Name: The Only Way to Defeat Trump
Uploaded: 2025-03-03T17:31:58.000Z
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The world has changed a lot in the past few weeks, through the bizarre events unfolding in America, culminating on the 28th of February, when Zelensky was hosted in the Oval Office, only to be yelled at and berated by the President and Vice President, and also openly mocked for not wearing a suit by Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend, who was also there for some reason.

My second question for President Zelensky...

You're the highest level in this country's office, and you refuse to wear a suit.

A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the...

This spectacle was as amusing as it was horrifying.

The US President and Vice President, supposedly the leaders of the free, democratic world, in control of the most powerful military force on the planet, and the largest economy, yelling and bickering at the leader of a nation, under attack by Russia, publicly, in front of cameras, in the Oval Office.

Many people are attempting to analyze this situation, rationalize it.

What kind of backwards 4D chess move was this from the Trump administration?

In my opinion, these attempts at analysis are fine, but I think I have an easier method of making sense of the situation.

Now please keep in mind these are only my preliminary thoughts, and I didn't have the time yet to flesh them out properly.

But due to how quickly everything is changing, I've decided to make this video anyway.

So you tell me if the following makes sense to you.

As far as I can see, the Trump administration's behavior can be explained by three interacting internal forces.

These are fascist, corporatist, and incompetent.

The fascist wing contains all the far-right lunatics, your neo-Nazis, Christian fascists, and so on.

Their ideal world is that of 1950s vacuum cleaner commercials.

Mom, dad, suburbs, 2.5 children, all-white neighborhoods, which they want to bring about through a larpy, traditional conservative dictatorship.

To them, democracy, free speech, freedom of religion, and so on are just tools to exploit to the aforementioned end.

And they will throw away all those ideals the second they no longer need to pretend to love them.

The corporatist wing contains your wannabe oligarchs, people who want to turn the US into a corporation with a government attached, basically, an unregulated playpen for billionaires where they can do whatever they want.

Corporatists seek to subvert the government, then replace its functions, thereby becoming the de facto government themselves.

For more details, see the cyberpunk genre as a whole.

And then we have the incompetent wing, which is mostly Trump and his ego.

Trump is emotional, rather unintelligent, and a narcissist.

He's basically a massive liability for the fascists and corporatists, but Trump also happens to be the face of their movement.

Without Trump, there is no MAGA, there is no enacting Project 2025, and there is no turning America into an oligarchy, so they have to put up with him.

They can control him to some extent, but sometimes Trump will just go his own way no matter what.

Trump's incompetence also trickles down the ranks in a way, since they hire people based on loyalty to Trump, not skill.

This creates a sort of weird, swaying, dead weight within the system, like water sloshing around inside a ship's hull, making it prone to wild, unexpected swings for seemingly no reason.

So this would be incompetence, the wild card of the three wings.

And appealing to just one at a time will not work.

Keir Starmer has recently visited the US, where he put on a frankly embarrassing performance of bootlicking and groveling.

What I said, which is that we do have, of course, a special relationship with our friends in the UK, and also with some of our European allies, but we also know that there have been infringements on free speech that actually affect not just the British, of course, what the British do in their own country is up to them, but also affect American technology companies, and by extension, American citizens.

So that is something that we'll talk about today at lunch.

We've had free speech for a very, very long time in the United Kingdom, and it will last for a very, very long time.

Well, no, I mean, certainly we wouldn't want to reach across US citizens, and we don't, and that's absolutely right.

Trying his absolute best to suck up to Trump.

Because Starmer tried appealing to the incompetence, not the fascism or corporatism.

Zelensky floated the mineral deal to Trump early on.

Help us, and we'll make some of our rare earth metals available to you.

Because Zelensky only appealed to the corporatists, not the fascists or the incompetent.

Viktor Orban has been orbiting Trump and his people for almost a decade, trying to posture as a fellow warrior for white civilization, hoping to get political support for his authoritarian project back home.

Because Orban only appeals to the fascists, not the corporatists or the incompetent.

In order to deal with the Trump administration, you have to appeal to all three wings at the same time.

If you can offer something meaningful that both fascists, corporatists and the incompetent will favor, if you do something that appeases all three simultaneously, then you will have become indistinguishable from them.

You will have made a deal with the devil essentially, with no going back.

Notably, Elon Musk is the perfect combination of the three wings, being both fascist, corporatist and incompetent.

Not coincidentally, the only person who can appeal nearly perfectly to all three wings at the same time is Vladimir Putin.

If you wonder why the Trump administration is so drawn to Russia, this is why.

Russia is a dictatorship with sham elections.

It leans increasingly heavily into far-right Christian nationalism, where its leader pretends to be a devout believer while also furnishing his palace with striptease poles.

The owner class below Putin is composed of oligarchs heading large corporations in a system that is essentially legalized cartelling and corruption, fully plugged into the neoliberal world economy, where the dream of all those below the owners, the mid- and low-level managerial class, is to hoard enough public money so they can spend their days in a gaudy mansion in Dubai.

The Russian elite also knows how to handle incompetent leaders.

Putin is used to dealing with dimpot dictators in their satellite states and easily finds common ground with Trump.

He had also received official KGB training on how to deal with authoritarian, narcissistic leaders.

Therefore, it is no wonder that the Trump administration and Russia constantly keep gravitating towards each other.

So, as the remaining bastions of the free, democratic world, how do you counter this?

Quite simply, we need to address the systemic issue that gave rise to the Trump administration and most other far-right movements in the West.

Well, as they say, it's the economy, stupid!

The rich get richer, while everyone else gets poorer.

Prices are up, inflation is up, your salary isn't.

All the while, billionaires' wealth is increasing at a record pace.

People are not idiots, and they see all that happening.

But they can't always articulate their negative feelings in any coherent political form.

So people's negative feelings, the bad vibes if you will, manifest in general anti-elitism and anti-intellectualism, like an extremely high fever that also damages your body, not just the virus inside you.

All this anger and desire for change can be channeled into a positive and constructive political movement.

Only, that specific political movement has been dead for some time in most Western countries.

We are talking about leftism, which for many regular people has become an actual slur.

Footage of leftist meetings and conferences go viral because of how ridiculous they get.

If we want to defeat capitalism, we are going to need a party that will organize working people to fight for the demands that we want and to win socialism.

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