest from America.” And the market suffers for one day. And then the next day Trump says, “Okay, we made a deal. I’m just getting some of the pieces of Greenland for the Golden Dome or for mineral extraction,” even though he also admitted that the mineral extraction is not really the main reason here. And then boom! the market recovers just like that. So for that reason it does feel like a lot of the super-wealthy capital owners, even those at Davos, seem to be fine with Trump’s behavior, even with “Liberation Day.”
For me, once Liberation Day happened and Donald Trump decided to rewrite the international trade design that America has fought long and hard for — where we have this system of IOUs that we get from all these other countries, and then we become the consumption engine of the planet and get to enjoy the labor of the hyper-exploited Global South countries — he decided to ruin that. He decided to basically drop a nuclear bomb on that international…
Auteur: Hasan Piker
